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A national campaign is being launched today, calling for cannabis to be legalised for medicinal use. The group - End Our Pain - estimates around a million people in the UK are currently using it, including around 70 thousand in the East Midlands. They've timed their campaign to coincide with a new storyline on Coronation Street. Few clinical trials have been carried out to date, but cannabis has often been used by people suffering chronic pain, particularly people with Multiple Sclerosis. We hear from Andy Cooper who lives in Ibstock and suffers from MS. He's used cannabis in the past, and has explained how it helped him.
Also, the boss of Age UK in Leicestershire and Rutland has admitted that he's concerned about the impact that national reports criticising the organisation will have. On Thursday, the Sun newspaper claimed the charity was earning millions of pounds a year from recommending energy tariffs by EON even though they were not the cheapest deals available. Since then Age UK has suspended that particular deal. Now, the Executive Director of Age UK in Leicestershire and Rutland has told us that he fears the latest news could have an impact locally.
And, more often than not, it's the medal winners and the record breakers that get all the headlines when it comes to sport. But how many of them would have got there without the dedication and passion of their coach? Fred Stevens from Hinckley has been a volunteer coach at the Leicester Ancient Order of Forrester's Archery Club in Countesthorpe as well as for WheelPower - the national charity of wheelchair sport, based at Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Buckinghamshire, for 15 years. Now though, with his trademark cowboy hat still firmly in place, he is about to retire from coaching having nurtured some of Great Britain's finest Paralympic prospects and introduced archery to hundreds of children with a disability who otherwise might have thought archery is something they could never do. Jim went to meet him at the club in Countesthorpe to grab a quick lesson before he hangs up his coaching bow for good.

Also in the show, why to let boards could be banned from certain areas in Leicester and the Loughborough Lego men will return to the town today! Is this the fairy tale ending to this toy story?