01/03/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

First tonight, a 13-year-old boy's died and another

teenager's in hospital, after an incident at a house

Police say a woman's been arrested and questioned.

Our reporter Geeta Pendse has more details.

Police were called to Sloan Drive here in Bramcote just before

A 13-year-old boy was taken to hospital, where he died last night.

A 36-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of supplying

a controlled drug and of causing grievous bodily harm.

She has been bailed pending further enquiries.

Another boy, a 14-year-old who was also at the address,

I've spoken to a number of people who live along this quiet

residential street and they've told me how shocked

and saddened they've been when hearing this news.

We've noticed the police car for the past couple of days

so that's why we knew obviously something was going

But I suppose it's that thing of, you don't know what's

going on in other people's lives, do you?

Nottinghamshire Police say they are working with their partners

to investigate the circumstances around this young boy's death.

A full meeting of Derby City Council had to be halted this evening

when it was disrupted by parents protesting over a long-running

dispute between the authority and striking teaching assistants.

Parents shouted and threw balloons from the public gallery

The police were called but no arrests were made.

The meeting finally resumed behind closed doors.

It's like they don't care about our children,

You know, none of us want to be here, none of us want to be doing

this, parading our children in front of the council, shouting, but what

Nobody can answer a question, nobody will talk to us,

In a statement issued after the protest, the council's

said it sympathises with parents and is calling on the public-service

union Unison to end the current dispute by teaching assistants.

Meanwhile, tonight's meeting of Derby City Council is debating

a budget plan which would see more investment in local services

after a long period of widely criticised

The flag may have been flying bravely over Derby council house

today but councillors say the last seven years have been miserable.

Darby has made ?135 million in savings since 2010.

But now the council leader says Derby citizens

Tonight he's announcing the Darley Park concert,

cut last year, will be back this year, with over-16s

All of the feedback that we've got, and we've listened to the people,

is that they want it to come back to the city and they are prepared

to pay for it, so I encourage members of the public just to keep

a lookout for the information which we will be making public soon.

Now Mr Banwait says there are 50 pledges for the city,

including that work will begin to replace Moorways

There are also plans for the old Debenhams

and Duckworth Square areas and plans for a performance venue

Derby is aiming to be Britain's cleanest city and the Christmas

But the opposition think the Labour leadership are only doing all this

I think it's clear that people have turned against the leader

of the council and the Labour administration as a whole.

Honestly, I've never seen the sort of discontent across the city

against the council in all the years that I've been a councillor

The situation really is very bad and they have a long way to go

We've done that very difficult job and we're coming through it

and there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel now and,

you know, we think it's absolutely important to be honest with people

and say, yes, these are the challenges we face,

it's been tough, we've not always got it right,

but actually Derby is going to be back in bloom.

It's emerged that one of two British medical students killed fighting

for so-called Islamic State in Iraq was from Nottinghamshire.

Hisham Fadlallah, seen on the left, was part

of a group of nine British medics who joined IS in 2015.

The BBC understands he died at the weekend.

His friend Ahmed Sami Khider was killed

by gunfire while travelling in a convoy in Mosul.

It is not known if they died in the same incident.

Nottingham-based Boots says it's planning to close most

of its in-store photo labs, putting 400 jobs at risk.

The company, which has its HQ in Beeston,

says the decision follows the decline in traditional

220 of its 320 labs will be affected.

Boots says it'll now consult with staff on the way forward.

As you'll have heard, the Prime Minister tonight

suffered her first major setback to her plans to trigger Article 50

The House of Lords voted 358 to 256 for an amendment calling

for guarantees that EU nationals will be able to stay

In a moment, we'll hear what that defeat may mean for the Government.

First, though, our social-affairs correspondent, Jeremy Ball, has met

two couples who fear the consequences of our

For the Hudsons at Basford in Nottingham, Brexit means

Rob and two-year-old Mila are British citizens but Natalia

They know the Government's confident of a Brexit deal that

means Natalia can stay here but what if there is no

Quite worried, because I'm happy here.

There's always that uncertainty that I will be asked to leave

or that there will be additional costs for us because I might have

I've had a conversation with my mother - if push comes

to shove and Nat was told she needed to go back to Poland, I'd be

I would have to apply but it's something that I'd be willing to do

It would just be a huge upheaval to have to move everything to Poland

and it would be more difficult for me to find a job there

I feel I belong here and that's where my family belongs.

She lives in Majorca after years working at Rolls-Royce in Derby

Jane's husband David is a Spanish citizen.

I don't think there will be any protection.

It is quite worrying because I want to make a life here.

We don't know if we can buy a house, I don't know if I can stay

For me the worst-case scenario is that I would have to give

up my British citizenship and become a Spanish citizen and really that's

I'm British and I want to stay being British.

And back in Basford Natalia is considering whether she should

But that is costly and complicated and success isn't guaranteed.

Brexit really hurt because I just felt like I'm not

The Prime Minister has made it clear she wants to protect

the residency rights of people like Natalia

but until there is a firm deal their lives, their futures,

Alistair Jones is a lecturer in European politics at

Earlier, I asked him if he thought the House of Lords had

The Lords think they've done the right thing.

It's a huge vote against the Government, it's something

that's going to cause Theresa May a lot of problems.

They would argue that what they're trying to do is to protect both

British nationals living in the EU as well as EU nationals living

in the UK, so they think, hey, we've done the right thing.

Theresa May has now got to decide whether to accept that amendment

to speed up the Brexit process, or whether she refuses

to accept it and then bounces it back to the Lords,

saying, "Change your mind, please," to which they're

and we could actually see some ping-pong between the two Houses

as a result, which would delay the whole plan for Brexit

And how would that go down in the country, do you think?

I think in the country it will be portrayed very badly because it's

an unelected House of Lords defying the decision of the people.

But what the Lords will be saying is they're trying to protect

the rights of both EU nationals in the UK but also those rights

of British nationals in EU, that it's going to be a quid pro quo

and it's far better to be proactive and not use these people

as political pawns than to be bickering away for the next two

years over what these rights are for these citizens.

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

Not a bad day today, many of us seeing some blue

skies and sunny spells, and that was captured

by our Weather Watcher Pete here in Leicestershire.

As we move through the next couple of days, though,

we are going to see some quite unsettled weather.

We've got a series of weather fronts coming up from the south-west

and they're going to bring some outbreaks of rain.

We will see that breeze picking up at points as well.

We have one of those weather fronts with us as we move through tonight.

Plenty of low cloud around, some outbreaks of rain,

which could be quite heavy at points.

We could see that rain falling as snow over higher levels

through the night tonight, and into the early hours

the potential of a bit of wintery mix to lower levels as well.

Temperatures falling to an overnight low between two and four degrees

in towns and cities, slightly cooler if you're

And that rain is with us as we move into tomorrow morning.

That cloud and rain clearing as we move into the afternoon

and so starting to see some brighter intervals.

We'll also see that breeze easing as well, temperatures reaching

As we move into Friday it's all eyes on this low-pressure system coming

That's going to bring some outbreaks of rain through Friday night and it

looks like into Saturday morning as well.

outlook. A whole load of 11 is. What does that mean? Maybe John Hammond

will tell you. We're in for a bumpy ride. The

weather chopping and changing keeping us on our toes. Rain never

too far away from our crystal ball. There has been rain around today

across southern areas. This band of wet weather pushing through Wales

and the Midlands. A little bit of the white stuff mixed in over the

high ground Snowdonia, some snow for