Summary

  • Updates for Monday 21 September 2015

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Tuesday

  1. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00

    Today's Local Live updates have now finished. We will be back at 08:00 on Tuesday.

  2. Weather: Dry night with chance of mist and fogpublished at 17:51

    Anna Church
    Weather Presenter, BBC East Midlands Today

    A few showers are possible overnight, but it will be largely dry with clear spells allowing some mist or fog to form, and lows of 9C (48F).

    Weather map with temperatures for Monday September 21 to Tuesday 22
  3. Rams target first home winpublished at 17:43

    Owen Bradley
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    Derby County will aim for a first home win of the season in the Championship when they host Burnley tonight.

    Striker Johnny Russell says it gives the Rams a great chance to show how much they've improved in recent weeks, with back-to-back away victories in their last two games.

    Johnny RussellImage source, Empics

    Paul Clement's team are four points and eight places behind their opponents.

  4. Detectives revisit scene of teenager's rapepublished at 17:21

    Lisa Teanby
    Newsreader, BBC Radio Derby

    Police are returning to the scene of a rape attack in Darley Abbey, external today to speak to passers-by and local businesses.

    Police to revisit scene of rape at Darley Abbey in Derby

    An 18-year-old woman was assaulted near a footpath close to the nature reserve area off South Avenue at about 17.40 on 7 September.

    Police described the rape as "very unusual" and said they wanted to speak to a man who was spotted nearby.

  5. 'Difficult' market conditions trigger JCB job cutspublished at 17:11

    Lisa Teanby
    Newsreader, BBC Radio Derby

    Staffordshire firm JCB has begun a consultation process with staff over proposed job cuts and is considering voluntary redundancies as it prepares to shed 400 jobs from all areas of the business.

    JCB chief executive Graeme Macdonald

    Chief executive Graeme Macdonald said: "Market conditions in the construction equipment sector have been difficult for some time, but they have worsened quite rapidly in recent weeks."

  6. Trailblazers drawn at home again in national cuppublished at 16:54

    Nigel Cash
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    The Derby Trailblazers basketball team have been drawn to play division four side Coventry Tornadoes at home in the National Cup second round.

    The tie will take place a week on 4 October.

  7. Derby Telegraph: Tributes paid to killed motorcyclistpublished at 16:39

    Derby Telegraph

    Tributes have been paid, external to a motorcyclist who was killed in a collision on a busy Derby road.

    Scene of fatal collision involving motorbike at Raynesway in DerbyImage source, Derby Telegraph
  8. Derbyshire sign Warwickshire all-rounderpublished at 16:23

    Nigel Cash
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    Derbyshire have signed all-rounder Tom Milnes from Warwickshire, after he impressed during a loan spell with the county.

    Tom MilnesImage source, Getty Images

    Milnes has signed a two-year deal at the County Ground.

  9. Police: Riddings explosion investigation to continuepublished at 16:08

    Here's a bit more from this afternoon's Derbyshire Police update on the murder of Shelley Saxton-Cooper at her house in Riddings.

    A statement from the force said: “Police, crime scene investigators and fire investigation specialists are working through the scene of the fire to find out exactly how it started and what happened.

    Riddings explosion

    “We don’t believe, at this time, that anyone else is involved.”

  10. Burton man sets up foodbank in his own homepublished at 16:07

    Sally Swinfen
    BBC Radio Derby newsreader

    A Burton man who was homeless for four years has used his experience on the streets to set up a foodbank from his home.

    Michael McCheyne depended on food banks to survive and says he wants to help others who find themselves in the same situation.

  11. Riddings house blast: 'No-one else involved'published at 15:55

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    Police say they are treating the death of 45-year-old Shelley Saxton-Cooper in yesterday's house explosion in Riddings as murder.

    Post-mortem examinations of Mrs Saxton-Cooper and her husband are yet to be carried out but detectives said they did not believe anyone else was involved in their deaths.

    House fire and explosion treated as suspicious at Riddings where couple died
  12. Police: Woman in house blast was murderedpublished at 15:44
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    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    Officers investigating the death of two people in a house explosion in Riddings say they are treating the incident as suspicious.

    Ch Supt Sunita Gamblin, from Derbyshire Police, said: "Although we haven't made formal identifications of the man and woman who died, we believe they are Shelley and Simon Saxton-Cooper, and that Shelley, who was 45-years-old, was wounded before the explosion and fire, and we are treating her death as murder."

  13. Clouds gather over Derbyshire Peak Districtpublished at 15:34

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    This photograph of Mam Tor at Hope Valley in the Peak District was taken by James Taylor and seems to nicely sum up the weather of late.

    Mam Tor, Hope Valley, DerbyshireImage source, James D Taylor

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  14. Latest headlines for Derbyshire and East Staffordshirepublished at 15:18

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    Here are the main stories we're covering this afternoon:

  15. Neighbour's shock at house blastpublished at 15:03

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    A neighbour has been recalling the shocking scene he encountered following yesterday's house explosion in Riddings which killed two people.

    David Ward

    David Ward said: "The devastation of the property was unbelievable. The whole side of the gable on the property had gone, the roof had virtually gone, all the front of the house, just total devastation."

  16. Brewers players face prospect of international breakpublished at 14:51

    Nigel Cash
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    Burton Albion's home game against Millwall, external on 14 November could be postponed because of international call-ups.

    The Lions anticipate they could have as many as five players away, which gives them the right to rearrange the fixture.

  17. Choir pays homage to classic New York photopublished at 14:37

    A famous photo of workers enjoying lunch while sitting on a girder high above New York has been recreated in Derby.

    YesterYear New York homageImage source, Ashley Franklin

    Ashley Franklin, from Belper, used his montaging skills to make it look like men's choir, YesterYear, who've made it through to the finals of Gareth Malone's The Naked Choir, were perched high above Derby.

  18. JCB cuts jobs after drop in salespublished at 14:29

    Lisa Teanby
    Newsreader, BBC Radio Derby

    Up to 400 UK jobs are to be cut by Staffordshire digger maker JCB.

    The company said the move was prompted by a "rapid deterioration in world construction equipment markets" in recent weeks.