Summary

  • Updates for Friday 30 September 2016

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Monday

  1. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00

    Live updates for Nottinghamshire have finished for the day but we'll be back at 08:00 on Monday with all the latest news, sport, travel and weather.

  2. Weather: Clear night aheadpublished at 17:51 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Kay Crewdson
    BBC weather presenter

    Any showers will fizzle out later leaving a mostly dry night with clear spells and turning chilly. Lows of 9C (48F).

    Weather
  3. Travel: Slow traffic around the city and countypublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    BBC Travel

    No major traffic news for tonight's rush hour but there is a lot of congestion and heavy traffic on some major routes.

    Check your journey before you travel.

  4. Gang used car dealership to run drugs businesspublished at 17:16 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    Here's more on the drugs gang from Nottinghamshire who have been jailed today.

    Stafford Crown Court has heard today the Southwell Motor Group, in Rainworth, which is now run as a legitimate business, was a front for moving drugs and laundering money through secret compartments in cars.

    Drugs gangImage source, Nottinghamshire Police
  5. Clifton residents want protection from travellerspublished at 16:37 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    BBC Radio Nottingham

    Residents in Clifton Village say they want their village green to be better protected from travellers.

    They say they've recorded 18 visits by travellers in recent years, including two in the last year, and are meeting with the council, police and their MP Lilian Greenwood this evening.

    The residents are asking for bollards or posts to be put up to prevent people driving onto the green.

  6. Your views: Why the Galleries name change?published at 15:54 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Facebook

    Some of you have been giving your thoughts on our Facebook page, external on the name change for Nottingham's Galleries of Justice.

    "Pefer the old name," wrote Joy Kirkham.

    "Sounds like mending something that's not broken. Local people will still refer it to it's old name," said John Thickett.

    While some of you just simply asked: "Why?"

  7. Watch: How the shared space workspublished at 15:38 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    This is the shared space we've been telling you about all day.

    Disability charity, My Sight, said it was "frustrating" the council had consulted with them on the plans for the new layout but not put into place any of their suggestions.

  8. Several men jailed over drugs networkpublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    Six other men have been jailed today for their role in a nationwide drugs network which was run behind the name of the Southwell Motor Company.

    Det Insp Andy Jones from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit said the drugs came in "from the continent" and were distributed around the whole country.

  9. Campaigners want speed limit around horsespublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Hayley Compton
    Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

    Bonzo will be leading around 150 horses through Nottingham on Sunday as part of a campaign to get motorists to think about their speed and drive slower.

    Campaigners want a legally enforced speed limit of 15mph when vehicles overtake horses.

    Horses
  10. Horse protest to ride to castlepublished at 14:23 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    The Horse Awareness Campaign riders are travelling from Wollaton Park to Nottingham Castle on Sunday. 

    They had originally planned to ride into the Market Square but have now decided not to because it "would cause too much disruption". 

  11. Men ran UK arm of worldwide drugs networkpublished at 14:00

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    Detectives say Turton and Wright were running the UK arm of a global drug trafficking network in Rainworth.

    They said the drugs came into the UK from resources in Europe and around the world and would end up on the streets around the East Midlands.

    Detectives

    The man suspected of leading the drugs network was Robert Dawes from Sutton-in-Ashfield who was arrested in his luxury villa in Spain last year.

    The Spanish Civil Guard says he was running Europe's largest crime group, involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and murder and he's in custody waiting for a trial in France.

  12. Nottinghamshire men involved in global investigationpublished at 13:45 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Jeremy Ball
    Social affairs correspondent, BBC East Midlands Today

    Christopher Turton, who's 32 and from Clipstone, has been jailed for 10 years.

    Dale Wright, 42, from Mansfield, received six years and eight months.

    Several accomplices have also been jailed, or given suspended sentences.  

  13. Latest headlines for Nottinghamshirepublished at 13:27 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    • Several men have been jailed after a Nottinghamshire car dealership was used to run a nationwide drugs network
    • Around 150 horses will ride from Wollaton Park to Nottingham Castle on Sunday in a protest over speed limits for overtaking horses
    • Lee Westwood starts this afternoon in his 10th Ryder Cup as Europe take on USA in Minnesota
  14. Men jailed over drugs network at car dealershippublished at 13:18 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Jeremy Ball
    Social affairs correspondent, BBC East Midlands Today

    Several men have been jailed after a car dealership in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire was used as a front for a nationwide drugs network.

    Stafford Crown Court heard how vehicles were rebuilt with secret compartments which could only be detected by X-rays and were used to move around large amounts of cocaine, amphetamine and cash.

    drugs

    Christopher Turton and Dale Wright ran the dealership which was uncovered as part of a global investigation into a suspected crime boss.

  15. Teenager dies in village crashpublished at 13:07 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    An 18-year-old man has died in a crash on Station Road, Kingston-on-Soar, external in the early hours of this morning.

    The teenager, who is from the village, had been driving home from Sutton Bonnington when the crash happened shortly after 02:00.

    He was pronounced dead at the scene.

  16. New name for Galleries of Justicepublished at 12:46 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Kevin Stanley
    Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

    The Galleries of Justice in Nottingham is to get a new name and a makeover. 

    From February next year it'll be called the National Justice Museum - and include new exhibition spaces to show more of its collection.

    The development is being funded by a £1m lottery award. 

    Galleries of JusticeImage source, PA
  17. Officers visited victims after other crimes reportedpublished at 12:35 British Summer Time 30 September 2016

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News Online

    Ch Supt Mark Holland told BBC Radio Nottingham officers had noticed there had been other vehicle crimes close by reported on that same night and so had been out to see Mr Seth on this occasion.

    However he said the CCTV provided "no evidence" because it was foggy on the night and showed nothing of value.

    vehicle crime

    A recent report by Nottinghamshire's police and crime commissioner says sending officers to each incident provides "limited benefit", but also reveals satisfaction levels for vehicle crime remain low, particularly the follow-up of vehicle thefts.