25/04/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

Police investigating the disappearance of the missing

Leicestershire girl Madeleine McCann say they are focusing on a small

number of "critical" lines of inquiry that may solve

It will be a decade next week since Madeleine, then aged three,

vanished while on holiday with her family in Portugal.

In an interview released tonight, investigators have vowed to do

Her face is recognisable across the world, but how and why

Madeleine McCann disappeared ten years ago is still a mystery,

despite one of the most high-profile investigations in recent times.

It remains active and tonight the man heading up the small

Metropolitan Police team that is reviewing the case said

They are pursuing what they call crucial lines of enquiry.

Even after ten years of Madeleine being missing,

there are nuggets of information and lines of inquiry

that are worth pursuing, and by saying "worth pursuing",

I mean it is possible they will find an answer.

It'll be a decade next week since Madeleine, then three,

vanished while on holiday with her family here

I was looking at Madeleine's bed and I couldn't make her out.

TV appeals like this one have taken place,

After checking tens of thousands of documents and calls,

investigators are now focusing on a small number of

The investigating team say they are receiving new information on a daily

basis. Last month, the Home Office granted

officers and ?85,000 to extend More than ?11 million

has been spent overall. The cold case approach

does have some expense. You're looking back at old records,

but it does help you solve cases, and give families and victims

an understanding of what went on, This week Madeleine's parents,

Kate and Gerry McCann, commented online, the looming tenth

anniversary of their daughter's disappearance is an unwanted

milestone and a horrible marker They vowed never to

give up the search for her. The police say, subject

to funding and sensible lines Well, let's get more reaction now

on this latest interview Our reporter Mike O'Sullivan

is in Portugal, close to where Madeleine went missing,

and sent his assessment of how officers here and there

are working together. The Metropolitan Police have

revealed details about their working relationship with their

counterparts here in Portugal. The Met Police say that

relationship is good - in fact, better than ever -

and is paying dividends in terms of the progress

all of them are making. In 2013, the Met Police identified

four individuals as suspects. That led to interviews

at a police station in Faro, about 40 minutes from here in Lagos,

close to Praia da Luz. There was also the search

of wasteland in Praia da Luz All those leads have now been

discounted and that leaves a small team of Metropolitan officers

working with the Portuguese police. Next week, I'll be reporting

from Praia da Luz on the tenth anniversary of the disappearance

of Madeleine McCann. Mike O'Sullivan,

BBC East Midlands Today in Portugal. A two-year-old girl has returned

to her home in Derby, six weeks after she was taken

to hospital for Kacie Barradell's parents became

concerned when she stopped Now her mum is warning other

parents to be alert, Home at last and well

on the road to recovery, but it could all have been very

different for two-year-old Kacie, who started to feel ill

in February this year. On the Saturday morning, I woke up

and went to check on Kacie. Doctors at the Queen's Medical

Centre in Nottingham carried out an X-ray and found this -

a lithium battery no more Cheryl was warned there

was a one-in-three chance that Kacie could die in surgery,

and, in all, she spent six weeks in hospital

being fed her food through a tube. I've had to stay by her

side every single day. I've been getting three to four

hours' sleep a night. I've cried, I screamed,

but there was nothing I could do. Last year, surgeons at London's

Great Ormond Street Hospital said they'd experienced a big increase

in cases of children swallowing batteries,

seeing about one every month. Now one charity has launched

a national campaign I think button batteries

are such useful things. They power novelty gift cards,

night-lights, key fobs, They're in so many products

around the home, and parents and carers just don't

realise how dangerous they can be, so small children are so curious

and they get into them, and when they swallow them it can

have really serious effects. Giles Taylor,

BBC East Midlands Today, Derby. The Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry has

