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Derby City Council's likely to have to fund the shortfall in its A52 roadworks project itself.

The work at the Wyvern is expected to cost twice as much as first predicted.

The council said other organisations who helped fund the original £15m are unlikely to make any more money available.

The council is to take £7.7m from its own reserves to keep the project going in the short term.

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Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Today's BBC Sport football gossip column features newspaper speculation that Leicester City are keen to recruit Man City's young winger Patrick Roberts as part of a deal that would see Riyad Mahrez move to the Etihad.

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Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Work has started to remove a digger from Middleton Boulevard in Nottingham after it fell from a truck during a crash.

Looks like the machine is a little too big to take out in one piece...

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Drivers have been warned roads in the Castle Donington area are likely to be very busy over the next few days because of the Download Festival at Donington Park, external.

About 60,000 rock fans will be heading to the site for the event and motorists have been urged to allow extra time for journeys - especially when heading to catch flights from East Midlands Airport.

Festival organisers have been running a campaign encouraging people to travel to Download by bus, coach or train but Leicestershire Police say delays remain likely from Wednesday to Monday.

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Sarah Redfearn, from Highways England, said: “Major roads and motorways in the area, including the M1, A42, A50 and A453, are likely to be busy.

“All routes to the festival will be well signposted, but people travelling in the area should plan their journey in advance."

Derby Telegraph

A Derby businessman has been ordered to pay more than £9,000 by the courts for illegal tooth whitening, external.

A loud blast was heard shortly after the blaze took hold of a six-storey block of flats.

Amy Orton
Local Democracy Reporter

People across Leicestershire have overwhelmingly called for school term and holiday dates to remain the same in the county.

More than 6,000 people responded to a Leicestershire County Council consultation which asked parents, carers, teachers and members of the public for their views on three suggested options for autumn 2019 onwards, one of which aligned with the dates for Leicester city schools.

However, cabinet members will be told next week that 71% of the people who had their say were in favour of remaining with Leicestershire's traditional pattern of early autumn and spring breaks at half-term, with the summer holiday break including the last two weeks of July.

A term-time pattern based on Leicester City Council's arrangements from autumn 2019 received 22% support, with 6% favouring an alternative pattern with a later autumn and spring half-term and 1% of respondents not expressing a preference.

Councillors will discuss the consultation and feedback at a cabinet meeting next week.

Leicester Mercury

A drunken attacker punched a student causing him to bang his head and suffer bruising to his brain, a court heard, external.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

A 32-year-old has been found guilty of raping a woman in Derby as she walked home from a night out, external.

Police said Ion Nastase, of Derby Road, Derby, subjected a 41-year-old woman to a "brutal and callous" attack in Harriet Street, Rose Hill, in October 2016.

He was found guilty at Derby Crown Court of two counts of rape and admitted one count of burglary.

He's due to be sentenced at the same court next week.

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Dave Wade
BBC News

A man who was arrested yesterday after a suspicious item was found in a car remains in police custody today.

Houses were evacuated and roads were closed around the car in Huntingdon Road in Leicester after the item was found at about 08:30.

The bomb squad examined the item and took it away for further testing.

The 26-year-old who was arrested remains in police custody.

The incident is not being treated as terror-related.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

The fire service says yesterday's blaze at a building in Friar Gate in Derby was probably started accidentally by workmen carrying out hot work on the roof.

The fire, at Norman House, sent a thick black plume of smoke into the air and brought traffic to a standstill as fire crews worked to put it out.

A fire service spokesman said the building had been turned back over to the site management team following the conclusion of its investigation into the cause.

He added a firefighter who picked up minor injuries while tackling the blaze is "completely fine" now.

Dave Wade
BBC News

Highways England has re-opened the A52 eastbound, saying the bridge is safe to be used by traffic.

Middleton Boulevard, however, remains closed while the digger is recovered.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

A man who died in a crash on the A38 in Cornwall during the recent bank holiday weekend has been named as 72-year-old Michael Ryan from Nottingham.

The Land Rover driver died when his vehicle and a Volvo flatbed lorry collided on the A38 at Newbridge Cross, in the Glynn Valley near Bodmin, at about 11:15 on Monday 28 May

He was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin were informed and formal identification took place.

A female passenger in the Land Rover was airlifted to hospital in Plymouth with non-life-threatening injuries.

Inquiries were continuing into the cause of the crash, police said, external.

Dave Wade
BBC News

Here's a close-up of the damage to the bridge over Middleton Boulevard in Nottingham where a lorry carrying a digger crashed earlier.

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As well as the southbound A6514 being closed at the QMC, Highways England has also shut the A52 eastbound.

Dave Wade
BBC News

A pair of kestrels that have been nesting at the University of Loughborough for five years have hatched four chicks.

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A nest box has been set up at the university's Science and Enterprise Park with a live webcam., external

The eggs hatched on 25 May, according to the university.

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Senior arborist Mark Hillman said: "The chicks are starting to get their first feathers, that’s why they are preening so much.

"We will start to see the new feathers showing through the fluff in the next day or so."

He said they'll be ready to leave the nest in a couple of weeks.

Dave Wade
BBC News

It's after the lorry carrying a digger hit the underpass bridge on Middleton Boulevard this morning.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Former Derby County defender Michael Johnson has been named as the new head coach of Guyana, external.

It's the first managerial job for the 44-year-old, who will keep his role as a club ambassador for the Rams.

Guyana sit 164th in the world rankings and have never qualified for a major tournament.

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Hayley Compton
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

Police have told me a bridge in Nottingham which was hit by a lorry carrying a digger this morning will have to be repaired.

It happened on Middleton Boulevard near the Queen's Medical Centre during rush hour.

Currently it looks like they're making it secure by pulling debris out.

Recovery of the digger is going to take time because of its size and location.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Plans for a major extension for a row of shops in the heart of Derby have been approved by the city council.

Developers want to build 48 flats above existing buildings at the junction of St Peter's Street and East Street.

The council said: "The proposed apartment scheme involving extensions and alterations above and to the facades of the Audley Centre would form a high quality residential development in the city centre, delivering much needed new housing and regeneration benefits."

The authority said the new apartments would be "car free", with no parking or vehicle access included in the plans.

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Dave Wade
BBC News

A bench dedicated to the memory of a pub-goer who recently died has been stolen the day after it was unveiled.

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Regulars at the Seven Stars, in Church Street, Riddings, had purchased the bench and placed it outside the pub on Sunday 27 May.

At about 07.50 the next day, the bench was taken.

Derbyshire Police have released a picture of a group of men seen near the venue at the time who they would like to speak to.