Giles Taylor
BBC East Midlands Today reporter

There's still a large cordon in place on Victoria Street this morning, with the fire service working to safely remove the remains of the roof.

Police investigators have arrived this morning to try and determine the cause.

Meanwhile local businesses have told me the building, now empty but formerly owned by Bombardier, has seen big problems with homeless people and drug addicts.

Many of them are still unable to get into work this lunchtime.

Leicester Mercury

A Leicester pop duo’s bid for X Factor glory was scuppered in cruel fashion, external after producers inexplicably pulled the plug on their chance to perform live in front of the ITV talent show’s celebrity judges.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

New Derby County boss Frank Lampard says he's finding life as a manager completely different to his playing days.

He said: "I want to be the best I can be at it, which means you have to give it your full time.

"When you have a training session, you go back, you reflect on it. Videos, past games, future opposition etc.

"I think in the modern game, if you want to get on in management you have to be across as much as you can be - because somebody else will be across it all.

"The business end is coming now and I can feel the excitement bubbling amongst the anxiety of the hard work that comes with it."

Image source, PA

Lampard's first competitive game in charge of the Rams is at Reading on Friday night.

Dave Wade
BBC News

Firefighters are still at the scene of a fire at a recycling centre in Worksop, four days after it started.

Image source, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue

Group manager, Mick Sharman, said they will be at the site in Sandy Lane for some time yet but heavy machinery is being brought in to speed up tackling the blaze.

He said there was a chance the amount of smoke could increase and advised people to stay out of the plume and keep windows and doors closed.

Police appealed for information about the fire on Sunday but it's still not clear what's caused it.

Image source, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue

Dave Wade
BBC News

It's been a great year for hen harriers with 34 chicks fledging this year - the highest number in 10 years, Natural England have said.

Nine out of 14 nesting attempts by England's most endangered bird of prey were successful - including four chicks in the Derbyshire Peak District (pictured).

Image source, Steve Davies

Hen harriers have come close to extinction in England due to historic persecution and conservationists warn they are still targeted by gamekeepers because they prey on grouse.

This year's breeding success is down to high numbers of voles, which are a main source of food, and good weather.

But it's also a result of partnerships between conservation groups, national parks and moorland managers to better monitor nests.

Four nests were successful on land managed for grouse moor shooting, including three on United Utilities land in Lancashire, and one on land owned by the National Trust in the Peak District.

Natural England warned, however, it would take more than one good breeding season to deliver a thriving population so there should be "no let-up" in conservation efforts.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Police have asked the public to be on the look-out for a 33-year-old man from Cromford who's been missing for three days.

Chris Turner was last seen at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital at about 13:00 on Sunday. He also has links to Matlock.

Contact Derbyshire Police, external if you know where he is.

Image source, Derbyshire Police

Frank Lampard's Derby to go up? Stoke to bounce back to the top flight? Predict your final Championship table.

Press Association

Ofgem has appointed Octopus Energy Limited to take on supplying the customers of a Nottinghamshire-based energy firm which ceased trading last week.

Image source, PA

Beeston-based Iresa's collapse left nearly 100,000 customers in limbo.

Octopus Energy is offering Iresa's customers its "Flexible Octopus" tariff, which is one of the most competitive tariffs on the market and the best value deal on offer for them, Ofgem said.

The new provider will honour all outstanding credit balances, including money owed to both current customers and to past customers of Iresa.

BBC Business News

Shares in clothing retailer Next have slumped this morning - despite the Leicester firm reporting a faster-than-expected rise in sales over the past few months.

Next said the hot weather had helped it sell more lightweight summer clothing earlier in the year than usual.

But the retailer resisted upgrading its full-year profit forecast, saying it had already sold much of the stock it had been expecting to sell in August.

Image source, PA

Dave Wade
BBC News

Hundreds of stray cats have been found living in part of Nottingham after what's claimed to be the country's first cat census.

Cats Protection piloted a mobile app in Bulwell in 2016 so that users could report sightings of homeless cats.

As a result about 200 strays were identified and neutered - the highest number in the charity's history.

The cats - not the ones pictured - were then re-homed, it said.

Image source, PA

The app has now been launched in Beeston.

Jane Clements, from the charity, said: “We had an extraordinary response to our first scheme in Bulwell and it’s been so successful we are now replicating it in other major cities across the UK, as well as a new project in Beeston."

"Cats are prolific breeders, with one female capable of having around 18 kittens a year, so this work will really help the community in Bulwell by preventing numbers of strays becoming a problem," she added.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Police looking for a 25-year-old man who went missing in Leicester a week ago are searching part of the River Soar this morning, external.

Michal Zygan left his home in Hopefield Road at 07:30 to go to work in nearby Percy Street on 25 July and hasn't been seen since.

CCTV footage showed him walking through Bede Park towards the towpath at about 08:30 on the same day.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

Officers from Leicestershire Police's tactical support team are now using boats and rafts to search an area of river between the Holiday Inn and the King Power Stadium.

An area of the river near St Margaret's Pastures is also being searched and footage from other CCTV cameras in the area is being looked at.

There was an "incident of concerted indiscipline" at HMP Lowdham Grange, prison bosses say.

Leicester Tigers sign dual-code international Kyle Eastmond but centre Matt Toomua will leave the club next summer.

Dave Wade
BBC News

A bus passenger indecently exposed himself in Leicester, police have said.

Image source, Google

It happened on the top deck of a X3 Sapphire Arriva bus which was travelling along London Road towards the city on Sunday, 24 June.

Leicestershire Police said they're trying to trace five women who witnessed the indecent exposure at about 13:30.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Leicester City have unveiled their new away kit, external for the forthcoming season.

The Adidas-produced kit will be worn by Claude Puel's side for the first time against Valencia tonight.

According to the club's website the new shirt features "sweat-wicking Climalite technology" - good to know!

Image source, Leicester City

Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter

Building work on Derby's new 50m swimming pool has been delayed by several months.

Image source, Derby City Council

A feasibility study on possible changes to the plan, ordered by the Conservatives, is expected back in October.

The new feasibility study will cost up to £95,000. The council says the pool complex planned for Moorways requires "significant value engineering".

Championship side Nottingham Forest sign former Bristol City goalkeeper Luke Steele on a free transfer.

Lewis Scrimshaw
BBC Radio Nottingham

A man is due to appear in court today charged with the murder of a woman in Nottinghamshire.

Image source, Google

Her body was found at an address in Bracken Way in Harworth on Monday night.

Formal identification is due to take place today.

Stuart Hall, 47, also of Bracken Way, is due to appear before Mansfield Magistrates' Court today.

Dave Wade
BBC News

Six prisoners were involved in a disturbance at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire last night, a security firm has confirmed.

Image source, Getty Images

Serco, which runs the prison, said it was "an incident of concerted indiscipline" on one of the wings, which has now been "peaceable resolved".

No staff or prisoners were injured and it didn't spread to other parts of the jail.

It comes just days after violence broke out on F wing with prison staff reportedly using stun grenades to resolve the situation.

The category B prison houses 888 prisoners

Hayley Compton
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

Here's what remains of the former Bombardier building in Mansfield where a huge fire took hold last night.

Fire crews are still tackling the blaze in Victoria street.

One local told me he thought flames were 20ft high.

Here's what it looked like at its height.