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Seaside Charity: Several hundred bikers join a charity run to help soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fair Cop?: Nottinghamshire's Police Commissioner calls for the way forces are funded to be scrapped. Paddy Tipping says the system's so unfair that it isn't fit for purpose

"Wild West Web": A new law to protect children from paedophiles has prompted more than 250 reports of online grooming in the East Midlands in its first year

Blast fatalities: Four people lose their lives in a blast that destroyed a shop and a flat in Leicester

Modern Slavery: A Nottingham trial's told that a Polish family committed benefit fraud "on an industrial scale". Dariusz and Bozena Parczewski are also accused of forcing one victim to earn money for them at Sports Direct in Shirebrook

Cut Off: Some Leicestershie villagers say they've been abandoned, after almost a week without any phone or internet connections

Branching out: A serving prisoner admits running a Nottingham-based drug-dealing network from his prison cell. Sean Lau sent teenagers to sell heroin and crack in Newark and Skegness, in what's known as a "County Lines" operation

Famine Response: the Derby charity worker who's heading the British famine response for a leading charity in East Africa

Flying Squad: an exclusive look at how police are preparing to start using drones in the East Midlands

Cocaine Haul: Class A drugs worth several million pounds are discovered at a food stage depot in Bilsthorpe

Killers convicted: Three men are found guilty of murder after a fatal shop explosion in Leicester. Five people died when the builing on Hinckley Road was destroyed in a failed insurance scam

"Hugely Damaging": Mick Creedon, the Chief Constable investigating an undercover policing scandal, says undercover officers should never have sexual relationships with a subject

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse focusses on children in the care of Nottinghamshire Councils

Trading in misery: Nine members of an extended family admit human trafficking after Derbyshire's largest "modern slavery" investigation. They targeted people who were sleeping rough in sub-zero temperatures in Lavtia

Convert Jailed: Nottingham ASDA worker, Ryan Counsell, is jailed for 8 years for preparing to fight for a terrorist group in the Philippines, that's pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State

Slavery Convictions: Residents of a Nottingham cul-de-sac reveal their concerns about a Polish family -- who've been convicted of fraud, and forcing one "modern slave" to work at Sports Direct

Street Life: a homeslessness charity accuses Leicester City Council of failing to do enough to tackle rough sleeping, as the authority disputes official government figures

Victims' Website: Hundreds of people have reported crimes online as part of a trial in Nottinghamshire

Abuse Inquiry: an exclusive interview with the head of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Alexis Jay, on how she'll investigate Nottinghamshire's care system

Fashion fears: A Nottignham youth worker has persuaded a major fashion chain to stop selling a jacket, because it looks like a stab vest. Damien Henry's worried that teenagers could be seriously injured, because they'll try to use the "utility vests" for protection