David Pittam
BBC News Online

An airgun shop has been accused of glamourising guns with its display.

Drapers Airgun Centre, has been in Radford, Nottingham for decades but their recent display has prompted a number of complaints on social media.

Kieron Thompson, a youth worker, told the BBC he was "worried" by it. "Young people seeing that might think they're real guns and it's glamourising it," he added.

Trading Standards said there was nothing they could do but the local police inspector will speak to the owners about the community's concerns.

Drapers said: "The themed window display is something new, fun and perfectly within the law... hopefully to keep our customers up to date with the latest products.

"We have had many positive comments from the window display but it seems no matter what one displays in the window some people are always unhappy."

Sheffield Wednesday forward Fernando Forestieri is charged by the Football Association with using racist language.

Councillors say they "fully supported" officers who refused to house a mother fleeing domestic violence.

An entire martial arts class called a halt to a lesson, ran outside and tracked down two men.

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

Police would like to speak to these men in connection with a robbery at a petrol station in Matlock last night.

Two men with their faces covered threatened a shop worker at the Esso garage at the junction of Matlock Green and Church Street at about 23:50.

They stole cash and cigarettes before they and a third man ran off in the direction of the Hurst Farm estate.

Image source, Derbyshire Police

Former world champions Ben and Tom Birchall continue scintillating run of seven TT victories by completing 2019 double.

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

A woman has been charged with two burglaries in Retford.

Police were called to flats in Chestnut Avenue just before 22:30 on Tuesday after reports a woman had stolen a purse.

A 36-year-old woman was arrested shortly after and is due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court today.

She has also been charged over a further burglary in the same block of flats on the same day.

Image source, Google

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

Concern is growing for Ian Shepherd, who went missing on Monday.

The 59-year-old was last seen in Market Place, Heanor.

He is white, 5ft 7in tall, of slim build and was wearing dark blue jeans, a green and black jumper, black trainer boots, and a black coat when last seen.

He has a red love heart tattoo featuring the word ‘Lynn’ on one of his lower arms and the word ‘Mum’ tattooed on his shoulder.

Image source, Derbyshire Police

East Midlands Today

Staff at Nottingham College are staging a protest over plans to impose new contracts.

Unions say their members are being “held to ransom” and face dismissal if they don’t sign the new agreement.

The college has said it wants to make sure everyone is graded and paid in a fair way.

Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter

HS2 Ltd has published new proposals for the railway's route near Stapleford and Trowell.

Realigning the M1 would have taken more than three years, but the new route proposed would mean the road doesn't need to be moved.

The new route is about 80m closer to Stapleford, and 20 additional homes would need to be demolished, mostly on Tiree Close and Iona Drive.

Image source, HS2 Ltd

The new proposals also call for a railhead to be built near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, to facilitate the construction of the line.

While no changes are to be made to the route near Long Eaton, additional pieces of land have been safeguarded for potential development in the future.

Press Association

Hospital systems and training should be closely scrutinised as part of investigations into doctors following the unexpected deaths of patients, an independent review has suggested.

The report, commissioned by the General Medical Council, called for a shift towards "a just and fair culture when things go wrong", to better support staff and improve patient safety.

It highlighted the need for the GMC to rebuild its relationship with doctors following the backlash over the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee paediatrician found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the sepsis death of six-year-old Jack Adcock at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

A tribunal decided she should remain on the medical register despite her conviction but the GMC faced an outcry from doctors after it took the case to the High Court and she was struck off last January.

In August, the Court of Appeal ruled Dr Bawa-Gaba should be restored to the medical register, and in April, it was decided she could practise again.

Review chairman Leslie Hamilton said: "Although the relationship between doctors and the GMC had been deteriorating for some time, what finally triggered the wave of anger was the action of the GMC in successfully appealing the decision of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) not to erase her name from the medical register.

