31/07/2014 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good

evening. First tonight, a body has been found inside a Nottingham

factory which burnt down last night. Firefighters were called to the

Sherwood Works building in Basford at around one o'clock this lorning.

Now investigators are trying to identify the body and establish the

cause of the blaze. Tom Brown reports. The crumpled wreck`ge of a

family business. This morning, the damage to this Nottingham clothing

factory became clear. Outside the police cordon, some of the family

gathered. The business almost burned to the ground. There were 50

firefighters here at its hehght A number of buildings had to be

evacuated including night shift workers at a nearby supermarket

April nearby were told to close doors and windows from the smoke. I

was eyelevel with the factory from my window. The flames were `bove

that. The business has been run by the family since the early 0980s. I

am told the owner is in Indha but will now fly back to Nottingham

Once it was made safe, the investigation began. We are unclear

at this point if anybody is inside and we are unsure of the

circumstances around the incident. It is an ongoing investigathon. For

the family, those answers c`nnot come soon enough. A 23`year`old

woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a

7`year`old girl. Police werd called to a flat in Bestwood Park this

morning. Earlier, our reporter Geeta Pendse sent this report frol the

scene. Police were called in the early hours of this morning to the

property behind me. The 23`xear`old woman has been arrested on suspicion

of murder and a 47`year`old man has been arrested on suspicion of

assault will stop residents nearby told me what it was like to wake up

and find a flurry of police activity along the street. There havd been

forensic experts arriving today The man and women who were arrested

remain in police custody pending further investigations. The

postmortem examination is expected tomorrow at the earliest. E`st

Midlands Ambulance Service has made "significant improvements" `ccording

to the NHS Trust Development Authority. Criticism of EMAS over

response times, patient card and leadership led to an increase in

monitoring by the authority. But it says the service has since lade

progress in improving care puality and services. EMAS bosses s`y it's a

step in the right direction. A prison officer's been treatdd in

hospital after an inmate bit off part of his ear. It's the l`test in

a string of assaults by inm`tes at Nottingham Prison and follows

warnings from the local Prison Officers Association. They've

complained about overcrowding and staffing levels at the jail. The

Prison Service says staff s`fety is a priority and violent prisoners

should expect to be prosecuted. It comes as new national figurds reveal

a surge in assaults on prison staff. Next tonight, a damning revhew has

revealed that almost 100 people received unacceptable hospital or

community care in the days before they died. In some cases, p`tients

were resuscitated when they'd asked not to be. Health care bossds in

Leicestershire have apologised and say changes are being made. The

report makes for difficult reading. The record of 400 people who died

were looked at and the results are shocking. 23% of patients rdceived

unacceptable career. There were significant lessons to be ldarned

and evidence of fractured kdyer dysfunctional processes and a lack

of joined up thinking. This man was not involved in the report but the

findings have not come as a shock. His terminally ill wife spent hours

waiting for a hospital bed. We waited 12 hours at accident and

emergency and felt alone, unwarranted. There were multiple

failings, poor communication between hospitals and GPs, confusion about

do not resuscitate orders, delays in getting treatment and peopld not

dying where they wanted to. We find unacceptable here unacceptable. We

did this study to shine the light on those areas. This man says he will

never get over what happened to his wife but he wants the focus to be on

patients and their Kier. Thd Shadow Housing Minister has visited

Nottingham and praised the council for its ambitious album programme.

It is part of a scheme to create 400 new council properties across the

city. The local MP toured the site today and said she wanted to see

more developments to meet the crisis in the market. If current trends

continue we will have a backlog a shortage of 100,000 homes hdre in

the East Midlands. A Labour government would intervene hn the

market, make sure we get 200,00 homes per year in the East Lidlands

to meet that extra demand for homes. Derby`based aero engine makdr

Rolls`Royce has reported a fall in half`yearly pre`tax profits. It s

blaming shrinking government defence spending and what it calls "currency

headwinds". In a statement hssued to the London Stock Exchange this

morning, the company said that in the six months to the end of June it

made ?644 million, that's a 20% fall on the same period last year. Onto

sport and she has done it again Nottingham gymnast Becky Downie has

won her second Commonwealth gold. She battled back from injurx to take

top spot in the uneven bars earlier tonight. Angela Rafferty has more.

It was a performance that proved unbeatable. She is brave as well as

pillion. Battling with an ankle injury she still had the performance

to put into gold medal position She had an anxious wait with her family

watching but now one could latch her high score. Pride of place on the

podium was hurt as for the taking. `` now one could match. `` no`one ``

no`one. `` no`one. Two Commonwealth golds to add to her European title

and there is still more to come That's your news. So, it's goodbye

from me, but with your weather now, here's Anna Church. Thank you. Some

of us did not fear too badlx today. Largely dry in places.

Leicestershire had some heavy rainfall. We are expecting scattered

showers tomorrow but there will still be a good deal of dridr

weather. This evening and overnight it will be fine with clear spells

and drive. Light winds and the minimum temperature of 14 Cdlsius.

We start tomorrow on a dry note bright spells first thing. Cloud

increasing with the best brhghtness through the day. Showers pushing

through the peak district into Nottinghamshire through the day A

good deal of dry weather throughout the day for many of us. Temperatures

peaking at 20 or 21 Celsius. Some rain pushing in through the night on

Friday. This low pressure whll track slowly northwards. Here is the

outlook for the next few daxs. Some rain but

Rain for Saturday. Now to John who will take you through the national

forecast across the UK. Hello there. You may have to find

ways of occupying the children. A lot of rain for some, not so much

for others. That was the way in July but overall whelmingly warm. Not as

warm as last year but it continues the run of months with higher than

average temperatures. The eighth now in a row. On to August, a few

showers around. That is across the north and the west. Lots of dry

weather between. A mild night at dawn, the temperatures about the

mid-teens. You may wake up to sunshine but the general trend

through the day is for things to deteriorate across the northern and

western parts of England and Wales where the showers will begin to

merge into longer spells of rain. Brightness on either side, some

places avoiding the showers but a fair few across Scotland and

Northern Ireland. Some sunshine between. Then we run into the zone

of damp weather across parts of the