Latest updates: East Midlands Live Tuesday 7 August

Summary

Drunk mum jailed for killing daughter and fiance in crash
Vandals destroy poppies in Stapleford
Large plastics fire may have started in field
Third disturbance at Lowdham Grange
Man taken to hospital after 'shooting'
Rugby: Tigers make two signings
Live updates on Tuesday 7 August

Live Reporting

Gavin Bevis and Sandish Shoker

Children 'relax' at level crossingpublished at 09:18 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
Network Rail has criticised young people who "choose to ignore" warning signs at a level crossing in Rutland.
The crossing is close to the Wing Hall estate, popular for camping, and residents in nearby Uppingham say it's shocking to see the children so relaxed on the crossing.
Image source, Network Rail
Vicky Beadle, community safety manager at Network Rail, said: "Crossings are safe if they're used correctly but the problem we do have is people disregarding the safety of the railways.
"There is a gate at this crossing and these children are choosing to ignore all the signs that are there."
She said they are continuing to spend money to improve signs at crossings and run workshops in schools.
Third disturbance at Lowdham Grangepublished at 09:05 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
There's been a third outbreak of disorder at Lowdham Grange Prison in 11 days.
Serco, which runs the Nottinghamshire prison, confirmed violence broke out among a "handful" of prisoners yesterday afternoon.
A spokeswoman said it was "over in five minutes".
Image source, Getty Images
Other recent disturbances on 26 and 31 July lasted for several hours and there were reports stun grenades were used to end the violence.
Dramatic scenes in Swadlincotepublished at 08:56 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
Many of you have been sharing videos of the fire with us this morning.
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Third outbreak of disorder at prisonpublished at 08:50 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
The "small disturbance" at HMP Lowdham Grange was quickly brought under control, prison bosses say.
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Thick black smoke from fire spreadingpublished at 08:43 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
The fire service said it has been receiving a lot of calls this morning as people wake up and see the smoke from the plastics fire near Swadlincote.
In a statement it said the fire had started in a stack of plastic pallets then spread to a small building and a number of fork lift trucks.
Nearby residents have been advised to keep their windows and doors closed until the smoke subsides.
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Man taken to hospital after 'shooting'published at 08:37 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Dave Wade
BBC News
Police are investigating reports a man was shot in Kirkby-in-Ashfield last night.
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A 30-year-old man was hurt in Southwell Close at about 21:50. He has been taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
Nottinghamshire police have a significant number of officers in the area and are carrying out inquiries to find out what happened.
The English 'Godmother of Sumo'published at 08:33 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Alex Thorp
BBC News
Nottingham-born Doreen commentated on sumo wrestling in Japan up until a month before her death aged 85 in April.
Man injured in suspected shootingpublished at 08:13 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
This incident follows a suspected shooting and three shootings in Nottingham in the last two months.
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Weather for the East Midlandspublished at 08:12 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter
Yep. You guessed it. Hot and sunny again.
Smoke can be seen from miles awaypublished at 08:09 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
You can see black smoke like this across the city centre and other parts of Nottinghamshire this morning.
Nottinghamshire Fire Service say there are no fires in the region at the moment but it is possible the huge fire in Swadlincote is causing it.
Fire could take hours to put outpublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Heidi Booth
Journalist, BBC Radio Derby
Firefighters have been tackling the blaze in Swadlincote for eight hours and Incident Commander Steve Wells from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said it will probably take them the rest of the day to put it out.
Plastics fire burning for several hourspublished at 08:04 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Dave Wade
BBC News
Firefighters have been tackling a large fire involving hundreds of plastic pallets near Swadlincote since the early hours.
The fire's spread to a building and forklift trucks on the site off Occupation Lane, Albert Village.
Eight fire crews from Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire are at the scene where 100m x 100m of pallets are alight.
The smoke can be seen over a wide area.
Derbyshire Fire and Rescue were called out at about 01:20 this morning and are still at the scene.
Image source, Neil Machin
Image source, Ian
John, from Albert Village, told Radio Derby: "It's just over the field from me. I looked through the kitchen window and I thought it's going black, we're going to have a shower.
"The smoke's going right up to the sky over to Woodville, thick black smoke."
Good morning: Join us for today's updatespublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 7 August 2018
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
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