:00:11. > :00:14.With the news now for the East Midlands, I'm Jim Davis.
:00:15. > :00:15.We start with breaking football news.
:00:16. > :00:18.Derby County have sacked their manager Steve McClaren
:00:19. > :00:20.following what they describe as a decline in results,
:00:21. > :00:25.The former England boss had been in the job for just five months.
:00:26. > :00:31.This result was the final straw for the owner.
:00:32. > :00:34.A 3-0 defeat at Brighton, the final game for Steve McClaren.
:00:35. > :00:37.The club statement pulls no punches, describing the all-round
:00:38. > :00:42.decline as "Significant, unexpected and persistent."
:00:43. > :00:44.Owner, Mel Morris, said, "Friday's performance was so far
:00:45. > :00:48."from what we expect from those wearing the Derby County shirt."
:00:49. > :00:52.Steve McClaren entered his second spell as Derby County
:00:53. > :00:55.manager last October, but a promising start disintegrated.
:00:56. > :00:58.He was sacked tonight along with his assistant
:00:59. > :01:03.Derby are now searching for their fifth manager in 15
:01:04. > :01:06.months, and expect to make an announcement in relation
:01:07. > :01:12.Mark Shardlow, BBC East Midlands Today.
:01:13. > :01:14.Meanwhile, Craig Shakespeare has been appointed as manager
:01:15. > :01:16.of Leicester City until the end of the season.
:01:17. > :01:18.He's been caretaking since Claudio Ranieri
:01:19. > :01:22.Shakespeare is currently preparing to host Sevilla in the second leg
:01:23. > :01:27.of their last 16 Champions League tie on Tuesday evening.
:01:28. > :01:30.Four cyclists have been injured, two of them critically,
:01:31. > :01:33.after being involved in a collision with a car in Leicestershire.
:01:34. > :01:36.It happened near Eastwell, north of Melton Mowbray,
:01:37. > :01:41.Police say two of the riders were taken to Nottingham's
:01:42. > :01:42.Queen's Medical Centre with serious injuries.
:01:43. > :01:45.Another suffered a broken leg, while a fourth had minor injuries.
:01:46. > :01:48.The road has been closed for much of the day.
:01:49. > :01:51.The driver of the car was questioned at the scene.
:01:52. > :01:53.Police investigating the disappearance of
:01:54. > :01:55.Madeleine McCann have been granted ?85,000 to extend the search
:01:56. > :02:01.Madeleine, from Rothley in Leicestershire, disappeared
:02:02. > :02:05.from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal almost 10 years ago.
:02:06. > :02:08.The extra funding has been earmarked for operational costs.
:02:09. > :02:09.Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann,
:02:10. > :02:13.have vowed to never give up hope" of finding their daughter.
:02:14. > :02:16.Around 700 shops and local organisations have signed up to be
:02:17. > :02:17.part of Leicester's first Business Improvement
:02:18. > :02:23.It's hoped the plan will provide a big boost for the city centre,
:02:24. > :02:26.currently the only one in the country without
:02:27. > :02:31.This chocolatier trades at the heart of Leicester,
:02:32. > :02:33.benefiting from the city's vibrant retail scene, but now,
:02:34. > :02:37.he's part of a group looking to boost business for traders
:02:38. > :02:44.We're at the top of our game at the moment, we've got a fantastic
:02:45. > :02:45.arts and culture scene, we've got businesses
:02:46. > :02:47.coming into the city, and actually we need to build
:02:48. > :02:51.on that momentum, and a BID will help that happen.
:02:52. > :02:54.But the scheme would mean local businesses within a certain radius
:02:55. > :02:59.paying around a 1% tax on their rateable value.
:03:00. > :03:01.That contribution will help generate about ?3 million to promote growth.
:03:02. > :03:09.We are the businesses, we put money in, we get
:03:10. > :03:11.to say where it's spent and what we want to
:03:12. > :03:14.It's nothing to do with the council -
:03:15. > :03:16.its purely for the businesses, by the businesses.
:03:17. > :03:21.I think the crucial thing to point out is that it's levy,
:03:22. > :03:24.I think the crucial thing to point out is that it's a levy,
:03:25. > :03:28.The businesses get to decide exactly how this money will be spent.
:03:29. > :03:30.Firms in the proposed area will be balloted
:03:31. > :03:34.If the majority of them vote in favour, Leicester could get
:03:35. > :03:36.its Business Improvement District in place by early next year.
:03:37. > :03:42.Sumeer Kalyani, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester.
:03:43. > :03:44.More than 80 veterans have joined a new breakfast
:03:45. > :03:47.club in Loughborough, which aims to help past and present
:03:48. > :03:51.The monthly get-together was the idea of local Army
:03:52. > :03:56.She says more needs to be done to combat loneliness and isolation,
:03:57. > :04:01.and to celebrate the bonds that service personnel have.
:04:02. > :04:04.With a look ahead to tonight and the start of a new week's
:04:05. > :04:10.Well, we've had a mixture of a few sunny spells and some showers over
:04:11. > :04:12.the course of this weekend, but we've got high pressure
:04:13. > :04:14.building for the start of the new working week,
:04:15. > :04:17.so we are expecting more settled conditions on the way.
:04:18. > :04:19.Looking at the detail overnight tonight, variable amounts of cloud,
:04:20. > :04:21.mostly dry, and lows of around four degrees Celsius there.
:04:22. > :04:23.And as we go through towards tomorrow morning,
:04:24. > :04:26.we are expecting to start on a bright and at times sunny note.
:04:27. > :04:28.It will be feeling rather springlike with temperatures
:04:29. > :04:31.at around 13 degrees Celsius, perhaps even a touch milder
:04:32. > :04:33.than that in the sunshine, but that cloud will spill
:04:34. > :04:36.in from the north-west over the course of the day.
:04:37. > :04:39.I'll leave you with the outlook - we're sticking with those settled
:04:40. > :04:46.conditions and a mixture of sunshine and the odd shower.
:04:47. > :04:49.We'll be back during BBC Breakfast from 6am.
:04:50. > :05:04.But from all of us here, have a good night.
:05:05. > :05:11.Good evening. For many places it was a fairly cloudy day on suspend but
:05:12. > :05:13.there was sunshine for western areas during the afternoon, and here are
:05:14. > :05:19.the clear skies at sunset in Northern Ireland. Thanks to weather
:05:20. > :05:23.watcher Robin for this picture, those clear skies have been making
:05:24. > :05:27.their way further east ward. Temperatures are dropping away, we
:05:28. > :05:31.have seen temperatures of freezing in parts of Northern Ireland. More
:05:32. > :05:35.cloud rolling in during the latter part of the night but towns and
:05:36. > :05:38.cities down the five and six m the countryside many of us will see the
:05:39. > :05:42.temperatures a degree or so above freezing, so a slight touch of frost
:05:43. > :05:45.across the rural parts of England