Amy Woodfield
BBC News

Police have been given extra time to question four men after a gun was fired in Nottingham.

So far nine people have been arrested after shots were heard on Hazel Hill Crescent in the Bestwood Park area on 23 May.

Three of the men were arrested on Wednesday and another was arrested yesterday.

Four other men, arrested on Tuesday, are still being questioned after police were given extra time yesterday.

A ninth person, a 16-year-old boy arrested yesterday, also remains in police custody.

Eddie Bisknell
Local Democracy Reporter

Derbyshire County Council aims to have a new "preferred option" on plans to build an Ashbourne bypass by early 2020.

Going back to the drawing board will cost the county council at least £750,000.

The extra money and proposed deadline will be discussed at a meeting of the authority's cabinet on 6 June.

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This comes four months after the authority confessed that it was disappointed and dismayed that its plans to solve Ashbourne's long-running traffic problems with a bypass had not been given government support.

The council hopes to divert the A515 around to the west of Ashbourne to take hundreds of HGVs - and endless congestion - out of the town centre.

The county council has already spent £344,000 on collecting traffic data around Ashbourne to support the bypass project.

Following the failed pitch for government funding the council has been focusing on building a "time-consuming" business case fit to meet government grant standards.

It is to devise a new model for ensuring that its projects stand up to high-level scrutiny.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at Trent Bridge

There have been several complaints today because large numbers of people missed the start of the play at Trent Bridge due to long queues at the ticket collection points.

Organisers said a full refund will be automatically provided to all fans who entered after 10:30.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

As the West Indies won their first match in the Cricket World Cup at Trent Bridge, another big sporting name was in Nottingham's Market Square.

Jamaican Olympic sprinter Yohan Blake was at the Fan Zone to play with some young cricket fans.

The athlete, who won 100m and 200m silver at the 2012 London Olympics, behind teammate Usain Bolt, told BBC East Midlands Today he's hoping to take up cricket as a sport next.

"I want to play some cricket in India. This is my first love," he said.

"I still love the sport - that's why I asked the ICC to bring me here to play with the kids and I'll look out for Chris [Gayle] later."

Adam Crookes signs a permanent deal at Vale Park after being released by Nottingham Forest

Amy Woodfield
BBC News

There are plans to spend an extra £7m on building, as well as buying, properties in Leicester which can be turned into affordable rented homes.

The city council claims about 786 new affordable homes are needed each year but only about 146 are secured.

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Leicester City Council will use the money to buy some privately-owned homes, including blocks of flats and rows of houses.

It's the latest stage of a longer-term project to provide 1,500 more affordable rental properties over four years.

Linda Treeby was found seriously hurt in a caravan at Summerlands near Skegness.

Amy Woodfield
BBC News

This might slow you down if you're heading south on the M1 this afternoon.

Amy Woodfield
BBC News

A 50-year-old man from Nottingham has been charged with murder following the death of a woman at a caravan park.

Police were called to Summerlands Caravan Park in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday evening.

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They found 64-year-old Linda Treeby, from Nottingham, with serious injuries. She was treated by an ambulance crew but later died.

Andrew Highton, from Highbury Road, has been charged over her death and is due to appear at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court this afternoon.

AFP

The owners of Leicester City Football Club have won an auction to run the duty-free shops at Bangkok's biggest airport - Suvarnabhumi Airport - priming the company to extend its monopoly over a concession worth nearly $2bn a year.

King Power was founded by the late Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thailand's fourth richest man and chairman of Leicester City football club at the time of his death last year.

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It has held a monopoly over Thailand's duty-free industry since 2006, prompting intense criticism from rivals who have lobbied for the monopoly to be broken up.

The death of Mr Vichai in a helicopter crash last year raised questions over the ability of his youngest son, Aiyawatt (right), to maintain King Power's hold.

But winning the auction suggests "that even without the patriarch, the conglomerate still has enough pull", political analyst Thitinan Pongsudhirak said.

At the time of his death in October, Mr Vichai's empire was worth around $5.2bn, according to Forbes.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Derbyshire Police have apologised for the "brief" description of the suspect...

