:00:10. > :00:13.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.
:00:14. > :00:16.First tonight - one of the region's A departments has become the first
:00:17. > :00:21.in the NHS to have a dedicated team dealing with Sepsis cases.
:00:22. > :00:24.The blood-borne infection kills more people in the UK than breast,
:00:25. > :00:30.Following criticism from the Care Quality Commission
:00:31. > :00:32.in 2015 that Leicester wasn't dealing with sepsis patients
:00:33. > :00:34.quickly enough, it's now installed a specialist team.
:00:35. > :00:41.Our health correspondent Rob Sissons has more on this.
:00:42. > :00:44.In Leicester, they see typically between eight and 15 new cases
:00:45. > :00:49.Sepsis is where the body's immune system, fighting an infection,
:00:50. > :00:54.Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition.
:00:55. > :01:00.It can happen to anyone with an infection of any kind.
:01:01. > :01:02.Cases can be complicated, hard to spot.
:01:03. > :01:08.Sometimes the symptoms seem like flu.
:01:09. > :01:10.The causes, though, are simple enough.
:01:11. > :01:12.It can be a simple chest infection, a skin infection, gastroenteritis.
:01:13. > :01:17.Intravenous antibiotics are needed, and fast.
:01:18. > :01:20.The aim in A is to identify more cases sooner.
:01:21. > :01:23.That's where this new special team comes in in Leicester,
:01:24. > :01:25.with life-saving kit at their fingertips.
:01:26. > :01:30.In here is everything we need for the treatment
:01:31. > :01:36.So we have our antibiotics, we have our culture packs,
:01:37. > :01:39.we have our fluid and we have our blood bottles that we have if we
:01:40. > :01:45.It about spotting sepsis quickly, it's about getting the treatment
:01:46. > :01:47.of antibiotics, fluids, into patients within an hour
:01:48. > :01:50.and it is about ensuring those patients that are not doing so well,
:01:51. > :02:00.that they get expert care further on into the hospital.
:02:01. > :02:03.The programme has been developed from concern about sepsis management
:02:04. > :02:06.in the NHS as a whole. At the end of the team's first week
:02:07. > :02:10.in A, they seem more Some patients do get worse and do
:02:11. > :02:15.require intensive care support. Somewhere between ten and 20%
:02:16. > :02:18.of patients that come in with life-threatening
:02:19. > :02:20.sepsis don't survive. Everywhere, the NHS is trying to do
:02:21. > :02:24.better when it comes to sepsis. Demolition teams moved in today
:02:25. > :02:31.to take down a building at the centre of a run of fires
:02:32. > :02:35.Leicester. In the latest blaze,
:02:36. > :02:38.it saw damage to neighbouring properties and a fleet
:02:39. > :02:39.of nearby cars. It's been part of Leicester's
:02:40. > :02:48.skyline for over 100 years. This building once
:02:49. > :02:50.housed Corah Knitwear. In its heyday, it was considered
:02:51. > :02:53.to be one of the world's greatest manufacturers of its kind but less
:02:54. > :02:56.than 48 hours ago, in the early hours of Thursday morning,
:02:57. > :03:02.a huge fire all but destroyed it. At its height, the flames
:03:03. > :03:04.were so intense they spread to another building and caused
:03:05. > :03:07.damage to dozens of We still haven't been able
:03:08. > :03:10.to identify whether anybody was in the building at the time
:03:11. > :03:14.of the fire. We do know it was a building
:03:15. > :03:17.that was sometimes used by rough sleepers, so we are still working
:03:18. > :03:20.with the police to identify whether anybody was in the building
:03:21. > :03:22.at the time of the fire. Today, fire safety officers have
:03:23. > :03:24.been visiting neighbouring businesses to give them advice
:03:25. > :03:29.on how to protect their buildings. If I just give you this bit
:03:30. > :03:32.of information from the fire service, just giving some advice
:03:33. > :03:34.for you to follow. It's the seventh time the former
:03:35. > :03:37.factory's been targeted in just two years and it's causing concern
:03:38. > :03:42.for other owners on this site. We should all get together and come
