01/06/2014 East Midlands Today

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With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

Nottingham's Carl Froch has retained his world titles

He took victory in last night's rematch against George Groves

Froch called it the biggest and best fight of his life,

and spoke exclusively to Angela Rafferty in his only dressing

It was a knockout punch with the of a world champion. Just eight rounds

into the rematch, he finally silenced his challenger. It was the

biggest fight of my life, the biggest occasion I've been involved

in. This night means everything to me in terms of my boxing career.

Wembley has never seen anything quite like it. 80,000 fans, all

desperate to be part of history. They were not disappointed.

Fireworks outside the ring, a fierce battle inside it. It was a bad worth

?20 million. The first few rounds were understandably cagey but then

came a stunning finale. So, he has done it successfully sent `

defending his world title. He promised to deliver and did just

that, here, in front of 80,000 fans. He is very cocky, very

arrogant but I have no hard feelings. It's sport. I will let him

worry about me now. The talking is over, done. It was absolutely

amazing. That punch and he was gone. Justice has been served. Absolutely

brilliant. I cannot remember a night like it. Barely with the gloves off

before talk of one last fight in Las Vegas. Was that a proposal in there?

It was a sort of. It wasn't official but I had a few words with it and I

think I'm going to marry Rachel. There was no ring. He got down on

one knee and said, Rachel, I have not got a ring, but will you marry

me? OK. An unbelievable night after a truly remarkable fight.

The man who nurtured Carl Froch's amateur career says he'd like to see

Dale McPhilbin believes there's still a few bouts left

Dale's head coach of the boxing club Carl started at, and says he'd love

to see him take on Mikkel Kessler, the Dane who defeated Froch in 2010.

Kessler, without doubt. They are both professionals and both respect

each other. Once those to get in the ring, they are true professionals

and you would see an outstanding contest.

A charity fund`raiser who previously ran from Derbyshire all

the way to his native Switzerland is planning a new challenge.

This time to cycle more than a thousand miles.

It's to fund research into cancer after his family, and close friends,

Two years ago, this man set off to run a marathon day for a month. It

took him from his home near Derby to his native village in Switzerland.

It raised ?50,000 for cancer research but now, Gerard and a group

of friends, are planning an even longer challenge. They will cycle

from Derbyshire to Monte Carlo. Most people cannot quite believe we are

doing it. We can't. Everyone is very supportive. I will close family have

had the same hurt from cancer. My wife had cancer and is now

thankfully over it. My mother died of cancer two months ago. Lots of

our friends have had cancer and most have survived, but there is still a

huge need to raise lots of money in order to find the cure. Our aim is

to raise around ?10,000 but it would be nice to do like I did when I went

to Switzerland, to beat that. They will have to complete around 1000

miles over the course of nine days. So, until they set off later this

month, there is plenty of training to be done.

Almost 1,500 people have been running, swimming and cycling in

The Outlaw Half`Triathlon was based at Holme Pierrepont

The course included a 56`mile cycle ride around the countryside

The winning team completed the challenge in just over four hours.

Let's see if the sunshine's lasting into the week, with Sara.

Good evening. We finally saw the sunshine today. It has been a very

nice day across the East Midlands. We are starting to lose the clearer

skies now. The cloud is increasing and a weather front is starting to

work its way in from the West. A mild night with temperatures

dropping to a minimum of 12 ulcers. Judge tomorrow, that weather front

slowly works its way eastwards. It will produce the bottom of the burst

of rain at times. It will give us a pretty wet afternoon tomorrow. With

all the cloud cover as well, temperatures will reach a maximum of

16 Celsius. Not as warm as today. The Outlook: The first week of June

will be rather unsettled at times. Further outbreaks of rain.

I will see you later on. For now, goodbye.

Hello. Most of us have enjoyed at least one day of lovely weather this

weekend. That weather will be harder to come by this week. It has been up

and down. Yes, rain or showers at times. Drier, sunny weather, turning

cooler. Signs are that by the end of the week temperatures will recover.

We have seen rain today in Glasgow, Edinburgh, western fringes of the UK

too. The cloud will spread east overnight, with further outbreaks of

rain into the west. Temperatures are in double figures as Monday begins.

We get the sunshine - a lot of cloud around. Some patchy rain. You can

see there are gaps within this. It is not raining everywhere. There may

be glimmers of brightness to begin the day.