Latest updates: East Midlands Live on Monday 31 July 2017

Summary

Live updates for Monday 31 July 2017
Y Not Festival refund action calls grow
Toddler killer mum has jail term cut
Services to mark Passchendaele centenary
Triathlete injured in hit-and-run crash
Residents face 'constant battle' with smell and flies

Live Reporting

Gavin Bevis and Maryam Qaiser

Passchendaele to be remembered at Cathedral Servicepublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
I expect plenty of people will be going to this...
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Y Not Festival: 'Why was the organisation so poor?'published at 14:36 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Facebook
We've had a number of comments on our Facebook page, external about the Y Not Festival's cancellation.
Candy Sutton posted: "Where was all the straw to help the main areas? Isn't this usually put in place throughout the festivals to help ease the mud in such bad weather?? Why was the organisation generally so poor this year?"
Ben Taylor countered: "Straw lol, wouldn't of made the slightest bit of difference on that field."
Sarcasm fan Ian Carter then wrote: "News flash heavy rain causes a field to be muddy!"
Woman sought after eight Rams kits stolenpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
Police have released a photo of a woman they want to speak to after eight Derby County kits were stolen from the club shop.
The home strips were taken from the DCFC Megastore at Pride Park Stadium at about 16:30 on Saturday 22 July.
Derbyshire Police have asked anyone with information to call 101.
Image source, Derbyshire Police
Toddler killer mum has jail term cutpublished at 13:48 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Ayeeshia Jane Smith died from a tear to the heart after being stamped on by her mother.
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Tram named after student nursepublished at 13:39 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
A tram has been named after a student nurse, who was nominated by the parents of a child she cared for at the hospital.
Christina O'Loughlin, 24, works for the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and won Nurse and Midwife of the Year 2017.
Image source, NET Nottingham Trams
Traffic police numbers in county drop by more than halfpublished at 13:23 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
The number of traffic police on Nottinghamshire's roads has more than halved in the last 10 years.
In 2007, Nottinghamshire Police had 138 dedicated road traffic officers but that number has gone down to 61, a drop of 56%.
It is the fourth largest drop in the country compared to other forces.
The force said budget cuts have meant they have faced challenging times and the figures do not take into account the significant number of officers who have dual roles.
Village junction sees 'nine accidents in two months'published at 13:04 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
Campaigners calling for improvements at a busy road junction in south Leicestershire say they've secured a meeting with highways bosses to discuss making the road safer.
People living in Shearsby say their village's junction with the A5199 is an accident blackspot, adding there have been nine crashes in the past two months.
Image source, Google
Anne Blaine says she was so fed up with the situation, she formed a committee to get something done.
"We find it completely unacceptable to have so many casualties on our doorstep over many, many years," she said.
"We felt compelled to set up a committee... to raise awareness and to request attention from the council and highways."
Bakewell show set to go ahead despite wet weatherpublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Tom Ingall
BBC Look North
The annual Bakewell Show looks set to go ahead as planned tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday despite heavy rain over the weekend which led to the final day of the nearby Y Not festival being cancelled by organisers yesterday due to the inclement weather.
I've been in the Derbyshire village all morning and there's plenty of water around!
The event draws thousands of people to the showground from areas including Yorkshire and a decision has been made to put down large amounts of chopped down straw in an attempt to dry up the site before it opens to the public tomorrow morning.
BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio Derby and BBC Look North will be broadcasting from the 2017 Bakewell Show across the three days of this year's event.
County ins & outs 2017published at 12:49 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
With the 2017 county season here, keep up to date with the latest signings, departures and rumours ahead of next season.
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Y Not staff 'stopped driver helping stranded festival-goers'published at 12:42 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
A man has told the BBC, staff at the Y Not Festival ordered him to stop rescuing motorists who were stuck in mud at the Pikehall site.
Richard Clayton, 34, from Matlock, said he had gone to pick his partner and eldest daughter up after hearing it had been cancelled.
He used his Land Rover, jump leads and a tow rope and pulled six cars out before being told to stop.
He said: “The people working there told me ‘It was their [the drivers] own stupid fault for driving on the mud’.
“It was horrendous, completely disorganised. The attitude towards everybody was horrendous. I wasn’t there to make any money, I was there to help people."
The BBC has approached the organisers for further comment.
