04/03/2017 East Midlands Today

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

Hundreds of workers at a food processing firm in Nottinghamshire

have been warned their jobs could go,

as the company looks to close the site.

Welcome Foods at Huthwaite, near Sutton in Ashfield,

Around 300 workers were told this week that "for some time,

it's been impacted by difficult trading conditions."

Parent company Bakkavor has started 45 days' consultation

to close the operation and move its work to other sites.

they'll try to find alternative jobs for staff locally

or elsewhere within the group.

Detectives investigating the death of a man in Dery

Police were called to a house on Allen Street

A 31-year-old man, who's yet to be formally identified,

41-year-old James Eames was due before magistrates earlier,

after being charged last night with murder.

A fire in Derby closed a busy road

through the city centre And this morning.

above a row of takeaways and shops on the Morledge.

The cause is under investigation and the fire service says,

at this stage, arson can't be ruled out.

50 years after Leicester playwright Joe Orton

his most famous play is being staged in his home town.

Joe Orton's plays shocked, amused and challenged attitudes

His sister Leonie has been watching rehearsals for What the Butler Saw

written in a time when homosexuality was still illegal.

and there are still cultures that are not accepting of being gay,

which I think is very, very sad because, you know,

who we are going to fall in love with.

A mobile art gallery that's travelled across the world

the artwork is housed in a yellow caravan

and wherever it's located is the focus of its collection.

For the next two weeks, it's in Sneinton in Nottingham,

From the outside, it looks like a normal caravan,

and it is home to an art gallery in Sneinton Market.

So, it is kind of the human story of Sneinton.

We just want to find out what it's like here,

What happens here that doesn't happen anywhere else.

Since it began in 2000, the Caravan Gallery has

travelled thousands of miles and exhibited

in hundreds of locations across the UK and overseas.

It is equally at home at a prestigious arts venue

And the caravan is proving popular with shoppers already.

you can take it to different festivals,

There is some good stuff in here as well.

my mum was the vicar at Sneinton,

so it's really nice to see, yes.

artwork, photographs and other memorabilia is being collected

Some of the work will end up in the Caravan Gallery

when it moves on to its next location.

Emily Anderson, BBC East Midlands Today, Sneinton.

Football now, and better times for Leicester City.

Beating Hull 3-1 gives the Foxes

their first back-to-back win of the season,

and a bit more distance between them and the relegation zone.

In the Championship, Derby County end their run

of seven matches without a win in all competitions

For Nottingham Forest, a run of four games without a win ends too

Meanwhile a goalless draw for Mansfield at Cheltenham,

and a 3-0 defeat for Notts County at Stevenage.

but let's see what's coming our way next.

Some lovely sunny spells around as we move through the day today

but it does look like we've seen the best of the dry weather.

some showers to look out for for a time

but becoming increasingly dry as we move into the early hours.

Overnight lows of around four Celsius in towns or cities,

where you could see a touch of frost in very sheltered areas.

A dry start to the day with some brightness for a time

but quickly seeing a band of rain and some low cloud

That could be quite heavy at times,

turning increasingly patchy into the afternoon.

Top temperatures tomorrow slightly cooler -

I'll leave you with the outlook but staying unsettled

The Beat is on air from six, so just a few minutes' time.

Joining Dean and the team tonight are Derby rockers Eva Plays Dead.

They're revealing their new single exclusively on The Beat -

and renowned Nottingham rapper Snowy has exciting news to share.

That's until ten on your radio and online.

More from me and the team here at ten to six tomorrow.

Hello. I could have put almost anything in this sphere today such

was the variety. Some of you saw showers but the cloud is sitting

lower in the atmosphere. It was nice enough this morning across the

Midlands, not just here in Birmingham, but in that slot, it

filled in disappointingly, the showers were always there in Wales

and the South West and they crept further into the yeast, and further

into the North. All of that is driven by this low pressure, we have

had wind rain and snow in Scotland which becomes confined to the

Shetland Islands overnight making room for another band of weather in

the South West and in between, a touch of frost and perhaps a bit of

fog. This is how we start the day on Sunday, the rain and wind confined

to the Shetland Islands, elsewhere the good news story in Scotland,

Northern Ireland and the north of England is that you will get to see

some shots -- sunshine. A much improved day than