Latest updates: East Midlands Livepublished at 08:01 Greenwich Mean Time 5 February 2019
The latest news, sport, travel and weather for the East Midlands.
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Man on trial over robbery death of 100-year-old
Mum's race against time to find donor
Child falls through frozen lake escaping police
Plan to replace bus depot with convention centre
Rugby: Kitchener to leave Tigers
Updates for Monday 4 February
Latest updates: East Midlands Livepublished at 08:01 Greenwich Mean Time 5 February 2019
How tuition fees change real-life decisionspublished at 01:57 Greenwich Mean Time 5 February 2019
Teenagers say that a change in tuition fees could decide whether or not they go to university.
Read MoreMansfield bring in midfielder Tomlinsonpublished at 21:07 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
League Two side Mansfield Town sign former Blackburn Rovers midfielder Willem Tomlinson on an 18-month deal.
Read More'Neighbour from hell' still at homepublished at 20:30 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Kathleen Neal was sentenced following a "campaign of intimidation" that lasted 16 years.
Read MoreHanged girl 'humiliated by stepdad'published at 20:19 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Amber Peat had to wear "ridiculous" baggy grey jogging bottoms to school, an inquest hears.
Read MoreWoman, 100, 'killed by bag snatcher'published at 18:50 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Zofija Kaczan's neck was fractured when her handbag was snatched near her home, a court hears.
Read MoreOur live coverage across the daypublished at 18:03 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Today's updates have now finished. We'll be back with more news, sport, travel and weather tomorrow morning.
Weather: Dry and cold nightpublished at 18:03 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Tonight, we can expect a dry but rather cold night, with some long clear spells.
Light winds and some mist and fog are likely to form, which will lift through tomorrow morning.
Otherwise, there will be bright or sunny intervals for a time before thickening cloud and then later, rain, begins to edge north-east.
Vandals 'desecrate' grave with paintpublished at 17:49 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsSadly this isn't a new art installation - the grave at a churchyard in Nailstone has been vandalised, police said.
Officers in the Hinckley and Bosworth area are appealing for witnesses to the "desecration".
Image source, Leicestershire PoliceAlmost 100 cannabis plants found in raidpublished at 17:18 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsTwo men arrested by police on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis have been released while investigations continue.
Just under a 100 plants were found in the Forest Fields area of Nottingham yesterday.
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End of twitter postAmbulance damaged in early hours of New Year's Daypublished at 17:13 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News OnlineVideo footage has been released after £200 of damage was caused to an ambulance in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Paramedics were called to Hope Road, Bamford and left the ambulance parked up outside the Travellers Rest pub and when they returned noticed the rear doors had been forced open.
Police want to speak to the two men pictured in the footage in connection with the damage.
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End of youtube videoHarassing neighbour allowed to return homepublished at 17:01 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
East Midlands TodayA woman sentenced to prison for a "campaign of intimidation" against her neighbours has had a stay put upon the jail term.
Kathleen Neal was sentenced in her absence to 28 days prison last week for spraying weedkiller over her neighbours' fence.
The 79-year-old appeared again at Nottingham County Court on Friday afternoon and the court let her go home to her house in Castle Donington.
Fund set up for forced migration victimspublished at 16:45 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
BBC Radio NottinghamA charity led by social worker Margaret Humphreys will start accepting applications for compensation from child migrants who were relocated between the 1940s-1970s.
Nottinghamshire social worker, Margaret Humphreys (pictured), uncovered the scandal which saw thousands of British children sent abroad after World War Two, many of whom were subjected to sexual abuse.
Image source, Child Migrants TrustWest Bridgford group, Child Migrants Trust, will start accepting applications for payments from next month, external, which will see each eligible migrant compensated with £20,000 as part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Compensation claims are available for child migrants who were sent to Australia, New Zealand, Canada or Zimbabwe.
Mrs Humphreys wrote her account of the investigation in a book, which was later dramatised in the 2011 film, Oranges and Sunshine.
Councillors set to approve tax hikepublished at 16:23 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Kit Sandeman
Local Democracy ReporterCouncil tax payers throughout Nottinghamshire will see their bills rise after the county council announced plans for an increase of almost 4%.
