25/05/2014 East Midlands Today

full coverage on BBC One of the European election results after the

news where With your news now for the East

Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. A teacher from Leicestershire has

been found dead in Bali, just days after arriving there to set up a new

project. It's believed she was murdered. Emily Anderson has been

speaking to her brother in Hinckley. A bright passionate and courageous

woman who was an unsung hero ` just some of the words used to describe

Anne`Marie Drozdz. The 49`year`old teacher had been in Bali for five

days. Her body was found late on Thursday afternoon near the villa

where she'd been staying in the tourist district of Ubud. `` in the

villa. She grew up in Hinckley in Leicestershire. Back home her family

say they are struggling to deal with what's happened.

You read about it, you hear about it and you never expect it's going to

happen to you. And then of course when it does it hits you like an

express train. How has this left you feeling? It's almost impossible to

describe. You start to feel hollow and you feel raw you don't want to

do the things you normally do. Anne`Marie taught in international

schools all over the world. She'd gone to Bali to set up a social

enterprise because she wanted to improve the lives of young people on

the island. She was courageous because she

didn't choose the easy places to go and teach English. She taught in

some of the more remote parts of the world, as it seems to us, and so for

all of that to go is such a tragic waste of a life.

Anne`Marie's family say they want her body to be brought back to the

UK, with her final resting place in her hometown of Hinckley, where she

can be with her family and they can be with her.

The count started tonight for last week's vote in the European

parliamentary elections. It was such a low turnout, the results are

expected imminently, rather than overnight. Our political editor John

Hess sent this as things got under way.

The results from 40 counts from around the East Midlands have been

fed to hear, where the names of the five MEPs to represent the East

Midlands will be announced later. The turnout was low, 33.3%, and UKIP

have done exceptionally well and could be returning two if not three

MEPs. Labour have done well, mainly at the expense of the Lib Dems. The

Conservatives are likely to see their representation in the European

Parliament halved. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister David

Cameron was in Nottinghamshire again today, ahead of the Newark

by`election. It all draws further attention to the work of the man

charged with overseeing that election. Quentin Rayner's been to

meet him. When this man made this announcement

at Westminster. I will resign my seat in God's County of

Nottinghamshire. This man knew things would be hectic. I knew we

would be in the spotlight. It is said `` his job to staff more than

400 polling stations. It is daunting but tremendously exciting. I love

elections so I am really looking forward to it. It is a great

opportunity to show new work, show democracy and the world how it

works. `` show Newark. Keyworth's Sam Oldham took Silver at

the European Gymnastic Championships earlier. After a team silver

yesterday, he was in the high bar's individual final. Sam was leading

the field throughout, but was edged into second by the reigning European

and Olympic champion from the Netherlands.

The unsettled conditions continue into next week. The Met Office has

issued an early warning for rain on Tuesday. This evening we will have

clear skies overnight, a few patches of mist and fog as we head into

Monday morning. Temperatures not dropping away too far with overnight

lows around nine Celsius. Bank Holiday Monday gets off to a decent

start. Most places dry with some decent spells of sunshine around.

The cloud increasing through the day, bringing the chance of one or

two showers, but many places avoiding them and temperatures not

doing too badly. Turning wetting on Tuesday. `` wetter.

Good evening to you. Tomorrow the weather will be a little like a box

of chocolate, you don't know what you are going to get until you head

out. The weather was clear cut today, sunshine in the Midlands and

the north. Tomorrow, there's going to be a mix

of everything across the country and it will be changing a lot from

morning into the afternoon and into the evening. This is what the

weather is going to look like in the early hours, rain in the south-east,

showers dotted around across western areas, and as far as the headline

goes for Bank Holiday Monday, we'll call it sunshine and thundery

showers, because they'll be hefty later on in the afternoon on Monday.

This is what it starts like in the course of the morning. Note it is

splodges of blue indicating the rainfall. They keep changing and

moving into different places, there is a lot of sunshine coming through.

In terms of the thundery downpours, we think the worst will be through

this portion here whereas across the east, probably talking ability cloud

and rain on and off with a bit of sunshine