Summary

  • Man jailed for at least 20 years for killing toddler

  • Girl, 9, speaks at global conference on glasses campaign

  • Large caravan park blaze 'deliberate'

  • Driver's near miss with overtaking lorry

  • Council promises it is not closing centre

  • Driver who ran over PC 'feared for life'

  • Clumber Park 'most visited' East Midlands' tourist attraction

  • Updates for Friday 29 March

  1. East Midlands' most visited tourist attraction revealedpublished at 08:02 Greenwich Mean Time 29 March 2019

    David Pittam
    BBC News Online

    All this warm weather may have got you thinking about easy days out.

    Well if popularity is anything to go by this group's survey might help.

    The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions has ranked visitor numbers at the East Midlands' top attractions and Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire came out on top, with more than 650,000 people making the trip in 2018.

    Clumber Park

    That puts it 59th out of 249 across the country

    The Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire was the second most visited site in the region.

  2. Join us for today's live coveragepublished at 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time 29 March 2019

    David Pittam
    BBC News Online

    Welcome to another sunny day across most of the East Midlands.

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