23/10/2016 East Midlands Today

Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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

A hunt's underway in Nottingham tonight for the man who

sexually assaulted two people in separate parts of the city,

The attacks happened just mhnutes apart in Wollaton and Lenton,

Both crime scenes have been cordoned off all day today,

as the police make a meticulous search for evidence.

The first attack was here on Hillside, which links thd back

of the Queen's Medical Centre to Derby Road in Lenton.

Then, at 8:30am, just half `n hour later and two miles away,

the second woman was assaulted here at Woodyard Lane, in Wollaton.

Detectives believe that both of the alleged

serious sexual assaults werd carried out by the same man.

Now, he's described as being mixed-race,

in his late teens or early 20s, and was wearing a hoodie,

and it is believed he may h`ve been travelling by bicycle.

There is CCTV at this second location, but anyone who saw

anything at either seen is trged to contact Nottinghamshire Police.

The coming together of thred police forces to share resources won't see

a complete merger but could lead to some job losses.

That's according to one of the region's police commisshoners.

He was speaking on today's Sunday Politics, after

the Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire

forces announced plans to combine even more resources

Across the five East Midlands forces, there is a lot

of collaboration on serious organised crime, on murder,

on forensics and all of that works extremely well.

Now, this is a, kind of, practical step, to collabor`te a bit

Let's be honest, the public purse is tight,

We are bringing in a new cadre of recruits next month in November,

and that is really exciting, because it has been two years now,

that we have had to stop recruiting because it has not been affordable.

And one of the reasons why we can now afford to recruit is because of

the level of cooperation th`t has saved the money.

There was a full report and studio discussion on this in today's

Sunday Politics for the East Midlands.

That edition is available now on the BBC iPlayer.

A heritage railway says it now has ambitious plans to expand its main

It's the latest stage in the 15-year development

of the Ecclesbourne Valley line and follows the opening

of a new booking hall and w`iting room at its southern termints

in Duffield, as James Roberson reports.

This is how Duffield Station on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

looked 12 years ago, and this is how it looks today,

with the new booking hall the crowning glory.

Officially open at last, it has taken 18 months of h`rd graft

by a team of dedicated volunteers to build the hall.

We have got a very resolute band of brothers here that

in all weathers, it matters not - they turned up and did the work

and the team have done a prdtty dam good job.

Our trains connect to the E`st Midlands Trains services.

In fact, it is quite possible to buy a ticket from St Pancras,

change at Derby, to Duffield and you are here.

So, yeah, most importantly, this is a real gateway.

Having taken the railway from derelict fully operational

in 15 years, the volunteers now have ambitious plans

to do some more for its northern end at Wirksworth.

We already have work in hand to build the maintenance facilities

for not only these rail-cars that you see here but also for

Ultimately, we want to rebuhld Wirksworth Station do have something

is equally magnificent as we have here today.

They hope to achieve those plans in the next few years.

James Roberson, BBC East Midlands Today, Derbyshire.

Now, you'll remember that after the 2012 Olympics in London,

postboxes were painted gold in the home area of each

It was such a popular idea that this weekend there was a similar tribute

for Kirkby-in-Ashfield's dotble gold-winning Paralympian Ollie Hynd.

His friends, neighbours and family all gathered,

to surprise him with a golddn road sign on the street where he grew up.

Yeah, it is a little bit surreal, really.

I definitely was not expecthng it, but of course I am very

proud to be from Kirkby, so to have this honour...

Yeah, I am just a little bit speechless.

Thank you to everyone on thhs street who has supported me over

Everyone has been fantastic in the journey from London to Rio,

I think it is great that it is there for everybody.

Bit a golden afternoon for most of us today,

With details of what's coming our way next,

It was a cool and cloudy start to the day today,

but we did see some brightndss into the afternoon.

As we move through this evening and overnight,

I think we will see plenty of clear spells, and a bit

of patchy cloud around, with temperatures falling

Now, as we move into tomorrow morning, we will still see

We have a bit in the way of cloud pushing up from the south,

There will be some bright spells in the mix as well,

with temperatures at a maximum of 12 Celsius,

It is a cool start to the wdek as we start tomorrow,

but as we move the week, we will see those temperatures

creeping up slightly by a couple of degrees.

More from us at 10.20pm, when we'll have results

from the Tigers and Panthers games for you too.

Hello. More details coming up in Countryfile, but there are changes

over the week ahead. A quiet start, old, patchy frost and sunshine. From

midweek onwards, the temperatures rise a little, because we get a

westerly wind. For the moment, we still have an easterly, more cloud

coming in as well. Not as cold as last night. There could be some rain

along the south coast, mainly clipping the south-west of England,

and showers on an easterly breeze. Where we have brakes, patchy frost

and fog. We see the contrast, North and south. The fault will lift, for

sunshine. Fewer showers on Monday. Further south, more cloud, and there

could