26/03/2017 East Midlands Today


26/03/2017

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there is the rivalry that will come to define it. Adam Wilde, BBC News.

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That is And now the news for

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the East Midlands, I'm Amy Harris. Police have launched a murder

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investigation after a man found in a Leicester car park with

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life-threatening injuries has died. The 22-year-old was discovered early

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this morning on Canonsleigh Road. Police believe he was

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injured during an assault. Anyone with any information

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is asked to contact them. A new study has found councils

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are struggling to find and pay for accommodation

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for homeless people. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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says its survey reveals a "bleak" picture and the number of cases

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councils are having to deal Here's our political

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editor Tony Roe. Raising awareness of the work

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the YMCA does in Derby. Since this event last year,

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the numbers sleeping rough in the city has

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more than doubled. On Friday night, they

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will sleep out again. They have helped around 300

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here in the last 12 months - a roof, a place to start again,

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a place to find work. It was really hard accepting

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that I was homeless and that I had nowhere to go,

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because I was sleeping New research says that almost two

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thirds of responding councils across England said they are

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struggling to find social tenancies It is even harder helping those

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aged between 25 and 34. Labour say there is nothing

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in the local government settlement to help stop the rise

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in homelessness and the doubling of rough sleeping which has

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happened since 2010. The local Conservative MP will be

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sleeping out again with More money is going towards rough

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sleeping and more houses are being built, but charities

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have always existed, I have transformed my life

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around, completely. From walking in the door,

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the staff are brilliant, it gives you every help

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and they give you all that you need to reform

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your life. Most of those helped by the YMCA,

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which does this to raise funds, have moved on to

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their own place to live, or, through mediation,

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have returned to their families. With just days until Theresa May

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triggers Article 50 to begin formal negotiations on Brexit,

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two of our politicians have clashed over the financial impact

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of leaving the EU. The Labour MP for Nottingham East,

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Chris Leslie, believes the region's But Conservative MEP for

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the East Midlands, Emma McClarkin, says Britain will be able to use

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millions of pounds that We need to concentrate on making

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sure we get the best deal when we leave Brexit, and with the funds

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that we have about here in the UK, that we are using them

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for the priorities each part I think there is a risk

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now that we have gone from austerity When you see what the office

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for budget responsibility and the Treasury have been

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projecting, it is going to start hitting public services,

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because if your economy isn't as strong, you don't generate those

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revenues, you cannot have it for the

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schools and hospitals. Health campaigners have carried

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a bed around Derby to protest at the planned loss of more than 500

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hospital beds across the county. They're angry at proposals to close

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wards and hospitals, including those in Bakewell

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and Darley Dale. NHS bosses say they want more

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patients treated in their homes. We want to challenge the cuts

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proposed to the local health plan and tell all those in charge

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at the local clinical commissioning group,

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councillors, MPs, we're not prepared Weather time now -

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it's been lovely today, hasn't it, After a glorious weekend,

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we keep the mild Overnight tonight, there will be

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a few clear spells, so we could have a touch of frost, but cloud

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is pushing in from the east and that is going to help keep

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the temperatures, for most of us, up around

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four or five Celsius. For Monday morning, there may be

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a touch of mist and fog That lifts as we go

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through the day, and the cloud is going to break up,

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so we will see bright if not sunny spells,

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perhaps not quite as sunny as it has been this weekend,

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but temperatures still up to around Tuesday, some showers in the

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forecast, turning a little bit more unsettled, but still mild

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with highs of 14 Celsius. That's it for now, we're back

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tomorrow morning at 6.25. From me and the weekend

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team, goodnight. Hello there, it's not often that we

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have the best of the weather at the weekend. But, that seems to be the

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case this time around. This week, there will be more cloud around

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bringing with it a chance of rain. Especially in the north and west,

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but the wind will keep warm by the day, and it should be warm at night

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as well. In the sunshine, temperatures of 20 degrees, that in

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the Highlands of Scotland, but here we are likely

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