22/01/2017 East Midlands Today

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

Campaigners fighting the closure of the East Midlands children's

heart surgery unit are furious public consultation

NHS England originally planned to begin the process in December.

But still no date has been set, as our health correspondent

Stephen was born with only half a normal functioning heart.

Surgery at the Glenfield Hospital saved his life.

Now the 15-year-old and his family are campaigning to keep

children's heart surgery in Leicester, but they're very

frustrated the formal public consultation process

It really is playing with people's lives,

both the staff, the patients, their families

People like me might not have the support and their parents

wouldn't have the support if they had to go further away

NHS England suggested closure because it says the service

It still hasn't announced a date for consultation to start

but previously said it would be in the New Year.

Delay and uncertainty is stressful for staff at the heart unit

But there is also pressure on NHS England to make sure

that the consultation, when it does happen,

is robust because if there are any holes in it, there could be

legal challenges and that would mean even more delay.

Campaigners have collected an 80,000 signature petition

and a parliamentary online petition that closes at midnight

has attracted more than 48,000 signatures and another demonstration

A Derbyshire man is one of two charged this weekend with the murder

Police say Darren Moorhouse died from a single stab

Dale Dwyer from Buxton, and a man from Halifax,

will appear before magistrates tomorrow charged with his murder.

A man's been charged after a teenager was attacked

It happened on Stoney Street early yesterday.

Tom Beech from Cropwell Bishop will appear at magistrates tomorrow

on charges of grievous bodily harm with intent, two of assault

A 17-year-old remains in a serious condition in hospital.

A volunteer project in Leicestershire helping people

grow healthy food has been given a major cash boost.

Leicestershire County Council has given ?30,000 to

The Braunstone Foundation charity also known as B-inspired,

A cold winter day in Enderby, but that doesn't stop

This is the Growing Communities Together Project,

where local people grow healthy, organic food.

It's a community initiative from the charity B-inspired.

It's nice when you plant something and you see it grow

and then you're digging it up and then giving it

And now the project has been boosted by a

?30,000 Shire community grant from the county council.

It will help the charity develop land to grow its produce

which will be supplied through a food share scheme.

Profit from the scheme will be ploughed back

into the charity which focuses on improving the lives of people

We'll go out into the wider community to do

chutney workshops or jam making or a pastry making and it's a way of

showing people that they can do things and even if they don't want

to come to the farm to get engaged with the actual physical growing,

they can still learn skills and techniques.

Back at the allotment, the hard work continues.

The cash boost, they say, will mean even

greater benefits for local people and the environment.

The Vulcan bomber, restored in Leicestershire,

Work on the last flying Vulcan was carried out in Bruntingthorpe.

It made its final flight in 2015, before moving

Now the lease on its hangar has run out, it's being put into storage

14 of the 22 people looking after it have also been laid off.

A Leicestershire man about to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Graham Walters is 69, and wants to be the oldest man

in the oldest vessel to complete the journey.

He attempted it last year, but had to stop when his boat sprung a leak.

Graham, from Thurmaston, plans now to restart

his 3000 mile row from Tenerife by the end of the month.

Having rowed four times across the Atlantic,

I think that I'm well prepared with all the different

And also with the boat, I prepared the boat,

So I'm pretty confident that we'll make it.

the 11th defeat of the season for Leicester City.

Let's check on the weather now for the start of the week.

High pressure in charge of our weather as we move

into the working week and that means things are going to be quite settled

but it does also mean that we could see a bit of fog

We've got plenty of cloud around, a few breaks in that cloud

where we do see the potential of seeing some quite dense patches of

Temperatures falling to an overnight low of around

So as we move into tomorrow, that freezing fog with us first

thing that then it could clear as we move into the morning.

In some places, it will be a little bit more persistent.

But where you're out of the fog, some sunny spells.

Temperatures not too much at all though.

So we will still be feeling cool despite seeing some sunshine

and then a similar story as we move into Tuesday.

Plenty of cloud but a few sunny spells.

More from me and the team here at 10:20pm.

of freezing fog. Already warnings in place from the Met office. I will

concentrate on the fog as we go through the night. It will