05/03/2017 East Midlands Today

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

A Derbyshire printing firm says it's become unexpectedly busy

The company, from Melbourne, normally prints labels for egg boxes

But with the flu threat, and hens being kept inside temporarily,

they're now making emergency labels, three million of them so far.

It is the threat of avian flu striking British flocks that has led

to hens being shut in netted enclosures or even kept

It has meant free-range egg producers now have to mark every egg

box with a label to say the eggs are not at the moment free range.

Someone has to produce those labels, and Positive ID Labelling

Something in excess of three million.

It started off very slowly with lots of phone calls

from the customers and once the momentum built, we have had

great difficulty in keeping up with the level of orders that

Positive ID already make the egg box labels for dozens of small

EU regulations say once their birds are inside for 12 weeks

It means Positive ID expect to be producing labels for some time yet.

Ironically it is good for your business?

If it comes on like that, if it stays at current levels,

we will be manufacturing something in excess of 10 million

Yeah, good short-term business for us.

Defra says that although restrictions on hens going outside

in low risk areas have now eased, they are still expecting some

bio-security regulations to be in place until at least

James Roberson, BBC East Midlands Today, Derbyshire.

The M1 motorway was closed for a time last night

amid fears a passenger plane may crash.

East Midlands Airport says a Jet2 flight from Gran

Canaria had alerted them to a suspected malfunction.

Police closed the motorway in both directions between junctions 23A

The plane landed safely a few minutes later

and the motorway reopened shortly after.

An East Midlands domestic abuse campaign has won worldwide support.

Volunteers are making a patchwork quilt representing hundreds of women

who have died as a result of domestic violence.

There have been contributions from around the world.

It will be presented to MPs on Wednesday.

One support centre boss says funding for help is not

The issue that we are experiencing locally is that there is a much

So even though funding remains steady, what we are seeing is women

coming in with much more complex issues, a lot more issues

around mental health, so the need is higher,

and therefore the amount of resources that we need to put

into supporting women has also increased but the funding

Around a hundred people joined a rally in Loughborough this

afternoon to show support for those enduring the on-going

Among those to address the crowd was the Loughbourgh MP, Nicky Morgan.

The war in Syria has been raging for six years now.

Organisers say they fear the plight being faced by millions

A former soldier who dedicated his life to the Sherwood Foresters has

had a memorial unveiled in his honour.

Cliff Housley became the regiment's official historian

in 1996, writing 17 books and fundraising for veterans.

Today a plaque was unveiled at Staffordshire's National

It's been a big day for a group of gospel singers from Leicester.

The De Montfort University choir has been recording its very first album

with the help of some big industry names.

And as you might expect, songs include those Foxes football

Their voices sent spirits soaring during Leicester City's

Premier League campaign, but there is much more

to the De Montford University gospel choir than covering football chants,

and today they are recording an album to prove it.

One thing we always wanted to do was to get a CD together.

For years we were never able to, so it is very, very exciting.

This is just one of the tracks on the new album.

They are not sure yet what it will be called

or when it will be released, but what they do know is they want

And they have got the backing of some big industry names.

John Illsley, from Dire Straits, and Tom Allom, who has produced

tracks for the heavy metal band Judas Priest.

Hopefully my knowledge of recording generally,

and the number of different types of projects that I have done,

will be helpful to this one, and I will be able to bring that

knowledge to this lovely choir and help them come out of it

The album will not only make money for the choir's new church,

For these singers, this really is a happy day.

Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicestershire.

We've still got some showers to come as we go through this

A touch wintry over higher ground for a time but gradually

Through the night, it will become drier with a few

Under the clear skies, temperatures could fall to around

For Monday morning, it is not a bad start.

There will be some spells of sunshine.

The blue skies should come through but there will be a few

Some of these could be fairly slow moving on a light

Temperatures tomorrow reaching a high of around nine,

For the rest of the week, there will be plenty of dry

Temperatures by midweek up to around 11 degrees.

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

Hello, as was the case on Saturday there was a lot of whether around

today. Showers for some, some saw the staff of postcard material, for

others it was more Christmas card material. We had pictures like that

quite widely across the Midlands and Wales as well. This weather system

has been here for a good part of the day in Wales and the North Midlands

and southern England. It is not that warm underneath that particular

front. Some winter arenas about some of the rain as it clears away to the

near continent. In the south-west we have already seen gusts of 60 miles

an hour. That could be