Inquest opens into 100-year-old mugging victim's death
Knifepoint shop robber jailed
£5m bonus for Games Workshop staff
Jobs to go as NatWest closes Leicester call centre
Suffragette house recognised on heritage list
Brownlee thanks Nottingham triathlon crowd
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Doom metal yoga has been taking place at this year's Download Festival in Castle Donington.
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Staff at fantasy miniatures maker Games Workshop have been handed a £5m bonus following a year of solid sales and profits.
Image source, Getty ImagesA total of 1,713 employees will share the payout, which Games Workshop said is in recognition of their contribution to what is expected to be another stellar set of results.
The Nottingham-based group said on Friday it expects to report an annual pre-tax profit of at least £74m - up from last year's £38.4m.
The results have also been helped by online sales and the continued popularity of tabletop game Warhammer.
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BBC News
A 53-year-old man has been arrested over a burglary in Baslow, external.
Police said a house in School Lane was broken into on Monday afternoon but the raider ran away empty-handed after being disturbed by one of the owners.
The suspect, from Ashton-Under-Lyne, has been released while investigations continue.
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Reopening Friar Gate Bridge in Derby could cost between £4m and £10m, a report has found.
The Friends of Friar Gate Bridge group is considering a variety of options to restore the former railway crossing, including turning carriages on the bridge into a restaurant or creating a mini-village of pop-up stalls, kiosks and beach huts on the bridge and surrounding land.
The group says it is due to meet with architects ahead of a bid for Heritage Lottery Funding.
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BBC Derby Sport
Gary Rowett has been speaking about his decision to leave Derby County last month to take charge of Stoke City.
He told a news conference: "There was a frustration [at Derby] that we didn't get to the promised land [the Premier League] because that was the aim and we'd worked incredibly hard all season.
"This opportunity came up and in football people, clubs, players and managers get big decisions to make.
"The decision for me was 'do I want this opportunity, do I want this challenge?' and the answer was 'yes'."
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A sofa store, with a branch in Nottinghamshire, is the latest chain to go into administration.
Image source, GoogleFabb Sofas, which has an outlet on the Giltbrook retail park and a design and development base in Long Eaton, has appointed Price Waterhouse Coopers to manage its administration.
Nottingham-based John Pye Auctions will be auctioning off all the store's stock through online auction this month and next, PWC have said.
Fabb Sofas, which was established in 2016 by ex-DFS senior management, sold sofas and chairs through its website and nine stores across the UK, all of which will be closing.
Derby City Council is to spend millions buying new homes on an estate on the edge of Derby to help reduce the housing waiting list, external.
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A blaze off Leicester's Narborough Road was in a former car maintenance workshop, the fire service has said.
Crews from Central, Western, Southern and Shepshed stations were at the scene after the fire in Briton Street was reported at about 09:10.
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Officers would like to speak to this man after two teenagers were assaulted in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Image source, Leicestershire PoliceThe boys, who were not injured, were attacked by a man in Market Street at about 18:45 on Sunday 27 May.
There may have been other people who witnessed what happened, including a woman, Leicestershire Police said.
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Police say they're concerned about the safety of a 16-year-old boy who's gone missing from his home in Chellaston, external.
Shammy Tawana Bandirai-Zikhalu has not been seen since Tuesday and is known to have links to Leicester, Loughborough, Ripley, Belper, Derby and Stoke.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 101.
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NatWest's Leicester call centre is to close with the loss of nearly 180 jobs.
Parent company RBS said its lease of Bede House, in Western Boulevard, was coming to an end and it expected to have vacated the building by the end of the year.
The Unite union said it was working with the company to minimise the number of compulsory redundancies and some alternative roles may be available in Southend.
The Leicester Mercury, which broke the news earlier, external, said NatWest currently employs about 350 staff at Bede House.
Image source, GoogleRBS said: "Customers will not be impacted but unfortunately we expect the exit of this building to result in around 179 roles being made redundant.
"We realise this is difficult news for our colleagues and we are doing everything we can to support those affected."
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A police officer has been cleared of hitting a man with a shoe in the cells at a Leicestershire police station.
Image source, GoogleIn December last year, a man was arrested for breaching a non-molestation order and taken to the cells at Beaumont Leys police station, Leicestershire Police said.
He threw his shoe at Sgt Anna Korzun, injuring her leg.
The 34-year-old received a community order for the breaching and was convicted of assaulting the officer.
However, he claimed the officer had also assaulted him with the shoe, a claim Sgt Korzun denied.
Sgt Anna Korzun, from Warwickshire, was found not guilty of one count of common assault when she appeared before magistrates in Nottingham yesterday.
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This was causing tailbacks on the A52 back to Wollaton Vale, according to Nottingham TravelWise, external, but traffic should now start to ease.
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Leicestershire's chief constable Simon Cole has accepted an offer to run the county's force for the next five years.
Police and Crime Commissioner Lord Willy Bach, who gave Mr Cole the opportunity, said he wanted to secure the services of the "inspirational" chief.
Lord Bach was technically only able to extend Mr Cole's contract by 12 months but was so keen to retain the chief he decided to offer Mr Cole five consecutive 12-month extensions to his contract at once.
Lord Bach said the move would ensure continuity of leadership in what is acknowledged as a challenging period for policing.
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Image source, Nottinghamshire PolicePolice want to speak to him after a smoke bomb was thrown on to the pitch at the end of the Notts County vs Coventry City game at Meadow Lane on 18 May.
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Leicester City complete the signing of Northern Ireland defender Jonny Evans from West Brom for £3.5m on a three-year-deal.
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Here's what Leicester City boss Claude Puel has had to say about the acquisition of defender Jonny Evans.
He said: “Jonny is a player of great experience in the Premier League and to have him as part of our squad is fantastic news for the football club.
"He knows exactly what it takes, he is a winner and a leader. He will bring a great deal to our squad and I’m delighted to welcome him to Leicester City.”
Image source, Leicester CityEvans said: "I’m happy it’s all gone through. When this opportunity came up, it’s one that I couldn’t turn down. It’s an ambitious club, the owners are ambitious and everyone wants to push the club forward."
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Charmaine Daley, from Nottingham, was receiving professional help and was on anti-depressants.
Image source, UK CoachingIn a bid to help her overcome the illness, her friends told her to give the aerobic dance workout Zumba a go.
Seven years later, Charmaine, 40, is a full-time Zumba instructor and is being celebrated on Coaching Week, external (4-10 June), a campaign which UK Coaching - the lead agency for coaching in the UK - has launched to recognise and support those who go above and beyond to help others
East Midlands Today
The home of Nottingham's first suffrage prisoner is to be officially recognised in a national heritage list of 41 sites.
Lenton Vicarage in Church Street was the home of Helen Watts who was jailed twice for her part in the suffragette movement.
She spent a month in Holloway Prison after attending a march in London and was later sent to Leicester Prison for disorderly conduct.
Prof Krista Cowman, an expert in the suffragette movement from the University of Lincoln, said: "Because she goes to prison she becomes quite famous. She then becomes a really popular speaker and she goes all over the East Midlands speaking for suffrage.
"It's women like this in the regions that really keep the campaign going. The leaders in London are important but the backbone of the movement is out there in the regions."
All 41 locations recognised on the Historic England list, external were already listed buildings but until now there was no record of their suffragette history on the National Heritage List for England.
