Summary

  • Live updates for Thursday 27 July 2017

  • Man arrested over child abduction scare

  • Lorry's bodged 'Blue Peter' windscreen

  • Third cash machine ram-raid in weeks

  • Coping with daughter's murder 'not easy'

  • Deadly air raid remembered 75 years on

Live Reporting

Maryam Qaiser and Amy Woodfield

  1. Homes evacuated after 'explosion'

    Amy Woodfield
    BBC Local Live

    Police have been dealing with an "explosion" at Whaley Bridge.

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    A few houses were evacuated overnight for "residents' safety" but no-one has been injured, according to officers.

    The area has been made safe and the outer cordon has now been removed.

  2. Prison 'did not monitor suicidal inmate'

    Amy Woodfield
    BBC Local Live

    A prisoner found hanged in his cell at the Glen Parva young offenders' institution should have been monitored as a suicide risk, according to a report.

    Jamie Roberts had been sentenced to four years for theft in 2014 and received a further 15 months for wounding with intent.

    HMP Glen Parva

    Despite telling drug and alcohol staff and a mental health nurse he had suicidal thoughts, procedures to monitor him had been stopped in July last year. The following month the 24-year-old was found dead.

    The prison has now closed for redevelopment. A government spokesperson said they had acted on the recommendations.

    HMP Glen Parva accepted and addressed the recommendations made by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman prior to its closure in June 2017. The safety and welfare of people within our custody is our top priority. We are putting more funding into prison safety and are implementing a range of initiatives to reduce levels of self-inflicted death, self-harm and violence across all establishments.”

    Government spokesperson

  3. Travel: updates from across your region

    Maryam Qaiser
    BBC Local Live

    • The A453 southbound between the M1 and the A42 near Nottingham is busy this morning
    • There are some delays on the A5 northbound between the M69 and the A47 near Hinckley

  4. Tribute to Derby air raid victims

    Amy Woodfield
    BBC Local Live

    The 23 people who died when a German bomber targeted Rolls-Royce in Derby during the Second World War will be commemorated later.

    Workers and civilians died during the Luftwaffe raid on the aero-engine works in Nightingale Road in the city 75 years ago.

    Air raid in DerbyOther

    A memorial is going to be unveiled in the garden behind the Marble Hall.

    Memorial

    A New Zealand man whose mother died during the air raid will be a special guest at a ceremony.

    Harold Franklin told the BBC he was four and his sister was two at the time. He said their mother told them to hide behind an armchair while she went to warn a neighbour about the air raid - she was then killed.

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    Maryam Qaiser
    BBC Local Live

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