Latest updates: East Midlands Live Monday 20 May

Summary

Syria trip pair jailed for terror charges
Loan firm 'duped' mum out of benefits
'Large shop fire' in Sandiacre
Woman donates £1,500 to help pug breathe
Nottingham congestion 'not reduced' by parking levy
More women on Nottingham City Council cabinet than men
Live updates for Monday 20 May

Live Reporting

Amy Woodfield and Nick Smith

Firefighters take on dawn to dusk cycling challengepublished at 14:11 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
A team of Leicestershire firefighters are preparing to cycle 200 miles in memory of a colleague who died while on duty in 2016.
The 14 firefighters will travel from Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear to Prestwick in Scotland in the Chase the Sun challenge.
Image source, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Before his death, Paul Wilkens suggested the event to his colleagues in the cycling club but sadly he never got to take part.
The 47-year-old was found dead while on duty at a fire station in what Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service called a "sudden and tragic loss".
Image source, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
The Chase the Sun challenge is now a "tradition" for the cycling club as a way of remembering Paul and raising money for charity.
House fire in Burbage closes roadpublished at 14:10 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Emergency services are dealing with a house fire in Burbage.
Firefighters were called to the blaze on Lutterworth Road just before 13:30 - on arrival crews confirmed a property was "fully involved in fire".
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service has said all people are accounted for. Police are also at the scene and have closed the road.
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Syria trip pair jailed for terror chargespublished at 14:04 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Sonia Kataria
BBC News
Two men found guilty of trying to get into Islamic State-controlled Syria to commit terrorist acts have been jailed for 14 years.
Hanzalah Patel, 23 and Safwaan Mansur, 23, were arrested at an Istanbul hotel in June 2017 after contacting a US agent posing as an IS sympathiser.
Image source, West Midlands Police
The pair, who denied preparation of terrorist acts, claimed the talk was just "thoughts and banter".
Patel, from Leicester, and Mansur, from Birmingham, were given 14 years in prison at Birmingham Crown Court.
They were also sentenced to 12 months on extended licence.
A38 closed after lorry crashpublished at 13:46 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
A driver was freed from a lorry after a crash on the A38 northbound this morning.
Two lorries were involved in the collision near Somercotes at 11:05 and clean-up and recovery work is currently under way.
One of the drivers has been taken to Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre but there are not believed to be any serious injuries.
Heavy traffic is expected in the area, with queues stretching back past the A610 junction.
Image source, Derbyshire Police
Arrest made after man knocked outpublished at 13:41 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
A man has been arrested after another man was knocked unconscious in Gringley on the Hill this weekend.
A 34-year-old man was punched in the head in Laycock Avenue at about 00:40 on Saturday.
He remains in hospital but his injuries are not believed to be life-altering, police said.
The man arrested, 39, has been released on bail pending further inquiries.
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Appeal to find medals left on buspublished at 13:08 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
A bag of military campaign medals has been left on a bus between Derby and Nottingham.
The Royal British Legion bag was left on the YourBus Y5 service in Chaddesden on Wednesday 17 April.
Image source, Derbyshire Police
A man was later seen leaving the bus in Attenborough carrying a similar bag but the medals have not yet been handed in.
There are seven medals missing including at least two WWII stars and two Korea Medals. They're believed to be replacements and might not have the owner's service details on them.
Derbyshire Police would like to speak to the man seen in this picture.
Council 'pulling out all the stops' to reopen bridgepublished at 12:50 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
This was the moment a temporary, steel bridge was put into place over the B5056 near Brassington.
The original bridge was demolished after it was hit by a lorry last month.
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The absence of a bridge has caused disruption to the High Peak Trail but it is due to reopen by the weekend.
Derbyshire County Council has said plans to rebuild a permanent bridge are being drawn up.
Community helps underused church to reopenpublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
BBC Radio Derby
A church and community centre in Fritchley has officially reopened after being closed for more than a year.
It had to shut due to dwindling congregation numbers - this also meant the village hall was out of action.
Local people have rallied around to get Fritchley Congregational Church back up and running again and now have a year to prove it's being used.
Ian Chinn was one of those who helped get the church open again - he said: "We're going to take more care of the church and the hall in the village because everyone had an assumption that it was booming along happily with no risk.
