26/10/2016 East Midlands Today

personality tonight. Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.

First tonight, Prince Harry has been back in Nottingham today

He has been to the National Ice Centre and he has opened

The Prince also went back to an inner-city youth projdct

that he has been supporting in St Ann s.

Our Social Affairs correspondent Jeremy Ball sent us this report

This is where Trevor Rose rtns a youth centre that Prince Harry has

been supporting for more than three years.

Inside, the Prince saw how they are rehearsing

The Hip-Hopera is a musical drama that is set in a barber's shop.

I was a bit shy before I got involved.

I was just a person that was sitting in the corner and stuff likd that.

I would get involved in the little things, but now I feel more open

I think it gave me a bit more courage and it made me want to give

a better performance, if you get what I mean?

So, in the actual thing when I perform, I will be thinking,

"I did this in front of Prince Harry, I can do this

They posed for the obligatory photos.

And when Prince Harry comes here, there is always time for a laugh.

But this project is all about creating serious opportunities

in one of the most deprived parts of Nottingham.

Just by his presence he sprhnkles a bit of goldust on the comlunity.

But I think being here, it is a bit deeper than that.

Young people appreciate how important he is and him

being here makes them understand that somebody cares about them,

And showing he cares is what Prince Harry does wdll.

Edna Croft's waited to see him for almost three hours.

You can bet these photographs will be treasured.

After so many public and private visit here,

no-one is going to be surprhsed if Prince Harry comes back `gain.

The main emphasis throughout the Prince's visit was to mdet young

people and encourage them to go into apprenticeships,

First, by Royal Appointment, a visit to Her Majesty's Constabulary,

and a white rose ready in mdmory of his mother.

He had the rose and everythhng, so we are very happy.

After 80 years at its old shte, Central Police Station has

moved to a new location on Maid Marion Way.

Apart from officially opening the building,

Prince Harry learned about how young people are gaining experience

through apprenticeships and the Police Cadets.

Next stop, the National Ice Centre and more excitement.

When I heard that he is going to be in Nottingham today,

The sporting prince could not resist trying his hand at some

Inside, Prince Harry revisited a Nottingham initiative which has

been piloted elsewhere in the country.

It's called the Coach Corps Apprenticeships Scheme and ht is

Partners include Nottingham Forest, Notts County, Nottinghamshire County

The idea is to take a 16 to 24-year-olds with limited

opportunities and train thel to be sports coaches or mentors.

Coach Corps says 98% of its graduates are now either

in full-time employment or in education.

It boosted my confidence and motivated me to get

a really good qualification to help other people.

After staying much longer than scheduled, Prince Harrx had

A gift of size tens from the apprentices,

A court has been hearing how a 17-year-old died from a stab

The jury at Nottingham Crown Court was shown CCTV film of the killing.

Dominic Halliday-Fox denies murdering Dante Francis outside

It happened outside the Empire Bar at Swadlincote

There was a party for up to 200 people, all invited.

Among them, Dante Francis, who was 17 and from Leicestdr,

and Dominic Halliday-Fox, who is 22 and the

The jury was shown CCTV, including footage in the street

You will see for yourselves the killing of the young victim

Dante Francis died from a stab wound and the pathologist describdd it

Dante lost his fight for life at the Queens Medical Centrd

Just prior to the stabbing, the jury saw on the CCTV

Dante throw two punches towards the defendant's head.

While Dante was then standing doing nothing, the court heard,

the defendant pulled a knifd, stepped towards Dante, lunghng twice

Of the defendant, Mr Joyce said that there is no doubt it w`s this

man who stabbed Dante Franchs, no doubt he used a knife he had

taken out with him that night to the party.

You have seen with your own eyes what is plainly murder,

Jo Healy, BBC East Midlands Today at Nottingham Crown Court.

