18/12/2016 East Midlands Today

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

The woman murdered in Borrowash has been identified as Claire Nagel.

The 38-year-old died in hospital from her injuries on Friday.

He suffered severe head injuries. raised the alarm.

Police say the attack on them and the death of a man on the M1 -

half an hour later - are linked and that they aren't

looking for anyone else in the investigation.

Prayers for a family in mourning. Mother-of-5, Claire Nagel, was found

by police on Friday at a house. Here at the family home on Station Road,

forensic teams have been gathering evidence as the murder investigation

continues. Any statement, Claire Nagel's father, Martin painting,

said the entire family is devastated at the loss of the much loved

beautiful and vibrant, mother, daughter and sister. They have

described this as a tragic incident for everyone involved and said they

do not want to apportion any blame. They have thanked everyone for their

ongoing messages of support. At the local parish church, a book of

condolence has been opened. We just wanted to show our support really,

pay our respects and let the family know that the villages there them.

These things, when they happen at any time of year, they are so

tragic, but particularly at this time of year, leading up to

Christmas, someone from our church here was involved offering first

aid. She had her baby with her and she offered the blanket for the baby

for the injured son. It will take people a long time obviously to get

over the trauma of this tragic event. She was among a group of

people who ran to the aid of Claire Nagel's 22-year-old son who was

found in the street with severe head injuries. Just knelt down and try to

see if I could help. It was just a case of pitching in. An online fun

reading page has been set up for the family. On it, the family said their

son had undergone hours of surgery and is now recovering. Meanwhile,

the people here try to come to terms with these tragic events. --

fundraising page. Specialist nurses have been taken

on by East Midlands Ambulance Service to handle 999 calls

from patients with The new control room staff

are the latest addition to a team of clinicians hoping to offer more

advice over the phone, rather than always having

to send out an ambulance. Calls to our Ambulance Service have

been going up year after year, not every 999 call is judged to need

an ambulance these days. Around one in seven calls is dealt

with by what's called the "hear The team of nurses and paramedics

now includes, at peak times, Due to the increase in mental health

calls that the Ambulance Service is currently getting,

I've employed three mental health nurses that work from four o'clock

in the afternoon until midnight, until two o'clock, and they will

triage most mental health patients over the telephone and direct them

to either the crisis team or the other mental-health pathways

that are available to them. Increasingly, they are looking

at other ways of dealing with calls rather than sending

out an ambulance. More and more people are accessing

the 999 system and what we need to be able to do is to make sure

that the Ambulance Service responds to those patients that are genuinely

life-threatening and that other patients are able to access other

types of health services. That may, in some instances,

be self-care or, for example, The service has been

struggling with demand, failing to hit all of its response

times for years. Now an independent review

into the pressures and resources on the service should be completed

by the spring. Rob Sissons, BBC

East Midlands Today. Nottingham short track speed skater

Elise Christie has won a second gold Yesterday she beat the world number

one to the 1,000 metre gold in South Korea,

and today took a second gold She did the double last

weekend too - taking gold A Leicestershire tourist attraction

held it's first ever illuminated Alongside live music,

Foxton Locks was lit up by a parade You'll find even more footage

on our Facebook page. Organisers say it proved

so popular they're hoping This is, basically, an illuminated

boat festival to get people out and about before Christmas,

start enjoying the Christmas spirit and get to know their local waterway

that is on their doorstep. It is quite magical and we are just

absolutely thrilled that so many boats have come and so many people

have come along to enjoy it too. Foggy last night, but let's see

if things are clearing up. Well, we had a bit of a murky start

this morning but some slightly brighter spells through this

afternoon and we do have a yellow weather warning for fog, though,

this evening and that is with us until around ten o'clock

tomorrow morning. We also have high pressure broadly

in charge of our weather and with a secluded front coming

across, we're expecting some drizzly As for tonight, with those fog

patches, it is not a blanket of fog, but where you do get some of those

patches, they could be quite tense at times,

so watch out on the roads, there could be some tricky

conditions with lows of around Now, tomorrow it may take a little

while for those patches Quite a cloudy day tomorrow,

hints of brightness and a few bits and pieces of drizzle as well,

highs of around eight degrees Celsius, with more

cloudy weather on the way. We're back later this

evening at 11:20pm. Hello. Exactly a week to Christmas

but it did not feel that way in north-east Scotland today with

temperatures as high as 13 Celsius in Aberdeenshire. This is one

Weather Watcher's view. It is colder and Misty and murky in South Wales.

You could see some dense fog patches developing tonight and into tomorrow

morning. Southeast Wells, the Midlands and southern England are

most at risk of that. They're out Brexit rain for Scotland later in

the night. You could have a touch of frost in the morning -- outbreaks of

rain for Scotland later. If you start frosty conditions will be

improving. A weakening band of rain spreading Southeast through Scotland

and Northern Ireland. Some brightness before the sun goes