Sandish Shoker
BBC News

A community nurse who claimed she had been unfairly dismissed because of whistleblowing about wages and unpaid holiday pay has had her tribunal case thrown out.

Jane Beresford, who was employed by the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, made various complaints against them including about how she was treated and sacked from the job.

A tribunal heard Miss Beresford was employed in August 2016 on the basis she had a car, as it was a requirement of her role to visit clinics and make home visits.

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However, she lied about this and was unable to provide her manager with relevant insurance and MOT documents for several weeks.

The hearing found after several days in the job, staff expressed concerns about Miss Beresford’s demeanour and behaviour in front of patients - and about her hearing and memory.

It also heard how she had disappeared one afternoon without approval and did not return to work the following day. It was then colleagues discovered the address she had given during her employment had been false.

She was dismissed from her job for gross misconduct in November 2016.

The employment judge in the case said: "The reality is that the alleged whistleblowing has been little more than a legal peg with which the claimant has used to ventilate her various grievances about the trust.

"Clearly, her pride was hurt but these proceedings were not the solution."

The judge ordered her to pay £230 in costs to the trust.

Nottinghamshire bowler Luke Fletcher signs a new two-year contract to extend his stay at Trent Bridge into a 13th and 14th season.

Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter

It will be dry but cloudy this morning.

The cloud should break by the afternoon to allow sunny spells to develop, and it will feel fairly warm with temperatures of 22 to 25C (72 to 77F).

Expect lots of sunshine and warm temperatures over the weekend too, as it hits highs of 28C (82F) on Sunday.

Ron Minton travelled in a World War Two Jeep to unveil a Commonwealth War Graves Commission plaque.

Derbyshire batsman Tom Lace is ruled out for the rest of the season with a broken finger.

While his dad was in hospital the 15-year-old carried on with his GCSE exams despite his injuries.

Liam Barnes
BBC News

The southbound M1 is fully open again between junctions 26 and 27 after a vehicle fire saw two lanes closed.

Highways England says delays in the area are running at about 20 minutes.

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The school's assistant principal says she was "an idiot" for not spotting the spelling mistake.

Liam Barnes
BBC News

A vehicle fire has seen two lanes of the southbound M1 closed between junctions 26 and 27.

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Highways England said police are on the scene, but warned motorists to expect delays in the area.

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The medal was one of 34 awards given to Lucy Morton which were sold in Thursday's auction.

Liam Barnes
BBC News

A Derby local is one of 16 finalists in the running to be crowned as the best pub in the UK.

The Smithfield is on the Campaign for Real Ale's (Camra's) list of contenders for the title of Pub of the Year, with the overall winner set to be announced in February.

It's already won the title for the organisation's Derby branch for 2018 and 2019.

Camra described the pub as "a handsome riverside pub" that places "a strong emphasis on new breweries and a good selection of craft keg beer".

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Kit Sandeman
Local Democracy Reporter

The former leader of Broxtowe Borough Council received a court summons after failing to pay council tax, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

Conservative councillor Richard Jackson is also a county councillor and chairman of its finance committee and was summoned for a bill of £1,378.61 in the current tax year.

He said the non-payment related to a "void period between tenants" in a property he rents out but he paid it in full as soon as he was aware.

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Councillor Teresa Cullen, who represents Beeston Rylands for Labour, also received a court summons for the sum of £1,798.15.

She said there had been some confusion after she closed her direct debit and paid her bill in cash in a protest over Conservatives closing the council's cash offices.

"It started as my effort to make a protest but it backfired – I got hoisted by my own petard," she said.

She has since returned to direct debit payments.

A spokesman for the borough council said: "All residents are expected to pay their council tax and the council will take appropriate recovery action against those who do not."

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Motorists and rail passengers are being urged to plan their journeys over the bank holiday weekend to avoid long delays.

Upgrade work is expected to affect East Midlands Railway's Lincoln services in and out of Leicester and Nottingham.

Network Rail warned there could be severe disruption to services across the country over the weekend as they carry out 448 engineering projects.

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It said these works take place over bank holidays as "far fewer people" use the railway at those times compared with a normal working day.

Meanwhile, according to research by the RAC, the worst time for traffic jams is expected to be between 11:00 and 18:30 on Friday - as five million drivers embark on holidays or day trips.

It advised people to travel after 21:00 to avoid severe queues.

A 27-year-old man appeared before magistrates today.

Liam Barnes
BBC News

The identity of a man whose body was recovered from a dam near Chesterfield has been confirmed.

Derbyshire Police issued an appeal for information after finding the body in Walton Dam on Tuesday, and were then contacted by a neighbour of a 74-year-old, who lived in Ashgate and had not been seen for days.

Officers traced his family, and a relative confirmed it was the missing man.

A force spokesman said the death of the man, who police have not named publicly, is not believed to be suspicious, and a file has been passed to the coroner's office.

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Alex Regan
BBC News

HMP Nottingham is the most violent of 10 "challenging prisons" in England and Wales, according to new Ministry of Justice statistics.

The jail was part of the 10 Prisons Project, which saw £10m spent on the correctional facilities.

Despite eight of the 10 prisons seeing a reduction in violence and drug use, HMP Nottingham saw violence increase.

The Category B prison topped the bill for the largest number of recorded assaults over 11 months between 2018 and 2019, with 562 in total. The median average was 50 a month.

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Former prisons minister Rory Stewart previously said he would resign if he had not managed to reduce drugs and violence in all 10 prisons.

The report comes after an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) report found there were still "very significant" problems at the jail.

In the year covered by the IMB report, four inmates are thought to have been killed or killed themselves.

Luke Wood rejects a new deal at boyhood club Nottinghamshire to sign for Lancashire.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Matt Piper was once a top flight footballer playing for Leicester City and Sunderland, but his career was cut short because of injuries.

Talking to BBC Radio Leicester, he said he became depressed and turned to alcohol, getting through more than a litre of whiskey a day and mixing it with valium.

"I was thinking this is ridiculous, but by then it's become more than a habit. It's an addiction and you have a drinking problem," he said.

The 37-year-old said he knew he needed help when his fiancé had left and was refusing him access to his children, and he was taken into hospital.

"I was at the point I felt I had nothing to live for," he said. "That was definitely rock bottom.

"It makes me feel ashamed when I'm saying it, but that is the stigma of it."

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Press Association

Hundreds of computer staff at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have today launched a month-long strike in a dispute over pay.

Staff based in Nottingham and Swansea, who are members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), are in dispute over out-of-hours working payments, overtime pay and a claimed lack of consultation from management.

The union said the strike will affect maintenance of IT systems used to book and allocate driving tests, incident management and training of new staff.

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Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: "This dispute has been going on three years and members have had enough.

"For anyone to take strike action is courageous, but for members to take four weeks of action shows the strength of feeling amongst staff."

Greig Watson
Reporter, BBC News Online

Exactly 534 years ago, on 22 August 1485, the destiny of England changed with the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.

It ended the Plantagenet dynasty, which had ruled for more than 300 years, and saw the dawn of the Tudor era.

Richard's lost bones were found under a Leicester car park in 2012.

A Richard III visitor centre, complete with a cinematic recreation of the battle, now stands on the site.