:00:15. > :00:17.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.
:00:18. > :00:21.Today was thought to be the busiest shopping day of the year
:00:22. > :00:24.with an estimated ten million people out buying presents and food.
:00:25. > :00:27.High streets and shopping centres across the East Midlands have been
:00:28. > :00:34.Retailers have been building up to the big day, many of them
:00:35. > :00:36.spending an absolute fortune on television adverts
:00:37. > :00:40.because it is worth it for them, they make so much of their profit
:00:41. > :00:47.It's difficult to judge of today has been busier than previous years,
:00:48. > :00:50.but the shoppers we spoke to seemed to be getting what they need.
:00:51. > :00:53.We're going round and round making sure we get everything we want
:00:54. > :00:56.and we're going to go out tomorrow because it's going to be really busy
:00:57. > :00:59.tomorrow so hopefully we'll get everything today.
:01:00. > :01:03.We usually do it on Christmas Eve, but we decided to come a day early
:01:04. > :01:05.this year so we've just about got everything we need.
:01:06. > :01:09.It's been quite cheap in lots of places.
:01:10. > :01:11.You're a business from Poland and you've signed up
:01:12. > :01:13.to be here and you're going to stay here permanently?
:01:14. > :01:18.We're going to stay here a long time.
:01:19. > :01:21.It's my first time in England and I will stay here for more.
:01:22. > :01:31.When closing and it's almost empty, we go and party!
:01:32. > :01:34.It's not normally this quick, so I've got lots of gifts
:01:35. > :01:37.for Christmas and got the girls with me to choose
:01:38. > :01:42.It's really busy, I didn't think it would actually be this busy,
:01:43. > :01:49.Did you spend in the pre-Christmas sales?
:01:50. > :01:54.I got quite a lot during the first month to get my
:01:55. > :02:00.Retailers have been taking advantage by running later this week,
:02:01. > :02:04.but here at Highcross they close at 5:30pm tomorrow night.
:02:05. > :02:13.With Christmas Eve on a Saturday, it's expected to be very busy.
:02:14. > :02:15.Two men have died on a Leicestershire farm in an incident
:02:16. > :02:20.Police were called to Normanton near Bottesford yesterday.
:02:21. > :02:22.Postmortem examinations are being carried out
:02:23. > :02:31.The Health and Safety Executive is also investigating,
:02:32. > :02:35.The Government's confirmed that bird flu has been
:02:36. > :02:40.The Chief Veterinary Officer says a wild wigeon tested positive
:02:41. > :02:42.for the H5N8 strain of avian influenza, which is currently
:02:43. > :02:45.Farms across the East Midlands have been taking
:02:46. > :02:48.Meanwhile, Public Health England says the risk
:02:49. > :02:53.Trading Standards officers are warning people not to be tempted
:02:54. > :02:55.by the lure of cheap goods when picking up
:02:56. > :03:01.Teams from Nottinghamshire have seized fake branded
:03:02. > :03:02.items from a warehouse, while in Leicestershire,
:03:03. > :03:04.hundreds of dangerous chargers have been confiscated.
:03:05. > :03:10.In a warehouse at County Hall in Glenfield in Leicestershire,
:03:11. > :03:12.officers from the county's Trading Standards department checked
:03:13. > :03:19.These piles of goods are just two months' worth of poor-quality
:03:20. > :03:22.objects seized by Trading Standards and the UK Border Force
:03:23. > :03:25.as they passed through East Midlands Airport,
:03:26. > :03:29.Electrical chargers pose a particular risk.
:03:30. > :03:31.Cheap electrical chargers are a real problem.
:03:32. > :03:34.They can be an electrocution risk or a fire risk
:03:35. > :03:39.One thing we would say is, definitely do not leave your
:03:40. > :03:50.In Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottingham Trading Standards
:03:51. > :03:53.recorded this footage when they raided a property
:03:54. > :03:55.where they seized 450 fake branded goods and counterfeit items
:03:56. > :04:06.The 56 brands included unsafe, fake items.
:04:07. > :04:10.They are not real, they're not the quality you'd expect.
:04:11. > :04:13.They will break, for a partner at best, at worst they can kill them
:04:14. > :04:21.because these electrical items are not tested.