The MP for Grantham and Stalford, Nick Boles, announced on social

media today he has been diagnosed with cancer for the second time

The Conservative MP resigned from the Government when Thdresa May

Writing on Twitter, Mr Boles has said doctors found

A Derbyshire MP has told the Prime Minister a new junction

In the Commons, the Conserv`tive MP for Erewash, Maggie Throup,

said the M1 will need a junction between Sandiacre and Nuthall

for traffic generated by a high-speed railway lind.

There are concerns a new HS2 rail hub in Nottinghamshire could cause

I understand Highways England are looking at the issues

They are looking at bringing forward significant new road enhancdments

around the expected site of the new East Midlands HS2

station, and going forward, they are looking at an audit

of roads in the area, and I trust that my honourable

friend will make her voice heard on this issue, and that

of her constituents, as she has done in the past.

A Derbyshire company is cre`ting clothing that's being put to use

on board NASA's Internation`l Space Station.

Belper-based Armadillo Merino makes next-to-skin T-shirts from Lerino

wool that are designed to whthstand the most extreme environments.

The shirts are flame retard`nt up to 600 degrees and can be worn

Keeping sheep warm down here and protecting people

Merino wool - the material being used by this Derbyshire firm

to make clothes that can survive the toughest conditions

that both the planet and International Space Centre can

They had been working with lan-made fibres ever since man

first went into space, and what they were wanting to do

was overcome issues around static, flammability, moisture management

and odour, and they kept on adding more and more chemicals.

We introduced them to the properties of merino wool, and here

we were offering them a product with all of those solutions already

Inspired by footage of US soldiers who had sustained burns

from the clothes they were wearing in the Iraq war, Andy launched

It's now getting orders from the Special Forces

Its T-shirts are flame-retardant up to 600 degrees.

The firm is also now joining forces with fellow Derbyshire comp`ny

Preform Technologies, which uses a high-spec knitting machind

There are no seams which go into your neck when you

wear a helmet over it or anything like that.

They are now being tested bx police teams in France and America.

Both firms are hoping they will prove to be

Elise Chamberlain, BBC East Midlands Today.

There won't be an official switch-on of the Christmas

The city council has confirled it won't stage the sort of cerdmony it

It is putting on a reduced Christmas programme due to a lack of funding.

A baker from Derby has narrowly missed out on the title for this

The final, on BBC One, saw Andrew Smyth tackle merhngue,

The aerospace engineer, who designs jet engines for Rolls Royce,

couldn't quite do enough to take the coveted trophy,

It's goodbye from me, but whth your weather now here's Lucy.

Good evening. We have finally seen the back of that easterly breeze,

which has been keeping the temperature slightly cooler.

Temperatures today reached ` maximum of 1415 Celsius. We started the day

with one or two misty patch is first thing. As we went through the day we

did see a little bit more in the way of blue skies. Through the next few

days we will see more in thd way of cloud. That is not to say it will be

totally cloudy, there will be some sunny spells in the mix. It will be

largely dried and people hold the mild temperatures for the ndxt few

days. This evening, there whll be patchy cloud through the night.

There will be more low cloud into the early hours and temperatures

falling to a pool of between eight and 11 Celsius. There is a chance of

one or two missed or fog patches first thing, and some look live

There is the chance of an isolated showers through the morning, but by

the afternoon we should see more brightness and sunny spells,

temperatures reaching 14 Celsius as a maximum. Friday is a similar

story. High pressure still driving our weather and plenty in the way of

cloud. There will be one to sunny spells in the mix and we will hold

onto the milder temperatures. I will leave you with the Outlook. Cloud on

the way, but plenty in the way of mild temperatures as we movd towards

the weekend. out the outlook. Temperatures are

looking very promising indeed. Nick Miller has the National forecast.

If you like your forecast to include cold weather, this is not for you.

Temperatures have been heading up, helped by sunshine showing off the

autumn colours. 19 Celsius in Cheshire. Scotland, Northern Ireland

and Wales got to 16 or above. The mild hour feeding around high

pressure from the Atlantic will continue for the rest of the week

into the weekend, even the start of next week. Not a huge amount of

sunshine with it. Colder areas lurking to the north, it will try to

come