BBC Local Live: Nottinghamshire on Thursday 2 February 2017

Summary

Updates for Thursday 2 February 2017
Asda worker guilty of terrorism charges
Derelict shop to be demolished after fire
Inquest hears evidence of Nottinghamshire man's death in Tunisia attack
Former teacher cleared of 1950s sex attacks
Johanna Konta to return to Nottingham Open
Nigel Clough says Forest job offer 'came at wrong time'
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Friday

Live Reporting

Sandish Shoker

Supermarket worker bought protective clothingpublished at 12:41 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Counsell worked at Asda in Hyson Green and had booked leave from the store for his five-day trip.
These are some of the items that police found at his house, including military clothing designed to protect against shrapnel from explosions.
Image source, North East Terroism Unit
Counsell was 'vulnerable' to radicalisationpublished at 12:28 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Neil Heath
BBC News Online
The court heard that Counsell converted to Islam at 21 and taught himself about the religion from extremist websites.
Adam Deen, managing director at Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank, said he would have got a skewed version of the religion this way.
He said: "Converts are vulnerable to radicalisation because they are quite isolated and they only know of Islam what the extremist recruiters will tell them.
"Whereas if you look at, for example, a young Muslim, he may have family members that will be able to educate him and give him a counter narrative if you like, but in the case of a convert, that doesn't exist."
Detectives spotted Counsell's internet activitypublished at 12:26 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Police became suspicious when Counsell used a website to order military clothing.
When they searched his house in Forest Fields they found IS beheading videos, terrorism-related articles and military equipment hidden in his child's bedroom.
Det Supt Simon Atkinson from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit said they were "extremely concerned" so took "immediate action" to arrest him.
Counsell had booked flightspublished at 12:10 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
During his trial, prosecutor Daniel Pawson-Pounds told jurors that Counsell's internet history showed he had searched for "cheap flights from Nottingham to Zamboanga" in the Philippines.
He bought a return ticket and was planning to fly on 13 July last year but was arrested two days earlier.
The court heard Counsell, a father-of-one, had a "growing interest in terrorism in the Philippines", particularly in the Abu Sayyaf group which operates on Basilan Island.
Asda worker guilty of terrorist chargespublished at 11:46 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Here's the story from BBC News which will be updated throughout the day.
During the trial it was heard that Counsell was planning to join a Philippines-based terrorist group called Abu Sayyaf.
Image source, Nottinghamshire Police
Counsell had been planning to join terror grouppublished at 11:33 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Counsell, 28, of Russell Road, Forest Fields, was in the "advanced stages of planning" to visit a remote part of the south-east Asian country and had bought military equipment to "engage in combat or support an extremist group".
He was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court in London today of possessing documents containing terrorist information and engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
Supermarket worker guilty of terrorism offencespublished at 11:27 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Breaking
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Nottingham supermarket worker, Ryan Counsell, who had copies of a bomb-making manual and bought flights and equipment to travel to fight with a group linked to Islamic State in the Philippines has been found guilty of terrorism offences.
Ex-teacher, 90, cleared of sex attackspublished at 11:00 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
A former teacher at a school near Mansfield has been cleared of a string of sex attacks on a boy at a residential school in the 1950s.
Dennis Young, now aged 90, was acquitted at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday.
Konta returns to Nottingham Openpublished at 11:00 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
David Jackson
BBC Radio Nottingham Sport
Britain's top female tennis player Johanna Konta will be coming to play at the Nottingham Open this summer.
Now ranked 10th in the world Konta reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open last year and the quarter-finals this year.
Image source, Getty Images
Forest job came at wrong time - Cloughpublished at 10:00 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
BBC Sport
Burton boss Nigel Clough has said turning down the chance to manage ex-club Nottingham Forest was a "matter of principle".
He told the BBC the job came at the wrong time and was not "the right thing to do".
Image source, PA
Travel: Accident closes Annesley roadpublished at 09:53 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
BBC Travel
A serious accident between three cars has closed Annesley Road, Annesley at the junction with Mansfield Road.
It happened shortly after 08:00 and emergency services are still at the scene.
Demolition starts at burnt-out shoppublished at 09:52 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Here's a video of the fire that closed Alfreton Road (and gridlocked many roads in and out of Nottingham) last night.
The building is currently being demolished.
Masons 'took mickey out of each other' with carvingspublished at 09:41 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Canon Nigel Coates from Southwell Minster said the carving was actually known as a grotesque, because it was inside the building, and gargoyles are typically outside.
Image source, Thinkstock
Rev Coates said it was made out of 14th Century Mansfield stone and the masons often carved their friend's faces in the figures at the bottom and used them to "take the mickey" out of each other.
Stone carving at Southwell Minster 'looks like President'published at 09:27 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Some people have noticed one of the gargoyles at Southwell Minster is an uncanny resemblance to US president Donald Trump.
Image source, Getty Images
A photo of the carving did the rounds on social media after it was tweeted by journalist Samira Ahmed.
So BBC Radio Nottingham's Hayley Compton went off to Southwell Minster to try and find it.
She said, in person, only the hair was similar.
Latest headlines for Nottinghamshirepublished at 09:23 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
- A derelict shop at Canning Circus is being demolshed this morning after it was damaged by a fire
- An inquest into the killing of British tourists in Tunisia in 2015 is to hear evidence about the death of Nottinghamshire social worker John Stollery
- Nigel Clough has told the BBC the Forest job was "an attractive proposition"
What would Trump look like as a gargoyle?published at 09:00 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Hayley Compton
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
Here's Donald Trump as a gargoyle.
He's at waist height, which I'm told means he is less important than others.
I wonder what the actual Trump thinks of that!
Weather: Rainy start to the daypublished at 08:45 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
A dull, drizzly and showery start to the day - however this afternoon should be a little drier.
Becoming breezy later with highs of 11C (52F).
Road to close in the next hourpublished at 08:42 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Alfreton Road is expected to be closed from about 09:30 this morning for the demolition of the shop.
We'll keep you posted on when it is likely to reopen.
Forest job was 'attractive' for Cloughpublished at 08:18 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
BBC Nottingham Sport
Nigel Clough has told our colleagues at BBC Radio Derby that the Forest job was "an attractive proposition" and he had "no problems at all" with Fawaz Al-Hasawi.
Image source, Empics
Damaged building to be demolishedpublished at 08:17 Greenwich Mean Time 2 February 2017
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
One lane at the junction with Alfreton Road, Ilkeston Road and Derby Road is still closed this morning and motorists are again being advised to avoid the area.
Nottingham Travelwise tweeted, external that demolition of the fire damaged shop would take place later, which will see some more closures and diversions.