Updates for Tuesday 18 April 2017
Spanish football fans head to Leicester for Champions League quarter-final
Reaction from MPs to general election
Hannah Bladon stabbing: 'Attacker attempted suicide'
Man in court over Mapperly Park fatal stabbing
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 Wednesday
Leicester's superb debut Champions League campaign comes to an end as Atletico Madrid claim a draw at the King Power Stadium.
Read MoreLive updates have finished for the day but we'll be back at 08:00 tomorrow with all the latest news, sport, travel and weather.
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC weather presenter
There will be a few clear spells overnight and variable amounts of cloud.
Expect colder conditions with a frost possible, especially in rural spots.
BBC Radio Leicester
Plans to make Leicester's 'most dangerous road junction' safer have been published today. , external
City Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, has revealed details of how he wants to redesign and simplify the Five Ways junction - where Woodgate, Fosse Road North and Groby Road, Blackbird Road and Buckminster Road meet - as part of a wider £9m scheme to change the A50.
Image source, GoogleThere were 33 accidents at the junction between January 2011 and November last year - making it one of the worst accident hotspots in the city.
Mr Soulsby said the plans, which people can give their thoughts on from today, should help reduce confusion and congestion for drivers.
Khia Lewis-Todd
BBC Local Live
A woman was shot with what is thought to have been a BB gun fired from a car in Swadlincote, police said.
Officers believe the gun was fired from a white Ford Fiesta in Belmont Street on Monday last week.
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Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
Several trees have been damaged at West Park in Long Eaton over the Easter weekend.
Users of the park spotted that 25 newly planted trees had been snapped and damaged on Saturday morning.
Adrian Sheldrick, said: "It's a beautiful park...For somebody to do this unnecessary damage, you can't explain it in words."
This is the second time in a year that trees at the park, which has Green Flag status, have been damaged.
Phil Wright from Erewash Borough Council said they "share the disappointment and anger of residents at this vandalism".
He urged anyone who had any information about the damage caused to get in touch with local police.
Khia Lewis-Todd
BBC Local Live
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BBC News Online
Police say they are concerned for the safety of 16-year-old Tialo Miguel , externalwho has been missing since Thursday afternoon.
The force said Tialo has a heart condition which he takes daily medication for.
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Reporter, BBC Radio Derby
In less than two months, Britain will go to the polls again - after Theresa May called for a snap General Election to be held on 8 June.
Derby South MP Dame Margaret Beckett says there are a number of reasons behind the Prime Minister's decision.
Quote MessageThere are a lot of massive public expenditure cuts - schools the health service a lot of other things that are in the pipe line. The legislation's gone through but they haven't started to bite yet and if she goes now she can get people to make a choice, before they see the effects of those cuts and before they see the effects of the Brexit negotiation."
Dame Margaret Beckett, Derby South MP
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BBC News Online
The annual Easter Monday Hallaton Bottle Kicking match took place yesterday and it was as well-attended and as brutal as ever.
Here's some more photos from the event.
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BBC Local Live
Earlier on we told you about Hannah Bladon from Burton who was killed on a tram in Jerusalem on Easter Sunday.
Over the weekend tributes poured in for the 20-year-old from her family, school and her regular church.
Annabel Stoddart, headteacher at Abbot Beyne School, said: "Abbot Beyne School are shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Hannah Bladon.
"Hannah left Abbot Beyne in August 2015 to follow her dreams. She had always wanted to study Theology and the University of Birmingham offered her a scholarship to do this.
"Hannah was a lovely young lady - determined, hardworking and a joy to teach."
Image source, PAThe Rev Michael Freeman said Hannah was an active member of St John's Church, Horninglow, where the community was "shocked and saddened" by her death.
"We, an extended family, are doing all we can to support her close family and friends in their devastating grief," he added.
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Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
A father has been describing the lucky escape he and his three children had last night when their home in Addison Street, Eastwood, caught fire.
Michael James Lowe told the BBC he was watching TV with his children around 21:30 when he noticed a "fishy smell" and saw sparks coming from the fuse box.
He said: "I saw it sparking and popping and took the kids out straight away to a friend's house. When I came back it [the house] was ablaze."
Firefighters spent almost two hours tackling the fire and also rescued eight kittens from the house.
A fire service spokesman said they believed the fire had started due to an electrical fault and the house was now "uninhabitable".
Mr Lowe said much of the house had suffered smoke damage and they were now staying with friends and family.
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BBC News Online
A 50-year-old man suffered head injuries in an assault at the Atrium pub, external in Castle Gate, Newark, in the early hours of Sunday.
Police said the man was attacked between 02:00 and 03:00 and remains in a stable condition at King's Mill Hospital.
Image source, GoogleA 25-year-old man has been arrested and released in connection with the assault.
BBC Radio Leicester
An 18-year-old was punched in the face and robbed of his bank card and mobile phone in Leicester, police say.
It happened near the canal towpath at the bottom of Discovery Road on 5 April at about 16:45.
Officers say the suspects were both black and in their late teens.
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A woman was assaulted as she walked along an alleyway in Derby, say police.
Three men and a woman came up behind the 39-year-old and pushed her to the floor, causing bruising and breaking her glasses.
It happened on a path off Nuns Street between midnight and 01:00 on Saturday 8 April.
Image source, GoogleThe female in the group was white, of thin build, in her late teens or early 20s, and about 5ft 5ins tall, with light brown hair tied in a ponytail.
The men were also white, of thin build and in their late teens or early 20s.
Officers want to speak to anyone, external who was in the area around that time.
The 23-year-old raped one of his victims three times.
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