Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Thousands of ceramic poppies, made famous after they went on display at the Tower of London in 2014, have gone on show in Derby.

Part of the display, known as the Weeping Window, is now in place at the Silk Mill and will be on show until 23 July.

"I think there is something about how this talks to the working heritage of the city," designer Tom Piper told BBC Radio Derby.

"It was the working people of the city who went out and fought... so I like the fact we're in a relationship with an industrial building."

The display also marks something of a homecoming as they were made in the city by Paul Cummins.

Chris Jones
BBC 5 live rugby union reporter in Christchurch

Leicester Tigers prop Dan Cole has been named on the bench for the British and Irish Lions' third game of their tour of New Zealand against the in-form Crusaders.

Image source, EPA

Cole, 30, played 54 minutes in the 22-16 defeat against the Blues in Auckland on Wednesday.

Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live

A new project will bring faces from Clifton in Nottingham to the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Photographer Katherine Green is putting together an exhibition on the estate's social history and is working with students from Farnborough Academy to collect pictures and documents.

Image source, Katherine Green

Ms Green said: "I am really interested in communities, particularly communities where the memory of that community goes back to the beginning."

"Clifton was built in the early 1950s, so there are still residents in Clifton who were the first residents and what I find fascinating is, with these planned communities, there was no sense of planning for social activities.

Image source, Katherine Green

"There were park spaces built, but there weren't things like community centres or churches, or meeting places."

The project is part of Creative Connections, a partnership between National Portrait Gallery, London, Nottingham Contemporary and The Farnborough Academy, Clifton.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Polling stations in the General Election have opened across the East Midlands.

Image source, Getty Images

They will close at 22:00 this evening.

This is pretty much all we can report on polling day itself as the BBC, like other broadcasters, has to follow strict guidelines not to report campaigning while voting is under way.

Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live

• There is some congestion on the M1 southbound between junctions J26 and J25 near Nottingham
• Drivers should expect some delays on the A1 southbound exit slip to the A46 near Newark
• The A38 southbound between the A610 and the junction with the A61 nearDerby is busy

Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live

Hi everyone. Hopefully there will be some sun later today.

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