thanked the police after a man who called her constituency office

making death threats was given He's been sentenced to eight weeks

after saying the Conservative MP Ms Soubry says it sends

a strong message that courts The Labour frontbencher

Angela Rayner has accused the Government of breaking

its funding promises for schools. The National Audit Office says

there'll be a funding shortfall Visiting Holgate Primary

in Hucknall, the Shadow Education Secretary told Quentin Rayner

that, if elected, You will see over the next couple

of weeks, as our manifesto is rolled out, that we do what we say,

and that is ensuring that all schools can

have the funding they need, instead of diverting

much-needed funds into grammar schools and vanity projects,

which is what this Do you plan to find that

extra money for school Well, I don't believe we need

to do that at the moment. There is enough money within

the system that the Government is wasting that they should be

diverting in a different way. They shouldn't be cutting taxes

to big corporations at a time when our public services

and our schools are facing a crisis. You say the Government hasn't

provided the funding, and yet funding, they say,

is at a record level - Well, they say funding

is at a record high, but they know, of course,

and they understand that people They knew that

and they didn't plan for it. They also know that they have given

hidden costs to schools. They have pushed those costs down,

national insurance contributions, pensions, the apprenticeship levy,

and they have not funded that. The Conservatives want to increase

grammar schools, and they say they will be accessible

to all and it will increase social mobility, and also parental choice -

have they got it right? Time and time again,

there's not a scrap of evidence that says that grammar schools

will actually aid social mobility. This is the Conservatives giving

a liferaft for their privileged few that can afford to pay for private

tuition, but, make no mistake, for the ordinary working

families of this country, it will be like winning the lottery

trying to get their child We are here in the

Sherwood constituency. If you can't win in a seat

like this, what chance There is a clear choice

in this election. There has never been

such a clear choice, and I hope the people of Sherwood

would put their trust in labour, cos I know that I could do a better

job as the Secretary of State for Education, making sure that

all children do well, rather than what we've got

at the moment, which A teenage racing driver,

who had to have the lower part of his legs amputated after a crash

at Donington Park, has this evening posted a thank you message

on social media. 17-year-old Billy Monger

was involved in the accident when he was taking part in

a Formula 4 race last weekend. "Everyone that has supported me

is awesome and truly inspirational." There's been severe disruption

on the M1 tonight after an accident There was a crash between a lorry

and a car, with one vehicle crossing the central reservation

but no serious injuries. One carriageway is closed

between junctions 21 and 20 Finally tonight, the touching

story of a folk musician, his prized violin and his search

for the soldier who first owned it. Sam Sweeney played in the

best-selling folk band Bellowhead. When he chose a new fiddle,

written inside was the name Sam's dad discovered Richard

died in World War I. In Derby in June, on the 100th

anniversary of Richard's death, Sam will stage a show

about his life. This is my most prized

possession, really. Through this, these bits

of wood, you know, I've... I feel I have a relationship

with a man that All this incredible stuff

has happened and it's a great honour to be

the, kind of, owner of Such a beautiful story. That's your

news for tonight and now let's take a look at the weather. Unfortunately

this weather forecast is unlikely to be music to your ears. Firmly into

the cool spell of weather, dragged in this cool air from the north and

now it is billing chilly. Moving to tomorrow, looking at sunny spells

but again the chance of seeing some wintry showers. Showers could be

quite happy with hail and rumbles of thunder and sleet and snow at high

levels as well. Through tonight first, a largely cool night.

Variable amounts of cloud. One or two showers the lookout for later,

with the potential of being wintry but increasingly find further eased

through tonight. Overnight lows three Celsius in towns and cities.

Colour in the countryside, a patchy frosty start the day tomorrow.

Tomorrow looks similar to today. Some brightness and sunny spells but

again showers getting going quite quickly as we move through the day.

It will become increasingly spread out to the afternoon, a bit lighter.

I can chilly with highs of 10 Celsius. Now the outlook.

Temperature is recovering as we move towards the weekend. That's it from

me. Good evening. Another cold night

lies ahead after what was a chilly day for swathes of the UK. This is

the Highlands of Scotland.