05/03/2017 East Midlands Today

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

In business it's said that bad news is usually good news -

And for a Derbyshire printing firm avian flu has seen

The company prints labels for egg boxes

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

they're now making emergency labels - millions of them.

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 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

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 was closed for a time last night, amid fears a passenger

East Midlands Airport says a flight from Gran Canaria had

warned them of a suspected malfunction.

Police closed the motorway in both directions betwen junction 23a

The plane landed safely minutes later and the motorway reopened.

There was a rally in Loughborough earlier to show support for those

Among those speaking to the crowd was Loughborough MP Nicky Morgan.

Organisers say they fear the plight being faced by millions

risks being overlooked because the conflict

Because the Syrian war has been going on for over six years, a lot

of people within the UK have been turned off.

What we do here has tremendous impact in other parts of

the world, whether it's financially, whether it's politically, through

various different means we can make that difference, and it's that

ripple effect, the small things we do here have massive consequences

A choir that hit the headlines with their gospel chants

for Leicester City have been recording their very

And as Amy Harris reports, they had help from some big

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.

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 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.

The showers continue as we head through the overnight period.

We could see a dusting of snow over higher ground but gradually

the showers are going to diminish as we head through the night.

There will be a few clear skies to be had as well.

Temperatures under the clear skies down to around three Celsius.

For Monday morning it will be a fairly cold start

to the day but it should be quite decent actually.

We should see some spells of sunshine.

There will be one or two showers in the forecast, yes.

Some of those could be slow-moving but if you can manage to dodge them

temperatures of around nine Celsius won't feel too bad in the sunshine.

For the rest of the week, plenty of dry weather to be had,

cloudy on Tuesday, highs of 11 degrees by midweek.

Hannah will have your updates in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning.