Latest updates: East Midlands Live on Monday 12 June 2017

Summary

Live updates for Monday 12 June 2017
Soccerdome fire 'started deliberately'
Warning to secure bicycles
Visitor centre opens at Gedling Country Park
Loughborough beaten by Wasps in final
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Tuesday

Live Reporting

Amy Woodfield and Maryam Qaiser

Cricket: Ball misses out on England place to focus on day/night practicepublished at 13:24 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
BBC Sport
Nottinghamshire opener Alex Hales has been named in England's 16-man squad for their T20 series against South Africa.
Image source, Stu Forster/Getty Images
Hales' county colleague Jake Ball has been left out so he can play in the round of day/night County Championship fixtures at the end of the month.
England play West Indies in their first ever day/night test match in August.
Ken Clarke: Rushcliffe MP set for role in opening of new Parliamentpublished at 13:21 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live
The re-elected MP for Rushcliffe, Ken Clarke, now has an important role to fulfill at the beginning of this new Parliament.
Mr Clarke, in his role as father of the House, will preside over the election of a Speaker.
The former Speaker, John Bercow, is not expected to face a challenge and will give a speech of thanks before being congratulated by senior figures.
Errol Christie: Tributes to 'hugely talented' boxing champpublished at 13:07 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
BBC News England
Frank Bruno has led tributes to champion boxer Errol Christie (pictured left), who has died after battling lung cancer.
Image source, GETTY/MIKE POWELL /ALLSPORT
The Leicester-born former European middleweight title winner's death was announced on Sunday by his nephew, Derby and Republic of Ireland footballer Cyrus Christie.
Bruno said he was "very, very saddened" to hear about the death of such a talented man. Chris Eubank described him, external as "one of the old masters".
Christie, 54, is the only Briton to win 10 amateur titles.
Image source, Twitter/@cyruschristie
Robot mower stolenpublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
This electric robot mower has been stolen from a showroom in Hinckley...
Image source, Leicestershire Police
It had been on display at Farol Limited on Coventry Road - it was taken at about 12:30 on Wednesday 7 June.
The mowers sell online for about £2,000.
Your photos: Floral East Midlandspublished at 12:13 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
BBC Weather Watchers
Our Weather Watchers have been out in the East Midlands with their cameras this weekend capturing some beautiful floral photos.
This was taken by scrappy in Hathern...
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This was taken in Warsop by Annbie...
Image source, Annbie
This was taken by bry in Ilkeston...
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Afternoon weather updatepublished at 12:02 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Plenty of cloud around throughout the afternoon with only a few brighter spells.
Breezy with a high pollen count and top temperatures of 18C (64F).
Watch: Police play football at Downloadpublished at 11:34 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Neil Heath
BBC News Online
You may have seen the stories over the weekend about armed police at Download Festival - well revelers and officers were determined it would be a friendly atmosphere.
As well as stopping for dozens of selfies, officers took on party-goers in a game of football. What a goal...
Leicestershire Police said armed officers were at the rock festival, at Castle Donington, in light of the attacks in Manchester and London.
About 80,000 people attended the event over the weekend which saw performances from System of a Down, Every Time I Die, Rob Zombie, Biffy Clyro and Aerosmith.
Image source, PAULO GONÇALVES / DOWNLOAD 2017
Image source, Leicestershire Police
Chris Leslie a 'sad, lonely, bitter man'published at 11:34 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
BBC Radio 5 live
There has been further criticism of Chris Leslie, Nottingham East's re-elected MP, after he said he "can't be a cheerleader" for Thursday's general election result.
Fellow Labour MP Clive Lewis described Mr Leslie as a "sad, lonely bitter man"...
Download Festival closes with Aerosmithpublished at 11:16 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
About 80,000 people attended the festival over the weekend.
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Watch: Pitch inspection at Grace Roadpublished at 10:48 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Richard Rae
BBC Radio Leicester Sport
I've been taking a look at the pitch ahead of day four between Sussex and Leicestershire...
You can listen to ball-by-ball commentary on the BBC here.
Council to spend extra £1m on potholespublished at 10:35 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
An extra £1m will be spend on repairing potholes in the county.
Nottinghamshire County Council is hoping to fill 19,000 before the end of March next year.
They currently spend around £2.5m on pothole road repairs - around half of which comes from the government.
The extra funding boost will come from underspent budgets from the last financial year.
The council said this means it won't affect spending in other areas but it will mean less will go into the council's reserves.
