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Tonight: Did a Derbyshire woman die because of a painkiller

Kymberley Holden had multiple sclerosis.

She collapsed at home after visiting her doctor.

Living with depression, the campaigners tackling the stigma

surrounding mental health. Plus, how scientists are Nottingham are using

the rents to help crack down on fly-tipping. A moment he will never

forget, as Leicester City reached the quarterfinals of the Champions

League. An inquest has heard that

a Derbyshire woman was prescribed ten times the dosage she should have

been of a strong painkiller 27-year-old Kymberley Holden had

been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had been

to see her doctor for The court heard that there

was a high level of the painkiller in her blood when she died due

to a prescription error. She had a smile for everyone, that

is how Kymberley Holden's dad described her daughter today at the

inquest into her sudden death two and I years ago. Temp two, a

dispatch officer for an Ambulance Service, was diagnosed with multiple

sclerosis a year before she died. Her father and boyfriend described

her purse condition was so severe that she needed a wheelchair after

using the usurper right leg. They told the inquest that he had been

feeling unwell in the days leading up to her death. Her boyfriend said

that he woke in the middle of the night finding his girlfriend

unconscious. She died later in hospital. We also heard from

Kymberley's nurse and a toxicologist. From their evidence we

learned about a strong painkiller that was said to be a cause of her

death, one of the causes per death. Kymberley had been prescribed ten

times the dosage that you should have been. In the hours before she

died, Kymberley had taken three doses to cope with the tax of pain

in her right leg. The postmortem report get the cause of death as

debit disease, and an overdose of the painkilling medicine. Tomorrow,

the inquest will hear from Kymberley's GP, who prescribed the

The son of a man who took his own life is campaigning to highlight

what he says is the secrecy, shame and stigma that still

It's a particular issue here in the East Midlands among some

Kal Singh Dhindsa's father, Mohinder, struggled

Kal says attitudes are changing, but not fast enough.

Our Health correspondent Rob Sissons reports.

My father took his own life, died by suicide on March 1st, 2006.

He is never out of my mind, never out of my memory.

His shed, he jokingly calls it his 'Man Cave',

is a place where he has done plenty of thinking about mental health.

He has also written about his dad's depression.

He wants to challenge the stigma of mental illness.

The question that kept stirring in my mind was, "Why did he do it?

As soon as you can accept that someone has done this

because their mind was corrupted and they had a mental illness,

you can accept that what they did, they did because they were not

Mental health is to be subject for many groups,

but that Leicestershire's mental health trust, this psychiatrist says

there are some particular challenges in Asian communities.

When you have high blood pressure or diabetes,

people understand that your body has a problem.

When you have a mental health problem, people may actually take

Some people may think it is punishment from God,

or the effect of karma or past life, and sometimes it is

This project in Leicester aims to challenge myths.

Mina suffers depression, and says she was a recluse at home

You are scared to go out because, you know, they might

Another lady was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Everybody is with me, friendly and I like all the activities.

After 30 years of work, the project senses attitudes

are changing, moving in the right direction, albeit slowly.

Rob Sissons, BBC East Midlands today, Leicester.

Police have formally identified the 25-year-old man found dead

from stab wounds at a house in Ashby in Leicestershire.

Warren Hall was found at a bungalow in Holland Crescent last Thursday,

along with a seriously injured woman and an unharmed two-year-old child.

The woman, named locally as 25-year-old Sandie Rayne,

had suffered stabbed wounds and was airlifted to hospital.

The child is being cared for by relatives.

Police have named the 52-year-old man who died in a collision

Ian Newell, from Grantham, was driving one of the six vehicles

Nottinghamshire police are continuing to investigate

the accident, which shut the road in both directions

A 38-year-old man, arrested on suspicion of causing death

by dangerous driving, has been released on police bail.

Derbyshire police have been suspended from the Government's

It has become the only force in the country to lose

the new accreditation, which requires more

Inspectors have ruled that it failed to reach agreed standards.

Senior officers say they are disappointed by the suspension.

