Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

We've heard a lot about so-called "bed-blocking" lately. This is where people are fit enough to leave hospital but don't.

Now, an independent review had found delays in discharging patients could be costing the NHS in England £900m a year.

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Derby is one of the ten worst areas in the country for bed blocking.

In November, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust lost 1834 days to bed blocking - that works out to 61 beds a day.

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Long Lane in Broadbottom is closed in both directions between Mottram Road and Glossop Road because of a sinkhole.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

After she was convicted for the pet cremations offences, Emma Bent's finances were investigated so that the proceeds of her crime could be recovered but only £3,100 was identified.

Further investigations revealed Bent had hidden her assets and claimed thousands of pounds of benefits, which were later transferred to and used by her mother.

Det Con Alastair Murray said: “She was callous to involve her mother because without her, she would have found it difficult to commit the offences."

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Police say 40-year-old Bent fraudulently claimed more than £91,000 from the authorities. 

The crimes of both mother and daughter came to light after Bent was convicted for offences in connection with her Peak Pet Cremations business, which earnt her £88,000.

Pet owners paid Bent to incinerate their deceased animals and return their ashes but police discovered she hadn't been incinerating them, instead she'd been putting them in hedgerows in Derbyshire.

She was sentenced to eight months in prison for this offence in 2011.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

A mother and daughter have been sentenced for money laundering and benefit fraud offences., external

Emma Bent has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Her mother, Sonia Lomas, received nine months, suspended for two years.

Bent, from Matlock, claimed thousands of pounds in out-of-work benefits when she had a job.

Lomas, from Ilkeston, allowed her daughter to put fraudulent benefits into her bank account, bought a plot of land for £25,000 with the proceeds of Bent’s fraud, and perverted the course of justice during police interviews.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

The transport secretary, and local MP, Patrick McLoughlin will officially opening the booking office later.

It may be the oldest working ticket office in the world but its not the world's oldest ever ticket office.

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That accolade belongs to the Red Hall in Bourne, Lincolnshire, which was built in about 1650 but closed in 1959.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

A nice bit of history for you now...

A former tannery at Wirksworth station has been renovated to become the oldest building in the world to house a working railway ticket office.

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It was built in about 1750 and sits on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway tourist line to Duffield, which reopened in 2011.

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Dull, cloudy and overcast throughout the afternoon with limited brightness and a couple of spots of drizzle. Becoming breezy with highs of 11C (52F).

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You've been getting in touch via Facebook, external to comment on the city council cuts to public services.

Patrick Hall said: "I work as a bus driver in Derby, I struggle in live with the bills bring up the kids.

"I have being going to Moorways all my live and my kids have. I can't afford to send my kids to another pool in Derby.

"It's not right, the council should think of the people in Derby."

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

The honeys labeled as "manuka honey" failed tests by trading standards - some on the health claims front and others on the percentage of manuka pollen in it.

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Dave Allen, Derbyshire County Council's cabinet member for communities and health, said: "People are being misled, they're obviously misled by the potential antibacterial healing powers.

"It's something I think the public should be aware of because the price varies vastly."

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Personally, I'm not a fan of honey, but I do know some types are much more expensive than others. 

Manuka is considered extra special and can cost you ten times more than your bog standard clear honey. 

As it can carry quite a large price tag, trading standards have been on the look out for dodgy manuka honey being sold in Derbyshire.

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At 14 shops and supermarkets across the county they found what is on the jar isn't actually in the jar.

Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby political reporter

They'll look at buying up buildings in the city, if they think there's money to be made in then renting them back out again. They did that with the Park Bikeworks on Full Street. 

They'll also put up the cost of some services the public use, collecting bulky waste, car parking in the city, sport facility rental - we'll probably have to pay more to use those things. 

Councils like South Derbyshire are considering building homes and offices from scratch, in order to sell them for profit. Derbyshire County Council is building solar panels, largely as a money-making scheme but the city council doesn't seem to have so far embraced those kind of things in quite such a big way.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

• Two teenagers have been arrested , externalon suspicion of robbing a taxi driver at knife point in Littleover
• Derby City Council will look at other ways of making money as they try to save £23m this year
• Darren Bent will return to the Derby County squad this weekend

The person being addressed is Rob Cooper, a UKIP party member from the mayor's Mackworth ward.  

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Police have given us some more details, external on this morning's armed arrests in Littleover.

Officers detained two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, on suspicion of robbing a taxi driver early this morning.

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The taxi driver was allegedly threatened with a knife on Bretton Avenue and had cash and two phones stolen. 

Police are still looking for a third suspect.

Peter Saull
BBC Radio Nottingham Political Reporter

Nottingham has some quite innovative ways of bringing in extra cash through commercial operations such as its own heating company.

While council tax in Derby was frozen for several years people in Nottingham were regularly asked to pay more, boosting the council coffers.

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Darren Bent is set to return to the Derby County squad for tomorrow's trip to Fulham.

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Bent started and scored in the FA Cup third round win at Hartlepool in January but that start is one of just five this season. He hasn't even been picked for the bench for Derby's past four games.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

The Derby Telegraph has been talking to residents, external about this morning's flurry of police activity in Littleover.

Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester Political Reporter

Elderly persons homes have closed, park and ride subsidies, festival funding and community service cut. We're promised no more services will go completely but more buildings could close, the services in them relocated.

Leicester still needs to cut around 7% of it's budget every year until 2020 and it will run out of reserves in two years time.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

If you were in Littleover this morning you may have noticed quite a large police presence.

I've just been finding out more about what happened but police can't say too much because it's an "ongoing investigation".

I was told they made "some arrests" in connection with a robbery where a person had a mobile phone and cash stolen.

They couldn't be too clear on where in Littleover the arrests took place because police were running between streets chasing after the suspects but it was near the Bretton Avenue area between 08:00 and 08:30.