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

These cute baby hoglets were found in Fullhurst Avenue, Leicester, yesterday.

They have now been taken to the Leicestershire Hedgehog Rescue in Queniborough where they will be bottle-fed and cared for.

Image source, Woodside Animal Centre

Image source, Woodside Animal Centre

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Six teenagers have been arrested after a Nottingham shopkeeper was threatened during a fight.

Nottinghamshire Police said the boys, four aged 14 and two 13-year-olds, were being questioned on suspicion of affray over a disturbance Best One in North Gate, New Basford, shortly before 17:30 yesterday.

Officers recovered a knife and a metal pole. No-one was injured.

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BBC Radio Nottingham

A row has emerged over the workmanship of Nottingham's tram extension - almost four years after it was completed.

Nottinghamshire County Council is locked in a dispute with the contractors who carried out the construction because they say some issues still haven't been rectified.

Phase two of the tram line extending to Beeston and Toton opened in summer 2015.

A report from the county council is being considered next week about a number of major defects, such as chipped kerbs, which were reported to the Taylor Woodrow Alstom joint venture at the time and still need fixing.

It said none of the defects affect the safety of the tram network.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Six phone boxes in Derby have been removed after people were using them as toilets.

The boxes in Becketwell Lane had been covered in urine, faeces and blood, as well as drug needles.

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Derby City Council said it had taken them weeks to have the phone boxes cleaned and removed.

Councillor Jonathan Smale, from the Streetpride team, said the boxes were removed by BT on their request.

He added: "This process has taken a couple of weeks and we are grateful to BT for their support on this issue.

"The phone boxes had become the attention for anti-social behaviour including substance misuse and human waste."

Image source, Derby City Council

BBC Radio Derby

A campaign to save a rundown cottage visited by Florence Nightingale and built by her great uncle has raised more than £10,000.

The Grade II listed Aqueduct Cottage near Cromford was built at the time of the industrial revolution.

Image source, Ashley Franklin

Lisa Witham, from the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust - which is behind the fundraiser - said: "There's some huge cracks going down the building and we don't have a roof currently but I'm sure that it's all doable."

She said there are plans to host open days, school visits and have a function room for hire once the work is complete.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Thousands of cricket fans will be heading to Nottingham's Trent Bridge today as it hosts its first match of this year's World Cup.

Supporters of the West Indies and Pakistan, who are both well known for creating a lot of noise, will be hoping their teams get off to a winning start in the competition.

The Pakistan fans are already partying on their open top bus around the city.

BBC Radio Leicester

Police investigating a hit-and-run outside a Leicester mosque yesterday morning say they're still looking for the vehicle involved.

A man in his 40s and a teenage boy were injured when they were hit by a car on Humberstone Gate at 01:00 after leaving prayers at the At-Taqwa mosque.

A man, aged 23, and a woman, aged 21, were arrested yesterday on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

However Leicestershire Police said they were still looking for a blue car which they believed was damaged in the crash and may have been abandoned somewhere.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Another man has been arrested over gunshots in a Nottingham street last week.

Police were called to reports of shots being fired in Hazel Hill Crescent, Bestwood Park, at about midnight on Thursday 23 May.

Nottinghamshire Police said they made the latest arrest after a man on a motorbike failed to stop for officers and then crashed into a car.

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The man was taken to the QMC for treatment but the force said his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.

Queens Bower Road and Bestwood Lodge Drive were closed for a short time after the crash for investigations to take place.

Eight other men have been arrested since Tuesday and detectives have been granted extra time by magistrates to continue questioning.

The death of a woman who was found with serious injuries at a caravan park in Lincolnshire earlier this week is now being treated as murder, police say.

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Emergency services were called to a caravan at The Summerlands Caravan Park in Ingoldmells, near Skegness, at about 22:00 on Wednesday.

The woman, who was in her 60s and from Nottingham, was treated at the scene by paramedics, but died a short time later.

A man, in his 50s and from Nottingham, who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody in Skegness this morning.

A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out later today to establish the cause of the woman's death, according to police.