:04:22. > :04:25.We are in the process of testing, but we believe they will be
:04:26. > :04:28.In Leicestershire, the officers will have a smashing
:04:29. > :04:30.time after Christmas, continuing to destroy items
:04:31. > :04:37.to ensure they are unsaleable before they are recycled.
:04:38. > :04:41.More than 200 people have signed a book of condolence
:04:42. > :04:45.for the family of Claire Nagle, who was murdered last
:04:46. > :04:50.Her husband, Vincent, died after being hit by a lorry
:04:51. > :04:58.St Stephen's Church in Borrowash has been opening its doors every day
:04:59. > :05:02.this week for people to leave their tributes.
:05:03. > :05:05.An operation to find a missing man from Derby has been relaunched 25
:05:06. > :05:08.Richard Gregory lived on Thornhill Road, and was 40
:05:09. > :05:11.when he failed to return from a holiday in March 1991.
:05:12. > :05:14.Money was withdrawn from his bank account in Plymouth a month later.
:05:15. > :05:16.An artist's impression has been commissioned
:05:17. > :05:18.of what he might look like today, as police renew their
:05:19. > :05:28.A charity in the East Midlands has been working to bring festive cheer
:05:29. > :05:31.to those struggling at Christmas, and give them a place to shelter.
:05:32. > :05:33.Framework in Nottingham is giving rough sleepers a bed
:05:34. > :05:35.and a place to celebrate the festivities this year.
:05:36. > :05:37.They offer emergency accommodation and say they're seeing increasing
:05:38. > :05:42.Rough sleeping increased, it doubled actually,
:05:43. > :05:45.in the five years to 2015 and we know it has gone
:05:46. > :05:51.It is increasing and if you are sleeping rough,
:05:52. > :05:53.there is a greater chance of you being attacked
:05:54. > :05:58.than there would be if you were just tucked up warm in your own home.
:05:59. > :06:01.I'll have your next Christmas Eve update tomorrow, but Kay's here now
:06:02. > :06:22.After all the today, tomorrow is looking mostly dry although the sad
:06:23. > :06:28.thing is we will hang onto that breeze so we're looking at a breezy
:06:29. > :06:31.night overnight but dry. Plenty of clear skies. That will change in the
:06:32. > :06:34.early hours when we start to get more in the way of cloud but
:06:35. > :06:38.elsewhere, clear skies and temperatures of around four Celsius
:06:39. > :06:41.but it will stay breezy. Christmas Eve will be bright and breezy to
:06:42. > :06:47.start the day off with all parts dry. Through the morning, a couple
:06:48. > :06:52.of showers but few and far between and in the afternoon all parts will
:06:53. > :06:55.be dry and bright but a fresh southwesterly breeze, temperatures
:06:56. > :07:00.around about eight or nine Celsius and then we get to the big night. It
:07:01. > :07:06.looks like Father Christmas is going to be on the mild side as we head
:07:07. > :07:09.overnight because we drag in the southwesterly air and through
:07:10. > :07:14.Christmas Day itself, temperatures rise. Probably not record-breaking
:07:15. > :07:19.but tides of 13 Celsius and will feel mild. It will stay dry but some
:07:20. > :07:24.rain as we head into Christmas Day night and into Boxing Day. Boxing
:07:25. > :07:27.Day itself looks dry and bright with some good spells of sunshine, high
:07:28. > :07:27.pressure building so things will settle down by Tuesday.
:07:28. > :07:31.In a few moments, a full national forecast, but for now I'll leave
:07:32. > :07:37.big day? Christmas Day. It will stay mild and temperatures could reach
:07:38. > :07:43.14, 15. He is down bet that the national picture.
:07:44. > :07:49.It will be more northern parts of the UK that see the worst of the
:07:50. > :07:59.weather. Another storm is developing in the Atlantic. This will turn into
:08:00. > :08:05.Storm Connor. This cloud has wrapped around storm Barbara. It brought
:08:06. > :08:09.gusty winds in the West. Some localised flooding in Scotland early
:08:10. > :08:13.on and the strongest winds in the north of Scotland approaching 80
:08:14. > :08:18.miles an hour. The amber window warning from the Met Office is about
:08:19. > :08:19.to expire. It remains windy overnight. In