Teenager charged after Pentagon Island police chasepublished at 12:27 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with driving offences, external following a police pursuit through Derby city centre.
Police said a car refused to stop on Ashbourne Road on Friday afternoon and had been chased through Pentagon Island and into Chaddesden, where it crashed into a tree in Hampshire Road.
The boy was charged with dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, failing to stop and driving without insurance. He will appear before magistrates next month.
Image source, Google
Gossip: Leicester's Mahrez still keen on Roma movepublished at 12:26 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
Riyad Mahrez has been a regular fixture in BBC Sport's football gossip column this summer - and today's no exception.
The Daily Mirror reckons he's keen to join Roma - and is hopeful the club will return with an improved offer for his services.
There's also a bit about Leicester's efforts to sign Man City striker Kelechi Iheanacho.
Image source, Getty Images
BBC documentary Hospital to be filmed in Nottinghampublished at 12:16 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
The next series of the hit BBC Two documentary, Hospital, will be filmed in Nottingham.
It will take a look behind the scenes at Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital to see how staff deal with the daily pressures and demands on the health service.
Filming for the six-part series will begin at the start of next year and will broadcast next spring.
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What is unique about Hospital, is that it goes beyond the headlines and gets under the skin of the challenges our staff experience every day and very often the difficult decisions they face in their efforts to do what is right for patients, their loved ones and carers."
Laura Skaife-Knight, Nottingham University Hospitals
Watch: Cat's slow-mo butterfly catchpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
I agree there were plenty of butterflies to be seen over the weekend - here's my cat Barnaby trying to catch one in Borrowash.
Mother who stamped baby to death has jail term cutpublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
A mother serving a life sentence for killing her baby daughter during a "violent burst of temper" has had her minimum jail term cut.
Kathryn Smith was found guilty of murder and child cruelty after 21-month-old Ayeeshia Jane Smith was beaten and stamped to death at her home in Burton-upon-Trent in May 2014.
The 24-year-old was ordered to serve at least 24 years behind bars at Birmingham Crown Court in April last year.
Image source, PA
However, judges at the Court of Appeal have ruled the original term was too long in light of Smith's youth and "immaturity" and reduced it to 19 years.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas said: "The minimum term imposed by the judge did not properly reflect the circumstances of the murder, the previous conduct, the other offences of which she was convicted or the mitigating factors.
"In our judgment, the minimum term which properly reflected all the factors should have been one of 19 years."
However, the judges refused Smith's bid to overturn her murder conviction, dismissing a suggestion by her barrister that it was "unsafe".
Passchendaele: Former Leicester Tiger pays tribute to unclepublished at 11:48 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Maryam Qaiser
BBC Local Live
It's 100 years since the Battle of Passchendaele - one of World War One's bloodiest spells of fighting.
Former Leicester and England rugby player Lewis Moody is in Belgium to honour those who died including his mother's great uncle, Ernest George Lovejoy.
He spoke to BBC Breakfast earlier today...
Your photos: Butterfly seasonpublished at 11:38 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
BBC Weather Watchers
Looks like lots of you had butterflies in your garden this weekend. Here's one Scrappy snapped in Kegworth.
Image source, Scrappy
And here's a photo from East Leake by Maggie T.
Image source, Maggie T
Watch: Another medal for Peatypublished at 11:08 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
In case you missed it (or ICYMI, as the kids say) Adam Peaty picked up another medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Hungary last night - silver in the 4x100m medley relay.
Here's the race...
Missing Derbyshire man found dead on boatpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
A Derbyshire man who went missing with his boat in France has been found dead, external.
Police said the David John Henson, 76, who had been living on the boat prior to his disappearance, was found dead on board the vessel in the Toulouse area of France on Thursday.
His family have been informed along with the French authorities.
Y Not: 'The worst weekend I've ever experienced'published at 11:04 British Summer Time 31 July 2017
Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live
Katy Bull, from Belper, told the BBC she and her friends made the decision to leave the "horrendous" Y Not Festival on Saturday morning.
She said: “Yes, the weather was a factor but there were no contingency plans put in place. Glastonbury and Download deal with rain.
“People just abandoned cars, people were being charged to have their cars towed by tractors."
She also said her group felt unsafe following reports of "gangs" stealing from tents.
“It was probably the worst weekend I’ve ever experienced," she said.
Festival organisers have apologised for the disruption and cancellation. They said they would be releasing information about refunds shortly.