Latest updates: East Midlands Live Wednesday 24 January 2018

Summary

Derby railway station to get £200m investment
Moderate Labour MPs 'fear' de-selection
Bands added to Download line-up
Joy at 'dynamic' tribute to suffragette
Rams' Shackell in talks over Millwall loan
Updates on Wednesday 24 January 2018

Live Reporting

Calum McKenzie and Gavin Bevis

Future bleak for National Lottery, expert warnspublished at 14:28 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
BBC Radio 5 live
Falling sales of National Lottery tickets needs "looking into" or the situation could get "worse," a leading academic has warned.
Image source, PA
The number of people playing the lottery fell by more than 10% last year, while the amount spent on it per household also dropped by a sixth.
Professor Leighton Vaughan Williams, from the Nottingham Business School, cited the increase in the cost of a ticket from £1 to £2 and the rise in the number of balls in the draw, external as possible reasons.
Image source, PA
He added: "We need to look into what is going on and what the future is because it looks like the future could be worse than what has been going on in the past."
An inquiry has been launched to counter the decline in National Lottery income with the government, Gambling Commission, Big Lottery Fund and Camelot all speaking later to the Public Accounts Committee.
Man who died in M1 crash was planning to get marriedpublished at 13:45 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Leicester Mercury
The family of a man who died in a crash on the M1 have revealed he was planning to get married, external.
Buxton's Octagon Hall to reopen in Maypublished at 13:44 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
The Octagon Hall at Buxton's Pavilion Gardens is to reopen in May after a £3m refurbishment.
The complex was closed to the public in 2015 after its roof was found to be unsafe.
High Peak Borough Council said the work, due to be completed in mid-March, was now expected to continue to late April, with the reopening taking place a few weeks later.
Image source, Derby and Derbyshire Economic Partnership/Derbyshire County Council
Crash closes lane on A42published at 13:28 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
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Rail passengers facing summer of disruptionpublished at 13:12 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
This graphic, produced by East Midlands Trains, spells out some of the changes to services to and from Derby railway station during a three-month upgrade later this year.
Rail chiefs are spending £200m, external updating the station's tracks, signals and platforms, with work due to start on 22 July.
Image source, East Midlands Trains
Funding bid to create new spider research labpublished at 12:52 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
East Midlands Today
A university is trying to raise £2,000 to create a new spider research facility.
The University of Nottingham wants to turn the old aquarium into a permanent spider home.
If the funding bid is successful, it hopes to expand its programme of school visits.
Water company to investigate leakpublished at 12:49 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Calum McKenzie
BBC News
A team will be sent out this evening to look at the burst main on Braunstone Gate (see 11:59), Severn Trent has said.
The leak is not currently causing any disruption to traffic or pedestrians in Leicester.
Man charged after car taken with child insidepublished at 12:45 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
A man has been charged, external after reports a car was stolen in Mansfield with an 11-year-old girl inside.
Notts Police said the car was recovered with the child unharmed shortly after it was taken from West Hill Drive on Monday night.
The 33-year-old has been charged with kidnap and aggravated vehicle taking. He was remanded in custody and is due to appear in court on 7 February.
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Notts MP struck down by flupublished at 12:16 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
You won't see the member for Broxtowe in the House of Commons today.
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Meet 'Britain's oldest daredevil'published at 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
BBC Newsbeat
Some people slow down as they get older, but not Staveley's Jack Reynolds.
The 105-year-old rides rollercoasters, has got a tattoo and has flown a plane.
For his latest adventure, he's been abseiling. BBC Newsbeat joined him...
Burst water main in Leicesterpublished at 11:59 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Calum McKenzie
BBC News
A water pipe has burst on a busy city centre road.
The leak, on Braunstone Gate, Leicester, is not causing any problems for traffic and pedestrians as it is just bubbling in its hole.
Severn Trent has said it is investigating.
Shackell in talks over Millwall loanpublished at 11:38 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Derby defender Jason Shackell is in talks to join Millwall on an initial loan deal until the end of the season.
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East Midlands hit by high windspublished at 11:20 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
It was another windy night across the East Midlands. The gusts spelled trouble for this fence in Misterton, caught on camera by BBC Weather Watcher Misty.
Image source, Misty
And shocking scenes in Warsop where this bin was unable to defend itself against the blustery conditions.
Image source, Annbie
Family's joy at 'dynamic' tribute to suffragettepublished at 11:19 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Calum McKenzie
BBC News
A tribute to Alice Hawkins, one of the leaders of the suffragette movement, has been praised by her family.
A statue of Hawkins, who was a shoe machinist in Leicester, will be revealed in New Market Square on Sunday 4 February.
Peter Barrett, who was her great grandson, told BBC Radio Leicester: "The design fits the image of Alice...standing in the Market Place, over 100 years ago.
"It has been described as a dynamic pose."
The seven-foot statue has been made out of bronze and will stand on a four-foot plinth".
Lane closed on M1 after car breaks downpublished at 10:50 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
A lane's closed on the M1 southbound between junctions 29a and 29 because of this broken down car.
It doesn't seem to be causing any delays and Highways England is predicting all lanes should be back open by 11:30.
Image source, Highways England
Winter Olympian's journey from pizza to Pyeongchangpublished at 10:49 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Mark Shardlow
BBC East Midlands Today sports reporter
A former pizza delivery driver from Loughborough is hoping to win Britain's first Winter Olympics bobsleigh medal for 20 years.
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Joel Fearon, 30, has been selected for next month's games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The father-of-two, who used to compete in athletics, was part of the British team who finished fifth in Sochi four years ago.
But following the disqualification of two Russian teams, Fearon and his team mates could be awarded the bronze.
However, he admits nothing would beat standing on the podium at a Winter Olympics as a medal winner.
"As long as we go out and fight hard we are well capable of a medal," Fearon told BBC East Midlands Today.
Nolan astounded by criticism after losspublished at 10:46 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Notts County boss Kevin Nolan is "astounded" at being given a hard time by some fans after two defeats in four days.
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Dozens more bands added to Download line-uppublished at 10:40 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
A further 65 bands have been added to the line-up, external for this year's Download Festival at Donington Park.
The new additions include Cradle of Filth, You Me At Six and Korn frontman Jonathan Davis (pictured).
The festival starts on 8 June, headlined by Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N' Roses and Ozzy Osbourne.
Image source, Getty Images
Railway station upgrade to cause major disruptionpublished at 10:39 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
Passengers have been warned services at Derby railway station will be disrupted when a £200m redevelopment begins in July.
The three-month project will see 17km (10.5 miles) of track replaced, signals upgraded and a new platform built opposite platform six.
Buses will replace trains on some services to and from the station and the work will extend journey times on a number of routes.
East Midlands Trains said the upgrade was needed as the number of people using the station had doubled over the past 20 years. A website detailing the changes and disruption has been set up here, external.
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Man, 20, arrested on suspicion of firearms offencepublished at 10:15 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January 2018
Calum McKenzie
BBC News
A man has been arrested following reports of a gun being fired in a Nottingham suburb.
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Nottinghamshire Police said it had arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life in connection with the reported gunfire earlier this month.
It happened at around 18:45 on Wednesday 17 January in Whitcombe Gardens, Top Valley and police are continuing to appealing for information.