13/01/2017 East Midlands Today

Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Sarah Teale.

For years now, former footballer Alan Birchenall has campaigned

for defibrillators to be installed at sports grounds.

Last night his life was saved by one.

The football legend and Leicester City ambassador

collapsed at an awards event but he was saved by the emergency

He is affectionately known as the Birch.

Since the early 1970s, Alan Birchenall has been part of

As well as being a former player, he is also known for

While handing out awards at the Leicester

Mercury sports event last night, Alan collapsed because of

His life was saved by nurse Lisa Fereday.

She was there because her daughter was nominated

I started chest compressions and asked for the

automated defibrillator to be brought to me as soon as possible.

That was brought quickly to me and all the time, it

is obviously important to continue effective chest compressions,

When the automated defibrillator came, we attached it

which was obviously pivotal in saving his life.

After the fourth shock, he came round and was

The first thing he said to me was, wow,

This doctor has worked with Alan Birchenall at

public events to promote the use of defibrillators.

The very equipment which kept him alive.

There were two things that saved his

One was the immediate commencement of resuscitation,

compression of the heart and the second thing

was the defibrillator that was quickly available and the

Is it fair to say he has been overwhelmed by messages

I've warned him not to spend too much time trying to respond to them.

He is overwhelmed and overjoyed at the support he has had.

Leicester City have issued a statement thanking everyone who has

helped a lot for the messages of support. He give a message on

Facebook saying he hopes to have an operation tomorrow and be out of

hospital in the next few days. To all his well-wishers, he said you

know one of my favourite songs is Staying Alive. And we wish you a

speedy recovery. Breaking news now,

and in the last hour, the proposed takeover

of the club has collapsed. A consortium led by American John

Jay Moores had been in long negotiations to buy an 80 per cent

stake in the club. But tonight, current

owner Fawaz Al Hasawi said it was with regret

and disappointment that In a statement he said, we feel such

a deal as it stands is not in the interests of the long-term

future of our club. A 16-year-old boy has been

jailed for nine years for sexually assaulting two women

in Nottingham last autumn. The youth attacked a woman

in her twenties near the QMC Fifteen minutes later,

he attempted to rape a woman The judge called the attacks

violent and degrading. And said it was more shocking

that they were carried out They've both been affected terribly,

not wishing to leave the house alone, not wishing

to go to work anymore. Both females feel extremely

frightened and of course, this attack was in daylight, in the early

hours of the morning, so they've both made the

comment that it is not even as though it was

Next tonight - an act of cruelty against a cat which the RSPCA has

Just a warning - near the start, Geeta Pendse's report contains

Enjoying attention from her owner, Patrick.

But 24 hours ago, Millie was attacked outside

Patrick's private CCTV camera captured the shocking moment when a

My cat was just sat there, being friendly and

I felt sick, I felt angry to think that

somebody thinks they have the right to do that to a defenceless animal.

Millie's suffered swelling to her jaw and is now being treated for a

Determined to find out who carried out the attack,

Patrick posted the footage onto Facebook and

The RSPCA are now investigating and appealing for

They say inflicting such an horrific attack on a

defenceless cat is sickening and it is

important we track down the

One football result for you now, and defeat for Derby County,

In ice hockey, it's a huge weekend for Nottingham Panthers.

They are trying to make history as the first British club

They played their first game today and won, as Colin Hazelden

Well, we are well underway now in this Continental Cup Final weekend.

These are the hometown sport fans, this noisy lot.

Panthers playing their opening game of three this

afternoon could not have gone better.

Two goals from the captain carried them to victory

Setting up a fantastic couple of days tomorrow and on Sunday.

We played well today, particularly defensively.

We played a strong game, but what we've achieved this

afternoon, going into tomorrow, it will be all forgotten

Yes, as David Clark says, there's plenty more still to go.

Tomorrow at two o'clock your time, it's going to be quite an event.

It certainly will be, and there'll be live commentary

of that on the BBC Nottingham sport Facebook page.

So, it's goodbye from me, but with your weather now, here's Sara.

It was a wintry start to the day for some of us. Captured nicely by one

of our weather watchers in Loughborough. We still have a view

wintry showers deny and the weather warning is with regard to ice on

untreated surfaces. The showers are coming down through the Cheshire

gap, so they will be with us into the early hours. A few will produce

no for a time and it is a widespread frost and the bitterly cold night,

-3 -4 in rural parts. A cold and frosty start tomorrow, fewer

showers, a bright sky, winds light and highs five Celsius. This is the

outlook, the weather follows. 5-6 is the best we will have. It

stays cold into the beginning of next week as well

stop Good evening, a cold, icy night, but some others