Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Some good news for Notts fans...

...Australian fast bowler James Pattinson is also available for the game before heading back down under.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

The owners of Mountsorrel Quarry, have confirmed that the man who died there earlier today (see 11:49) was a contractor working on the site. Tarmac have just released this statement:

Nottinghamshire extend their lead at the top of Division Two with a resounding innings win over neighbours Leicestershire.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

This father and daughter have just been jailed for seven years each for the manslaughter of Kelly Machin.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

Natalie Bollen, who is 28 years old and from Leicester Forest East was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court along with her father 48-year-old William Gary Jelly from Thorpe Astley.

In August last year Bollen and Jelly got into a row with Ms Machin. The 34-year-old had punctured a football belonging to one of Bollen's children after it landed in her back garden.

Bollen punched Ms Machin and Jelly pushed or punched her to the ground. She later died as a result of internal bleeding.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

The move has been prompted by the Grenfell Tower fire in London.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

It wouldn't be a Queen's Speech without a quip from Bolsover MP Dennis Skinner and this year was no different...

...the veteran Labour MP's remarks were a nod to the Queen's love of racing and the current Ascot meeting.

Here's a list of some of his other best lines.

Sandish Shoker
BBC Radio Nottingham

Pupils at a Nottinghamshire school have written messages of support to children in Manchester following last month's terrorist attack.

After hearing stories in the news, children from St Peter's Cross Keys Primary School in Farndon were inspired to share positive messages with other children their age after the horrible events.

"Some of the responses that they came out with were 'we stand as one' and 'one forever,'" their teacher Teresa Sharpe said.

"I think it is an extremely grown up response that children of today are teaching grown ups how to behave to be honest with their reactions."

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Don't you just hate it when your walking boots go for a walk without you?

Police said about 150 pairs of these Scarpa boots have been stolen from a lorry in Markfield.

They look a lot like this...

Image source, Leicestershire Police

The lorry was broken into on Tuesday morning while parked at the services off Little Shaw Lane in Markfield.

Police are asking the public to let them know if they are offered any for sale.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A largely dry afternoon with plenty of blue sky and sunshine and occasionally some cloud as well.

There could be a couple of heavy showers this evening with hail likely.

Humid with highs of 30C (86F).

Concerns had been raised about the 17-year-old's safety.

Rebecca Woods
Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC News Online

We all crave ice lollies as temperatures soar - and the animals at Twycross Zoo are no different.

We've been sent a series of pictures of the zoo's residents cooling down with iced fruit.

Image source, Twycross Zoo

Image source, Twycross Zoo

Image source, Twycross Zoo

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

A man has died at a quarry in Mountsorrel.

Police have said they were called to the quarry on Wood Lane just after 05:00 after a reports of an injured man - he then died at the scene.

Image source, LAFARGE

The Health and Safety Executive is assisting police to establish the circumstances surrounding the death.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

A 17-year-old girl has been found dead at a house in Mansfield.

Image source, Google

A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and will be questioned later, Nottinghamshire Police said.

Forensic investigations are currently taking place at the property on Foston Close in the town.

Officers believe it is an isolated incident.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

A family from Northamptonshire has donated £32,000 to the children’s charity Heart Link at Glenfield Hospital.

The money will buy an Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machine - an advanced heart and lung machine - for the hospital's specialist congenital heart unit.

This machine helped five-year-old Willow Page in 2013 after she was diagnosis with an inflammation of the heart muscle caused by parainfluenza. She suffered three heart attacks and a stroke.

Image source, Page Family

Her family has raised the money through skydiving, fetes, bag packing at supermarkets and birthday donations.

Willow's parents Denise and Iain Page said: “We are forever grateful to the nurses, doctors and consultants at Leicester’s hospitals who helped save our beautiful little girl. This is our way of giving something back.”

The new ECMO machine has been officially unveiled at the hospital and has been named after Willow.

Two other machines, costing about £28,000 each, have also been funded by Heart Link.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a gold plastic cow...

It is one of three that were on show at the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show earlier this month.

They went up for auction after the show had ended and were bought by the Heights of Abraham.

To celebrate the purchase - a cow has been going up and down in one of the cable cars.

Lets hope it has a head for heights...

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

A girl has been taken to hospital in an air ambulance after she was hit by a car in Ibstock this morning.

Image source, Trevor F Moore

Police have told the BBC they were called to Chapel Street at 08:29 - they closed the road but it has since reopened.

Image source, Trevor F Moore

The child was taken to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham with injuries not thought to be life threatening.

The driver of the car was not injured.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Katie Boulter has been handed a wildcard into the ladies' singles at Wimbledon., external

Image source, Getty Images for LTA

It means Boulter, 20, from Woodhouse Eaves, goes straight into the first round and could face the likes of world number one Angelique Kerber.

The wilcard is also worth at least £35,000, with that being the amount a first round loser gets.

She also has a wildcard into the women's doubles.

Derby teenager Jay Clarke has got a wildcard alongside Marcus Willis into the men's doubles, but he has missed out on a main draw wildcard.

There are still three to be announced so he could yet get a reprieve.

Meanwhile, Arnold's Jocelyn Rae has received a wildcard into the first round of the ladies' doubles alongside partner Laura Robson.

Dave Wade
BBC Local Live

Ever wanted to hear an MP sing? No, neither have I.

Nevertheless, take it away, Andrew Bridgen, Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire...

He "treated" a BBC Two film crew to this rendition while filming the documentary Brexit Means Brexit, which airs on BBC Two tonight.

I must admit, I'm not familiar with the tune but it appears Sting did a version..., external

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Bombardier's latest order for 750 carriages will boost business across the East Midlands, according to a leading rail expert.

Image source, First Group

The Derby-based train maker, that almost went bankrupt in 2011, has been awarded a contract worth £900m by South Western to make the carriages.

"It is very good news for people working at Litchurch Lane [Bombardier's main site]," Sim Harris from Rail News newspaper told BBC Radio Derby.

"It is also very good news for other companies in Derby and the East Midlands, some of whom do supply Bombardier with various parts."

Relive the action from day three of the County Championship as Middlesex thump Yorkshire by an innings and Joe Denly and Dane Vilas hit double tons.