:03:43. > :03:45.to the bottom of this, make sure these sorts of things
:03:46. > :03:48.don't happen, because it's affecting business throughout and putting up
:03:49. > :03:59.insurance premiums as well, The investigation is complete, they
:04:00. > :04:03.are treating it as arson. A 19-year-old man's in a critical
:04:04. > :04:05.condition in hospital Officers were called
:04:06. > :04:09.to Aikman Avenue in the New Parks area of the city last night,
:04:10. > :04:12.following reports of a fight. Five men have been arrested
:04:13. > :04:15.in connection with the incident. Police are appealing for any
:04:16. > :04:20.witnesses to get in touch with them. A jury deciding verdicts on six men
:04:21. > :04:23.accused of running a scam involving deliberate car crashes in Derbyshire
:04:24. > :04:28.have been sent home for the weekend. It will return on Monday to consider
:04:29. > :04:32.evidence against the men, who are accused of making hundreds
:04:33. > :04:35.of thousands of pounds in insurance claims after targeting mainly older
:04:36. > :04:39.and lone women drivers. Dharminder Nagra was the director
:04:40. > :04:42.of the company that managed There's been a big rise
:04:43. > :04:50.in the number of Land Rover Defender Production of the model came
:04:51. > :04:54.to an end early last year. New figures from the insurance
:04:55. > :04:56.company, NFU Mutual show they had almost one claim a week for stolen
:04:57. > :04:59.Defenders last year - almost twice as many
:05:00. > :05:03.as the year before. One dairy farmer near Melton Mowbray
:05:04. > :05:18.has lost six Defenders Very cross. We rely on it on a daily
:05:19. > :05:22.basis, especially in the summer, part of our livelihood. There is a
:05:23. > :05:25.huge market across the world for Land Rovers and the parts and
:05:26. > :05:31.because they are no longer made prices are going up and really
:05:32. > :05:36.owners of land Rovers -- land Rovers are having to take huge care so they
:05:37. > :05:37.come down in the morning and find it is still on the drive.
:05:38. > :05:39.Tonight, saw Light Night returned to Nottingham.
:05:40. > :05:41.It's the tenth time the festival's been held.
:05:42. > :05:44.The one night event sees light displays and installations
:05:45. > :05:46.There's also been free entry to Nottingham Castle,
:05:47. > :05:53.live music and street markets to enjoy.
:05:54. > :06:00.It is designed to change the feel of the city on a Friday night. You
:06:01. > :06:03.normally get groups of young people going to the bars but this brings
:06:04. > :06:10.grandparents and parents and children in and gets them to carry
:06:11. > :06:13.lanterns and enjoy themselves and changes the nature. Young people can
:06:14. > :06:13.join in too. Great for the whole family.
:06:14. > :06:28.Light snow showers, I nearly called you Dominic! We are going to see
:06:29. > :06:33.snow showers coming in, coming from the North Sea. We did have a light
:06:34. > :06:37.dusting of snow first thing this morning, this picture taken by a
:06:38. > :06:40.weather watcher. Later this afternoon, brightness started to
:06:41. > :06:47.break through. A mixture today, bitterly cold outside and a cold
:06:48. > :06:51.night tonight. The showers are all ready coming in across the East
:06:52. > :06:58.Midlands producing light snow and a mixture of rain, sleet and snow but
:06:59. > :07:01.we could see ice on untreated surfaces and showers continue
:07:02. > :07:06.westwards into the early part of tomorrow morning. A bitterly cold
:07:07. > :07:10.start the day, the showers still present working westwards and
:07:11. > :07:16.gradually they convert back to rain into the afternoon. It is going to
:07:17. > :07:20.be a cold day on Saturday, a damp day and temperatures no higher for
:07:21. > :07:26.Celsius. From Saturday night, early Sunday, further showers coming in on
:07:27. > :07:30.the breeze, they could turn to snow on higher ground for the Peak
:07:31. > :07:32.District. The outlook and Louise Lear has
:07:33. > :07:34.exception to that rule probably over the hills where again there