Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

If you're heading south, be aware of this...

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Police are "urgently" looking for this man who is missing and urgently needs diabetic medication., external

Joe Brooks, 56, was last seen yesterday morning on Lansdowne Road in Leicester.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

BBC Weather

The cloud will continue to thin and break over the course of the afternoon with brighter spells and some sunshine. Feeling chilly with highs of 7C (45F).

Hinckley Times

Raw sewage flooded a series of gardens, external near to a Hinckley park at the weekend following torrential downpours.  

Image source, Hinckley Times

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

• A junior doctor from Leicester says patient safety will be put at risk if the government extends the working week
• Police have made an appeal, external after an man with diabetes was reported missing
• Sven Goran Eriksson says Leicester City "deserve" to win the Premier League

Neil Heath
BBC News Online

The gibbons now have an acre (4,046 sq m) of space to explore - 10 times as much as they had before.

And it’s no ordinary enclosure…

There is about 30m of rope and webbing for the apes to swing on and a bark chip floor which will naturally rot and increase the humidity – similar to conditions in South East Asia.

Image source, Firebird Public Relations Ltd

Sharon Redrobe, chief executive of Twycross, told me it took a while for the normally booming Siamang gibbons to sing their songs but when they did it was a great moment.  

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Twycross Zoo has been showing off its new, purpose-built Gibbon Forest at a press meeting today.

The primates' new home is designed to look like an island with a moat. There's enough space for the animals to swing for distances up to 30 metres, replicating what they'd be doing in the canopies of Asian rainforests.

The zoo says it's also a perfect breeding environment for the animals.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Lent is usually a time when people give up a guilty pleasure but Acting Bishop of Leicester, John Holbrook, says they want people to reflect God's generosity.

Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester he said: "God has been unbelievably generous to us, giving us this amazing world, giving us each other and above all giving us our Lord Jesus.

"It's our chance to give something back to him and to the people of Leicester." 

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Now, let's talk about the important stuff- cakes!

Clergy from the Diocese of Leicester are giving away cakes to mark the start of Lent.

This morning they were at Leicester Railway Station and this afternoon they'll be at the clock tower.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

In other news, you don't need me to tell you the city of Leicester is having a pretty good time at the moment.

Mayor Peter Soulsby has described it as Leicester "rediscovering itself".

International recognition started with the rediscovery of King Richard III two years ago and is continued with the success of Leicester City football team.

Sir Peter Soulsby says: "I think Leicester in the past has often been a bit shy about telling people what a brilliant place it is, a bit lacking in self confidence but I think we've got over that and we have a lot to be proud of.

"Tremendous history, tremendous sporting achievement and tremendous people."

BBC Leicester Sport

Leicester Tigers will be without Dom Barrow for the trip to his former club, Newcastle, on Friday after he received a two-week suspension yesterday.

Image source, Getty Images

Barrow was punished for punching or striking an opponent during last weekend's game against Sale. It's the second time Barrow has been banned this season.

Leicester Mercury

A photographer had his camera kit packed and ready to record the birth of his and his fiancee's first baby., external

But Martin Boyce was caught off guard in the early hours of Sunday morning when fiancee Holly Dawson woke him to say she thought baby was on the way.

Image source, Leicester Mercury

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Andrew Furlong, medical director at Leicester's hospitals said patients should attend appointments as arranged but staff will contact people if their slot needs to be rescheduled.

"I apologise for the inconvenience that this may cause but in all cases priority will be given to those patients with the most pressing health needs," he said.

Mr Furlong also reminded people of alternatives to calling 999 or going down to A&E, such as seeing a pharmacist, GP, or calling 111.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Health bosses in the city are warning people that they may face longer waiting times if they need to visit hospital today.

Anyone in need of emergency care will still receive the treatment they need because A&E is the only department that junior doctors are not walking out on.

BBC Leicester Sport

Leicester Tigers director of rugby, Richard Cockerill, has received critical messages from some supporters this week following the Premiership defeat to Sale at the weekend. 

It was the Tigers' third loss of the season, leaving them third in the table at the halfway stage.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

So how are you all feeling abut the strike?

Well BBC Radio Leicester has been speaking to people outside the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

One person said: "Possibly people's health is put at risk but at the same time they must be trying to get a point across and nobody's listening."

Someone else said: "I do feel the doctors have got a point, they deserve public support."

Another said: "I think they should be happy with what they've got."

Helen McCarthy
BBC Radio Leicester Reporter

At 08:00 this morning I joined the junior doctors picket line outside the Welford Road entrance to the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Government legislation means only six official striking doctors are allowed to picket each entrance to the hospital, although they were joined by visiting supporters from the public and other unions.

Many of the doctors had just come off night shifts, bleary-eyed, still wearing their stethoscope but fired up about the dangers they perceive in the proposed new government contract.

Staff talked of how stretched they feel already, of posts unfilled and fear the new contract will mean even longer working weeks.

Leicester Mercury

Motorists have been fined for driving in city centre bus lanes on Christmas day, external when no buses were running.

Image source, Leicester Mercury

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Junior doctors are unhappy about changes to their pay, which the government says are needed to create more seven-day services.

May Young-Tiet is a junior doctor in Leicester and thinks what the government wants is unrealistic: "What this is doing is trying to spread us thinner over a seven-day week. 

"It's not talking about introducing more doctors in, to be able to work safely over those seven days.

"Our strike is an effort to whistleblow and highlight attention that this contract is not safe."