:00:11. > :00:13.With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.
:00:14. > :00:16.Campaigners fighting the closure of the East Midlands children's
:00:17. > :00:19.heart surgery unit are furious public consultation
:00:20. > :00:24.NHS England originally planned to begin the process in December.
:00:25. > :00:27.But still no date has been set, as our health correspondent
:00:28. > :00:33.Stephen was born with only half a normal functioning heart.
:00:34. > :00:36.Surgery at the Glenfield Hospital saved his life.
:00:37. > :00:40.Now the 15-year-old and his family are campaigning to keep
:00:41. > :00:43.children's heart surgery in Leicester, but they're very
:00:44. > :00:46.frustrated the formal public consultation process
:00:47. > :00:54.It really is playing with people's lives,
:00:55. > :00:57.both the staff, the patients, their families
:00:58. > :01:02.People like me might not have the support and their parents
:01:03. > :01:05.wouldn't have the support if they had to go further away
:01:06. > :01:09.NHS England suggested closure because it says the service
:01:10. > :01:14.It still hasn't announced a date for consultation to start
:01:15. > :01:19.but previously said it would be in the New Year.
:01:20. > :01:22.Delay and uncertainty is stressful for staff at the heart unit
:01:23. > :01:27.But there is also pressure on NHS England to make sure
:01:28. > :01:29.that the consultation, when it does happen,
:01:30. > :01:33.is robust because if there are any holes in it, there could be
:01:34. > :01:37.legal challenges and that would mean even more delay.
:01:38. > :01:40.Campaigners have collected an 80,000 signature petition
:01:41. > :01:43.and a parliamentary online petition that closes at midnight
:01:44. > :01:47.has attracted more than 48,000 signatures and another demonstration
:01:48. > :01:57.A Derbyshire man is one of two charged this weekend with the murder
:01:58. > :02:01.Police say Darren Moorhouse died from a single stab
:02:02. > :02:05.Dale Dwyer from Buxton, and a man from Halifax,
:02:06. > :02:09.will appear before magistrates tomorrow charged with his murder.
:02:10. > :02:11.A man's been charged after a teenager was attacked
:02:12. > :02:16.It happened on Stoney Street early yesterday.
:02:17. > :02:19.Tom Beech from Cropwell Bishop will appear at magistrates tomorrow
:02:20. > :02:22.on charges of grievous bodily harm with intent, two of assault
:02:23. > :02:29.A 17-year-old remains in a serious condition in hospital.
:02:30. > :02:32.A volunteer project in Leicestershire helping people
:02:33. > :02:35.grow healthy food has been given a major cash boost.
:02:36. > :02:38.Leicestershire County Council has given ?30,000 to
:02:39. > :02:41.The Braunstone Foundation charity also known as B-inspired,
:02:42. > :02:46.A cold winter day in Enderby, but that doesn't stop
:02:47. > :02:51.This is the Growing Communities Together Project,
:02:52. > :02:54.where local people grow healthy, organic food.
:02:55. > :02:58.It's a community initiative from the charity B-inspired.
:02:59. > :03:01.It's nice when you plant something and you see it grow
:03:02. > :03:04.and then you're digging it up and then giving it
:03:05. > :03:10.And now the project has been boosted by a
:03:11. > :03:13.?30,000 Shire community grant from the county council.
:03:14. > :03:16.It will help the charity develop land to grow its produce
:03:17. > :03:18.which will be supplied through a food share scheme.
:03:19. > :03:20.Profit from the scheme will be ploughed back
:03:21. > :03:23.into the charity which focuses on improving the lives of people
:03:24. > :03:27.We'll go out into the wider community to do
:03:28. > :03:34.chutney workshops or jam making or a pastry making and it's a way of
:03:35. > :03:37.showing people that they can do things and even if they don't want
:03:38. > :03:40.to come to the farm to get engaged with the actual physical growing,
:03:41. > :03:44.they can still learn skills and techniques.
:03:45. > :03:46.Back at the allotment, the hard work continues.
:03:47. > :03:49.The cash boost, they say, will mean even
:03:50. > :03:52.greater benefits for local people and the environment.
:03:53. > :04:00.The Vulcan bomber, restored in Leicestershire,
:04:01. > :04:04.Work on the last flying Vulcan was carried out in Bruntingthorpe.
:04:05. > :04:06.It made its final flight in 2015, before moving
:04:07. > :04:12.Now the lease on its hangar has run out, it's being put into storage
:04:13. > :04:18.14 of the 22 people looking after it have also been laid off.
:04:19. > :04:22.A Leicestershire man about to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean
:04:23. > :04:26.Graham Walters is 69, and wants to be the oldest man
:04:27. > :04:29.in the oldest vessel to complete the journey.
:04:30. > :04:33.He attempted it last year, but had to stop when his boat sprung a leak.
:04:34. > :04:34.Graham, from Thurmaston, plans now to restart
:04:35. > :04:39.his 3000 mile row from Tenerife by the end of the month.
:04:40. > :04:41.Having rowed four times across the Atlantic,
:04:42. > :04:45.I think that I'm well prepared with all the different
:04:46. > :04:49.And also with the boat, I prepared the boat,
:04:50. > :04:57.So I'm pretty confident that we'll make it.
:04:58. > :05:00.the 11th defeat of the season for Leicester City.
:05:01. > :05:06.Let's check on the weather now for the start of the week.
:05:07. > :05:11.High pressure in charge of our weather as we move
:05:12. > :05:14.into the working week and that means things are going to be quite settled
:05:15. > :05:17.but it does also mean that we could see a bit of fog
:05:18. > :05:21.We've got plenty of cloud around, a few breaks in that cloud
:05:22. > :05:24.where we do see the potential of seeing some quite dense patches of
:05:25. > :05:27.Temperatures falling to an overnight low of around
:05:28. > :05:31.So as we move into tomorrow, that freezing fog with us first
:05:32. > :05:34.thing that then it could clear as we move into the morning.
:05:35. > :05:37.In some places, it will be a little bit more persistent.
:05:38. > :05:39.But where you're out of the fog, some sunny spells.
:05:40. > :05:41.Temperatures not too much at all though.
:05:42. > :05:45.So we will still be feeling cool despite seeing some sunshine
:05:46. > :05:47.and then a similar story as we move into Tuesday.
:05:48. > :05:49.Plenty of cloud but a few sunny spells.
:05:50. > :06:18.More from me and the team here at 10:20pm.
:06:19. > :06:32.of freezing fog. Already warnings in place from the Met office. I will
:06:33. > :06:34.concentrate on the fog as we go through the night. It will