30/12/2016 East Midlands Today

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

The East Midlands Olympic and Paralympic sports

heroes have been rewarded in the New Years Honours List -

Other award winners in the region range from the pioneer of DNA

They won gold for their country and the 2016 Olympics.

Now city of Derby swimmer Adam Peaty takes hold of the new Year MBE.

Along with East Midlands members of Britain s successful

Our Paralympians are honoured, a CBE going to Nottingham s Tim Redditch,

And there are MBEs for Leicestershire s paralysed marathon

runner Claire Lomas and national cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew.

In other fields, University of Leicester Professor

whose DNA profiling transformed criminal investigations is made

a prestigious companion of honour while the boss of Leicester family

snack firm co-fresh running for more than 40 years gets an MBE.

The credit goes to my parents and my father in particular.

But it is an honour to receive the award.

It is the recognition of the colleagues I work

Former headteacher Rosalind Taylor receives a British Empire medal,

she has helped hundreds of schools win environmental awards.

I got a letter telling me the Queen was going to make this award

and to be quite honest I nearly fainted.

You don't ever think of it when you do interesting things

You do it because you believe in it, because you enjoy it

so getting an award is just absolutely marvellous.

And for feeding hungry minds, dinner lady Dorothy Pickering

at this primary is not forgotten winning a British Empire medal

and a youth boxing coach can add his to the BBC National unsung

hero award, he was presented with earlier this month.

A postmortem examination has failed to identify the cause of death

for a 17-year-old found on Christmas Day in Derbyshire.

Han Lam was discovered near Heanor Memorial Park, and only

The Coroner is asking for help in finding his next of kin,

Meanwhile police want to hear from anyone who saw a dark grey

Emergency workers are warning us to watch what we drink this weekend.

Last New Year, East Midlands Ambulance Service took well over

This year they're expecting even more - so have set up mobile

emergency units for on the spot treatment to ease pressure on A

This one will be in Leicester tomorrow night.

We will be able to treat patients that have fallen over, injured

themselves or drunk too much having a good time. The idea is we can

treat and discharge from here, we use this on the 23rd and 24th and

50% of patients did not go to hospital.

The Peak District National Park has lost a quarter of its funding

It's one of the worst affected Parks in an investigation

It lost millions of pounds in funding.

Last year DEFRA pledged to increase grants by 2020.

A Derby mum's looking forward to the new year,

after surviving a near-fatal brain bleed while on holiday.

Katy Head says she's delighted to have been able to share

Christmas with her family, after falling critically ill

That is where we live, we got on a plane in Birmingham.

Back home in Derby, Katie and her son recall the traumatic

moment last October when on holiday in Greece she suddenly fell ill.

As I was swimming, got a pain on the right-hand side of my neck

and I knew something wasn't right so I shouted out to Craig

and he realised something was wrong and that is the last thing

During a boat trip, an aneurysm burst in her brain while swimming.

She had to be airlifted to a specialist hospital in Athens

where Greek surgeons operated to save her.

Everybody told me what a great job they did and if it wasn't for them,

and acting how they did, I would not be here for my boys.

Christmas was amazing, we made the most of it this year.

Last month, she was flown home and is slowly recovering and looking

forward to next year and enjoying family time.

In sport, while most of our sides play tomorrow,

Nottingham Forest had their last fixture of 2016 tonight.

And after going down to ten men - lost it, three one at Newcastle.

The result sees Newcastle top of the championship tonight,

while it's a fourth defeat in five games for Forest.

Well that's your lot from me - let's get the latest

on those warnings about fog now, with Kay.

A foggy evening and for the night. A warning is valid until ten o'clock

tomorrow. Derbyshire up out of the warning area but you will see

patches of fog. Quite dense in places, 100m especially across

southern and eastern parts. Overnight, clear spells and

temperatures down to 2 degrees. The risk of a touch of frost. A misty

and murky start tomorrow but through the afternoon we should see it

brightening. It stays dry, good news for fireworks. Nine or 10 degrees.

There is rain, after midnight, from the North pushing down to the south

so for New Year's Day, northern parts dry and bright, cloud in the

South but brightening in the afternoon. Highs of 5 degrees. This

is the summary. Goodbye. Good evening. Looking ahead to 2017

it looks like we will start off on a cold note. This weather front will

move south in the next day or so bringing rain with it, but also much

colder air following a lull behind. It will sweep the fog away. It's

grey for some places this afternoon. You could hardly see across the

river in the Greater London area. Met Office