Summary

  • Bomb plot jury fail to reach verdict for chip shop owner

  • Driver arrested over fatal A38 crash

  • Traps found on Peak District cycle paths

  • 'Britain's biggest' stickleback caught

  • Boots has 'room to improve' over 'skinny-shaming' ad

  • Live updates for Friday 12 July

  1. Appeal after man 'indecently exposed himself on train'published at 13:56 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    Nick Smith
    BBC News Online

    A man exposed himself on a train as it pulled into Derby railway station, police have said.

    British Transport Police said at about 19:30 on 22 June, the man exposed himself to a woman before disembarking.

    The alleged incident occurred on the 18:02 service from London St Pancras to Sheffield.

    Police have released an image of a man that may have information that could help their investigation.

    Anyone with any information has been asked to call 101.

    CCTVImage source, British Transport Police
  2. Wanted sex offender arrested and jailedpublished at 11:37 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    Andrew Clarke is convicted and jailed for 20 years for child sex offences while he was on the run.

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  3. Five released under investigation over 'ammonia attack'published at 11:25 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    David Pittam
    BBC News Online

    Five people who were arrested after a suspected ammonia attack at a Leicester pub have been released under investigation.

    A fight reportedly broke out at The Cricketers, Grace Road, Aylestone, shortly after midnight on Sunday.

    Some people were sprayed with what police believe to be the chemical ammonia.

    Ten people - including three police officers - were taken to hospital to be checked over but have since been discharged.

    The Cricketers

    The five people, including a 15-year-old, had been arrested for a variety of offences including on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm, criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.

    One eyewitness described the scene as "pretty scary".

    She said: "There was a lot of commotion. People were running about screaming.

    "There was also a lot of police running around and a lot of smashing glasses left, right and centre."

    A woman in a street
  4. County Championship - Five wickets for Bess as Notts collapse against leaders Somersetpublished at 10:48 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    Follow live text and ball-by-ball radio commentary from the latest round of County Championship fixtures.

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  5. Police cordon off flip flop after driver loses them fleeingpublished at 10:15 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    David Pittam
    BBC News Online

    It's a little less glamorous than Cinderella's glass slipper, but this plastic flip flop could be a useful bit of evidence for the police.

    Flip flop cordoned offImage source, Derbyshire Police

    It was left behind by a driver who abandoned his Ford Fiesta while being chased by cops in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, early this morning.

    The armed police said he then "legged it" and managed to get away from them.

    Fiesta in a bushImage source, Derbyshire Police

    Their ever-supportive colleagues at the Derbyshire Roads Policing Unit, who came to help investigate, replied to them: "Proper collision scene management is not to be sniffed at. And they’re called sliders now."

    A Derbyshire Police spokesman clarified the creative scene preservation was just "banter".

  6. Meet the six-year-old triplets tackling litterpublished at 09:11 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    Six-year-old triplets want to save their "lovely, beautiful world" by litter picking in their local park

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  7. The 'forgotten victim' of a 100-year-old murder mysterypublished at 09:01 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    Bella Wright was shot dead while cycling in a country lane 100 years ago. Was a man wrongly acquitted of her murder?

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  8. Notts County fans fundraise for club's unpaid employeespublished at 08:48 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    David Pittam
    BBC News Online

    Notts County fans have raised almost £2,000 to support staff at the club who weren't paid in June.

    While players are likely to be supported by their union, the PFA, for their lost wages, staff working in kitchens, the grounds and offices won't get the same compensation.

    On Saturday, protesters also gathered outside Meadow Lane asking Alan Hardy to sell the club before Wednesday's visit to the High Court over an unpaid tax bill.

    County fans protesting
  9. Tests after E-coli found in water supplypublished at 08:25 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    East Midlands Today

    Severn Trent will carry out more tests in a Leicestershire village where E-coli was found in the water supply.

    The company believes routine maintenance work has affected the system in Barkestone Le Vale.

    Roadworks

    Bottled water has been given to about 30 homes after tests showed traces of the bug in a water main.

    Engineers have been cleaning a section of the pipe and will carry out further tests on the water's quality later today.

  10. Watch: Today's weather for the East Midlandspublished at 08:19 British Summer Time 8 July 2019

    Rich Davis
    BBC Weather presenter

    It's a cloudy but dry and mild start to the week.