:00:13. > :00:14.With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.
:00:15. > :00:17.A parliamentary petition against the closure of the region's
:00:18. > :00:20.children's heart surgery unit ends at midnight.
:00:21. > :00:23.Meanwhile, campaigners say they're furious the official
:00:24. > :00:26.NHS England consultation, originally due to start in December,
:00:27. > :00:31.Our health correspondent Rob Sissons reports.
:00:32. > :00:34.Stephen was born with only half a normal functioning heart.
:00:35. > :00:37.Surgery at the Glenfield Hospital saved his life.
:00:38. > :00:41.Now the 15-year-old and his family are campaigning to keep
:00:42. > :00:44.children's heart surgery in Leicester, but they're very
:00:45. > :00:47.frustrated the formal public consultation process
:00:48. > :00:54.It really is playing with people's lives,
:00:55. > :00:59.both the staff, the patients, their families
:01:00. > :01:03.People like me might not have the support and their parents
:01:04. > :01:06.won't have the support if they have to go further away
:01:07. > :01:10.NHS England suggested closure because it says the service
:01:11. > :01:16.It still hasn't announced a date for consultation to start
:01:17. > :01:20.but previously said it would be in the New Year.
:01:21. > :01:23.Delay and uncertainty is stressful for staff at the heart unit
:01:24. > :01:28.But there's also pressure on NHS England to make sure
:01:29. > :01:30.that the consultation, when it does happen,
:01:31. > :01:33.is robust because if there are any holes in it, there could be
:01:34. > :01:42.legal challenges and that would mean even more delay.
:01:43. > :01:45.A man from Derbyshire's one of two charged with a murder in Yorkshire.
:01:46. > :01:49.Police say Darren Moorhouse died from a stab wound on Wednesday.
:01:50. > :01:51.Dale Dwyer from Buxton, and a man from Halifax,
:01:52. > :01:55.will appear at magistrates tomorrow charged with his murder.
:01:56. > :01:57.A man's been charged with an attack on a teenager,
:01:58. > :02:00.that's left him in a serious condition in hospital this weekend.
:02:01. > :02:03.It happened in Stoney Street in Nottingham early yesterday.
:02:04. > :02:06.Tom Beech from Cropwell Bishop will appear before magistrates tomorrow
:02:07. > :02:09.charged with grievous bodily harm with intent, two counts of assault
:02:10. > :02:15.A volunteer project that helps people grow healthy food has been
:02:16. > :02:18.Leicestershire County Council has given ?30,000
:02:19. > :02:22.to The Braunstone Foundation charity - also known as B-inspired.
:02:23. > :02:28.A cold winter day in Enderby, but that doesn't stop
:02:29. > :02:32.This is the Growing Communities Together Project,
:02:33. > :02:35.where local people grow healthy, organic food.
:02:36. > :02:39.It's nice when you plant something and to see it grow
:02:40. > :02:42.and then you're digging it up and then giving it
:02:43. > :02:48.And now the project has been boosted by a
:02:49. > :02:51.?30,000 Shire community grant from the county council.
:02:52. > :02:54.It will help the charity develop land to grow its produce
:02:55. > :02:56.which will be supplied through a food share scheme.
:02:57. > :02:59.Profits from the scheme will be ploughed back
:03:00. > :03:01.into the charity which focuses on improving the lives of people
:03:02. > :03:05.We'll go out into the wider community to do
:03:06. > :03:12.chutney workshops or jam making or a pastry making and it's a way of
:03:13. > :03:15.showing people that they can do things and even if they don't want
:03:16. > :03:19.to come to the farm to get engaged with the actual physical growing,
:03:20. > :03:22.they can still learn skills and techniques.
:03:23. > :03:24.Back at the allotment, the hard work continues.
:03:25. > :03:26.The cash boost, they say, will mean even
:03:27. > :03:33.greater benefits for local people and the environment.
:03:34. > :03:35.The Vulcan bomber, restored in Bruntingthorpe,
:03:36. > :03:39.It made it's last flight in 2015, before moving
:03:40. > :03:44.Now the lease on its hangar has run out, it's being mothballed
:03:45. > :03:46.while money's raised to build a new visitor centre for it.
:03:47. > :03:52.14 of the 22 staff caring for it have also been laid off.
:03:53. > :03:55.an 11th defeat of the season for Leicester.
:03:56. > :03:59.A bad weekend too for Nottingham Panthers.
:04:00. > :04:03.Then drew 2-2 with Fife in full time tonight,
:04:04. > :04:10.High pressure in charge of our weather as we move
:04:11. > :04:13.through the next few days, so it is quite a settled picture.
:04:14. > :04:15.We do have the risk of seeing a bit of fog
:04:16. > :04:19.That could be quite dense and a few patches of
:04:20. > :04:25.Temperatures falling to an overnight low of around minus one Celsius
:04:26. > :04:26.so a chilly start to the day tomorrow.
:04:27. > :04:29.That fog could be quite persistent and slow to clear.
:04:30. > :04:31.One or two patches lasting through the day.
:04:32. > :04:34.But where you are out of the fog, we will see some sunny spells.
:04:35. > :04:37.Temperatures reaching a maximum of five or six Celsius, so it really
:04:38. > :04:39.will be feeling cold despite the sunshine.
:04:40. > :04:42.And there's a similar day as we move into Tuesday.
:04:43. > :04:44.The chance of seeing some fog first thing, then
:04:45. > :04:47.a little bit of brightness into the afternoon.
:04:48. > :04:50.Your next update from us is in BBC Breakfast tomorrow.
:04:51. > :05:05.For now, from the weekenders here, goodbye.
:05:06. > :05:13.Good evening. If you are dreading the trudge back to work in the
:05:14. > :05:18.morning I'm not going to help matters. There is the prospect of
:05:19. > :05:21.nasty, freezing fog over the next couple of days. Quite localised but
:05:22. > :05:23.tricky out there on the