"The NHS is one of the safest health systems in the world, but it can be better. And the way to improve patient safety is to change the attitude when things go wrong and errors happen, instead of blaming an individual, we learn from that and we make the system safer."

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Police have released a custody photo of Hannah Cobley after she was found guilty at Leicester Crown Court of murdering her newborn baby at her parents' farm in Stoney Stanton in April 2017.

Senior investigating officer, Det Insp Jon Blockley said: "This is an extremely sad and tragic case which has resulted in the death of a newborn baby girl, born at 32 weeks.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

"Hannah Cobley had previously denied being responsible for her baby’s death but, following this investigation, has today been found guilty of murder.

“Cobley could have sought help from her own family or professionals but instead took actions into her own hands. This decision meant a newborn baby girl was denied her life."

Just two more overs managed on Merseyside and off they come again - so they are taking lunch.

It is starting to look like Lancashire are going to be denied the chance of victory by the weather for the second game running, following last week's two lost days in Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College.

Time for BBC Radio Leicester's Richard Rae to put his hat on again . . .

Hannah Cobley's daughter suffered three skull fractures and survived for two hours before dying.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

The trial at Hannah Cobley's murder trial had heard her newborn baby had suffered three skull fractures but lived for two hours before dying at her parent's farm in Stoney Stanton in April 2017.

The jury at Leicester Crown Court was told the 29-year-old had silenced the infant by forcing something down her throat and wrapping her in plastic bags before dumping her in undergrowth.

Cobley had denied killing the baby and claimed she believed it had been stillborn.

Image source, Google

Jurors took two hours to reach their conclusion this morning and were told by Justice Susan Carr it had been "a very distressing case on many levels".

The emotional defendant was remanded into custody and told she will be sentenced tomorrow.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

A Leicestershire woman has been found guilty of murdering her newborn baby at a farm.

Hannah Cobley, from Stoney Stanton, suffocated and beat the infant, which had been born at 32 weeks following a secret pregnancy, before leaving it to die in undergrowth at the farm, a court heard.

A jury found the 29-year-old guilty of murder by unanimous decision following a five-week trial at Leicester Crown Court.

Image source, PA

Det Ch Insp Rob Widdowson's sudden death is being investigated by British Transport Police.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

The death of Det Ch Insp Rob Widdowson was announced by Leicestershire Police yesterday.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Police say they're concerned about the safety of a 17-year-old boy who's gone missing from the Mansfield area.

Hayden Lafferty was wearing dark tracksuit bottoms and a beige top when he disappeared on Monday.

Contact Nottinghamshire Police if you can help.

Image source, Nottinghamshire Police

David Pittam
BBC News Online

"If I don't tell this story it will be forgotten," says the son of a D-Day veteran with a remarkable war story.

John Stanley Freeman, aged just 26, was blown in to the channel on the first day of the invasion when his ship took a direct hit and exploded.

He spent two days in the water until he washed ashore near Le Havre, surviving thanks to a youth spent swimming in the Trent.

Image source, Anthony Freeman

Back in Nottingham his wife Ena and two-year-old son Anthony were sent a telegram telling them he was missing in action and "presumed dead".

But a mention in a Nazi propaganda broadcast months later revealed he was actually at a prisoner of war camp.

He had been captured, interrogated and marched under pain of death to the Luckenwalde camp near Berlin where he stayed for almost a year until the "great day" when the Russian troops liberated it.

Image source, Anthony Freeman

Instead of waiting for the Western forces to arrive he decided to make his own way to them, crossing enemy territory full of German snipers to reach the Americans on the West bank of the Elbe.

But to do this he had to swim across it in the depths of a freezing winter. An American soldier who saw him as he emerged was so shocked he dropped his rifle. John Stanley arrived home weighing just six stone.

Mr Freeman said his father rarely spoke about the whole experience and went back to a normal life as an engineer after the war, dying in his sleep in 1993 at the age of 75.

"It's a story no-one will know unless I tell it," he said. "And I'm very proud of what he did."