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The FA say they're investigating this fight at the end of the game at the One Call Stadium last night.

Stags won 2-1 during the pre-season friendly against Sheffield Wednesday.

John Potter, who stabbed his flatmate to death in 2007, disappeared from HMP Sudbury, police say.

Kit Sandeman
Local Democracy Reporter

A former library in Nottingham is set to be turned into new houses after Nottingham City Council offered the site out for sale.

The library in Carlton Road, St Ann's closed in 2011 and has been derelict since.

The city council, which owns the building, has now offered it out to developers, who have been told they must use it for building accommodation.

A spokesman for the city council said: "It would be suitable for a small number of flats and would complement the new housing and supermarket developments in the area."

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Local Democracy Reporting Service

A software project involving Nottinghamshire Police has gone millions of pounds over budget, is years behind schedule and is still not fully operational, a new report has found.

Nottinghamshire joined forces from Northants and Cheshire in 2014 to work on the Multi Force Shared Service (MFSS), which would be used for pay roll, rota and other human resource functions .

The scheme has been partly up-and-running for 18 months but a full launch has been postponed from April to November following a number of issues setting up the software.

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Mark Kimberley, head of finance for Nottinghamshire Police, said; "While the Fusion project has been delayed slightly, it will deliver savings and it will set us up to enhance service delivery, by investing in more modern systems."

Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire's police and crime commissioner, said: "To set something up costs you, but in the long term, I'm determined we're going to get savings from it, but to make it work we've had to put some extra resources into it."

An independent audit by KPMG said the project was "late, over budget, not to specification, and would not deliver the expected savings" but concluded the force otherwise provided good value for money.

All-rounder Matt Critchley caps a fine display by taking 6-106 as Derbyshire earn a thrilling 39-run win over Northants.

If you head west of Sheffield to Ladybower reservoir this week, you might be surprised to see just how low the water levels are.

As the video below shows, the lake bed is cracked and looking very dry after the recent heatwave and lack of rain.

Thanks to Michael Stephenson for sending it in to us.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Volunteers are cracking on with the community archaeological dig at Clumber Park.

People can visit from now until Sunday to see what they find.

Nigel Bell
BBC Radio Nottingham

Chris Beeley, from New Basford, Nottingham, used to fall asleep in work meetings.

He found out he had a liver condition that required a transplant.

Chris, 39, received a new liver just over a year ago. Next month he's competing in the British Transplant Games, external in Birmingham to raise awareness about organ donation.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Police have appealed for help tracking down a 50-year-old man who's been missing for more than a week.

Simon Bradshaw, who was last seen on 16 July, has lived in both Mansfield and the Old Whittington area of Chesterfield recently.

He also has links to Birmingham and police said he had been known to walk there from Derbyshire.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts has been asked to call 101.

Image source, Derbyshire Police

Natalie Jackson
BBC East Midlands sports editor

Derby County are interested in signing Ipswich Town striker Martyn Waghorn but I understand any suggested fee of £8m is wide of the mark.

The 28-year-old scored 16 goals for the Championship side last season.

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Derby Telegraph

More than a dozen police officers descended on a Chaddesden park after travellers parked themselves behind a school, external.

The ornate designs, dating back to 1699, can be seen under the scorched grass at Chatsworth House.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

A cordon put in place due to a fractured gas pipe in Sandy Lane, Worksop, has been extended from 50m to 150m by Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Liam Golds, a manager at a nearby McDonald's, said: "They've shut the road at the roundabout and aren't letting anyone through.

"A couple of our staff have had to take a detour to get into work.

"When I last looked there were a couple of police cars, a couple of police vans and what I believe was an unmarked fire engine."

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A disposable barbecue is thought to be to blame for a large fire in woods near Blackbrook Reservoir last night.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said a barbecue was to blame for another blaze in the same spot a few weeks ago.

Image source, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service

Image source, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service

Image source, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

A convicted murderer has absconded from HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire.

John Potter was sentenced to life at Newcastle Crown Court for murder in 2008 and disappeared around 17.00 yesterday.

Police said the 52-year-old has a large number of tattoos, including pictures of a swallow, a devil and the words ‘Debbie’ and ‘Born to raise hell’ on his neck.

He also has a distinctive tattoo of a panther on his right hand.

His last known address is in Newcastle.

Image source, Derbyshire Constabulary

Ben Truslove
BBC News Online

We'll bring you more on this when we have it.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Music fans heading for the Y Not Festival in Derbyshire this weekend have expressed anger at being told they cannot bring gazebos to the event.

The portable covers, pictured at another event, feature on a list of prohibited items, external but festival attendees have branded the decision "dangerous" given the current hot conditions.

Organisers said gazebos take up too much space in the camping area and they had been listed as banned on the website for the past year.

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Many people have directed their anger at the festival's official Twitter account.

Rory Welsh said, external: "Banning the only source of shade (other than a roasting hot tent) in an open, shadeless field, in the middle of the hottest summer on record? Suggest you rethink this one chiefs, heatstroke is not a joke."

George Sidebottom wrote, external: "There’s never been an issue with space for the past 6 years I’ve been. People will still gather their chairs in a circle whether there’s a gazebo or not. Are you going to ban chairs next?"

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We put these criticisms to organisers who've responded: "The well-being and safety of customers is our biggest priority and because of this, there are items that are prohibited from site.

"We advise customers to take extra care in the potential hot weather this weekend. There will be numerous sheltered areas on site and water points for customers."

Sima Kotecha
Midlands Correspondent, BBC News

A police report into allegations of sexual abuse by a doctor at a children's hospital in Derbyshire has concluded that if he were alive today, he would be questioned under caution.

Dr Kenneth Milner, who worked at Aston Hall, in Aston-on-Trent, from 1947 to the mid-1970s, has been accused of injecting children with truth serum.

The drug is discredited now but at the time some doctors believed it relaxed patients and made them tell the truth. It's claimed after making his patients go into a zombie-like-state, he sexually abused them.

Image source, Nottingham City Council/Picture The Past

The report by Derbyshire Police says more than 100 witness statements were recorded and that most of those people alleged abuse at the hospital during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The home closed down in the 1990s.

The document concludes that if Dr Milner were alive now he would be questioned over potential charges including rape and child cruelty.

Barbara O'Hare, who says she was abused by the doctor in the 1970s, told the BBC today's report was positive.

She said: "It gives recognition to what happened to me and others at the hospital and I'm very grateful to the police."

Dr Milner died in 1975 and police said no inference should be drawn from the report other than the doctor would be questioned if he were here today.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

A public archaeological dig at Clumber Park starts today to find out more about the former stately home that stood there.

The outline of the 18th Century Clumber House has started to appear on the grounds of the park during the dry weather and the National Trust said it is now hoping to find out more about the cellars.

The site was the subject of an archaeological dig in the 1970s and also two years ago, but the Trust said "so many questions still remain".

In 2016 the dig at the site revealed floors, walls and cellars.

The National Trust, which owns the park, said they're now hoping to find out more about the condition of these cellars and whether they are still accessible, as well as finding pottery, walls and artifacts.

Visitors can take part in events around the dig from today until Sunday.

Sandish Shoker
BBC News

Trams were held for a short time until technicians were able to get to a broken down tram.

They are now on working on the fault and trams are running again, but with delays.