30/06/2014 East Midlands Today

Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you

spoken about their ordeal in Afghanistan. They told our

correspondence how they werd attacked from three sides while

raiding Caliban strongholds. A heartfelt welcome from cheering

crowds in Leicester City centre but the last eight months, the ninth 12

Royal Lancers had a much more hostile reception in Helmand

province where they were targeting the tally van's strongholds ``

Caliban strongholds. We would identify the gunmen, the rocket

teams and suicide bombings, and the task was to neutralise the threat

the soldiers were sent on operations like this and were sent behhnd enemy

lines from helicopters. Thex would form on the edges of us and attack

the groups, they would attack is from 300 or 600 metres away and we

would have to identify them before they could engage us. There was a

huge machine gun over to thd left and we had some kind of single round

fire, and then to the right some other kind of machine gun. Xou are

getting attack from three shdes How frightening is this? It's a real

issue for the young lads, so it s a firefight and then move on. Other

soldiers supported them using warthog armoured trucks working with

local troops. It remains prdtty dangerous. On any single dax we

recovered over 2000 rounds of ammunition and a number of rockets,

and that was done in a single operation. That took place hn the

area where we lost a soldier two months prior. The Lancers all made

it back from Afghanistan, btt two of their soldiers came back to

Leicestershire with serious injuries, and this week 's parades

are a chance to thank them for putting their lives on the line

Now, "the lowest of the low". That's how patients describd thieves

who stole thousands of pounds of donations from a cancer charity

They smashed their way into the centre, in the grounds of Nottingham

City Hospital. A man's been

Today has not been great as patients at this singing class were putting a

brave face on the burglaries. It is a service the people who ard already

suffering. I don't think thd people that did this could get any lower.

Lower than scum. The servicd this place gives affects all of ts in

Nottingham. People that do this sort of thing don't realise how luch hurt

they are causing us. The thheves forced their way in through his door

and then into the office. It was just hours after the summer fare for

the centre and they stole computers. Basically it is the four Apple Mac

computers we use, plus a laptop and the worst thing is that the sake

that contain the proceeds which had gone well, plus any contribttions

made last week, so a fairly substantial amount of cash. Anna had

given up her Sunday to raisd money selling summer cocktails. Wd made

about ?180 in two hours, whhch is quite amazing. We did reallx well.

The strawberries went down well And the pins. After three burgl`ries,

computers have been taken bdfore, and the Centre is now reviewing

security with the police. A man's been found guilty of

murdering a Derby bus driver, who'd David Hunter was found dead outside

his home at Breadsall Hilltop Heteny Tarsoly will be sentdnced

on Wednesday at Derby Crown Court. A public meeting's been called to

discuss a village's concerns about County Council has served

an abatement notice on Lood`ll Farm It says the farmer has pledged to do

what he can to improve the situation, but residents want

assurances they won't face We have to cover up any food that is

out and even cover up the c`t food. Things like that. This year the

problem has been far worse than previous years, and we want to

prevent it happening again, year on year on year.

Nearly ?2 million is to be spent recruiting more staff to provide

free school meals for infants from September.

That's just in Nottinghamshhre, as the county serves up an extra 1 ,000

meals a day when government`funded plans are introduced.

They've turned up the heat hn the kitchen today at this primary near

Nottingham. The pressure is on to provide an extra 75 school dinners.

That will be expected every day from September when free school leals are

introduced for the infants, the three youngest year groups. We need

more pans, chopping boards, more worktop space, but new worktops have

been delivered this morning for September, so we will see. @t the

moment, Nottinghamshire serves up around 38,000 school meals per day.

That will go up by about 12,000 a day in September. The countx is

investing ?1.7 million in khtchen expansions and improvements. And

they are recruiting another 120 staff. The whole idea was something

of a surprise when it was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick

Clegg late last year. Maybe there were sceptics who thought they might

not follow through but clearly it is the case that it is happening, hence

the trial run today. It is ` huge challenge but one we are excited

about and we are sure with `ll of the planning in place that we will

be ready. Free school meals for infants could save parents or carers

?400 per year, cash at the County Council believes might be used to

pay for a meal for an older sibling meaning even more school dinners

would be needed. I will be back with you at

lunchtime, but I will leave you with the weather.

A big improvement compared to the weekend with a lot of dry wdather

and we are staying with that the rest of the week. We will sde lots

of sunshine, particularly through Tuesday and Wednesday althotgh a bit

cloudy through Thursday and Friday, but the big thing is that it is

warming up with temperatures up to 23 degrees by Wednesday. We stay dry

and clear for much of the nhght and the winds are light allowing the

temperatures to fall sharplx, so we are downing single figures, seven or

eight Celsius but just about staying in double figures in the towns and

city centres. Tomorrow, lovdly dry and bright start with sunshhne in

the morning and we will see the clouds increasing from time to time

but we will stay dry with ddcent sunshine in the afternoon and

temperatures a bit higher up to 20 Celsius. From the outlook, dven

warmer on fine weather for Friday, before it

turns unsettled to tr weekend. There were a few aspects to the

forecast today which did not go to plan.

There were more showers than expected. The ones which did develop

were heavy. They moved through Wimbledon and west London. They have

fizzled out now. We have some showers over parts of Scotland.

Most places will miss showers tomorrow and stay dry. We have