Two-year-old Thomas has a rare condition which left him with communication and mobility problems.

Students sent tweets and letters to the pop star after picking Never Gonna Give You Up as their anthem.

The men, aged 41 and 79, died earlier this month, the Prison Service confirms.

The Home Office grant takes the bill for Scotland Yard's inquiry into her disappearance to £11.75m.

Today's live updates are now at an end. We'll return with more news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow.

BBC Weather

Tonight will be dry and mild with a fair amount of cloud interspersed with some clear spells.

Tomorrow will be dry with rather a lot of cloud but with increasing sunshine as we head into the afternoon, with breezy conditions expected.

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

Harry Kewell has released a statement saying he was "frustrated" at losing his job as Notts County boss and wanted to "see the project through".

The former Magpies boss said: "As you can imagine I’m very frustrated to leave after 73 days and 14 games in charge.

"I was excited by the opportunity of rebuilding a great football club with a proud history but unfortunately I was unable to see the project through.

"I wish the club and everyone involved all the best in the future."

He also thanked the fans, staff and chairman John Hardy for the opportunity.

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Nick Smith
BBC News Online

Yesterday was the busiest day yet for Leicester's Emergency Department, with 766 people coming through the doors.

Despite the busy day at Leicester Royal Infirmary, consultant Ben Teasdale was full of praise for the team at the new department, which opened in March.

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

The chief executive and chairman of Mansfield Town Football Club and their children have been chosen to light up the town for Christmas.

Chief executive Carolyn and chairman John Radford will join Hugo, Rupert and Albert to switch on the Christmas lights on Sunday.

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Harry Kewell is sacked by Notts County 10 weeks after being appointed as manager of the League Two side.

Kit Sandeman
Local Democracy Reporter

The leader of Nottingham City Council has said he didn't want any apology over the sexual abuse of children in council care to be "just bland, hollow words".

His comments came after the recent Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard that his view in February this year on making a public apology was that we will apologise "when there is something to apologise for."

Leader councillor Jon Collins was responding to Conservative councillor Andrew Rule who asked him if he stood by his previous statement.

Mr Collins replied: "I believe that to be meaningful, public apologies need to be a response to specific service failings, and not just bland, hollow words.

"That's why when the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse provided new and previously undisclosed evidence demonstrating the council had failed to provide the highest level of care for some of its looked-after children, that apology was made."

Eddie Bisknell
Local Democracy Reporter

A formal complaint has been made against the mayor of Erewash after he used the phrase "play the white man" at a council meeting.

The expression - which means to act with decency - has fallen out of favour over the past few decades due to its racial connotations.

Conservative councillor Christopher Corbett used it during a heated debate about leisure centres.

Afterwards, Mr Corbett apologised for using "the wrong set of words" and said he had just been trying to make councillors be fair and let each other speak.

Erewash Borough Council said the complaint had been made by a member of the public and was being dealt with.

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

A fisherman has been ordered to pay more than £950 for fishing without a licence at a Leicestershire lake.

Sam Kirk, 28, was prosecuted by the Environment Agency for the offence which took place at Beedles Lake, East Goscote in May. He was convicted at Wellingborough Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Kirk, of Scotland Lane, Burton Overy, was fined £220 and ordered to pay £737 in costs.

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BBC Sport

Leicester City and 19 other Premier League clubs have been asked for a £250,000 contribution so that the league's outgoing executive chairman Richard Scudamore can be given a £5m farewell gift.

The clubs were asked for the money before a meeting on Tuesday.

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It is expected they will agree to Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck's request.

Scudamore, 59, who is reportedly paid £2.5m per season, is stepping down next month after 19 years at the organisation.

Buck has been leading the search for Scudamore's successor along with Leicester City chief executive Susan Whelan and Burnley chairman Mike Garlick.

Press Association

A women's rights campaigner from Derby, who says she was promised a peerage in return for sleeping with a senior member of the House of Lords, has urged other victims of harassment to speak out.

Jasvinder Sanghera has disclosed that she was the woman who lodged a complaint against the former Liberal Democrat frontbencher Lord Lester of Herne Hill.

The 82-year-old peer is facing the longest suspension in modern parliamentary history after the Lords' Privileges and Conduct Committee upheld a complaint that he sexually harassed her.

Lord Lester, a prominent QC, has strongly denied the allegations, saying they are "completely untrue".

Ms Sanghera, who was not named in the report, waived her anonymity in an interview with The Times to say that she had made the complaint to establish that "what he did to me wasn't acceptable and wasn't honourable".

Nick Smith
BBC News Online

An MEP has spoken in the European Parliament about journalists being tortured or killed around the world.

Labour's Rory Palmer said there was growing concern for workers trying to uphold free speech, adding: "The Nottingham branch of the National Union of Journalists has recently written to me to raise their concerns about the persecution of journalists, their colleagues, across the world.

"I know those concerns will be shared by journalists, unions and federations across Europe and indeed across the world and they have my solidarity."

At least 73 journalists have died so far this year - including Jamal Khashoggi who vanished after entering the Saudi embassy in Istanbul.

Amy Woodfield
BBC News

The A1 is closed southbound at Blyth after a crash involving a lorry.

Years of enforcement has not stopped the drugs trade, Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa says.

Kit Sandeman
Local Democracy Reporter

Nottingham City Council has said it hopes to eradicate "period poverty" in the city by distributing free sanitary products to women and girls.

After a decision taken at full council on 12 November, the Labour-run authority said it would work to ensure free products are available in the city's schools, and would also encourage Nottingham businesses to offer them to staff.

The council overwhelmingly voted to support a plan put forward by Labour councillor Nick Raine, who represents the Basford ward.

He said period poverty was causing children to miss days at school and some low-paid women were being forced to choose between paying household bills and buying sanitary products.

Amy Woodfield
BBC News

Police have released new images of a man missing in Leicester, including a CCTV image captured shortly after he was last seen.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

It shows Paresh Patel walking along Belgrave Road, close to Abbey Park in Leicester, at about 21:40 on Saturday. This is about 40 minutes after he left his home near Melton Road.

The 48-year-old was reported missing the next morning.

Image source, Leicestershire Police

Leicestershire Police said: "His family and officers are extremely concerned for his health and welfare, particularly as he has a condition which requires regular medication."

Volunteers from Leicestershire Search and Rescue are in Abbey Park today and specially trained officers are carrying out water searches in the park’s lake and surrounding water.