:00:13. > :00:14.And now the news for the East Midlands.
:00:15. > :00:21.First tonight, the hard shotlder of a stretch of the M1 motorwax is to
:00:22. > :00:23.be converted into a fourth lane in a multimillion`pound project `imed at
:00:24. > :00:29.The Department for Transport, though, has admitted it's lhkely to
:00:30. > :00:35.So now the government is looking at a 60mph speed limit at peak times.
:00:36. > :01:10.It is a plan designed to cut waterway congestion. It is ` stretch
:01:11. > :01:14.of the people I spoke to living near the M1 said they had not bedn
:01:15. > :01:17.consulted. We have not been consulted at all. The pollution I
:01:18. > :01:23.believe, is high, and the non`consultation, not letting people
:01:24. > :01:32.know what is happening, when it is happening, I do not agree whth it at
:01:33. > :01:41.all. By next year, there will be an upgrade at a cost of ?225 mhllion.
:01:42. > :01:45.Then there is a ?142 million upgrade. It will become what is
:01:46. > :01:50.called a managed motorway, with controls on speed and lanes. To
:01:51. > :01:56.reduce pollution and 60 mph speed limit could be reduced at pdak
:01:57. > :02:01.times. The government does not want to slow down traffic for long
:02:02. > :02:07.periods. The boss of this h`ulage firm is pleased that the outcome. It
:02:08. > :02:11.is great for business, it is going to any bowlers to get to our
:02:12. > :02:15.destination is much quicker and obviously time is money in our
:02:16. > :02:20.industry and we want to get there and get onto the next job. Other
:02:21. > :02:27.ways of reducing pollution such as barriers at the side of the
:02:28. > :02:30.motorway, and the Dutch style canopy will be looked at.
:02:31. > :02:32.Staying with big transport projects, controversial proposals to locate
:02:33. > :02:34.a rail`freight interchange on farmland near East Midlands
:02:35. > :02:36.Airport will bypass the norlal local planning procedures.
:02:37. > :02:38.That's because the plan, which will create 7,000 jobs,
:02:39. > :02:40.is regarded as an infrastructure project of national significance.
:02:41. > :02:43.Residents in nearby villages fear it means their concerns will bd ignored
:02:44. > :02:47.Now the villagers have the backing of a former leader
:02:48. > :03:05.The planning inspectors will decide nationally on this. It is a
:03:06. > :03:09.thoroughly undemocratic process I am backing over 1000 people who have
:03:10. > :03:16.signed this petition, in Castle Donington, they are all up hn arms
:03:17. > :03:18.about this in all the villages, I am prepared to give them all the
:03:19. > :03:21.backing. Kate McCann has spoken
:03:22. > :03:23.of the moment her son asked her about claims that she was involved
:03:24. > :03:26.in the disappearance The three`year`old disappeared
:03:27. > :03:29.in Praia da Luz in 2007. Mrs McCann was speaking
:03:30. > :03:31.at a Portuguese libel case relating to the allegations made by former
:03:32. > :03:34.police detective Goncalo Am`ral The court heard that her son Sean
:03:35. > :03:37.asked about whether she hid Madeleine, but she told him Amaral
:03:38. > :03:40.had said a lot of silly things. A ruling is expected
:03:41. > :03:47.later this year. Next, the number of people with
:03:48. > :03:50.dementia in the East Midlands is That was the warning today from
:03:51. > :03:56.Dame Gill Morgan, Here is our health correspondent
:03:57. > :04:21.Rob Sissons. Are we on top of dementia? Dame Gill
:04:22. > :04:25.Morgan sees dementia as the biggest health challenge of our age. It is
:04:26. > :04:29.increasing as we have an agding and fairly fit population. It is a
:04:30. > :04:34.challenge because, when you have dementia, it is very demandhng on
:04:35. > :04:38.your family. Ken wonders how the care system will cope. He looks
:04:39. > :04:44.after his wife at home. She in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's.
