23/02/2017 East Midlands Today

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

First the big news tonight that Leicester City have sacked

It comes just nine months after he led the Foxes

Our sports editor, Natalie Jackson, is with us.

Well Leicester have only won five Premier League games all season.

They haven't scored a league goal in 2017 and are one point

above the relegation zone and are at risk of becoming

the first defending champions to be relegated since 1938.

Tonight in a statement the club said:

We reluctantly feel that a change of leadership had to happen. I

understand Claudio Ranieri was told the news this afternoon when he

arrived back in the country after last night's 2-1 defeat in the

Champions League. It seems Claudio Ranieri had no idea it was coming.

When we play with this character, also the luck come in your side.

We are to continue this way. We are to keep going.

Now we know our focus is on the Liverpool match because it

could be a turning point but it is important we make another

Tonight the sporting world is in shock. You only have to look on

social media. Claudio Ranieri got Leicester to the Premier League

title by ten viewpoints. He was seen as a miracle maker. Look at some of

the tweets. Gary Lineker said to sack in now is unforgivable. Michael

Vaughan added he hopes Leicester get relegated now. Michael Owen said I

have lost a lot of love for the beautiful game today. The sacking

seems very ruthless to many but the owners felt they had to act now. To

go down would be a financial disaster and everything achieved

last season will be tainted. Thank you.

Storm Doris has just about moved away from the East Midlands tonight

after leaving a trail of damage and disruption.

Trains, motorways and roads have been seriously affected

and the knock-on effects will be felt tomorrow.

In a moment we will hear from James Roberson with a round-up

of today's events but first Geeta Pendse reports

There have been severe disruptions for travellers today

with East Midlands Trains advising passengers to abandon

One of the problem started around 9am this morning

when there was damage to an overhead wire at St Albans station.

This meant that trains in and out of London were halted.

Eventually East Midlands Trains had to cancel the entire service

from London to Nottingham and Sheffield, having a major

There were also problems elsewhere in Derby.

There was disruption to the service to Crewe.

East Midlands Trains say there was an unprecedented number

We have had trees blown down right across the network,

bringing down overhead equipment in a number of places.

Lots of people have been out and about chopping trees down,

restringing wires, making sure customers on trains are OK

and getting people safely to where they want to go to.

There were also problems on the roads, particularly in areas

where trees had fallen and this afternoon three lanes on the M1

southbound were closed between junction 25 and 26

There are hopes that all services will be back to normal from tomorrow

and East Midlands Trains say if you have a train ticket dated

for today, it will be valid for travel tomorrow.

The emergency services say they were inundated with calls today

as a result of the storm but thankfully there

James Roberson can tell us more about what happened.

It was a scene replicated across the region.

This tree was close to Heage and totally closed

It wasn't just country roads affected.

Alfreton Road in Nottingham was closed after glass blew out

of a derelict building, this tree went over

And a billboard was blown down in Leicester.

Viewers sent in dozens of pictures, trees were obviously the biggest

It meant country parks across the East Midlands were shut.

But Matlock town also lost a floodlight and

Attraction owners and councils also closed venues before the storm.

Because the market hall in Derby was shut, these two stallholders

moved just outside to an empty shop to run their businesses for the day.

We are struggling enough at the moment to get all the business.

Small traders are in difficulties with competition so we have to fight

and basically try and get us still on the go.

I'm here, I have got all the stock as you can see.

I have been to the market this morning over in Nottingham.

Everything is fresh and we are open for business.

I mean, you come to work, you expect to work, don't you?

At Heague Windmill, emergency measures were taken

They didn't want a repeat of 1894's disaster when the sails and cap

Well we've got all the brakes on that we can possibly put on.

We've got a big strap and cargo straps around.

Fingers crossed, we're going to be OK today.

Motorists have been injured by falling trees.

Now householders, businesses and the authorities are looking

James Roberson, BBC East Midlands Today.

A woman from Nottingham has been jailed because an autistic man in

her care drowned while she was texting on the phone.

29-year-old Nikki Deaney from Sneinton was also making

calls whilst caring for Majid Akthar.

They were on a day trip to Kingsmill Reservoir in September 2012.

The 28-year-old, who had severe learning

difficulties and a mental age of four, had wandered off.

A policeman's been dismissed because he failed to spot that

an elderly man with dementia had had his driving licence revoked.

The man, 87-year-old Albert Newman, went on to cause a fatal accident

in October last year when he drove the wrong way up the M1.

Mr Newman and a passenger in a van both died.

PC Jonathan Mortimer from Nottinghamshire Police was found

Plans to scrap acute services at Leicester's General Hospital have

been defended by the city's clinical commissioning group.

The move is designed to cope with the cost of future

A meeting tonight in the city gave the public its first chance to learn

How does the NHS cope with an ageing population who need to use health

The city of Leicester's answer to that question

Sustainability and transformation plans or STPs have been devised

for each area to meet increased demand and provide better value

In Leicester one of the main proposals is to move acute services

from Leicester's General Hospital to Glenfield and the Royal

Infirmary, making the general and nonemergency care hospital.

There are very few cities of this size, who have the communities

of this size, which have got three large hospitals and clearly

with the increasing budgetary problems in the NHS,

it is very inefficient to run services at three hospitals.

But the news hasn't gone down well with everyone

attending tonight's meeting, designed to help local people better

I think that is a plan that cannot possibly work.

Under the financial constraints, they have, I can understand why

they would be wanting to get rid of one hospital.

It is trying to put a pint, a quart into a pint pot,

How can you justify removing acute services from one of its hospitals?

Won't that put more pressure on Glenfield and the LRI?

Well, when we do move from three to two sites,

we will invest more in the two hospitals that remain.

The STP also includes more care in the community for the city

and a separate midwife led maternity unit, possibly based

A consultation on these plans is due later this year.

Navtej Johal, BBC East Midlands today, Leicester.

The lead singer of multi-award winnnng rock band, Kasabian,

went back to his old primary school in Leicester today.

Tom Meighan made the visit to Blaby Stokes Primary this morning.

After an assembly he opened a new building for children

It's the first time he's been back to his former school

That is your news. It is goodbye from me, here is the weather. Storm

Doris rattled through the region. We had dramatic skies first thing and

then trees and buildings damaged across the region over the course of

the afternoon. How did we stack up compared to the rest of the country.

We had over 80 mph in the Peak District and 70 mph in Derbyshire.

As we go through the course of tonight, we have some respite, is

high pressure is building in leaving us with some fine and mostly dry

weather. Not quite out of the woods with the warnings. A yellow weather

warning for ice. Do take extra care overnight. Looking at the detail, we

have a few showers overnight. They will be wintry over high ground and

we're expecting a low of two Celsius. The winds will continue to

ease over the course of tonight and going into tomorrow morning and we

will have some fine and dry weather, the cloud will increase but much

more settled and highs of 8 degrees. As we look ahead towards Saturday, a

return to wet and windy weather but on Sunday a brief spell of respite

with more settled weather on the way. I will leave you

be much milder. I will leave you with Thomas Shelter.

Good evening. It was quite a day for some of us. We get these sort of

storms every couple of years also. Difficult to give an exact number,

but it was certainly a nasty one. It's now moving into Holland,

Germany, south of Denmark, and it continues to blow itself out. The

winds around coasts were not particularly spectacular, but the

inland winds were unusual, 62 mph in London. A trail of damage across the

UK with trees falling down, mainly trees,