27/02/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

Could a widely-used exercise test be leading patients

A team at the University of Leicester believes

the internationally accepted "bike test" is in fact highly inaccurate.

They think large numbers of patients might have gone under

Our health correspondent Rob Sissons has this report into their work.

Professor Gerry McCann is a cardiologist.

His latest research at the University of Leicester

is into an internationally recognised bike test and it suggests

it's not reliable when it comes to selecting patients

doctors and patients in a dilemma on how to best manage these people and

there is a fine balance between sending someone to surgery too early

or unnecessarily. It's looking at lung function

and heart function while we're The concern is that breathlessness

in patients may be down to the fact they don't exercise much,

so thousands of operations may be done too early, putting patients

at risk of complications. The beauty of this test

is it takes a few minutes and you get instant results,

so it's hardly surprising that it's popular among

the medical fraternity. So these findings are controversial

and cry out for more research. Across the UK around 10,000

aortic valve replacements The typical cost is ?15,000

per patient and patients usually stay in hospital for seven

to ten days. Postponing surgery could save

the NHS millions of pounds a year. There aren't those people who really

do believe the bike test is good and our results certainly question that.

The National Institute for Health Research

The hope at Glenfield is now to take it on.

Next, an inquest into the death of a seven-year-old girl has heard

that two teachers rewrote a safeguarding document

Seven-year-old Shanay Walker died from a brain haemorrhage

Her aunt and grandmother are serving prison sentences for cruelty.

Seven-year-old Shanay Walker had more than 50 injuries when she died.

Her aunt and grandmother were jailed for cruelty.

The inquest into her death is now into its third week.

The director of education in Nottingham, Sarah Fielding,

She was answering questions about the headteacher

of Southglade Primary School, Peter Smalley, and

The inquest heard they had recreated a safeguarding document

It had gone missing but was recreated soon after her death.

The inquest heard they rewrote it on a day that the original teacher

who wrote the document was not in school.

Six members of staff later came forward to speak to a doctor

who was supporting the school after Shanay's death.

They felt their concerns for Shanay had not been taken seriously enough.

The director of education, Sarah Fielding, was asked

by the coroner how she felt now

about that recreated safeguarding form.

She said it was unacceptable and weak leadership by the headteacher.

The coroner asked if she had confidence in the headteacher

Later in the inquest, Mrs Fielding said decisions about the school

were being revisited and the findings will be

The inquest heard it's for school governors to take action

against staff if needed, but local authorities can appoint

new governors or impose a new executive board at a school.

The director of education said they had decided not to use

A former Nottinghamshire social worker has been

giving evidence today, in the long-awaited independent

Margaret Humphreys uncovered widespread mistreatment of British

children sent to Australia, and says horrific stories

It's just the first phase of the inquiry

led by Professor Alexis Jay, which is expected to

Ken Clarke has become the longest-serving Member

of Parliament, following the death at 86 of Gerald Kaufman.

The Rushcliffe MP and former Chancellor became an MP in 1970,

and at 76 he now becomes what is known as

He's already said, though, that he's stepping down

There's been an intense focus on Leicester City's match tonight

after the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.

We're going live there in just a moment - but first,

fans were out on the street tonight to show their support for him.

This evening's march was organised by an eleven-year-old.

If Claudio Ranieri had any doubts about his status in Leicester,

this march was designed to put his mind at rest.

Kick-started by 11-year-old Jack Stephens, a Foxes fan who felt

he had to celebrate the man who helped make his team champions.

I want to say thank you to Ranieri for all the joy and all the great

football we saw and all the records we've been breaking,

all the front papers and us winning the league.

One minute we're at home upset and the next minute we're getting

texts and Facebook messages saying that's a good idea and now we're

Fans gathered at the clock tower and gradually made their way

Despite the sadness around Ranieri's departure,

it seems certain these fans will be singing his praises

Leicester City were playing Liverpool tonight.

There are highlights coming up in Match of the Day straight

after this bulletin, so if you don't want to know

the result, please look away for the next minute.

He's at the King Power for us tonight. Good evening. What

Leicester City fans got here was a performance the likes of which they

haven't seen in a long time, a 3-1 victory over Liverpool and fully

merited after those traumatic few days when the club's site owners

finally lost patience and sacked their popular title winning manager.

After the decision that had provoked such outrage, the chairman came

The answer was vindication, Danny Drinkwater scoring the second

of Leicester's three, the kind of quality

The reward for a performance of passion and drive,

the team fully supported from the stands as well, so had Ranieri

On 65 minutes, amid a sea of lights, his name rang out again

Here, the Italian will always be a legend.

If Claudio was watching you couldn't blame him for pouring himself a big

glass of Chianti because what happened here looked like player

power in action. A mix of emotions, joined at the result that some upset

that the players waited until now to deliver a result like this. One

result does not a season make that this is a huge signal that for

whatever reason, Leicester City are back. Highlights are coming up on

Match of the Day. Tributes continue to be paid

to the BBC Radio Derby presenter Andy Potter,

who died yesterday, only a month Andy, who was 55, worked

at Radio Derby for nearly 20 years. His family have paid

their own tribute, praising the "tremendous courage"

with which he fought his illness. The station has now opened a book

of condolence so listeners can leave their own memories

of the popular broadcaster, who had Thank you to the people for texting

and messaging and getting in touch and all those sorts of things,

thanks to all the people that have been producers that have helped me

all the time and for giving me the opportunity, a

Derby lad on a Derby radio station. I wanted to leave

a mark and hopefully So, it's goodbye from me,

but here s your weather now. For the weather for the week ahead

we have some lively weather on the way, quite chilly at times, we may

see some wintriness to those blustery showers on the way but not

a complete wash-out, we expect some sunshine but chilly mornings and we

have a yellow warning in force for ice, especially across Derbyshire

and Nottinghamshire, so take on untreated routes. Overnight the

night, some wintriness over higher ground, patchy showers working

across the region and boast a night of 0 Celsius, then tomorrow morning

once those showers fizzle out who will have some brightness and

sunshine before more rain comes in during the afternoon, highs around 8

degrees. Tomorrow evening and night we expect more patchy showers to

drift across the region, some clearer spells and lows around 2

degrees so we still expect an ice risk tomorrow night. Stay tuned to

the forecast to see how that developers. On whether state some

brighter spells first thing that then that cloud increases with rain

and char was pushing in from the south, highs around 8 degrees. As we

look ahead to the second half of the week we still have low pressure

spiralling around the UK, some of those isobars tightly packed

together so we expect some blustery weather to go with those charmers,

then for Thursday some brightness, this time to the south of the region

with this band of rent creeping south during the day, highs of 10

degrees, then on Friday more showers under way but highs of eight

Celsius. I'll John Hammond has the weather for the

rest of the country. According to one man-made

definition, spring begins in a couple of days, but in reality

weather does it own thing at its own pace. This was taken in Midlothian,

a funny old day, some lovely rainbows, downpours, burst of

sunshine, and out of the breeze it felt a little bit springlike. At the

moment we have clusters of cloud crossing the country, generating

wintry showers, clearer gaps in between allowing sunshine by day,

but overnight that means dropping temperatures, already a frost in

some places. Further wintry showers particularly out West, one or two

making it further east, with some ice around first thing in the

morning, temperatures falling away, close to freezing or just above in

the larger towns and cities. There will be frost particularly through

parts of Scotland first thing in the