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Seven people tested positive for coronavirus after mixing at Zinc bar in West Bridgford, a council says.

Alex Regan
BBC News

A Nottinghamshire bar that breached coronavirus regulations multiple times has been closed for at least a month.

Zinc in West Bridgford had previously been fined on three occasions for breaking Covid-19 rules, said Rushcliffe Borough Council

On 26 September council officers reported seeing people freely mixing between groups and shaking hands; later seven members of one of the groups tested positive for coronavirus.

A day earlier the owners of the bar had been fined £1,000 for failing to put NHS Test and Trace measures in place.

Image source, Rushcliffe Borough Council

During lockdown earlier this year, the same bar was fined for allowing customers to consume food and drink on the premises, in breach of takeaway rules.

The bar has now been fined £2,000, and has been shut for posing an imminent risk to health, and non-compliance with regulations.

It will remain shut for a month, and the operation of the business will be reviewed on a weekly basis.

Rushcliffe councillor Rob Inglis said: "We had no option but to take this action despite our teams continuing to provide them with the advice and support since COVID arrived and after its first, second and third fines."

Nottinghamshire director of public health Jonathan Gribbin said: “The bar’s operations pose a serious and imminent risk to the health of their customers, staff and the wider community."

Rob Sissons
East Midlands Today Reporter

We know infection rates are increasing across Nottinghamshire and across the entire East Midlands week-on-week.

But with the rate so high in Nottingham, it's perhaps not surprising they've started to notice a difference in the main hospitals.

When you look at the figures for Nottingham University Hospitals - that includes the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital - combined with Sherwood Forest Hospitals - that's King's Mill, in Sutton-in-Ashfield - there were more than 70 in-patients with Covid-19 a couple of days ago, according to public health experts.

The directors in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are pressing for a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to more restrictions across the city and county to make it easier to communicate and for people to understand what's going on.

They fear without these restrictions the number of cases will inevitably increase further with more admissions to hospital and, sadly, some deaths too.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Newly-released data shows Nottingham still has the highest seven-day infection rate in England - 760.6 per 100,000 people.

But how does the rest of Nottinghamshire compare?

Here's the breakdown for the week to 6 October:

• Ashfield: 99.3
• Bassetlaw: 86
• Broxtowe: 243.8
• Gedling: 163.7
• Mansfield: 81.4
• Newark and Sherwood: 190.3
• Rushcliffe: 241.6

Image source, Newark Borough Council

The England average is currently 135.5 per 100,000 people.

Alex Regan
BBC News

Nottingham continues to have the highest infection rate for coronavirus in England, according to latest data from Public Health England.

The figures show an infection rate of 760.6 per 100,000 people, up from 689.1, in the week up to 6 October.

In the same time period, the number of confirmed cases has increased from 527 in the week up to 29 September to 2,532.

However, it no longer has the highest infection rate in the UK, with Derry and Strabane recording a rate of 824.3 cases per 100,000.

In Scotland, the highest figure can be seen in Glasgow city, at 284.5 per 100,000, while in Wales, Merthyr Tydfil has the country's highest infection rate of 213.8 per 100,000.

Simon Ward
East Midlands Today Reporter

Marcus Omoro, 20, a student at Nottingham Trent University, hasn't decided if he'll be going out this weekend or not.

He said: "Everything closes at 10 so I'm not sure about going out any more really, and also the cases are quite high here.

"I feel like ever since all the students came back it has all gone up so everyone going back to uni has caused spikes.

"I feel like the break should have been longer but we're just going to have to deal with it."

Fellow student Alex Sakalauskas, 20, said he will be going out this weekend.

"If it's the last opportunity to go out, I might as well because if we're sat indoors for the next couple of weeks we might as well do something," he said.

Mr Sakalauskas said he will be careful after already catching coronavirus since being back at university.

He said: "It was a week after I'd been here, I got a fever and then ended up testing positive but it wasn't too bad and I wasn't really poorly but I'd want to avoid it."

A total of 172 prisoners and 43 staff at HMP Lowdham Grange have tested positive for the virus.

Liam Barnes
BBC News

Students at Nottingham Trent University are being urged to stay at home this weekend as the city looks to reduce the rate of coronavirus infections.

Edward Peck, the university's vice-chancellor, advised students to "avoid any non-essential travel and not to mix with other households" ahead of expected restrictions to be announced next week.

Warning that breaches of government guidance "could lead to both fines from the police and disciplinary action", including possible expulsion from the university, he thanked them for their "continued commitment to doing the right thing".