22/10/2016 East Midlands Today

With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

An appeal's been started today to save a church in Leicestershire

The parishioners at St Mary's in Melton are determined to raise

The heart of the community for almost 1,000 years,

but St Mary's Church in Melton Mowbray is

What we have here is a building which was fit for purpose

in its day, but now unfortunately it's no longer fit for purpose.

At a cost of almost ?2 million, toilets, refreshment facilities

and improving accessibility for those with mobility problems

In Victorian times, the floor was lowered to show off

This will be raised back up to its original levels throughout,

and the project will see the refurbishment

It's existing on a wing and prayer at the moment.

The wiring of the organ has deteriorated to such a point

that it can't be kept going much longer.

The appeal for funds starts this weekend,

The last service will be on Sunday the 1st of January, New Year's Day.

We're hoping that by the end of October, all the work within this

I'd like people to say "wow" when they come in.

And that will show of the architectural features.

All of those kind of things, I think people will just

From ancient architecture to a digital archaeologist,

one of the first video game characters to make a movie.

We're talking Tomb Raider's Lara Croft.

The character was designed 20 years ago in Derby.

And to celebrate her anniversary, today Quad in the city's been

I hate to use the word "role model", but she almost is like a virtual

role model, somebody who just goes out, does what she wants to do

It was a very daring move, I think, to begin with, to put

And it's over 20 years, and people are still

talking about it, people are still making games, now.

In speedway, the final Elite League match of the season

for Leicester Lions has been cancelled because of club finances.

They were due to host Kings Lynn tonight, a fixture

already rescheduled twice because of bad weather.

The club's co-promoter said in a statement...

"The club is in financial difficulty and to stage the meeting

If you had tickets, contact them for a refund.

Family, diginitaries and football fans gathered outside a home

in Nottingham today, to celebrate the man who founded

Today outside his birthplace in Nottingham's Mansfield Road

a special plaque was unveiled, but, oddly, not put up,

as organisers have been unable to trace the owner of his former

Today is about making people aware that we have this plaque

that we wish to put up on the building.

We need the owner's permission to mount the proper plaque,

We didn't know that it was so revered in Milan.

And nobody seems to know about it in Nottingham.

We've done some family history, and then you find more and more.

You get on the Italian sites and you see they've still got

banners at matches, and shirts with his name on.

I'm really proud that Nottingham is doing something for him now.

A win for Leicester City, they beat Crystal Palace

In the Championship, Derby lost 1-0 at Huddersfield,

Nottingham Forest's match with Cardiff is just underway

Follow the latest live on BBC Radio Nottingham.

In League 2, a 1-1 draw for Mansfield at Luton,

while Notts County beat Portsmouth 2-1.

Let's check no the weather now, Lucy has our forecast.

It was quite an autumnal start of the day today,

a bit of mist and fog around as well.

As we go through this evening and overnight,

we should see some patchy clouds with some dry spells

through the first part of the night, before the arrival of a band

Temperatures falling to a minimum of 6-9 degrees Celsius.

Tomorrow, we start the day with plenty in the way of low cloud.

Today there could be some mist and fog patches around.

Just the odd shower to look out for, before we get to the afternoon,

where will see that cloud thinning and breaking,

Temperatures tomorrow at a maximum of 11 degrees Celsius, with a bit

The Beat is online or your local BBC radio from 6:00pm.

Tonight they're catching up with former Spice Girl Mel C,

Nottingham's Amber Run, Leicester's Leo Stannard

More from me and the team here just after 6:00 tomorrow, until then,

Not a bad start but we will see some mist and fog overnight. Southern

England, we will have some extensive low cloud and patchy fog. Further

west huddle in the countryside, with clearer skies, it will be quite

chilly night. Not very promising in the morning across these central

areas. Fog slowly lifting as the breeze freshens. For western

Scotland, it should be a decent day after a chilly start. There will be

some sunshine, and largely dry. Eastern Scotland, showers have been

more widely. On the whole, for