30/10/2016 East Midlands Today

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

First tonight, changes to two of the region's hospitals sparked

large scale protests this wdekend, in both Grantham and Leicester.

Two different protests but both fighting to protect local hospitals.

In Grantham, thousands of pdople marched through the town after

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust said overnight closures at the A

And things happen more to elderly people.

So we are more conscious of the fact that the nearest place

is in Lincoln or Nottingham, and they are very

Each time as a family we've used the hospital, it's

The trust says the closures are being done as a way

And, down the road in Leicester around 500 people took part

in a rally to protect Glenfheld s children's heart unit.

People here say they won't stop until it's been saved.

Without them there'd be no her, so it's vital we save this

service because, otherwise, there could be lives put at risk.

I mean, we are the only service that are providing this sort

And, so, if we lose the service we will be, in fact,

the only region in the country that is losing that service.

NHS bosses say no final dechsion will be made until next sumler.

But campaigners claim that its future shouldn't

It's about everybody's kids because anyone could find

themselves in a situation where their own children

or their friends' or relatives' children have a heart defect

at birth, and they will need Glenfield Hospital.

People from all over the East Midlands go there `nd it

Emergency services are dealhng with a death on the train

line between Nottingham and Mansfield tonight.

Passengers onboard say it h`ppened just after seven, close to the level

Journeys on that stretch have been swapped to buses

Police have tonight released the name of a man found dead

Promise Ndlovu was found in a car park at an industrial

Three men, arrested on suspicion of murder,

Nottingham's Detonate festival was shut down early over safety

The festival at Nottingham racecourse ended three

Organisers called in police to help clear the site, amid,

what they've called "safety concerns with one of the tents."

Queueing to get into any tent was just a nightmare.

You couldn't see any act because you had to queue

And, then, once you were in the venue, it was just packdd.

In the tent, you couldn't really move.

And I'm not surprised it got shut down because of the amount

A choir from Leicester has reached the final of the BBC's Songs

of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year competition.

The DeMontfort University gospel choir is one of six

They hit the headlines earlher this year when Kasabian asked thdm

to perform with them in front of 30,000 people at

When you started, it was so sweet that the water fell onto my eye

Great gospel is when they are rehearsed to within an inch

of their lives, which these guys clearly have been.

You also have to have that connection, you have

And this choir absolutely h`d it from the first note to the last

And we'll hear the result next Sunday.

Now, happy Diwali, if you'vd been celebrating it.

The fireworks to mark the fdstival of lights ended a short

while ago in Leicester, with thousands turning out

Here's just a sample, but you'll find even more

of a flavour of tonight's events on our Twitter and Facebook

Well, as we go through the course of tonight, we will see somd rather

spooky patches of mist and fog forming, particularly

But we've got high pressure in charge of our weather,

so we are expecting things to turn a little cooler over the cotrse

Tonight, it's quite cloudy with lows of around nine Celsius.

That's still quite mild for the time of year.

Looking at the detail for tomorrow morning, that's when we will really

start to notice those mist and fog patches,

Still possibly build in a couple of extra minutes to your colmute,

just in case you bump into a patch of it.

Highs of around 14 Celsius with brighter spells in the afternoon.

Elise Chamberlain will have more for you here in BBC

Breakfast tomorrow, but, for now, from us, goodnight.

Good evening. It has been another cloudy and mild day, where the cloud

broke it felt warm with temperatures up in the high teen, now as we head

through this week there is a change inneth wither type, where things

will start to feel cooler, we will still see mist, fog and frost around

as well, and a lot of dry weather on the cards through much of the week

ahead. High pressure still in charge, it is mild and murky and

cloudy under that high pressure some breaks in the cloud, we have

seen mist and fog patches forming, particularly in east England in the

south-east. Locally dense patches of fog likely through into the early

hours of Monday. Elsewhere, one or two showers through the Midlands,

parts of Wales. Hill fog and mistiness almost anywhere. Mild

overnight. You will notice rain in northern Scotland. That will sink

further south through the course of Monday into central Scotland by the

afternoon. But elsewhere things are looking mainly dry and imprisoned

day in England and Wales once the mist and fog clears away, it will