Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

Grand Slam finalist Lucie Safarova has been named as one of the players who will play at the Aegon Open Nottingham next month.

The 30-year-old, from the Czech Republic, is a former world number five and four-time doubles major winner.

She joins British player Johanna Konta, who has already been named on the line-up.

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BBC News Travel

• A broken down car is blocking a lane on Evington Road, Leicester, towards London Road
• Stores Road, Derby, is blocked in both directions because of an accident at the West Meadows Industrial Estate
• The A52 near Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire, is partially blocked because of a stalled truck

Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

Gary Rowett has told us Derby County have "taken the action they felt necessary" in dismissing chief executive and president Sam Rush.

He said: "Statements have come out but, for me, nothing is really going to be affected on the football side.

"That is my only real concern, so we move forward."

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

The debate continues...

Helen Astle
BBC East Midlands Today reporter

This was Kate and Gerry McCann arriving at a service in Rothley last night to pray for their eldest daughter Madeleine, who went missing while on holiday in Portugal 10 years ago.

Prayers were also said for other missing children during the service. 

Almost 100 other people attended - some brought flowers...

Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

Cuteness overload! 

Here's a photo of all four peregrine chicks at the top of the Nottingham Trent University's Newton Building lining up for a feed.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Increasing numbers of men and boys are struggling with eating disorders - including here in the East Midlands.

Nationally, the number of men and boys being treated for the problem has increased by 27% in the last three years.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the BBC to our hospital trusts found 27 men in Leicestershire and Rutland received help for anorexia and bulimia last year. That compares to 16 in 2014. 

Andy Jones, from Leicestershire, developed an eating disorder in his 40s.

Image source, Andy Jones

He weighed more than 25 stone and decided he wanted to lose weight, but his diet took a hold of him and he pretty much gave up eating all together. He went down to eight stone.

He told us: "This is a mental illness - people need to realise that. I didn't realise until I'd got it."

No eating disorder figures were provided by the hospital trusts in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

Around £2,000 has been raised by people in Belper after a car crash on Kilbourne Road on Sunday which killed a six-year-old girl and her 28-year-old father.

The girl's 22-year-old mother, who was driving the car, is still in a critical but stable condition in hospital. 

Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

Police are investigating a serious crash which closed a stretch of the A52 overnight.

Nottinghamshire Police said it involved a pedestrian and a vehicle and happened just before 20:50, shutting the road between the Gamston roundabout and Radcliffe on Trent.

Diversions were put in place but have now been removed.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Most of us will have had a debate with someone at some stage about the name of this food item...  

Around these parts, you'll find most people call it a "cob" - but why? 

Tracy Leavesley is one of two people to ask us this using Your Questions.

Well, I've been speaking about this with Jonathan Robinson, who is lead curator of spoken English at the British Library.

Not only is he currently writing a book on East Midlands dialect, but his partner is from Derbyshire, so he's very familiar with the regional term.

He told me the word "cob" is described by the Oxford English Dictionary as "various roundish or lumpy pieces", such as bread. This meaning originated in the 1800s. The word is also used within other words like "cobble", which is a round lump of stone.

Jonathan claims it's very vague how the word came about. He said it could have derived from the word "cop", meaning "rounded hill".

It's just us here in the East Midlands that uses the word. It's thought to have stayed in the area because bakers are one of the few local businesses that have stood the test of time. Years ago, there were local words for things like tools, but because a lot of them are now produced on a national level, most local words have died out.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

The polls have opened across the East Midlands for the local council elections.

Registered voters will be able to cast their ballots until 22:00.

In Derbyshire, external, there are 270 candidates contesting 64 seats.

In Leicestershire, external, the Conservatives won 30 of the 55 seats on the council at the 2013 elections, but have since gained a councillor due to a defection, giving them a majority of seven. 

In Nottinghamshire, external, boundary changes mean the number of councillors being elected will drop from 67 to 66. There is also a city council by-election for the Sherwood ward.  

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The counts will start tomorrow morning with the results being published on each of the council's websites as they are announced.    

Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online

Derby County have sacked chief executive and president Sam Rush over "gross misconduct".  

In a statement released by the club, they said Rush (left), who was appointed in 2013, had been released with immediate effect "on the grounds of gross misconduct and breach of fiduciary duty".

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In response, Rush said he was "incredibly shocked and disappointed" at his dismissal and the matter was now in the hands of his lawyers.

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BBC Weather presenter

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Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

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