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Police warn on flooded areas to avoidpublished at 11:38 British Summer Time 1 August 2019
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
Derbyshire Police say that while water is receding in parts of the county, some roads - particularly in the High Peak area - remain impassable.
A number of flood warnings are still in place across Derbyshire.
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Roads flooded and impassablepublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 1 August 2019
Sandish Shoker
BBC News
Motorists in Leicestershire are being reminded that Slash Lane, in Mountsorrel, and Sileby Road, near Sileby, are all still impassable and closed.
Flood wardens are asking people to use alternative routes and not to travel through flood water.
Image source, Sileby Flood Warden
Image source, Sileby Flood Warden
Flooding causes major disruption across Northpublished at 00:45 British Summer Time 1 August 2019
Roads are closed, rail services cancelled and homes flooded as severe downpours cause disruption.
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We should be in every school in the UK, PC sayspublished at 22:02 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
MPs have called for schools in areas with a higher risk of youth violence to have dedicated PCs, but what do these officers do?
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Abuse survivor: 'I still suffer nightmares'published at 18:26 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Claire Blake, 42, was abused at Beechwood Community Home in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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A6 closed after river floodspublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
Bad news for anyone travelling on the A6 in Derbyshire this evening...
The road has been closed after the River Wye burst its banks between Buxton and Bakewell.
Image source, Bakewell Police SNT
Three arrested after Mansfield assaultpublished at 17:49 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
Three men have been arrested after an assault in Mansfield Market Place this afternoon.
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Police were called at around 16:00 and found one man who had suffered injuries which were not life-altering or life-threatening.
The three men have been arrested on suspicion of assault and affray.
MP Chris Williamson says he will sue Labour Partypublished at 17:47 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
BBC Radio Derby
The Derby North MP Chris Williamson has told BBC Radio Derby he is suing the Labour Party over the way it's handled his disciplinary case.
The decision about whether to reinstate him to the party has now been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee which could permanently expel him.
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Match.com rapist guilty of more attackspublished at 17:12 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Jason Lawrance met his victims on the dating website between 2009 and 2014.
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Man jailed for child sex offencespublished at 17:10 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
A man has been jailed for 10 years after admitting five counts of sexual activity with a child.
Gary Kevin Smith, 34, of no fixed abode, was locked up at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday.
The offences took place in Worksop between June 2015 and January 2018.
Smith was also made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and has to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
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Man jailed for killing his brotherpublished at 17:01 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Mateusz Woznicki, 27, died when he suffered serious stab wounds at his house in Derby last year.
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Cars stranded after roads floodpublished at 16:52 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
Parts of Derbyshire have been flooded following heavy rain last night, with some cars stranded.
This car on Leathersley Lane, Scropton, has been left stranded.
Image source, Lara Oates
The aptly-named Watery Lane in the village has also been flooded.
Roads in Leicestershire have also been affected.
There seems to be a running clue in the road names, with Watery Gate Lane, Leicestershire submerged.
Image source, @benvolresponder
The adjoining Croft Road has also been flooded.
Image source, @benvolresponder
PC 'broke football fan's nose with punch'published at 16:49 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
PC Liam Stewart is accused of punching the Chesterfield fan before a game against Sheffield Wednesday.
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DH Lawrence 'hideous' town postcard soldpublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
The author sent the postcard from Shirebrook, Derbyshire, in 1911 to a woman in Nottinghamshire
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Forestieri to contest racial abuse banpublished at 16:12 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Sheffield Wednesday's Fernando Forestieri will contest his six-game ban after being found guilty of using racist language in a match.
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Flooded railway line disrupts trainspublished at 16:03 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
It's not just the roads that are affected by the heavy rainfall - a railway line in the peak district is also flooded.
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Arsenal defender Bielik wanted by Derbypublished at 15:59 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Arsenal centre-back Krystian Bielik and Brighton's Matt Clarke are wanted by Phillip Cocu at Derby County, reports BBC Derby Sport.
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Cop went 'over the top' punching football fan, court toldpublished at 15:53 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
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A South Yorkshire Police officer who punched a teenage football fan three times, breaking his nose, went "over the top", a prosecutor has told a jury.
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CCTV footage was shown to Leeds Crown Court of PC Liam Stewart pushing 18-year-old Louis McAndrew against the shutters of a shop in the Hillsborough area of Sheffield and hitting him.
The jury was told that Stewart, 33, has insisted he was acting in self-defence.
Mr McAndrew was with a group of Chesterfield fans on their way to see their team play at Sheffield Wednesday when the incident started near Hillsborough Corner on 8 August 2017.
Ian Brook, prosecuting, told the court: "We say the defendant went over the top in his dealings with this youth.
"What he did in delivering those three punches - in particular the last one - was quite unreasonable and totally disproportionate to any contact the complainant made to him or any future threat he may have perceived as imminent."
Mr Brook said the jury will hear that people Mr McAndrew was with were associated with a group "commonly referred to as football hooligans", but Mr McAndrew denies being attached to the group.
Mr Stewart, of Hoyland, Barnsley, denies assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The trial was adjourned until Thursday.
Gun fired in reported 'disturbance 'published at 15:52 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Evidence that a gun was discharged has been found at a property in Nottingham following reports of a disturbance in the Bestwood Park area.
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Police were called to Bardsey Gardens just after midnight yesterday and are continuing to investigate.
No injuries have been reported and police say it appears to be an "isolated incident" with no risk to the wider community.
Algae forces second water park closurepublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 31 July 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
The level of blue green algae at Rutland Water has forced the beach and water park to close again.
Aqua Park Rutland only reopened on Sunday after the toxic algae forced it to close for eight days.
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Anglian Water, which owns the reservoir, has said it is monitoring the algae levels closely and hoping to open "as soon as possible".
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