29/12/2016 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.

First tonight, police in Derbyshire investigating the discovery

of a body on Christmas Day say they've been overwhelmed

by the support they've had from people offering information.

Vietnamese national Han Lam was found near Heanor Memorial Park.

Officers believe the 17-year-old may have died in a different place.

They want to hear from anyone who saw a dark grey

Farmers across the East Midlands are working to keep their birds

safe, after avian flu was discovered in Leicestershire last week.

The Government's urged to keep all poultry indoors.

Jo Healey reports now on how a farm park is protecting it's flock.

They have around 50 hens, geese and ducks here

At this time of year, for six hours a day,

they expect to be outdoors, but not this winter.

They're a bit miffed, certainly on nice days

when they would sooner be outside in the sunshine.

Luckily, with it being the winter time, the days are short

anyway, so they spend most of their time inside.

Staying inside all the time is something DEFRA demanded in early

December from all poultry keepers, even people with hens in the garden.

It is to make sure they do not come into contact with wild birds

then the whole flock would catch it from there.

We have to take every precaution we can to keep them safe.

The measures to keep all birds safe will be reassessed in the New Year.

A dramatisation of the last few days of a murdered Leicestershire

teenager's life will be available to watch online from the new year.

Kayleigh Haywood was groomed, raped, and murdered last November

The video, called Kayleigh's story, has won national awards,

and has been used by police to warn other young people of

It's hoped lottery funding could help turn an old tram depot

The old Stoneygate depot on London Road was decomissioned

in 1922, and later used as a railway museum in the '60s and '70s.

Now the Leicester Transport Heritage Trust has applied for funding to buy

The last service for almost a year will be held at a medieval church

in Leicestershire on New Year's Day, before it undergoes a ?2

People who attend St Mary's Church in Melton Mowbrary will be holding

services at the nearby council offices while the work takes place.

Parts of Saint Mary 's Church date back to 1170. Now without changes to

the way it looks, it needs updating. The major cost will be raising the

level of the floor to make it more accessible and improve heating. A

big donation has held. A local historian died and left us about 1

million pounds and the project itself will be nearly 2 million so

that's a good amount of money to take us towards the total, but the

rest will have to be raised from the local community, charities and

people who want to give to do something to a building which means

so much. A window that is clear glass at the moment will this design

to number the man who gave the donation. The organ will also be

updated. The main project to raise the floor will be carried out very

carefully. Setting stones are Ledger stones which are dedicated to

different people who have died in the past, but we have to settle

those back into the floor approximately where they are at the

moment. During most of 2017, people will worship at council offices but

they will look forward to returning. A member of our congregation said

our opening him should be nearer my God to the. They should be back at

Saint Mary 's in time for next Christmas.

Finally, four tiny kittens are looking for a new home

after being rescued from a building site.

The one-month-old cats were discovered at the site

in Nottingham just moments before diggers moved in and are now

being looked after by staff at the RSPCA in Derby.

They've re-homed hundreds of animals this year,

People have one cat, the cat becomes pregnant,

one cat becomes four, five, six cats and people realise

the financial cost overall looking after them is quite

It stops any unwanted breeding, it also has health

It's icy and cold outside, so let's get the weather forecast

for the rest of tonight and tomorrow with Lucy.

One or two mist or fog patches to look out for tonight. More in the

way of low cloud and yesterday and temperatures close to freezing in

towns and cities. You could see a patchy frost to start tomorrow,

watch out for some ice but that mist and fog will lift quickly. Tomorrow

looking like a cloudy day, temperatures reaching a maximum of

eight Celsius with a light south-westerly breeze. Saturday, a

similar story. Plenty of cloud around, largely dry but we could see

rain through the night into Sunday. And that's your news and weather

for the East Midlands. We're back with our breakfast

bulletins from 6am. But for now, from all of us

on the late team, goodnight. Hello. Fold and frost has been a

feature of the weather in recent mornings in England and Wales,

producing a wintry scene with Frost in Oxfordshire this morning. In

Highland Scotland, a completely different story. Thank you to our

weather watchers for the photos. Snow on the hills but temperatures

reaching