They say new mobile recording equipment will be brought into use

Still to come this evening: How forensic science is cracking

And the Navy club that wants you to join up,

and there is always a tot of rum on offer!

Next tonight, we're being told major work to repair a railway bridge

in Leicestershire which collapsed eight months ago causing travel

chaos across the country is finally close to completion.

Village life in Barrow Upon Soar has been disrupted since the bridge

crumbled onto the Midland Mainline at the beginning of August.

It will now re-open at the end of March, but there's a warning

Well, yes, this is the bridge that sparked chaos for rail passengers up

and down the country at the beginning of August.

You may remember this Victorian crossing, which spans

the busy Midland Mainline, crumbled onto the tracks

during an overnight inspection, stopping trains to and from London.

Well, since then, Network Rail engineers have been here working day

and night to repair it, removing 200 tonnes of debris,

restoring the brick parapet, reconnecting gas and water mains

running through the bridge as well as resurfacing the road.

All that, as you can imagine, has led to diversions and disruption

for those living and working in this community.

Here's what villagers told me earlier.

The noise led to a lot of sleepless nights. For us not too bad because

we can catch up, but for others it must be horrendous. They have got to

go to work. So it has affected your quality-of-life? Yes. We have had

noise at weekends of people working on the bridge, Scrabble has not been

particularly quiet. For me it is the noise and the fact they have these

great big trucks and things, you can't even get out of your driveway.

This bridge has been open to pedestrians for much of the last

eight months and will finally reopen to vehicles on 27th March.

But there's more to do, which is why 'finishing-off' work

will have to continue later this year.

Network Rail has told me there simply isn't enough room

on site for all the work to be carried out at once.

This is a very constrained site, it is a very narrow road. They have had

to face the work in order to make sure we minimise disruption to

people. We are sorry for the disruption. We have done everything

we can to shorten the time scale, but make sure this old Bridget safe

and secure for everybody. Network Rail has been discussing

the work it's going to do and the work already done

with villagers at a public I'm told that, in total,

all the work here will come to around ?1 million and that future

work will take place on four Saturday nights,

but we don't yet know when. Now that railway bridge

in Barrow may be Victorian, but it's a mere baby compared

with Swarkestone Bridge The famous causeway

running up to the bridge Not surprisingly, a road designed

for horses and carts back in the 13th century gets damaged

regularly by modern traffic, but now there are plans to put up

signs to stop the largest lorries getting anywhere near it,

as James Roberson reports. Traffic heading towards and away

from Swarkestone Bridge in Derbyshire. The bridge over the

River Trent itself is old enough, but the causeway across the flood

plain is medieval. Nonetheless, they both get 20,000 vehicles a day over

them. There are signs to stop the biggest lorries crossing but there

are quite close to the structure. One of the problems is if they

haven't read signs a couple of miles away warning of the impending

problem, it is too late for them to turn around. You can see the traffic

coming up and dine here, there is no work for them to turn around, so how

can we preserve the bridge? There are plans to put up flashing signs

to give time for a lorries to divert either north or south of the bridge.

Linda would like to see an entirely new road across the flood plain.

Numerous plans and boots were suggested in 2010. The last costs

mentioned in a few years ago were in the region of 20 million. I imagine

that would be 50 million night because they always come in more

expensive plan for. I am all for preserving it, but it is not fit for

purpose in the 21st century. It was not built for cars and people are

complaining incessantly about it. The only option is to have another

bypass. The council says that because of budgetary constraints

those plans have not advanced since 2010, but the new warning lights

should go up in May. but the new warning lights should go

up in May. A team of Nottingham scientists

is using forensic techniques There's been a big rise in illegal

waste removal operators Now the Environment Agency is having

to spend millions of pounds Fly-tipping costs councils

in our region around ?1 million a year to clear up,

and, depending on the type of waste, Here at the Environment Agency

labs in Nottingham, they are using forensic science

to identify if abandoned waste We take a small portion

of the sample, place it on this instrument,

which is an infrared... This sample was taken

from a canister in a warehouse. The computer programme

analyses the substance The position of the peaks on this

chromatogram tell us what atoms are present in the substance

and what their intensity is. From the type of substance that

you find you can characterise the process that it comes from,

and that might lead to where And it's that chemical fingerprint

that allows investigators In particular, the Environment

Agency has seen a big rise The Environment Agency estimates

that waste crime diverts around ?1 billion a year from legitimate

waste disposal businesses and from the Treasury,

and they have spent ?65 million And number of companies that are

really criminal gangs, that are not complying with the waste

legislation. They are telling people they have permits when they don't.

