23/12/2016 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

Today was thought to be the busiest shopping day of the year

with an estimated ten million people out buying presents and food.

High streets and shopping centres across the East Midlands have been

Retailers have been building up to the big day, many of them

spending an absolute fortune on television adverts

because it is worth it for them, they make so much of their profit

It's difficult to judge of today has been busier than previous years,

but the shoppers we spoke to seemed to be getting what they need.

We're going round and round making sure we get everything we want

and we're going to go out tomorrow because it's going to be really busy

tomorrow so hopefully we'll get everything today.

We usually do it on Christmas Eve, but we decided to come a day early

this year so we've just about got everything we need.

It's been quite cheap in lots of places.

You're a business from Poland and you've signed up

to be here and you're going to stay here permanently?

We're going to stay here a long time.

It's my first time in England and I will stay here for more.

When closing and it's almost empty, we go and party!

It's not normally this quick, so I've got lots of gifts

for Christmas and got the girls with me to choose

It's really busy, I didn't think it would actually be this busy,

Did you spend in the pre-Christmas sales?

I got quite a lot during the first month to get my

Retailers have been taking advantage by running later this week,

but here at Highcross they close at 5:30pm tomorrow night.

With Christmas Eve on a Saturday, it's expected to be very busy.

Two men have died on a Leicestershire farm in an incident

Police were called to Normanton near Bottesford yesterday.

Postmortem examinations are being carried out

The Health and Safety Executive is also investigating,

The Government's confirmed that bird flu has been

The Chief Veterinary Officer says a wild wigeon tested positive

for the H5N8 strain of avian influenza, which is currently

Farms across the East Midlands have been taking

Meanwhile, Public Health England says the risk

Trading Standards officers are warning people not to be tempted

by the lure of cheap goods when picking up

Teams from Nottinghamshire have seized fake branded

items from a warehouse, while in Leicestershire,

hundreds of dangerous chargers have been confiscated.

In a warehouse at County Hall in Glenfield in Leicestershire,

officers from the county's Trading Standards department checked

These piles of goods are just two months' worth of poor-quality

objects seized by Trading Standards and the UK Border Force

as they passed through East Midlands Airport,

Electrical chargers pose a particular risk.

Cheap electrical chargers are a real problem.

They can be an electrocution risk or a fire risk

One thing we would say is, definitely do not leave your

In Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottingham Trading Standards

recorded this footage when they raided a property

where they seized 450 fake branded goods and counterfeit items

The 56 brands included unsafe, fake items.

They are not real, they're not the quality you'd expect.

They will break, for a partner at best, at worst they can kill them

because these electrical items are not tested.

We are in the process of testing, but we believe they will be

In Leicestershire, the officers will have a smashing

time after Christmas, continuing to destroy items

to ensure they are unsaleable before they are recycled.

More than 200 people have signed a book of condolence

for the family of Claire Nagle, who was murdered last

Her husband, Vincent, died after being hit by a lorry

St Stephen's Church in Borrowash has been opening its doors every day

this week for people to leave their tributes.

An operation to find a missing man from Derby has been relaunched 25

Richard Gregory lived on Thornhill Road, and was 40

when he failed to return from a holiday in March 1991.

Money was withdrawn from his bank account in Plymouth a month later.

An artist's impression has been commissioned

of what he might look like today, as police renew their

A charity in the East Midlands has been working to bring festive cheer

to those struggling at Christmas, and give them a place to shelter.

Framework in Nottingham is giving rough sleepers a bed

and a place to celebrate the festivities this year.

They offer emergency accommodation and say they're seeing increasing

Rough sleeping increased, it doubled actually,

in the five years to 2015 and we know it has gone

It is increasing and if you are sleeping rough,

there is a greater chance of you being attacked

than there would be if you were just tucked up warm in your own home.

I'll have your next Christmas Eve update tomorrow, but Kay's here now

After all the today, tomorrow is looking mostly dry although the sad

thing is we will hang onto that breeze so we're looking at a breezy

night overnight but dry. Plenty of clear skies. That will change in the

early hours when we start to get more in the way of cloud but

elsewhere, clear skies and temperatures of around four Celsius

but it will stay breezy. Christmas Eve will be bright and breezy to

start the day off with all parts dry. Through the morning, a couple

of showers but few and far between and in the afternoon all parts will

be dry and bright but a fresh southwesterly breeze, temperatures

around about eight or nine Celsius and then we get to the big night. It

looks like Father Christmas is going to be on the mild side as we head

overnight because we drag in the southwesterly air and through

Christmas Day itself, temperatures rise. Probably not record-breaking

but tides of 13 Celsius and will feel mild. It will stay dry but some

rain as we head into Christmas Day night and into Boxing Day. Boxing

Day itself looks dry and bright with some good spells of sunshine, high

pressure building so things will settle down by Tuesday.

In a few moments, a full national forecast, but for now I'll leave

big day? Christmas Day. It will stay mild and temperatures could reach

14, 15. He is down bet that the national picture.

It will be more northern parts of the UK that see the worst of the

weather. Another storm is developing in the Atlantic. This will turn into

Storm Connor. This cloud has wrapped around storm Barbara. It brought

gusty winds in the West. Some localised flooding in Scotland early

on and the strongest winds in the north of Scotland approaching 80

miles an hour. The amber window warning from the Met Office is about

to expire. It remains windy overnight. In