17/04/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

A teenage boy who was robbed in a park after falling

into a diabetic coma has seen his dream come true today.

13-year-old McKinley Chambers was targeted by thieves

He's a huge Notts County fan, and after the club heard

about his ordeal, the chairman invited McKinley to enjoy

Scoring a goal at his favourite football club - it's a dream come

A well-deserved special day for the Notts County fan

after enduring a horrifying ordeal last week.

He collapsed and fell into a diabetic coma as he played

in a recreation ground in Nottingham last weekend.

Instead of being helped, he was robbed.

Thieves rifled through his pockets, smashed his phone and his diabetic

I'm disgusted that he was laying there on his own for so long

and people could come up and to not help or move him or touch him

and take his things and go through them, I'm disgusted.

I still don't get my head around what type of people do that.

I don't understand why you would leave a child,

After hearing about what happened to the football-mad teenager,

Notts County chairman Alan Hardy got in touch.

Oh, my goodness, what a horrendous story.

So when I came across the piece where he said a Notts County

supporter, I thought, got to get him to the game.

He's just put it in the top bin and scored a goal.

Even Notts County getting beaten by Portsmouth

Detectives investigating the death of a teenager in Nottingham

18-year-old Matthew Rothery was found injured at a property

on Woodborough Road in Mapperley in the early hours

He died a short while after being taken to hospital.

Police say a 20-year-old man from Nottingham has been arrested

and is being questioned on suspicion of murder.

A woman from Leicestershire is campaigning for

more research into a condition for which there is no cure.

Alison Parish took over the running of a support group for MSA

to prevent it closing shortly before her mother died

Ann Thorpe died from MSA four months ago.

In her memory, her daughter Alison from Colville has continued

the support group she took over in the late stages of her

You've got to be helping other people.

We know what a struggle we had trying to find the information

MSA is a progressive neurological disease.

Nerve cells in the brain shrink, causing problems with movement,

Mitchell from Derby and his carer say the group is a ray of light.

It's a cruel condition and it affects all areas of your life

John says his wife Brenda's condition was initially mistaken

I just wish there was a cure, I wish I could go tomorrow

Alison would like to trace and help more of the 50 people estimated

to have the condition in the East Midlands.

An exhibition of photographs taken at the Royal Maundy service

A minute's silence was held this afternoon at the IPRO stadium

for Derby County supporter Hannah Bladon.

The 20-year-old was stabbed to death on Good Friday in Jerusalem

where she was studying at the Hebrew University.

She's been described by her family as "the most caring, sensitive

In a statement Derby County also expressed their

An exhibition of photographs taken at the Royal Maundy service

last week has opened at Leicester Cathedral.

It was unveiled earlier today by the Dean of Leicester.

Before the Queen's visit on Thursday, Leicester was

the only cathedral in England which hadn't hosted the service

Leicester City's players are feeling sharp and ready for tomorrow's

Champions League quarterfinal match with Atletico Madrid, according

The Foxes trail 1-0 from the first leg but, as Colin Hazelden reports,

they should have an influential figure back from injury.

With one key defender suspended, all eyes at training on

He's been out for a month but timing his return beautifully.

My eyes tell me today that we both should be fairly pleased

These Leicester players will be facing Champions League

veterans in Atletico Madrid, the astonishing prize

a European semifinal but they are at home,

The stadium will be brilliant tomorrow, I don't think anybody

loves to come here against Leicester at the King Power, nevertheless

We're at home, champions of England, what more do you want to ask?

The Leicester fans all talk like that.

They've learnt the impossible is no such thing.

And here are this afternoon's football results.

In the Championship, Derby are currently trailing 1-0

Lower down, Nottingham Forest, who are fighting relegation,

lost their crucial match away to Cardiff City 1-0.

In League Two Mansfield, who are chasing the playoffs

At Meadow Lane, in front of a crowd of 12,000,

it finished Notts County 1, Portsmouth 3,

I hope you managed to enjoy some sunshine through this Easter Monday.

Chilly night to come, we will see some

showers pushing down in the middle of the night,

they will clear South, should be dry for the end of the

night, a touch of frost in rural areas, a chilly start to Tuesday,

Tuesday will be a sparkling day, many of us will stay dry,

one or two showers perhaps as we head to

But most of us will stay dry, light winds that temperatures slow to

rise, it will never get all that warm, ten or 11 degrees the best I

can offer and a sharp frost developing on Tuesday night,

Wednesday will be a frosty dawn, that will clear and Wednesday will

be fine, turning a little cloudy but not a bad spell through the middle

of the week. We're back at 10:20pm

with our late bulletin.