They are telling people they have permits when they don't.

What we want to do is catch those people and stop them

Those responsible can face an unlimited fine and/or up

The forensic analysis is playing a vital part

The unemployment rate in the East Midlands

is at its lowest for more than a decade.

Between November last year and January this year the number

of people out of work in our region dropped by more than 9,000 compared

Despite this, the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance rose

by almost 2,000 to more than 31,000 claimants.

More than ?600,000 is being made available to independent shops

in Leicester to help improve their properties.

Leicester City Council is offering the funds so that retailers can

smarten up their shop fronts and help create attractive

Still to come: It's been a wonderful Wednesday weather-wise,

Yes, it has been a gorgeous day in the East Midlands,

so I have stepped out to enjoy a few of the last rays because it

I'll have your details at the end of the programme.

Leicester City - officially one of the eight best sides in Europe.

Last night, a win up there with their triumphs of last

season sent Leicester through to the quarterfinals

They beat Sevilla, who are serious contenders for the Spanish title,

A display of control, all watched by Nikesh Rughani

The atmosphere at the King Power Stadium was electric

for arguably the biggest game in Leicester City's history.

Once the nerves settled, it didn't take too long

for the Foxes to take the lead through Captain Wes

A 1-0 win would have sent Leicester through to the quarterfinals on away

goals, but they continued to push forward and they sent the crowd

into a frenzy when Marc Albrighton made it 2-0 nine minutes

Albrighton has just possibly scored the biggest goal

15 minutes from the end, Sevilla's Samir Nasri was sent off

after head-butting Jamie Vardy and the tie looked to be safe,

but the Spanish side won a penalty that could have sent the tie

Kasper Schmeichel, though, had other ideas.

The Foxes held on for the last ten minutes and secured one

of the most famous victories in the club's history.

I think it would be memorable for everybody at the football

But I think the supporters who got behind us from the first minute.

Especially the players, who I thought were outstanding tonight.

So, the fairytale continues for Leicester City Football Club.

Just a couple of weeks ago things look very bleak indeed.

They were staring at the relegation zone in the Premier League, but now,

under Craig Shakespeare's leadership, they are into the last

eight in Europe and it has left the fans jubilant.

This is the Leicester City of last year.

I remember when we beat Manchester United 5-3,

I thought it couldn't really get any better, then we come

The best day in this club's history, I think.

Where next for the Leicester glory ride?

You can see the badges of the potential

The huge names are all there - Barcelona, Bayern

But equally, it might be Manchester City, who play tonight.

We went out and about to find out who Leicester fans want

in the draw on Friday, as you'll see, one

Real Madrid. Great experience for Leicester, wouldn't it? Bayer

Leverkusen. Definitely Barcelona. Beautiful city, pass, lovely weather

at this time of year. If we are going to go out I would like to be

against a good team, Barcelona. I would like to see them beat the best

teams, Lionel Messi and all of them. Let's keep it going, definitely.

I wonder, are we now at the point where the achievement is already

so huge it simply doesn't matter what comes next?

Right now, former England star Trevor Sinclair is on BBC Five Live

watching to see if Manchester City can join Leicester

A little earlier, I spoke to him about the scale

It is an incredible achievement. You look at Manchester United when they

first got into the Champions League, they struggled to make any impact.