It is the maximum council tax can be raised by without holding a referendum. The Conservative-led council says the move is "regrettable", but needed to address funding shortfalls caused in part by increased demand for services and a reduction in funding from the government.
Image source, Getty ImagesLabour says the council should be putting more pressure on the government to increase its share of funding.
For Band A properties in the county, people will pay an extra £37.75 a year, while Band D properties will pay an additional £56.63. The final figure householders pay is likely to be higher, because local district and borough councils, as well as the fire service and police, are also expected to put up their portions of the final council tax bill.
The plans have not yet been finalised. They will be considered at a meeting on Monday 11 February, before they are likely to be approved at the end of the month.
Family fundraiser for bus crash teen's funeralpublished at 16:10 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
East Midlands TodayA memorial fund, set up by the family of a schoolgirl from Coalville, has raised more than £2,300 for her funeral.
Image source, Sian Ellis/FacebookSian Ellis died after she was hit by bus on Meadow Lane last Monday afternoon. A police investigation is under way.
The 15-year-old's family said they are raising the money "to make sure she has the best send-off possible".
Alleged robber 'attacked 100-year-old from behind'published at 15:59 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Mike O'Sullivan
Reporter, East Midlands TodayA court has heard how a 100-year-old woman was attacked from behind during an alleged robbery and died as a result of a fractured neck.
Derby Crown Court was told that Artur Waszkiewicz, 39, attacked Sofia Kaczan after getting out of a Seat Leon car, and snatched her handbag.
Kate Brunner, QC, prosecuting, told the jury: "The prosecution say it was this man in dock who robbed her and his actions led to her death.
"Small, on her own, vulnerable, an easy target you might think for a man desperate for money."
The court heard that two NHS care workers found Mrs Kaczan steadying herself on a car. They walked her to the nearby St Maximilian Kolbe Polish Catholic Church, from where she taken to hospital.
Mr Waszkiewicz, of Wolfa Street, Derby, has pleaded not guilty to the robbery and manslaughter of Mrs Kaczan.
The trial continues tomorrow.
Image source, GoogleArmed police called to boys with pellet gunspublished at 15:28 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
David Pittam
BBC News OnlineArmed police were called to stop four boys with pellet guns yesterday afternoon.
The teenagers, aged between 16 and 17, had been seen "acting suspiciously" around Giltbrook Retail Park, police said.
Officers seized their guns, detained and questioned them and took them back to their parents "where strong words of advice were given".
Image source, GoogleFormer Spireites striker Hines retirespublished at 15:05 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News OnlineFormer Chesterfield striker Zavon Hines has announced his retirement, which he says was the "hardest decision" of his life.
The forward, who left the Proact Stadium for Bromley in December, made his decision following medical advice.
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End of twitter postMan who attacked victim with tyre iron jailedpublished at 14:59 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
David Pittam
BBC News OnlineA Retford man who left a van driver needing surgery after attacking him with a metal bar has been jailed for 22 months.
Colin Fairweather, 24, hit his victim over the head with the tyre iron in an "unprovoked attack" before running to his car and driving off in June last year, police said.
His victim drove home but then collapsed and woke up in hospital. He needed to have part of his skull removed because it had been fractured, causing a swelling on his brain.
Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceFairweather, of Carolgate, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm as well as being in possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. He was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on 22 January.
He was also given a five-year restraining order.
Man on trial over robbery death of 100-year-oldpublished at 14:38 Greenwich Mean Time 4 February 2019
Mike O'Sullivan
Reporter, East Midlands TodayA court’s heard how a 100-year-old woman died after her neck was fractured when her handbag was snatched as she walked to church.
Artur Waszkiewicz, of Wolfa Street in Derby, has pleaded not guilty to robbing Sofia Kaczan (pictured) on 28 May last year and her manslaughter after she died on 6 June.
Derby Crown Court heard Mrs Kaczan, who was originally from Poland, was attacked shortly after she left her home in Empress Road, Normanton.
The trial continues.
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