24/01/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

The family of a 14-year-old rape victim have been describing how

the teenager's life has been shattered by the attack.

Today, Kyle Parish who's now 19, was jailed for eight years.

The judge said he had an unhealthy fascination

The court heard that the rape took place in the early hours of

The girl, who was 14 years old at the time, was with a

group of friends who were camping out and drinking in a

Amongst that group was 17-year-old Kyle Parish.

The court heard that, during a moment when the

pair were together, Kyle Parish grabbed the girl against her will

Despite repeated screams and resistance from

Parish did plead guilty in September, and today, at Nottingham

Crown Court, Judge Rafferty sentenced him to five years in jail

and three years thereafter under supervision as part of an

The young girl who is now 15 years old was in court

this afternoon to hear the sentencing.

I spoke to her mother afterwards, who described how

devastating this has been for the family and that her daughter

In this interview, the mother's identity has been disguised.

It has totally destroyed it, totally.

You can be having a good day, and then the

littlest thing will take you back to that day.

When you hear those words come out of your child's mouth, you

What was your daughter like before this happened?

How have things changed in terms of her personality?

She just has a really low days, panic attacks.

Just not to the confident child she was before this attack happened.

You just know, for the rest of her life, when other

girls are talking about boys and things like that, how is she going

What did you make of the sentencing today?

They are not going to get away with it.

They prey on quiet girls who they think will

Just like you can get justice, and it is a long journey.

In sentencing, Judge Rafferty QC said to Parish, "The devastation is

not just for five minutes, five hours, five days,

And he said, "You have taken away from her the one thing

that matters to us all - the right to say yes or no."

Next, there's mounting anger over a decision to move stroke

rehabilitation services out of Nottingham City Hospital

MPs and campaigners believe it's risky for patients.

Rob Sissons, our health correspondent, has more.

A lot of stroke rehabilitation in Nottinghamshire is done in hospital

The plan now is to get more people where possible

But campaigners suspect it is about cost-cutting.

Ossie Newell from Nottingham is one of them.

Here he is doing exercises in the kitchen

He says care at home won't be as good as the current

This is a cost-driven exercise, and it has got nothing to

I also feel that there is a possibility that

people's lives would be put at risk because of where we are going

I think this has been handled very, very badly.

Nottingham North MP, Labour's Graham Allen, is demanding answers.

He has been collecting comments from NHS

The Stroke Association is also concerned, as

This will necessitate 30 stroke beds closing in Nottingham, and if you

need to stay in hospital a little bit longer than normal, over seven

days let's say, then you'll be put on a general ward, you will not get

the exclusive and expert attention that everybody now gets on

A ?1.5 million deal has been awarded to

Nottinghamshire Health Care to provide rehabilitation services

It says it will offer high-quality therapy that will

The Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Group says

the changes are about bringing county services in line with the

city and making them consistently excellent.

Both organisations told us no-one was available for

Police have charged a man in connection with the death

of a Nottinghamshire teenager last summer.

14-year-old Jack Archer died after his bike collided with a car

Steven Mills from Cotgrave has been charged with numerous offences,

including death by careless driving, and failing to stop

The 28-year-old is due in court next month.

The daughter of a couple from Leicester, who were shot

in a terrorist attack in Tunisia, has told an inquest they were

preparing to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

Ray and Angela Fisher were killed by an Islamist gunman in 2015.

A peaceful unisian beach near the resort of

Sousse, turned into the scene of violent attack in June 2015.

Ray and Angela Fisher from Leicester were among them.

An eyewitness saw 75-year-old Ray shot twice as he sat in a

Today, their daughter, Donna Bradley, spoke at the inquest

She said they were relaxing and wanted to plan

In July 2015, their funeral took place at Saint Anne 's Parish

50 years earlier, at the same church, this is where they

The inquest in London has previously heard criticism of local

law enforcement who had been accused of delaying their arrival at the

A man has been charged with criminal damage,

after an East Midlands ambulance was vandalised in Leicester.

The vehicle's windscreen was smashed last week in the Highfields area.

24-year-old Josh Thacker, who lives on Conduit Street,

MPs from across the East Midlands have been reacting to the supreme

This morning, some of Britain's top judges ruled that ministers were not

allowed to invoke Article 50 without the approval of parliament.

The move to leave the EU will now be debated ahead

of a vote in Westminster, a decision that's been

I don't know why the Government has been bothering to resist it, because

they are going to win the Article 50 vote,

so what they're trying to is minimise discussion.

There are a lot of businesses and people whose jobs

are in Nottingham and around the East Midlands which are

That is why, in Parliament, we need to give Theresa May a nudge

in a very friendly way, just to make sure gets back on...

A quarter of wildlife sites in Derbyshire

They're defined as areas which contain a large variety

of plants or animals, and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust says,

if things don't change, these valuable habitats could be lost.

Derbyshire has some beautiful landscapes, but now some of them

25% of local wildlife sites in the county are in decline.

That is a problem, because it means they are losing the plants

There is a significant number of sites where

the management isn't as good as it needs to be in order

particularly the case in meadows and wetlands.

Local wildlife sites sit just below areas of special

scientific interest, but they don't enjoy anywhere

Landowners here can do whatever they like with the

site, cutting down trees or dumping rubbish, and they have no

That means everything living in this field is at the mercy of the person

This farmer working to maintain the land says it

is not as easy as people might expect.

Something like 60 different species of plant here, rushes and

grasses as well as wild flowers, and obviously this land could be

yielding more if it had more fertiliser and more muck applied.

It might not be an easy problem to solve, but

farmers and local wildlife experts hope they can do enough to protect

So, it's goodbye from me - but with your weather

As you go to because delight, we do have warnings in place. A yellow

warning for fog and also a yellow one device. Take care, there may be

tricky conditions. Talking of ice, we were sent this beautiful picture

of a fox on ice in Derbyshire. Thank you to our weather watchers. Through

the week, ice bars squeezing together, so we ice picking breezy

conditions for the second half of the week. Tonight we will see the

fog coming in from the south. Cloudy conditions as well, loads of around

0 Celsius. Particularly in the areas we will see Frost. Was tomorrow

morning, we will see a foggy start. It will lift and clear over the

course of the day. A grey and overcast picture with highs around

five Celsius. Possibility of some sunshine to the north. As we look

ahead to Thursday, very similar but it will be turning it in the cold

but highs of around one Celsius. I believe you with the Outlook. Wrap

up warm. That For all of us, it'll get colder and

then milder again come the weekend. This shot taken earlier by a weather

watcher in East Anglia. The fog becoming extensive over the next few

hours in many south-eastern parts of England.

Much, much milder, further north and west. Let's concentrate on that fog.

I think it is going to be a problem again