What Leicester have achieved is incredible. The players must be very

proud of themselves and the manager, one of his first games in charge,

what a way to start! They are all talking appear like they are almost

like a League 1 club that is needed a long way in the FA Cup or

something. Can they go further? Who would bet against it? Look at what

they achieved last year. I think their league form seems to have

suffered because of the Champions League. Claudio Ranieri did tinker a

lot this season, playing players out of position. In this competition

they will play to their strengths, playing on the counterattack. I

think they could surprise a few. I wouldn't bet against them. The fans

want Barcelona, half are looking forward to it, have terrified. They

will all be difficult games, they will sit in against whoever they

play against. When you have the players defending like that, Kasper

Schmeichel playing out of his skin, getting the rub of the green that

they weren't getting at the beginning of the season, those

players will need to play well. If they can do this it will be an

amazing achievement. Talking about getting to the semifinal of the

Champions League! That would be the holy grail for Leicester City.

The draw is on Friday at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Just finally, Leicester City weren't the only team playing last night,

but I'm afraid it was two defeats for our sides in League Two.

Mansfield will be the most disappointed after seeing Colchester

leapfrog above them in the race for the play-offs.

No surprise that Notts County lost at table topping Doncaster.

They gave them a scare, though, with this goal from Richard Duffy.

All before Rovers took the lead and then polished it off with this

goal into an empty net as Notts desperately hunted an equaliser.

Not quite that Leicester's level, but still hunting for glory.

Now, were you or someone in your family ever in the navy?

If so, an ex-service organisation in Leicester needs you because it's

The Senior Service Club needs a new generation of men and women

Simon Ward has been to meet the existing members.

It is John Cassie's 93rd birthday and he is celebrating at the temp

one. His medals include the Legion serving on amounts over on the D-Day

landings. You know everyone. You have a run. The camaraderie is

terrific. But that club on Loughborough Road in Leicester has

in support dwindle. My 40 people and ten. Well it is usually former Navy

personnel it is open to anybody in the forces. When it opens there were

406, but we don't get the ex-service people here any more. We are open to

anybody now, Navy, Army, anybody can come down and join. Life is

different to when we were younger. It was a place you could come with

young children. There weren't so many places then, but there is a lot

more now. Gerry Rogers is a founding member. He joined the Navy as a boy

sailor in 1947. The and see things that are so familiar to you. I can

see the crests from the ships. Like when the lads were coming back from

Afghanistan and all of that, they were all out here, they came down

the club. With the club AGM coming up soon, the number of members are

seriously being considered. Sir needed to keep them sailing on into

the future. Your club needs you, join up now.

Lovely, beautiful, gorgeous day today.

I have a few pictures to begin with sent in by our weather watchers. All

the daffodils here in the sunshine. A beautiful blue sky over rotten

today. The blossom was in full bloom in Loughborough. As he moved into

tomorrow, it does look set to change. It will turn increasingly

cloudy and it will be that big cooler. Today has been the warmest

day of the year so far across the UK. This is the visible satellite

from earlier. You can see plenty of blue skies. That is how we begin

moving to this evening. Clear skies, staying dry, but increasingly is

darting to see more in the way of cloud as you move on to the early

hours. It will be too cold with temperatures falling to an overnight

low as seven Celsius. We could see mist and health of developing. A

fairly mild started the day tomorrow. You could see some

brightness first thing, but quickly through the morning backlight will

building. It will be thick enough to produce the spot of light rain and

drizzle. A maximum temperature of 11 Celsius in the south-westerly

breeze. By Friday we will see the real shift. It will be a call

started the day, cloudy with of rain, temperatures reaching a

maximum of 10 degrees. I will leave you with the Outlook. After a

beautiful day today, things will turn cloudy tomorrow, with some wet

and windy weather for the weekend. I love that Leicester fan who only

want to Barcelona because of the sun and that pass. A week trip out there

would be lovely. Anywhere but Manchester, no offence to Manchester

City fans! Goodbye. 'The UK has voted to leave

the European Union 'Ukip leader Nigel Farage

celebrated the result, 'declaring that dawn was breaking

on an independent nation. 'Prime Minister David Cameron is

expected to resign 'The pound fell sharply as the

referendum result became apparent, 'and traders are bracing themselves

for panic when the markets open. 'and England are confident

of advancing to the next stage 'ahead of their upcoming European

Championship game against Iceland.'