13/09/2014 East Midlands Today

Now the BBC news for the East Midlands, good evening,

A major fire in Nottingham has completelx

destroyed a brand new multi`million pound university building.

The landmark project was dud to be the worlds first carbon

This evening the University of Nottingham says it hopes to

The intense heat could be fdlt some distance away as the fire r`ged last

night. What was due to be the last word as a centre for chemistry

research burns to the ground. Firefighters and engines fotght for

control throughout the night. No one was hurt but eyewitnesses wdre

amazed at the scale of the fire I live close and I could see orange

glow on the houses behind mx house and I came out and looked at the

front and the entire neighbourhood was outstanding over towards the

fire which was an incredibld shock, really. In daylight what is left is

a smoking mess. The Fire Service say it is too early to know what caused

the buyer. It is a large incident. We do not get these everydax of the

week. We had support from otr colleagues in Derbyshire. They gave

us some resources to assist. At its peak we were working very h`rd to

bring this under control. The university is relieved no one was

hurt but it is a massive setback. It was due to beat the world's first

sustainable chemistry labor`tory that was genuinely carbon ndutral.

It was going to be doing world leading research into green

chemistry. The University hopes to rebuild the centre. An open day for

university students was abld to go ahead.

The friend of a Derbyshire man who was st`bbed to

death in Borneo says he was the most talented person he had ever met

Neil Dalton, who was 22 and from Ambergate, was killed along with

Today, a cricket tournament has been held in Neil's memory.

Neil's day. He had such a modesty with it you had to spend a lot of

time with him to realise how great he was. He was unique. I will never

know anybody who had so much going for them. Medical students Neil

Dalton and his friend were stabbed to death in Borneo after a night out

in August. A 23`year`old fishmonger has been charged with murder. All

the money raised from today's event will go to Neil's favoured charity.

It is about his old club, the under 17 is, getting together and we're

bringing everybody together to remember Neil. His friends hope

today's tournament will become an annual event to keep his melory

alive. A pair of 12 foot high infl`table

lungs have been They're part of

a campaign to encourage mord people Between April last year and March

this year, 90 patients across the country had

lifesaving surgery, thanks to Football now and in the

Premier League Leicester were away winners at Stoke by a goal to nil,

their first Premier League win In League One,

Notts County drew nil nil at Peterborough and in Leagte Two,

Mansfield lost 2`1 away at Wycombe. Tomorrow we'll have the restlts

of the big East Midlands match ` Nottingham Forest

and Derby kick off at 1:15pl. Leicester Tigers travelled down

to Exeter and came away winners 24 It's took a while for the d`y to get

going but eventually most of us solve some sunny spells. Thd cloud

has been increasing do the latter part of the afternoon and it will

continue to do so overnight. Increasingly the east and m`ybe some

spits and spots as well overnight. It will not be particularly cold.

Lows of around 13 Celsius btt once again someday gets off to a drab

start. A lot of no cloud around and drizzle from time to time. Some

places may hang on to a fair amount of cloud, particularly the further

east to our tomorrow but thdre will be some brighter spells devdloping

through the afternoon. Still the beast, an isolated shower and

temperatures a little bit down on today `` still the risk of `n

isolated shower. We're back tomorrow at 6:50pm.

Have a good evening. Hello. Some subtle changes in our

weather at the start of next week, even some rain around for some of

us, but for the rest of the weekend, it will be as you were. Try this

evening, with temperatures gradually slipping away. More of a breeze and

southern parts of the UK. The breeze. Temperatures going down to

fire. It will be chilly in Northern Ireland, western Scotland and the

North of England in particular. There will be patchy fog developing.

Lots of cloud will come into the east of the UK. Tomorrow morning,

you may encounter some patchy drizzle. It will be a great, damp

start to Sandy. The best of the sunshine will be in the