The owner of the Mustard Seed in Gedling previously cited Magna Carta as a reason to remain open.

Tom Marshall says people have cried at seeing "the faces of people from the past come to life".

Sarah Smith says that after living in pain for years, she feels happy and wants to inspire others.

Derby County part company with manager Phillip Cocu with the club bottom of the Championship.

Officers were initially investigating the smell of cannabis at a property in Pleasley.

A mental health nurse says the campaign began as a means of supporting NHS workers.

Leicester's Golden Mile is usually buzzing for the festival but things are very different this year.

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard and socialite Tamara Ecclestone were among those whose homes were raided.

Premiership Rugby confirms 14 positive Covid-19 tests, including 10 players, after all 12 clubs were tested in full.

Alex Regan
BBC News

Leicester and Bolsover are among the top 20 areas of England with the highest seven-day Covid-19 infection rate.

Bolsover has the 13th highest infection rate with 496.5 people per 100,000 testing positive for the virus in the week up to 9 November, compared with 474.2 the week prior.

Leicester has the 20th highest infection rate with 475.1 per 100,000 testing positive for the virus, compared with 394.9 the previous week.

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The news comes as the R number across the UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2, meaning the spread of the virus has dropped nationwide.

Kit Sandeman
Local Democracy Reporter

Local leaders fear a planned Eastern leg of the HS2 infrastructure project - which was scheduled to stop in Toton - could be scrapped.

Scrapping this part of the project would mean HS2 would terminate at East Midlands Parkway, rather than continue to Toton and then on to Leeds.

Speculation among local leaders comes as the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is expected to publish recommendations to the government.

The NIC said it was "reviewing various rail schemes to illustrate different strategic options for government".

Nottinghamshire County Council leader Kay Cutts said she had heard "rumours" about the Toton station being scrapped, but added she would "fight" to keep it.

Greig Watson
Reporter, BBC News Online

A Leicestershire MP has met the head of the Parole Board to pass on "grave concerns" about the parole review of double killer Colin Pitchfork.

Pitchfork raped and murdered Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in 1983 and 1986.

He was jailed in 1988, becoming the first person to be convicted of murder using DNA fingerprint evidence.

MP for South Leicestershire, Alberto Costa, said the killings had cast a "huge shadow" over the area.

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Mr Costa said: "With Pitchfork's hearing now due in just a matter of days, I was pleased to make further representations to the chief executive of the Parole Board for England and Wales".

Martin Jones, Parole Board chief executive, said "The Parole Board will not give a direction for release unless it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public that the prisoner be kept in prison."

Pitchfork was denied parole in 2018 - a decision that must be reviewed every two years.

The hearing was due to take place next week but has now been postponed until December.

The boy is in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital, police say.

Greig Watson
Reporter, BBC News Online

Human bones found at a building site in Nottingham have been confirmed as those of a murder victim.

Police found a skull, parts of two arms, hands and a jaw in scrubland off Rossington Way, Sneinton, on 28 September.

Following DNA analysis, they have now been confirmed as coming from Kevin Kennedy, 50, who was murdered by Peter Healy in 2012.

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Healy was convicted of his murder in 2013 and ordered to serve a minimum of 21 years.

He also received a five-year concurrent sentence for perverting the course of justice for concealing or disposing of his body parts.

Police said Mr Kennedy's family had been informed of the development.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

A driver ended up wedged between two parked cars and a wall after trying to flee from police, external.

Nottinghamshire Police said the pursuit came to an abrupt end in Ruddington after a vehicle had been spotted with false plates near Chilwell retail park at about 17:00 yesterday.

The driver failed to stop for officers but got stuck between other cars after encountering a back-up police vehicle in East Thorpe Street.

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Two men, aged 44 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of burglary and a number of suspected stolen items were found inside the car.

The gas board and fire service were also called to the scene as a precaution after the suspects' car hit a gas main.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

A 19-year-old firefighter has said he was "devastated" after finding his car had been broken into while parked outside his home.

Harry Stokes, of Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service, was alerted by a neighbour at about 18:30 last night after the window of his car had been smashed while parked on Westgate, Southwell.

He said a sat-nav had been taken from inside the Skoda Citigo.

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"It is devastating, especially running up to Christmas. It's a lot of money and something I could do without," he said.

"Normally it's safe around here and you never it expect it to happen to yourself until it does."

Mr Stokes has recently completed his training and has volunteered to work with the ambulance service to relieve the strain during the pandemic.

Nottinghamshire Police confirmed they were investigation.

Hugh Casswell
Political reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

Plans for mass testing of Nottinghamshire residents for coronavirus are still being finalised, the county's director of public health has said.

Jonathan Gribbin also said it’s not yet known which tier of restrictions Nottinghamshire will go back into once the England-wide lockdown ends on 2 December.

Earlier this week the government confirmed it would be rolling out new testing kits that can deliver results within an hour.

Neil Heath
BBC News Online

Three people, including a 97-year-old man, have been the victims of a distraction burglary when a man entered their homes posing as a council worker, police have said.

A 67-year-old man had his wallet, containing more than £600, stolen by a man claiming to be from the council, at a house in The Meadows, on 24 October at about 19:00.

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The man said he there to complete work on a lifeline cord, which had not been requested.

When the suspect, thought to be aged between 50 and 60 years old, was in the property, he distracted the victim.

A second man, 97, was visited by a man claiming to be from the council, who entered his property in Bobbers Mill, on 29 October, at about 18.20.

The man tried to distract the victim but did not manage to steal anything.

On Tuesday, an elderly woman had £300 stolen when a man knocked at her door in Western Boulevard, Wollaton, and said he was from the council and needed to measure her windows.

Officers have released CCTV footage in a bid to identify the man responsible.

The force said he calls himself "Steve" and is described as white and between 5ft 10ins (1.70m) and 6ft (1.8m) tall, of heavy build, with a local accent.

Dr Krishnan Subramanian, a consultant anaesthetist, died in hospital after falling ill.

Almost all of the UK's Covid rules have ended, two years after they were introduced.