BBC Radio Derby

A Derbyshire school has closed due to "extensive staff shortages" caused by coronavirus.

All pupils at Tibshelf Community School have been told to access lessons online until Monday 23 November.

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It's thought a considerable number of staff are self-isolating, meaning there are too few to teach, support and supervise pupils.

The school has more than 750 students.

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BBC News Online

A man has been charged after two people were injured in an attack earlier this year.

Police were called to Greenwood Avenue in Harworth, Nottinghamshire, on 4 July.

A man had to go to hospital with a cut to the back of his head, while a woman had to have surgery on her hand.

A 27-year-old man, from Doncaster, has been charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm, affray and criminal damage and is due to appear Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 15 January.

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BBC News

A person has been struck by a train at the Bulwell Forest level crossing in Nottingham.

East Midlands Railway said the line had been closed in both directions following the incident and a bus replacement service was being arranged.

NET said Bulwell tram services had also been stopped.

BBC Weather

Early outbreaks of heavy rain will soon clear and it will then become drier and brighter with periods of sunshine.

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This evening will be dry with clear periods for a time but patchy rain could arrive later.

A man is charged with firearm offences after being shot with rubber bullets by armed police.

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BBC News Online

The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in Derby and Bolsover has continued to rise, according to the latest data.

Figures from Public Health England show in the week up to 8 November, the infection rate in Derby was 471 per 100,000 up from 387.5 the week before.

This means Derby has the 20th highest number of coronavirus cases in England.

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While elsewhere in Derbyshire, Bolsover has an infection rate of 507.7 per 100,000 people, compared to 435.7 the previous week.

Bolsover has the 14th highest infection rate in England.

Liam Barnes
BBC News

Two walk-in coronavirus testing centres will be set up in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed.

Anyone displaying symptoms will be able to book appointments for tests at Sandhurst Street car park in Oadby and Central Avenue car park in Worksop.

Both centres opened today, just a few days after it was confirmed Nottinghamshire is to be one of the areas where mass testing for coronavirus will take place.

The Oadby site will be managed jointly between DHSC and G4S, while the Worksop centre is run in conjunction with Serco.

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The sheep were bought for £2,500 and were a Christmas gift to the Clamp family's children.

The poster divided opinion in a Nottinghamshire town until the council said it had to come down.

Samantha Noble
BBC News Online

A man has been arrested after a woman was seriously injured in a collision in Mansfield.

The woman was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham after officers were called to Rosemary Street shortly after 16:00 on Wednesday.

She is believed to be in a critical but stable condition, Nottinghamshire Police said.

The man, 60, has been held on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a collision.

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Det Con Sarah Stables, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: "Initially it was not known how the woman came to be injured but early investigations suggested a vehicle was involved and a man has since come forward in connection with it.

"Our thoughts are with the victim and her family as we continue our work to uncover what happened."

David Pittam
BBC News Online

Two 14-year-old boys have been arrested after another teenager was stabbed in Derbyshire.

Officers were called to a bus on Tamworth Road in Sawley just before 14:40 on Wednesday to reports of a seriously injured boy, also 14.

He was taken to hospital with his condition described as "critical but stable".

Two boys, from the Long Eaton area, have been held in connection with the stabbing and are currently in custody.

Derbyshire Police said it's thought the attack was an isolated incident and appealed for witnesses.

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Amy Orton
Local Democracy Reporter

A "last hurrah" before the second national lockdown started could be to blame for a spike in Leicestershire cases this week, the county's director of public health has said.

A total of 666 new cases were added to tolls in the city and county combined on Tuesday.

Mike Sandys told a health scrutiny commission meeting: "I fear it may be related to the inevitable outcome of the last hurrah of people shopping and socialising in the early part of last week until Wednesday."

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He explained the latest data showed rates across the board in the 17 to 21 age group had been "significantly higher than the population as a whole".

Despite the high infection rate, Mr Sandys said the picture was "fairly stable" across the county, given increases in some areas and decreases in others.

Artworks are to be moved from Lincoln's Usher Gallery to Nottingham amid a row between councils.

Leicestershire all-rounder Ben Mike agrees a two-year contract extension with the county.

Leicestershire was not included on the first list of more than 60 areas to get mass testing.

Despite the increase in patient numbers, a health boss says survival rates of people requiring ventilation have improved.

Heather Burman
BBC News

Five fire crews tackled a fire at a shop in Normanton, Derby, this morning.

Firefighters were called to Walbrook Road at about 08:15 and put out the fire.

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A spokeswoman for Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said one person was helped out of the building by fire crews but could not confirm if there were any injuries.

She said the cause of the blaze was not yet known but an investigation by the fire service was under way.

Ethan Connolly-Forster
BBC News

A swan had a lucky escape after it was rescued from the inside lane of the A50 after it was spotted by a passing car.

Stephanie Smith, husband James and a friend were driving along the busy road, near the Shardlow services, when they spotted a bird on the hard shoulder on Sunday.

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Mrs Smith, from Ripley, said: "We drove past it and we couldn't just leave it there, so we drove back around and it was in the third lane of the A50.

"We pulled on to the hard shoulder and put on our hazard lights and started the rescue.

"I guided the swan back to the hard shoulder to let the traffic pass."

She said the swan didn't seem injured as it was flapping its wings and "standing tall".

She then wrapped it up in her coat and drove it to Linjoy Wildlife Sanctuary in Burton-upon-Trent.

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Mrs Smith said the sanctuary told them later it "seemed excited to meet the other swans".

A spokesperson said: "The swan is a 2020-born bird and was a bit sore on his feet but is now doing fine.

"We plan to release it in the next week with some others we have."

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

It wasn't a boar-ing night in Beeston last night after a couple spotted a micro-pig on the loose.

Paul and Sarah Bowness had been on a walk about 20:30 when they saw the creature trotting among the bushes in the churchyard in Middle Street.

"It was having a nice time in the church garden eating the leaves, eating the grass and having a run around," said Mrs Bowness.

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She told BBC Radio Nottingham she'd tried to call a local vet for advice while her husband posted a photo on a local Facebook group - and within 10 minutes the hog's owner had been found.

It emerged Darcy the pig had escaped from a garden through a hole in the fence.

"We tried to put a lead on her to try to walk her home but she wasn't having any of that," added Mrs Bowness.

"The owner came with a box of food and that was enough to entice her back home."

BBC Radio Leicester

Leicester City Council says the city has been added to the list of areas due to receive a supply of rapid result Covid-19 test kits this week.

The authority was not included on the original list of 67 locations but a spokeswoman said they were informed yesterday they would be getting the lateral flow tests - which can give results within an hour.

She added the council would now be drawing up a plan for how testing will be organised.

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Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are also due to receive the kits, which are already being used in Liverpool.

However, Leicestershire County Council leader Nick Rushton said his authority applied for the tests the day after invitations were sent out last month but had not received a reply.