Teenage girl dies after being hit by a bus
Doctor warns against cuts to stop smoking services
Met Office issue weather warning for snow and ice
Schoolgirl wants Disney princesses to wear glasses
Leicester College staff strike over pay
'Fantastic response' to city farm appeal
Wollaton Hall to upgrade Natural History Museum
Updates for Tuesday 29 January
Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter
Rolls-Royce doesn't want you to muck about near its nuclear site in Raynesway.
It's put in a planning application for an electric fence to go round it.
Image source, Rolls-RoyceThe new fence would bring the site up to the Ministry of Defence’s security standards.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
With more cold and wintry weather on its way the gritters are heading out across the East Midlands.
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A dad said he and his wife had to call their GP more than 200 times on one morning when their one-year-old was sick before they could book an appointment.
Ben Bruce, from Hinckley, thinks the system is "broken" because of a lack of funding.
Across Leicester GPs are seeing more than 2m patients a year - a 30% increase over the last 5 years, according to a spokesman for the group that commissions the GP services, Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group.
Image source, Getty ImagesProfessor Azhar Farooqi is from that group and said he understands the frustration of patients, but added their staff are operating under pressure.
"I admire [our reception staff] greatly because they know when they come in to work for the first two hours they are going to be totally overwhelmed," he said.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
A man and woman from Derby have been charged with human trafficking and labour exploitation offences.
Police said the pair were arrested at a property on Stone Hill Road yesterday.
Image source, GoogleA 34-year-old was charged with arranging or facilitating the travel of a person with a view to exploitation, and holding a person in slavery or servitude.
A 37-year-old man was charged with the same offences and also with driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
They've been remanded in custody ahead of an appearance at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court.
"Specialist support" is being provided to a woman in connection with the investigation.
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Yesterday we reported a sign has been put up warning drivers that a road will be closed on 29 February - a date that does not exist. At least, not this year.
We asked if you could see what was wrong, external - prompting an amusing outpouring of ridicule on social media.
Perhaps Highways England was just giving more than 13 months' notice that the A52 near Bramcote would be shut for 10 hours overnight?
Image source, Owen ScrimshawSamantha Varnam wrote: "That's what I call forward planning!"
Andy Allam added: "Long wait, I was born that day and have to wait every four years for a proper birthday."
Others believed the error may have instead been the idea of a road being closed for only one night or actually reopening on time for the rush hour.
But it seems the sign was wrong and Highways England has said it will be removing it.
BBC Radio Nottingham
Forget wishing on a star, this girl has taken her campaign to get a Disney princess wearing glasses all the way to the top.
Nine-year-old Lowri, pictured right, has written to the company's chief executive because she wants films to show children who wear glasses like her that they can be beautiful too, not just stereotyped as nerds and geeks.
She said: "When I played with Disney princesses I had to take my glasses off because I didn't feel I was beautiful.
"There are lots of little girls who wear glasses and I do not want all those to feel like I did."
Image source, (Left) DisneyRobyn Muir has carried out doctoral research at the University of Nottingham about Disney Princesses.
She said: "They essentially look perfect all the time even if they've been running through the woods or just woken up and it's not a very realistic or diverse portrayal of women."
There's been no word yet from Disney
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
A 62-year-old man is in hospital with "serious head injuries" after he was assaulted in Chesterfield.
Image source, GoogleIt happened in Stephenson Place, near the Beach Bar, in the early hours of Saturday 12 January.
Police have said they've identified some potential witnesses but would like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and may have heard something.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
It's been confirmed that the pedestrian killed in crash in Coalville was a teenage girl.
She was hit by a bus on Meadow Lane at about 15:30 yesterday. Police have said she sustained "serious injuries" and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Flowers and other tributes left at the scene of the crash have since been removed.
BBC Radio Derby
From today the Derbyshire Cricket Ground will be known as the Pattonair County Ground.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt comes as the club agrees a new, four year sponsorship deal with a local aerospace and defence company.
Pattonair has been in the city for the last 20 years. The club lost its previous ground sponsor in October when the training company 3aaa went into liquidation.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Good news - trains are now getting back to normal in the Newark area.
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Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter
A senior doctor at the Royal Derby Hospital has said thousands of people will be harmed if the city council goes ahead with cuts to the stop smoking service.
Derby City Council's Livewell service, external, which offers help to lose weight and give up cigarettes, could lose 40% of its funding under plans being decided next month.
Dr James Scott is an assistant clinical director at the Royal Derby and a specialist in treating strokes.
In a letter to the leader of Derby City Council, Dr Scott said the cuts to the smoking cessation service would be "profligately wasteful" and will harm thousands of people.
He added that "even by the standards of our bizarre political times, [the cuts are] entirely without reason."
The council, which is running a consultation on the proposals, external, said it welcomes him sharing his views.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
A lorry has crashed into a level crossing in the Collingham area between Newark Castle and Lincoln.
This is disrupting East Midlands Trains services on the Leicester/Nottingham/Lincoln routes.
Image source, East Midlands TrainsThe train company said Network Rail is on site and investigating the scale of the damage to the barriers which had to be closed causing at least 30 minutes of delays.
At the moment trains cannot run between Newark Castle/Newark Northgate and Lincoln. They are being replaced with coaches.
East Midlands Today
Teaching staff at a college in Leicester are on strike today in a row over pay., external
The University and College Union claims wages at Leicester College have dropped by a quarter over the last decade.
Staff across its three campuses plan to walk out today and on Thursday. Lecturers at 14 other colleges are also taking action.
The union said the pay gap between school teachers and college teachers is now £7,000.
In a statement, the college said: "The college will be remaining open during the strike action, and we will not be cancelling classes for students; the college aims to operate as normal on these dates. The college respects the right of union members to take action."
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
If you're on your way to catch a train this might affect your journey.
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Roy Keane has returned to Nottingham Forest as assistant to manager Martin O'Neill.
This was the moment he scored a thumping header for the club in the FA Cup third round against Southampton in 1993. He was also quizzed on his future at the club.
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This beautiful flock of yellowhammers were spotted at a farm in Chesterfield yesterday afternoon.
Stephen James said they were eating seeds that had fallen from the hanging feeder.
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BBC News
Housework can be difficult at the best of times but imagine doing it at this marvellous building, which is home to some of the "best textiles in Europe".
East Midlands Today
An inner city farm which faces closure unless it raises £30,000, says it's had a "fantastic response" to its appeal.
Stonebridge City Farm in St Ann's, Nottingham called for help earlier this month and says it's already received half of the money it needs to survive.
It provides work opportunities for more than 120 people - many of whom have a learning or mental health difficulty.
Farm manager Peter Armitage said the response to their appeal for funding help was "fantastic".
"We've raised over £16,000 already, so it just shows how much people want to support the farm and keep it going."
BBC Radio Nottingham
MPs are preparing to vote on amendments to Theresa May's Brexit deal.
Conservatives have been told to back a proposal, which says the strategy for the Irish border must be reworked or scrapped.
Image source, AFP/Getty ImagesLeading retailers are warning that a no-deal Brexit will drive up food prices and pose a "significant" risk to the range and quality of products on supermarket shelves.
Wholesalers at Nottingham's Cattle Market don't sound too worried this morning. One fruit and veg seller said: "I don't think it's going to affect us that much. I think it will affect some lines but at the end of the day, farmers and growers want to sell their produce."
Another said: "I think we will be able to get them but the prices will be higher - everything is going to go up."