Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Police have said they're "extremely concerned" about the well-being of a 51-year-old who's gone missing from a hospital in Nottinghamshire, external.

Lee Wightman was last seen at King's Mill Hospital in Mansfield yesterday morning.

Nottinghamshire Police said officers will be conducting searches this evening for Mr Wightman, who was wearing a dark-quilted jacket and jogging bottoms when he vanished.

Image source, Nottinghamshire Police

Dean Jackson
BBC Radio Nottingham

Repairs to Kelham Bridge on the A617 near Newark have begun and are expected to continue for up to three weeks.

The busy road bridge over the River Trent was damaged in an accident last November. However, repair work has been postponed until now to take advantage of the lighter traffic volumes during the school summer holidays.

Rob Driver, from Via East Midlands - which manages the county's highways network for Nottinghamshire County Council - says the bridge will be closed to traffic from 09:00 until 16:30 each weekday while the damage is mended. Diversions are in place.

Image source, Google Maps

Hayley Compton
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

Farmers are deterring thieves by adopting medieval-style security, according to insurer NFU mutual.

As well as high-tech gadgets including motion sensors, Matthew Blant from Swingate Farm in Kimberley has been digging deep ditches around his land to keep would-be robbers out.

He also says dogs, geese and guinea fowl make brilliant security guards.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

This is what's happened to 12 pitches at Bottesford FC because of the summer's dry weather.

The Leicestershire club has today put out an appeal for volunteers to help fill in the cracks in order for their 28 teams to start training and playing for the next season.

Vice chairman Nick Dobney said: "We don't have a single pitch that is safe to play on and are scratching our heads on how to sort this out."

Image source, Bottesford FC

Mr Dobney added that teams would normally be starting training in the coming weeks and organising friendly matches.

"It [the ground] did improve a bit after the rain we had a few weeks ago but now it's started to decline again and if we don't do this they don't have a chance of playing football in the next few weeks."

He said they had ordered three or four tonnes of topsoil to add into the cracks and had started to gather a team of volunteers to help them do it this week.

Eddie Bisknell
Local Democracy Reporter

The number of children who are taught at home in Derbyshire has almost doubled in three years - but the actual figure is unknown, with many kids not registered at all.

Elective home schooling is on the rise, with the number of children being taught from home increasing from 495 in July 2015 to 808 as of July this year.

However, Derbyshire County Council says that this is "likely to be higher" because there is no legal requirement for parents or carers to notify the authority if they have chosen not to register their child or children with a school.

Image source, PA

Dave Wade
BBC News

This uninvited guest helped itself to a boy's sandwich in Bradgate Park at the weekend.

Image source, Amy Orton

The family were celebrating a birthday when one of the park's fallow deer dropped by to wish them many happy returns.

Image source, Amy Orton

BBC Weather Watchers

Mike Swain sent us this fabulous photo of this morning's dramatic sunrise in Clay Cross.

Hopefully it made the early wake-up worth it.

Image source, Mike Swain

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Remember that farm trailer that caused a mess on the A50 near Sudbury earlier? Well Derbyshire Police have shared a video of the clear-up operation.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

The search for a missing 14-year-old boy from Mansfield has entered its third day, external.

Ethan Lewis was last seen in the Forest Town area at about 15:00 on Saturday.

He was wearing a grey Nike t-shirt and black jogging bottoms when he disappeared.

Image source, Nottinghamshire Police

Police have asked anyone with information on where he could be to call 101.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

A 41-year-old man is recovering after allegedly being hit over the head with a guitar, external in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

Police said the attack happened in the Portland Square area at about 16:50 on Saturday.

A 30-year-old man from the town has been charged with assault by beating and is due to appear before magistrates on 22 August.

Image source, Google

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

The A50 is back to its best.

Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester reporter

It’s said to be the biggest housing development in the region at the moment, and the work to extend Lubbesthorpe is already making a mark in the Leicestershire countryside.

Three developers are on site already working on plans to build 4,000 new homes in the area, three new schools and community buildings.

They're years from finishing but about 160 of these homes are already occupied.

Lubbesthorpe Bridal Road, where I interviewed campaigners against the development five years ago, is no longer a tiny country lane through unspoilt countryside.

One of the original campaigners, Paul Fox, says he's continuing to fight it's impact on neighbouring communities.

"It was farmland with five farms on here. It was a nice area to walk along, very peaceful," he said.

"I appreciate things have to change and houses have to be built somewhere but If local people don't raise concerns and object then nobody else will."

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

The Press Association dispatched one of its photographers to Carsington Water yesterday to capture scenes of fun in the sun.

Looks like it was a great place to be - although we feel a bit anxious about the chap in the third picture holding his phone while larking around in the water.

Image source, PA

Image source, PA

Image source, PA

Leicester Mercury

A neighbour who confronted a thief who stole from an 88-year-old dementia sufferer's purse has been praised by a judge, external.

Severn Trent Water says it's the second pipe to burst in two years in the area and was unacceptable.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Howden Reservoir in the Peak District continues to dry out through the hot weather this summer.

Photographer Andrew Hayes shared this image from the weekend and said the area was in need of rain.

Image source, Andrew Hayes

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

This is the current scene on the A50 westbound near Sudbury after a trailer overturned earlier and several hay bales fell onto the road.

A section has been closed with traffic being diverted through Sudbury while Highways England oversees the clear-up operation.

Image source, Highways England

Image source, Highways England

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

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Sandish Shoker
BBC News

A teenager was grabbed by a man on Sunday afternoon as she walked along an alleyway in Braunstone, Leicestershire, police said.

The 18-year-old had been walking along a path that runs between Woodcote Road and Staplehurst Avenue, behind Millfield Primary School, when she was approached from behind by a man.

Image source, Google

Leicestershire Police said he had grabbed her waist and she managed to break free and run for help but had been left "distressed" by the ordeal.

Police are now appealing for anyone who saw the man, who was last seen running towards Brockenhurst Drive.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Today's BBC Sport football gossip column features fresh speculation Manchester United want to sign Leicester City's Harry Maguire.

The Foxes have also being linked with a young Brentford defender and a Juventus midfielder.

Image source, Getty Images