Summary

  • Updates for Tuesday 20 October 2015

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

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

    Today's updates have finished. We will be back at 08:00 tomorrow.

  2. Brewers hope to get back on track against Railwaymenpublished at 17:42

    Owen Bradley
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    Burton Albion host League One's bottom club Crewe this evening aiming for a response to Saturday's drubbing at Fleetwood.

    Brewers' boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink insists important lessons can be learnt from the 4-0 defeat, and says far from trying to dismiss the match from his mind he's keen to analyse what went wrong and use it to improve his players.

    Burton Albion Football Club's Pirelli StadiumImage source, Getty Images

    There's full commentary on BBC Radio Derby from 19:00 on 1116AM and DAB.

  3. Anonymous Ashbourne caller sought by policepublished at 17:35

    BBC Radio Derby

    Police want to contact an anonymous caller, external who's thought to live in the Ashbourne area in connection with two inquiries.

    He contacted police on 14 July from the Scotland area and 1 October from the Norfolk area to report two separate incidents.

  4. Man arrested after police drugs findpublished at 17:29

    BBC Radio Derby

    A man has been arrested after police found drugs at a house in Francis Street at Chaddesden.

    Officers found a quantity of suspected Class B drugs at the property. A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply.

  5. Latest headlines for Derbyshire and East Staffordshirepublished at 17:12

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    Here's a reminder of the main stories we're covering today.

  6. Warning to shoppers over theft of purses and hangbagspublished at 17:02

    Lucy Vladev
    BBC Radio Derby

    Police are warning shoppers about purse and handbag thefts, external around supermarkets in the Derwent and Oakwood area.

    Four incidents have been reported in the last month involving purses being stolen from handbags left in vehicles or from trolleys while shoppers have been loading their cars.

    Cash was withdrawn from the victim's account using stolen cards shortly after the latest incident, which was at Morrisons in Wheatcroft Way, on Saturday 10 October.

  7. Teenager fulfills grandfather's war tribute dreampublished at 16:28

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    A Derby teenager has fulfilled her grandfather's dream of paying tribute to his uncle who died in the Battle of the Somme.

    Beth Silvester, from St Benedict's School, was chosen, along with another student, out of 40 pupils to go on a WWI battlefields tour.

    The 13-year-old found her relative Sidney Cooper's name on a war memorial and laid a poppy in his honour during the four-day trip to Belgium and France.

  8. Refugee plea by bishops to prime ministerpublished at 16:14

    BBC Radio Derby

    The Bishop of Derby the Right Reverend Dr Alastair Redfern is one of 84 Church of England bishops who have written to the prime minister calling for the government to accept an extra 30,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years.

    Syrian refugee figures from Home OfficeImage source, AP

    The bishops say it would be "a meaningful and substantial response to the scale of human suffering we see daily", adding that "a moral crisis of this magnitude calls each and all of us to play our parts".

  9. MP calls on planners to consider Celanese site in homes planspublished at 16:00

    Derby Telegraph

    Derby City Council plans for where new homes could be built by 2028 are "unsound" because they don't include the former Celanese factory site, external, says Mid Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham.

    Former Celanese site in Spondon which is currently being clearedImage source, Derby Telegraph
  10. CCTV pic appeal following train assaultpublished at 15:26

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    British Transport Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to after two men from Derby were attacked on a train, external.

    The pair, who weren't seriously injured, were discussing the Mansfield Town v Notts County football match from earlier in the evening when a man slapped one of them in the face, hurled verbal abuse at the pair and punched the other victim in the face.

    Suspect British Transport Police want to speak to about train assault on two menImage source, British Transport Police

    It happened between Nottingham and Derby at about 22:20 on Friday 14 August. The suspect got off the train either at Beeston or Long Eaton.

  11. Families of dead medical students speak of 'utter horror'published at 15:13

    Lucy Vladev
    BBC Radio Derby

    The families of the two men killed while on placement in Borneo, external have released a statement describing as "utterly horrific".

    They said they were proud of what their sons had achieved in their short lives and were satisfied with today's inquest conclusion that Neil Dalton, from Ambergate, and his friend Aiden Brunger were unlawfully killed.

  12. Veteran rockers to top the bill at Download Festivalpublished at 14:29

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    Iron Maiden will headline next year's Download Festival, external - the sixth time the band have played at Donington Park.

    Ed Force One to be landed by iron Maiden at East Midlands AirportImage source, Iron Maiden

    Lead singer Bruce Dickinson will be landing Ed Force One at East Midlands Airport ahead of the festival in June.

  13. Old station building added to heritage 'at risk' listpublished at 14:12

    Euan Duncan
    BBC Local Live

    South Wingfield station has been added to a list of Derbyshire buildings at risk of falling into disrepair.

    It was built in 1839 but has become derelict in recent years.

    South Wingfield station

    A total of 70 listed buildings across Derbyshire are included on the Heritage At Risk Register.