Updates for Nottinghamshire on Monday 29 February 2016
More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Tuesday
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
If you were affected by the burst water pipe in Epperstone a few weeks ago, there's some drop-in sessions being held by Severn Trent this week.
Image source, Thomas HallBosses said the meetings were a chance for them to hear the concerns of residents and gather feedback to help them learn from the incident.
BBC Nottingham Sport
Notts County Ladies FC have been drawn at home to Women's Super League 2 side, Durham Women's FC, in the 5th round of the Women's FA Cup .
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Mr Zadrozny was suspended by The Liberal Democrats last year and is now an Independent.
He has served on both Ashfield District and Nottinghamshire County Councils, and was re-elected to the Sutton-in-Ashfield North ward in May 2013
Police said he had been bailed and would appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court on 30 March.
Rebecca Dickson
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
Ch Insp Phil Davis from Nottinghamshire Police said the discovery of a body in a Gedling park, on Saturday, is a "very, very rare incident".
He said: "Normally people who pass away in public spaces, they're with friends or with other people who know them or we can identify them very quickly because of items they have on them.
"So it's very rare and what we want to do is try to identify this man very quickly and return him to his friends and relatives."
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Police have told u, externals Jason Zadrozny, 35, of Sutton Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, has been charged with three counts of rape of a male under the age of 16, and four counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 16 between 2 September 2003 and 30 April 2004.
As well as those charges, he has also been charged with three counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 15 between 1 May 2004 and 30 September 2006.
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
A Nottinghamshire councillor has been charged with a number of sex offences.
Colin Fray
BBC Radio Nottingham Sport
Nottingham Rugby Club's 17-3 win over London Scottish at Lady Bay yesterday very much keeps alive their hopes of reaching the Championship play-offs.
Top four is the target, and with five games to go, Nottingham are nine points away from that.
Lawrence Rayner was the kicking hero yesterday...before Paul Grant scored the only try of the game in injury time.
Sonia Kataria
BBC News Online
Harry Whitehouse lives more than 100 miles away in Scarborough and said he spoke to the ambulance crew on the phone - but they did not know which hospital they were taking her to.
When he could not find her he called BBC Radio Nottingham, who traced Margaret to the Queen's Medical Centre.
Mr Whitehouse said staff had told him three times his mother was not there.
EMAS is yet to respond.
Kevin Stanley
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
Gary and Melanie Shannon had a lucky escape.
But the real survivor was their pet dog, Marley, who was sleeping on the front room sofa.
The police told Gary had any of the family been there at the time, they could have been killed.
Two people have been arrested over the crash.
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Sonia Kataria
BBC News Online
Harry Whitehouse said his mother, Margaret, had been "lost" for 18 hours after she was taken to hospital after a fall at home,
He said it was "just absolutely bonkers" that East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) couldn't tell him where she was.
Image source, Harry WhitehouseHe said he called all the hospitals in Nottinghamshire, where Mrs Whitehouse lives, but all of them said she was not there.
That's when he contacted BBC Radio Nottingham and EMAS eventually told him where his 91-year-old mother was.
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Ch Insp Phil Davis said the body of a man had been undiscovered at Gedling County Park for "a few days".
He said they were still unsure of the man's age and medical experts were working to help identify him and confirm how he died.
Retford Times
The Retford Times , externalhas been out to the accident we told you about earlier on London Road.
The driver of a car, which crashed with a bin lorry, was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Sonia Kataria
BBC News Online
When a loved one is taken to hospital by ambulance, of course you'd what to know to which hospital?
Image source, PABut what if the ambulance service said it could not tell you "due to data protection?".
Well that's what happened to Harry Whitehouse.
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
All last week BBC Radio Nottingham was asking people to count their steps - whether it was taking the dog out or walking as part of their day job.
Staff here got a little competitive with their counting and it seems a lot of you did too.
The grand total for Nottinghamshire was 68,428,413 - that's about 30,000 miles!
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Garry Shannon said he had been sleeping when he heard "an almighty bang".
He said: "I looked out the window. My wall had gone missing and there was a car at my front door."
His wife, Melanie, said bricks had been thrown 12ft into their living room by the impact and just missed their dog, who had been sleeping on the sofa.
Cineworld at the Cornerhouse in Nottingham says it will reopen some of its screens today , externalafter a water leak forced cinema-goers to evacuate the building.
Kevin Stanley
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
Garry and Melanie Shannon were woken up with a bang in the night - when a car crashed into their home in Summerwood Lane, Clifton.
The garden wall was wiped out and the front of their home damaged.
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Police have confirmed the death of a man whose body was found in Gedling Country Park, close to where people were taking part in a 5km run on Saturday morning, is not suspicious.
Police confirm the death of a man whose body was found close to where people were taking part in a 5km run is not suspicious.
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East Midlands Today
Beryl Davis is spending her birthday today, external with family and friends.
She told our reporter she's "very fortunate" to have such a big family and be surrounded by her loved ones.
She said when it's not a leap year, she gets two birthdays and celebrates it on the 28th February and the 1st March.