:04:45. > :04:48.There has got to be a lot more moves and facilities put in place without
:04:49. > :04:55.a doubt. We can only be counted as a challenge. If think about it, that
:04:56. > :05:03.is it `` we can only look at it as a challenge. The Alzheimer's Society
:05:04. > :05:07.have calculated how many people go undiagnosed, and there are big
:05:08. > :05:13.variations in the region. In Ashfield it is thought to bd 58 2%,
:05:14. > :05:19.but in shower with it is not be much lower. The evidence is therd now
:05:20. > :05:24.that if you know you have the condition then you and your carers
:05:25. > :05:28.can do things. This dementi` specialist in Nottingham saxs that
:05:29. > :05:34.it is well worth diagnosing away. There is a lot that we can do to
:05:35. > :05:38.help people start treatment as soon as possible, to make plans for the
:05:39. > :05:43.future and to live their lives well. Today, the development of a new
:05:44. > :05:46.blood test offers hope and light lead to much needed treatment.
:05:47. > :05:48.Patients on two wards at Lehcester General Hospital couldn't shower for
:05:49. > :05:52.most of today after the leghonella bug was found in the water supply.
:05:53. > :05:55.The hospital says showers are now back on, but bottled water hs still
:05:56. > :05:57.being provided for staff and patients to drink.
:05:58. > :05:59.It says it has taken the me`sures as a precaution and that
:06:00. > :06:05.the risk of someone contracting Legionnaires? disease remains low.
:06:06. > :06:07.Enthusiasts are celebrating another ?1 million step towards rejoining
:06:08. > :06:15.Cuts in the 1960s meant the Great Central Railway's bridge over
:06:16. > :06:16.the Midland Mainline at Loughborough was demolished.
:06:17. > :06:19.Now the Great Central are fund`raising to put the bridge back
:06:20. > :06:22.and the project has just bedn boosted with ?1 million frol
:06:23. > :06:30.That's it from me, so I'll say goodnight.
:06:31. > :06:43.We have had some really livdly weather around today, some hefty
:06:44. > :06:46.thunderstorms. They have cldared out of the way and it is looking pretty
:06:47. > :06:50.good for tomorrow. Looking pretty good for the start of the cricket,
:06:51. > :06:54.that only compromise will bd on increasing northerly wind. We are
:06:55. > :06:58.dry and we will stay that w`y for the rest of the night. It whll turn
:06:59. > :07:03.a little nippy, temperature sliding into single figures, temper`tures
:07:04. > :07:08.around nine or 10 degrees in some areas. We will start off drx
:07:09. > :07:13.tomorrow morning, some decent sunshine, the cloud will brdak up
:07:14. > :07:17.across some western parts. But it. To come in from the East and we will
:07:18. > :07:25.see the wind pick`up as well. Some brisk winds developing. Not feeling
:07:26. > :07:29.quite as high as that 21 or 22 Celsius. As you can see, thd rain
:07:30. > :07:33.will catch up with us through the next few days into the
:07:34. > :07:36.weekend. Hot on Saturday with thundery showers.
:07:37. > :07:42.Good evening, the rain in Rio is matching the mood, I suspect, this
:07:43. > :07:47.evening. Here, we will take a day off from the rain tomorrow, at least
:07:48. > :07:52.most of us. There will be sunshine around. The showers will be back for
:07:53. > :07:57.the end of the week. Dry over night virtually everywhere. Winds easing
:07:58. > :08:02.down in many places except towards the North Sea coasts. The south west
:08:03. > :08:08.will keep a breeze going. Not a cold night, temperatures holding 12- 4
:08:09. > :08:11.degrees typically. A dry day virtually everywhere tomorrow. Cloud
:08:12. > :08:13.breaking up to allow good spells of sunshine coming through,
:08:14. > :08:16.particularly to Scotland, northern England, Wales and the south of had
:08:17. > :08:17.west. Rain