04/06/2014 East Midlands Today

East Midlands Ambulance service, which has come under attack

for failing to hit response times, has received an offer of help from

The students from Nottingham University are the first

in the country to operate an inner city First Responders' scheme.

The volunteers, who are trained in basic first aid, will provide

assistance in both Derby and Nottingham until paramedics arrive.

Last week we responded to a cardiac arrest and the patient ended up

responding to us. That is great. Finally, Derbyshire County

Councillors will now have to reveal It's been agreed that councillors

will need to declare their membership of certain groups

including the freemasons. The Conservatives say it's

about prejudice. They've compared

the situation faced by Freemasons to that experienced by ANC members

in South Africa during apartheid. That is your news and it is goodbye

from me but here's your weather forecast.

It has been a disappointing day for June but it looks more brighter

tomorrow. As we go through this evening, it is a cloudy evening with

further outbreaks of rain. They start to become light as we head

towards dawn. It is not a cold night with temperatures around 10 Celsius.

It is a damp start but the rain will fizzle out quite quickly and

eventually the cloud will break. By the afternoon, I am hopeful we will

see some decent spells of sunshine. Temperatures respond to around 18

Celsius. Friday, it looks like it is going to be a dry and unsettled day

but humans. Here is the outlook. couple of days. You may have just

heard the mention of the risk of storms at the weekend in regional

forecasts. That depends on how this cloud in the Atlantic interacts with

humid air developing over the rest of Europe. Today has been a pretty

wet Wednesday across many areas. We have an area of rain pushing briefly

across southern counties of England. In between there is occasional rain

and drizzle. The driest weather will reach Northern Ireland and Wales