Updates for Monday 8 May 2017
University gets 'single biggest donation'
Sheep gives birth to six lambs
Man arrested over serious crash
Rubbish fly-tipped in nature reserve
Melbourne pub voted 'best in the country'
Fawaz: Forest takeover '99%' complete
Mel Morris: Sam Rush sacking 'to end up in court'
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Tuesday
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
Have you seen Stephen Ward? Police want to speak to him about a spate of bag thefts, external at restaurants and cafes in Derby.
The 34-year-old is also wanted for a recall to prison. Call 101 if you have any information.
Image source, Derbyshire Police
BBC Radio Nottingham
Bosses at East Midlands Airport claim passenger numbers have increased by almost 5% year on year.
The figures, covering 2016/17, show 4.7 million people travelled through the airport - an increase of more than 220,000 people since the year before.
Image source, PA
Helen McCarthy
BBC Radio Leicester Reporter
Long queues continue in Leicester as people wait to catch a glimpse of the archaeological dig at the old factory site near Great Central Street and Highcross Street.
BBC Radio Leicester
A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a serious crash in Leicester last night.
Police said a silver Peugeot 206 left the road on Aikman Avenue in New Parks just after 18:35 and crashed into a bollard.
A man in his 20s, who was travelling in the car, was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where he remains in a critical condition.
Image source, GooglePolice have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
BBC Radio Derby
Now here's something ewe don't hear every day (sorry) - a Peak District sheep has given birth to six lambs.
The sheep on Brindley's farm, near Parwich, gave birth to three black lambs and three white ones, which owners say is extremely rare.
Farmer Patricia Brindley said they named the smallest one after boxer Anthony Joshua.
Quote MessageIt's probably even rarer to have three of each - three black and three white, apparently it's one in a million. My grandchildren came up at the weekend and they're boxing mad. We had problems with AJ when he was first born he was very weak, so we bottle fed him and we hadn't got a name for him so they said we're going to call him AJ because his a little fighter.
Patricia Brindley, Farmer
Dave Wade
BBC Local Live
Have you seen missing 16-year-old, Derryn Oxford?
Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceShe was last seen in New Basford in Nottingham on Saturday when she was wearing dark "jeggings" (leggings made to look like denim) and a black leather jacket, police said. , external
Colin Fray
BBC Radio Nottingham
It is not a time for celebration, it's a time for relief. But it is also a time for looking forward and for making sure this is Forest's lowest point.
Image source, Nathan Stirk/Getty ImagesThe quicker the takeover goes through the sooner Mark Warburton and director of football Frank McParland can begin the rebuild.
It's a been a shambolic season and one Forest just want to forget.
Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter
The Conservatives have promised to carefully manage Derbyshire County Council's budget, while making the cuts 'that are needed', after winning control in last week's elections.
Barry Lewis, the leader elect, says they have a list of priorities and work will begin as soon as possible.
Quote MessageThere's a lot to get through, a lot of details to understand. But right at the very top of that list is the discussion about the £30m care programme, putting money back into highways, and community transport. They're the biggies at the moment."
Barry Lewis, Leader elect
Facebook
The rubbish that was fly-tipped at Attenborough Nature Reserve (see 10:46) has certainly got you talking over on the BBC Radio Nottingham Facebook page., external
Jill Saunders writes: "It's disgusting, hope they find the culprits."
Margaret Thunder Buckland adds: "Obviously a vehicle was needed to dump this, so why didn't said vehicle just take it to the local tip."
An inquest concludes that Meera Dalal took her own life after being abused by her ex-boyfriend.
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Liam Barnes
BBC News Online
Denis Mooney used Your Questions to ask what the plans are for the site, which was one of 58 buildings earmarked for closure in 2015.
Image source, GoogleA spokesman for the force said the building is still in use, with safer neighbourhood officers among the staff based there.
There are no plans to sell the building, the force added, but the public enquiries desk remains closed.
Kevin Stanley
BBC Radio Nottingham reporter
It looks like the new exhibition is moving into the Nottingham Contemporary. This is what happens to the paraphernalia from the last...
It could almost be a piece of art in its own right.
Khia Lewis-Todd
BBC Local Live
The widow of Sir John Hurt has paid tribute to her late husband, saying he "loved people".
Anwen Hurt was speaking at the opening of a cinema screen in Derby yesterday which has been named after him.
Image source, Getty ImagesHurt became a patron of Quad in 2008 - Anwen spoke about her late husband's love of Derby and Derbyshire, as clips of Sir John's most well-known roles were shown.
Quote MessageHe loved people, that's part of why he was a wonderful actor because he was a great observer of people and of life. Every person he came into contact with was important to him."
Anwen Hurt, Widow of Sir John Hurt
Dave Wade
BBC Local Live
A Nottingham musician is appealing for the safe return of her handmade Transylvanian violin.
Ursula Donnely left the instrument in the back of a taxi in the city a week ago.
Here she is playing the instrument...
She's taken to social media to try and find it - and her Facebook post , externalhas been shared over 1,800 times.
"It just shows you how kind people are and how thoughtful they are that they care so much that you've lost something," she said.
"It's a big deal to me but I don't think it's a big deal in the grand scheme of things and people have shown me so much support."
Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live
A load of rubbish has been fly-tipped at a Nottinghamshire nature reserve.
The waste was dumped at Attenborough Nature Reserve over the weekend.
"It is not a great way to start the week," Erin McDaid from the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust said.
"Obviously they've chosen the most secluded spot in the car park where there are no cameras.
"That is something we are going to have to be really careful about because it spoils the site."
Khia Lewis-Todd
BBC Local Live
Derby County owner Mel Morris says he expects the dispute over the sacking of his former CEO Sam Rush (pictured left) to end up in court.
Rush, the Chief Executive and President of the Rams since 2012 was sacked last week.
The club issued a statement saying he'd been dismissed on the grounds of "gross misconduct and breach of fiduciary duty".
Rush said the matter was "in the hands of his lawyers."
Mel Morris says he wants to do right by supporters.
Image source, Getty ImagesQuote MessageFans will get the benefit of the full disclosure in the fullness of time- I think its inevitable that in a situation like this Sam has every right to defend his position. Obviously I anticipate that this will ultimately end up in the courts and we're relishing the opportunity.
Mel Morris, Derby County owner
Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live
Ben Youngs' decision to pull out of the British and Irish Lions tour to support his brother Tom and his wife through her terminal cancer shows his "great strength of character."
Image source, Getty ImagesMartin Ballard, presenter of the Leicester Tigers rugby show on BBC Radio Leicester, said: "Lions is still the pinnacle of northern hemisphere rugby despite all the commercial competitions that the players play in, they all want to play for the British and Irish Lions.
"He is in the form of his life so that is a mark of his character that he has pulled out of this.
"Tom is a very positive person, as is Ben, they've shown great strength of character."
The brothers will still play their part in the remainder of the season for Leicester Tigers, who face Wasps in the Premiership semi-finals in two weeks.
A dry start to the day but will you need a jumper? Charlie has more.
BBC Radio Leicester
Western Power Distribution hope to have all supplies restored by 11:00...
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Khia Lewis-Todd
BBC Local Live
The Chip and Pin micropub in Melbourne has been voted the best in the country by The Times newspaper.
It was set up in 2014 after the building was converted from the former HSBC bank.
Owners, David and Elaine Carpenter, say they're delighted to see their retirement investment get national recognition.
