12/08/2014 East Midlands Today

Good evening. That's all from us.

First tonight the amazing project made in Derby to

A quarter of a million ceramic poppies have

Almost 900,000 are being planted at the Tower of London,

each one symbolising a fallen serviceman or woman.

Today, the artist behind the project said he'd been

A work of art, a memorial but also a fundraising effort. Pouring out of

the tower of London, last week the first instalment of poppies were

officially revealed to the public and put on sale. The hope is to

raise millions of pounds for charity, but no one predicted just

how quickly the poppies would sell. At a studio in Derby, the artist has

been amazed at how the public have embraced the project. With 250,000

poppies sold within seven days. It's quite a shock that so many people

have got behind it. It's not a fun thing I have produced. It's

something that has a meaning behind it. It has a really big meaning for

lots of people. I am really happy that people are actually wanting

them. Each poppy is sold for ?25 with a net proceeds split between

six military charities. ?2. 50 from every poppy goes to charity. So if

we sell all that's 2. ?2.2 million. If we sell all, all the Ned proceeds

will go to charity. We are being coy about that because we are still

making them, still building at the moment but that could be many

millions of pounds by the time we are finished. The team in Derby

continue to produce poppies around the clock. The last poppy will be

planted on Remembrance Day. Next, how people here are helping

victims of the conflict in Gaza. Hospitals

in the East Midlands are collecting thousands of items of medical kit to

send to the war`torn region. They're appealing for equipment

the NHS says it no longer needs. The first consignment went out today

from hospitals in Derby and Nottinghamshire, as our health

correspondent Rob Sissons reports. This is like all the airways. You

have the tubes in. They say it's kit the NHS no longer wants, but Gaza

needs. We have seen it on the television with the children, with

their eyes, I have found eye shields. At kings Mill they've

collected hundreds of items in a couple of days. We are told it's

things the NHS would either throw away, past the expiry date or use

Father training. We are diligent in what we acquire and how we use it.

It's only those stuff which have gone past the time or times opened

up and not used during surgery. They hope this will save lives. I was

really thinking we are not going to have that much but when I searched

around we have expired things, things that reps have given us over

the years and never used them. Nightly TV images of the devastation

and injuries in Gaza prompted a surgeon in Derby to do something. He

set about getting Derby hospitals to gather unwanted equipment and

encouraged other hospitals like Kings Mill to get involved. This is

not about politics at all. It's purely us as medical caring

professionals with a duty of care trying to aleave ate the suffering

of fellow `` alleviate the suffering of fellow human beings. Here, 35,000

items collected are off on the first leg of the journey to Gaza. It's

hoped international charities will get the aid through. And for the

children, some toys. The parents of a Derbyshire medical

student stabbed to death last week in Borneo have described him as

caring, thoughtful and witty and say 22`year`old Neil Dalton from Belper

was killed with a friend. Neil never thought twice

about helping others. He achieved so much and made

so many friends. Four men have been arrested

for murder. Police in Borneo say

the four have admitted the crime. Two men who killed an Iraqi refugee

have been found guilty of murder. Patryk Strutkowski and

Pawel Bugajski carried out the attack in the Meadows area

of Nottingham in January. They used a belt to strangle

56`year`old Hama Faraj Noori. Archaeologists working on a

"lost" medieval manor`house in Leicestershire say they've

discovered further buildings The 12th century house

in the village of Croxton Kerrial disappeared from maps by the 1800s,

as Paul Bradshaw reports. This field in Leicestershire has

been hiding a secret for more than 800 years. This is the complex.

Basically, the Manor House here, beyond that we have the massive

barn. Evidence of other buildings going around what we think was a

cobbled yard. Again, dating from around the 12th century, we have

evidence of that and wonderful pottery from that date. A group of

amateur archaeologists have been digging this site since 2012 and

have made some remarkable finds. This is the star find which has come

out of the well. It's a late 12th century jug, and it's been down

there for about 800 years at the bottom of the well. We were the

first people to see it for about 8 hunsz years `` 800 years.

With all the benefits of medieval mod`cons. The Lord would have had a

private chamber at the top. This is a private toilet. Every new and

again some peasant would have had to clear this out and spread it on the

fields and use it for fertiliser. The dig will continue until next

year. In the Capital One Cup it's

finished Tranmere 0, Forest 1. Michail Antonio getting the goal

for Forest after 11 minutes. And Sheffield Wednesday 3,

Notts County 0. That's the news. But we need to know

how the weather looks. I will leave you with Kaye.

It's been a blustery day today. We are still being influenced by brisk

westerly winds. Tomorrow we will get slow improvements through the day.

The winds will be easing down and there will be fewer showers. So more

in the way of sunshine. We have seen a few showers this

evening. One or two will continue through the night. The majority

fading through the early hours. It's generally dlie with clear ``

generally dry with clear spells. Tomorrow morning there will be some

showers around from the word go but they will be fewer and further

between and they will be lighter, as well. In general, more sunshine into

the afternoon. The winds slowly easing down, so feeling better.

Highs of 19 or 20. That's it from us. I will leave you with the

outlook. Matt is of a messy couple of days with some

heavy rain and showers but here'sing Matt with the national weather.

Good evening. Given the recent change in weather conditions I am

esure a few of you have mentioned "autumn" who would blame new western

Scotland today a mid-August day, driving wind, strong winds,

temperatures at one po incompetent were just 13. A better day tomorrow,

here, though. The cloud we have had today will work southwards. You will

notice still unstable air across England and Wales. Lively

thunderstorms through today. They are fading away by in large. One or

two showers in the West but longer, clearer periods here. We still have

that cloud, pushing through to the Scotland, Northern Ireland, north

Wales and the north Midlands by the end of the night. But rather than

persistent rain, away from the