Open letter urges MP to stop criticising Jeremy Corbynpublished at 10:26 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Kevin Stanley
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
More than 400 members of the Labour Party have told the Nottingham East MP Chris Leslie to stop publicly criticising Jeremy Corbyn.
Grassroots supporters, local councillors and political activists are among those who've signed an open letter urging Mr Leslie to confine his personal views to discussions within the party.
It's after he told Radio 4 on Saturday that, despite the gains, Labour "can't pretend" it won the election...
Mr Leslie was re-elected in Nottingham East for the Labour Party with a increased majority of over 19,000.
Nottingham City Councillor Adele Williams is one of the signatories.
She said: "We got the biggest swing to Labour since Clement Attlee. Once Jeremy Corbyn had a fair hearing in the media throughout the election campagin, we were able to achieve that swing. If you look at the polls now we are on 45% and the Tories are on 39%.
"What we would like to see is a clear endorsement from Chris because he is a Labour MP and in fact the increase majority that we see in seats like Nottingham East is in very large part to do with inspiration that Jeremy Corbyn has offered."
'Leavers' vote Tory in General Electionpublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter
Not totally surprising but Derbyshire constituencies which voted most strongly to Leave in 2016 tended to see bigger increases in Conservative vote share last week...
CCTV shows trampoline park arsonpublished at 09:55 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
Police have released these CCTV images of an arson at a trampoline park in Derby last Friday...
Image source, Derbyshire Constabulary
Image source, Derbyshire Constabulary
They want to speak to the man seen in the footage - it's thought he may have suffered burns.
It happened between 01:30 and 02:30 in the Oxygen Freejumping building at Pride Park.
Netball: Loughborough beaten by Wasps in finalpublished at 09:13 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
Loughborough Lightning have finished as runners up in the Netball SuperLeague - it's after a "heart breaking" defeat to Wasps in the Play-Off Final yesterday.
They lost 55-51 at the Barclaycard Arena.
Image source, Loughborough University
The team had won all but one of their matches this season and were the first side to confirm their place in the play-offs with five games to spare.
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Getting the win tonight would have been the icing on the cake and it would’ve been nice to be recognised a little bit more for being league winners and for being so consistent. But that’s how finals netball works. It’s a one-off game and we just didn’t quite match up. I’m still so proud of the squad this year in all that we’ve achieved.”
Karen Atkinson, Head coach, Loughborough Lightning
Visitor centre opens at Gedling Country Parkpublished at 09:11 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
A £1.2 million visitor centre will open at Gedling Country Park today.
The centre, which took nine months to complete, has a cafe and outdoor seating area and coincides with the build of a £120,000 children's play area.
The centre is shaped like a piece of coal, reflecting the site's previous life as a pit.
Brian Osborne, from the Friends of Gedling Country Park, says the group is keen to introduce old craft classes at the centre.
Mr Osborne said: "Nottinghamshire was the centre of willow weaving in the UK and we are going to start willow weaving class as soon as we have taught ourselves."
The centre is part of the £1.6 million Gedling Country Park, which officially opened in March 2015.
Warning to secure bicycles ahead of Bike Weekpublished at 08:49 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
It's time to get your bike out of the shed and dust off the cobwebs - it's Bike Week.
The focus week is organised by Cycling UK which is encouraging more people to take to the saddle.
However you might want to make sure you have a secure lock before you take it out. Figures show bike thefts are a huge problem in the East Midlands.
More than 1,500 were reported stolen in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in the first four months of this year.
Primary school and nursery reopens after water damagepublished at 08:45 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
A school in Nottingham will reopen today after it was forced to close following a fire.
Holygate Primary School and Nursery in Hucknall closed for an extra week after half term because of water damage caused by the sprinkler system.
Headteacher Nicola Davies said the fire was not related to the maintenance or construction of the school building.
Soccerdome fire 'started deliberately'published at 08:43 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
Soccerdome in Derby remains closed following a fire on Friday morning...
The chief executive of trampoline park Oxygen Freejumping David Stalker said the fire was started deliberately and that he has CCTV footage of someone doing it.
He said the park, based in the Soccerdome building in Pride Park, could be closed for months and may have to be rebuilt.
Police and the fire service are investigating the blaze.
Watch: East Midlands weather forecastpublished at 08:27 British Summer Time 12 June 2017
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Should be a fine start to the week.