"People find other things to do on a Sunday - watch the football or stay in bed a bit longer. So one of the first things we've done is the service won't be in the morning anymore. They'll be at 14:30 in the afternoon."
More women on council cabinet than menpublished at 11:38 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Nottingham City Council now has more female cabinet members than male for the first time.
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New World Record for Paralympic sprinterpublished at 11:35 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
BBC Leicester Sport
Loughborough's Paralympic 100 metre champion Sophie Hahn has broken her own world record.
The 22-year-old was running in the T38 event yesterday for only the third time this season, and clocked a time of 12.43 seconds.
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Loan firm 'duped' mum out of benefitspublished at 11:22 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Mum-of-three Alishia Curry says a loan company claimed her Universal Credit payments.
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Driver hits two trees at 'ridiculous speed'published at 11:20 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Police are still looking for the driver of this car, which crashed on Saffron Lane in Leicester on Saturday.
Image source, Leicestershire Police
Police have said the man lost control and hit two trees "at a ridiculous speed".
He fled the scene leaving his female passenger trapped in the car - fortunately she only had minor injuries.
Image source, Leicestershire Police
Leicestershire Police said: "The driver will be dealt with when we find him."
Royal Mail to install parcel postbox in Nottinghampublished at 10:52 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
BBC Business News
Nottingham has been selected to host one of the UK's first-ever parcel postboxes.
Royal Mail said it will install 1,400 of the boxes areound the country over a six-month period starting in August.
Image source, Royal Mail
Customers will be able to post parcels in the same way that they currently post a letter, provided that postage has been pre-paid using Royal Mail's own online labelling service.
Existing letter postboxes were introduced in the 1850s and Royal Mail said the new move represented the first major change in the system since then.
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Cricket: First class cricket returns to Isle of Wightpublished at 10:37 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
BBC Nottingham Sport
Nottinghamshire are making cricket history on the Isle of Wight.
They are playing Hampshire in the County Championship returning first class cricket to the island for the first time since 1962.
The four-day match gets under way soon and is the first to be played at the Newclose Cricket Club.
Notts will be looking for their first win of the season - so far they've drawn one and lost two.
Travel disruption caused by shop firepublished at 10:20 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Police are also at the scene of a shop fire in Sandiacre. The closure of Station Road is causing some travel disruption.
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Man left with dislocated jaw after bottle assaultpublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
A man has suffered a fractured cheekbone and dislocated jaw after being hit with a bottle in Newark.
Police said the serious assault happened outside The Barge pub, in The Wharf, at about 18:15 last Monday.
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A 23-year-old man has been arrested and charged with causing grievous bodily harm but police have said they want to speak to a second man about what happened.
They are appealing for anyone with information about what happened to come forward.
Investigation into dumping of dangerous asbestospublished at 09:35 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
East Midlands Today
Asbestos found dumped in Nottinghamshire on Friday was the most dangerous kind of the material, it has been revealed.
It was discovered on the B6034 Ollerton Road between Worksop and Budby - the road remains closed while it is safely cleared.
Bassetlaw District Council has said it'll be doing all it can to find and prosecute those responsible.
'Large shop fire' in Sandiacrepublished at 09:28 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Fire crews are in Sandiacre where a shop is alight.
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Call for traffic-free cyclewaypublished at 09:11 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
East Midlands Today
More than 150 cyclists rode out to show support for a proposed cycle route between Derby and Baslow at the weekend.
Campaigners are calling on Derbyshire County Council and the Local Enterprise Partnership to support their bid for the off-road pathway which would cost an estimated £10m.
Derek Latham, from the Derwent Valley Trust, said: "What we want next is to get the feasibility study to be able to design it in detail and agree it with the owners.
"Then we're in a very clear position to make a bid to government for the money and we will better know then how much it's going to cost exactly."
Woman donates £1,500 to help pug breathepublished at 09:09 British Summer Time 20 May 2019
A social media appeal raised the money for an operation on five-year-old Saffie.
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