Locked-down pub manager serves beer on model trainpublished at 01:03 British Summer Time 7 April 2020
Michael Purchase, 28, filmed a pint of "rail ale" travelling around his bar, courtesy of a model locomotive.
Read MoreLocked-down pub manager serves beer on model trainpublished at 01:03 British Summer Time 7 April 2020
Police officer raps coronavirus safety messagepublished at 19:14 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
The officer was filmed spitting bars while patrolling Normanton Road in the city.
Read MorePolice appeal follows 'pre-meditated' shootingpublished at 18:01 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsA man has been treated for gunshots wounds after a shooting in Leicester.
Police said the man in his 30s was shot while sitting in his car on Scraptoft Mews, Humberstone just before 17:00 on Friday. He was taken to hospital and has since been discharged.
Image source, GoogleLeicestershire Police are treating the shooting as an "isolated and pre-meditated incident".
The force said a black Volkswagen Tiguan was seen leaving Scraptoft Mews and was later found abandoned.
It is appealing for anyone that saw the car in the area at that time to get in contact with them.
Man charged following flat firepublished at 17:58 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsA 59-year-old man has been charged with arson, intent to endanger life and affray after a flat fire in Kirkby in Ashfield.
Image source, GoogleThe fire on Walesby Drive started just after 09:30 on Saturday and caused several adjoining properties to be evacuated.
Police said the arrested man also needed hospital treatment for smoke inhalation. He is due to appear at a virtual court on Tuesday.
Man attacks police after essential travel querypublished at 17:51 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
He punched two officers, knocking one out, when asked why he was getting on a train, police say.
Read MoreFlanker Thompson set to depart Tigerspublished at 16:46 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Leicester Tigers forward Guy Thompson is set to leave the club this summer when his contract expires.
Read MoreApology over 'naked rugby players' email blunderpublished at 16:35 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Eddie Bisknell
Local Democracy ReporterA reference to taking down calendars of naked rugby players, sent in error to schools, has prompted a council to apologise.
Derbyshire County Council sent an email last week about updates on its children's services facilities during lockdown.
It offered advice to staff on using video call software, such as Skype, for contact with young people who are subject to safeguarding protection measures.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe update also said: "Check your background: Make sure there's nothing unsuitable on the wall (like my friend's calendar of naked rugby players - luckily it was a colleague call!)".
Instead of just going to staff, the email also went out to schools.
The council apologised for "any offence".
Weapons seized after man stabbed in street fightpublished at 15:45 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Greig Watson
Reporter, BBC News OnlineWeapons including an axe, a hammer and a baseball bat were found near where a man was stabbed, police have said.
Officers went to Turner Lane and Manvers View in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, at about 22:00 BST on Sunday to reports of a fight.
Image source, GoogleOne man was injured and taken to the Queen's Medical Centre with stab wounds to his chest and arm pit but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Two men, aged 28 and 32, were arrested in connection with the incident and remain in police custody.
Bride ‘battles’ for refund over cancelled weddingpublished at 15:40 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Shantelle Panchal has also been asked to pay £6,000 to a hotel for a wedding that cannot take place.
Read MoreFour fox cubs separated from mother rescued from gardenpublished at 15:23 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Sonia Kataria
BBC NewsFour fox cubs have been rescued from a garden in Derbyshire.
The RSPCA said the four-week-old cubs, which were found on 25 March by a woman in her garden in Ilkeston, had been separated from their mother.
The charity said they cubs were "doing well" at the RSPCA's Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Nantwich and would be released back into the wild once they were "strong enough".
Image source, RSPCACaitlin McNaughton, an animal collection officer, said: "The woman called us after seeing the cubs in her garden and she was kind enough to keep an eye on them as we were hoping their mum would return and collect them.
"But as time passed, it was decided the best thing to do was to take them into our care.
"We are not sure what happened to mum."
Image source, RSPCAHomeless charity calls for help for asylum seekerspublished at 14:31 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Amy Orton
Local Democracy ReporterThe plight of asylum seekers in Leicester has been highlighted by a homelessness charity trying to support them.
Help the Homeless Leicester are one of the many organisations in the city trying to assist those who have fled their home country.
Arif Voraji, one of the charity's founders, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service more should be done to help people arriving here in the UK.
Quote MessageWe have had Syrian doctors who a few months ago were carrying out operations over there, living in nice houses, with good jobs and happy lives. Then one day, a bomb falls on the hospital they work at, in the home that they live in with their families and they are left with nothing."
Arif Voraji, Help the Homeless Leicester
Image source, Getty ImagesPolice appeal after two badgers found deadpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Sonia Kataria
BBC NewsTwo badgers have been found dead in Derbyshire.
The RSPCA discovered them on 21 March on Lees Lane, South Normanton, Alfreton, after information was given to them.
The Derbyshire Rural Crime Team said one had been hung from a tree and the other was discarded in a hedge bottom.
Image source, PA MediaThe team said: "It is not completely obvious how these have been killed but their injuries are not consistent with a road traffic collision."
Anyone with information has been asked to contact the police on 101.
Hundreds left without water after pipe burstspublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Severn Trent Water engineers took several hours to get water supplies restored.
Read MoreMan fined for 240-mile round trip 'to buy bread'published at 13:31 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
The man was stopped on the M1 northbound by Leicestershire Police on Sunday night.
Read MorePolice thank people for staying at homepublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Sonia Kataria
BBC NewsA police force has posted pictures of a deserted city centre this weekend after lockdown measures were introduced to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Nottinghamshire Police wrote in a Twitter post, external: "Thank you for two weeks of staying at home."
Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceIt added the photos from "usually busy" streets showed most people are following the rules.
Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceMan jailed for 'sickening' theft from nurse's carpublished at 12:39 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Liam Barnes
BBC NewsA man who stole a laptop and bank cards from a district nurse's car while she was visiting patients has been jailed for 16 weeks.
Gareth Gilson was arrested after police were called to the scene of a reported theft on Wootton Close, Bilborough, on 31 March.
The 37-year-old, of Minver Crescent in Aspley, pleaded guilty to one count of theft and five counts of fraud by false representation when appearing at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Quote MessageWe are living in an unprecedented time and NHS staff are providing vital services for the people in city and county. To think that someone would steal from someone who is putting themselves at risk every day in order to protect our residents is sickening."
Insp Gordon Fenwick, Nottinghamshire Police
Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceAppeal after chemical thrown in woman's facepublished at 12:05 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
A man was said to have thrown the liquid, believed to be a cleaning fluid or bleach, in her face.
Read MoreMotorist who crashed car into hedge arrestedpublished at 10:47 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Liam Barnes
BBC NewsA man who crashed his car into a hedge near Newark has been arrested for a string of driving offences.
Nottinghamshire Police said the 38-year-old failed to stop for officers just before hitting the shrubbery in Bathley, and was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and failing to stop for police.
Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceSmall gas fire 'lifts paving slabs from road'published at 10:36 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
Sonia Kataria
BBC NewsA gas fire under a road in Nottinghamshire this morning has caused paving slabs to lift up, police said, external.
Emergency services were called at 08:35 to Main Road, in Radcliffe-on-Trent, outside a Co-op store.
Nottinghamshire Police said no injuries have been reported and no-one had to be evacuated.
The road has been closed while emergency repairs are carried out.
Insp John Lees, of Nottinghamshire Police, said there was "no threat" to the community.
How EFL is helping communities & the NHSpublished at 10:33 British Summer Time 6 April 2020
With top-flight football under fire for its response to coronavirus, BBC Sport highlights EFL managers and players doing their bit for the NHS.
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