16/03/2017 East Midlands Today

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

The 2,500-strong workforce at Derbyshire's Toyota plant

received a massive vote of confidence today as the company

It's injecting a quarter of a ?1 billion into modernising

The government is also investing millions for

Our reporter Sarah Teale can tell us more.

More than four million vehicles have rolled off the production line

at Toyota in Derbyshire since production began in 1992,

but the future of the plant has been far from secure since Brexit.

Today, though, Toyota threw its support behind Burnaston

by announcing a ?240 million upgrade of manufacturing facilities.

Does it guarantee the future of car production here for Burnaston?

We always have to be competitive and that means

building cars with quality, high productivity, low-cost,

but what this investment does do is it significantly supports that.

But finally, that is down to our members' skills and energy.

This is a huge demonstration of the faith and confidence

in the workforce here and that we can achieve the

Toyota's investment is being backed up with ?21 million of government

On a tour of the plant today, Business Secretary Greg Clark called

Toyota's investment a boost to the UK car industry.

How significant is this investment in securing jobs and future car

A quarter of a billion pounds is a lot of money

And for Toyota globally to commit that here in Derbyshire,

Since Brexit, there has been widespread caution in the UK car

manufacturing industry, with fears over possible

This investment is being seen as a huge vote of confidence

And it will also reassure some of the 2,600 staff who work here.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of committing a series

of sexual attacks in the Spondon and Darley Abbey areas of Derby.

Earlier this week detectives began a major appeal to find an attacker

who seriously assaulted four women over two and a half years.

A 23-year-old man from Chaddesden has been arrested and is being

A driver who crashed while being pursued by police,

killing two people, has been jailed for nine years.

It happened last year on Fosse Road South in Leicester.

Two passengers in a Peugeot car died at the scene.

A truck, hit by the car, ended up embedded in a shopfront.

The Peugeot driver, 37-year-old Guy Tomlinson,

admitted causing death by dangerous driving and driving while uninsured.

He was jailed for nine years and banned for fifteen.

A GP has told an inquest how he mistakenly prescribed ten times

the dose of a strong painkiller to a young woman who later died.

Dr Lawrence Axten also apologised to the family of 27-year-old

Dr Lawrence Axten who today apologised to the grieving family

In November 2014, in the hours before her death, Kymberley Holden

from Codnor in Derbyshire suffered three bouts of severe pain in her

She had lost use of the leg months earlier and used a

wheelchair after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

For each painful attack she took a dose of

In the middle of the night, she was found by her boyfriend

collapsed, lying unconscious on the floor and died

At the inquest into her death today Kymberley's GP, Dr Axten,

explained how he made the error of prescribing ten times the dosage

He explained he had not realised he was prescribing a

He said, while using the computer prescription system at his surgery

in Ripley, he thought he was prescribing the correct dosage.

The postmortem report found one of the causes of Kymberley's death

was oxycodone intoxication, the generic name for the drug.

Dr Axten's last words at the inquest were directed to Kymberley's

He told them, "I am very, very sorry. I truly am."

The inquest is expected to conclude tomorrow.

Navtej Johal, BBC East Midland's Today outside

The owners of a children's nursery say plans to site a recovery centre

for street alcoholics next door means they may have to close down.

The controversial decision by Leicester City Council

Councillors say the current centre near Humberstone Gate is no longer

fit for purpose and there's an urgent need for such a facility.

Getting street drinkers off the streets and into treatment.

The Anchor Centre has been helping alcoholics

The building is so run down it is no longer fit for purpose.

Last night, Leicester City Council approved plans to move the service

here to this building just off Humberstone Gate but it has

proved controversial, nearly 400 people signed a petition

This shutter is the only thing that separates the treatment centre

What we can say is, where we have been in this current location,

we have worked really hard to address the problems which have been

here and we feel we can take that forward to this new location and

help that area to reduce down the levels of drinking on the streets

and the anti-social behaviour associated with it.

But bosses at Little Angels nursery next to the hub say now that

plans have been approved, they are seriously

concerned about the future and they can't afford

If we lose anywhere between three and five children

We are the nursery where every money we make goes back into the children.

So when children start leaving and we are losing that kind of money

we're not going to be able to run the overall bills and the staff

expenses, they are not going to be paid.

What is important is it is a problem we acknowledge and a problem

Investing ?600,000 in this recovery hub is a real important

centrepiece to our efforts to do that.

Work to transform this building into a hub for street drinkers

Emily Anderson, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester.

Leicester's first Asian film festival has kicked off tonight.

The four day event will showcase a range of South Asian independent

cinema, starting tonight with the UK premiere of Wrong Side Raju.

Rolling out the red carpets for a very special screening at

Leicester's cinema. This UK premiere of Wrong Side Raju opens the city's

first-ever Asian film Festival, attracting cast, crew and movie

fans. It is one of the most diverse cities

in Europe if not the world. So for it not to have an Asian film

festival already is silly. It is wonderful that it

has finally arrived. Over the last decade,

films from and about South Asia have been making a name

on the international circuit as well as garnering

praise at festivals. Through showing them

here in Leicetser they are hoping to provide a better understanding

of the region. We wanted to showcase

South Asian cinema at its best. There is a cinema beyond

Bollywood and we wanted to capture the beautiful

stories that really touch the heart Films that are relevant

to society, that is The festival boasts are varied menu

of independent films. Tonight is my opening film is a thriller.

Like many of the screen is, after was there was a chance to meet those

involved. Beneficial, they say, for everyone.

As a maker, a film-maker, getting the audience

to know what they think after the film is what matters to me.

I get to know what things and what stories, how I

The film Festival runs until Sunday. It is equivalent in London has been

going for 19 years and they helped the Leicester one will be just as

successful. So, it's goodbye from me

but with your weather now. As we go through the next few days

we had expecting an unsettled spell of weather. This is the scene early

on. We did have some bright and sunny spell but some ominous clouds

as well. As we go through the course of the weekend we are expecting to

have to look towards the flowers for brightness rather than the skies. As

we have a look at the charts, high pressure that has been bringing in

the settled weather is moving out of the way and then expecting this low

pressure. That trend starting to bring in some rain as we go through

the day tomorrow. As we have a look at the charts for tonight, we've got

a clear their spell for a time. If you shout was in the early hours,

cloud building in places with loads of 4 degrees. As we go through the

course of the day tomorrow, we will start again on a relatively bright

notes but that cloud will come down from the north-west. Rain on. That

following on. Highs of around 10 Celsius. As we had to us the

weekend, it is a mixture of brighter spells here and there but showers.

Template is recovering on Saturday. Then, as he had to Sunday, we have

got another front coming in our direction likely to bring in patchy

rain as well. A mixture of brightness and showers. I will leave

you with the outlook. there will be rain around, most

occurring overnight. Good evening, quite a range of

whether an offer earlier today in the north and north-west of the UK

quite a lot of showers around, lively ones, little bit of sunshine

in between. The best of the sunshine to be found at the other end of the

country towards the south-east in Kent, lovely picture here from one

of our weather watchers. A range of temperatures, too. 17 degrees for a

few, on the other side of the weather front, only seven or 8

degrees. Showers in the north and west. The fresh air will win out

over tonight coming in behind the cold front, which isn't bringing

much rain but it will bring