Jeremy Ball
Social Affairs Correspondent at BBC
Social Affairs Correspondent for BBC East Midlands. Views are my own, not the BBC's
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jeremy Ball
How student flats are changing city skylineJeremy BallSocial affairs correspondent, BBC East MidlandsBBC/Caroline LowbridgeWinfield Court in the Island Quarter has almost 700 student bedroomsWalk towards the centre of Nottingham and you will no doubt witness how new student accommodation is changing the city's skyline. And the scale of that continuing development has been revealed after new data showed Nottingham City Council has approved 60 purpose-built student developments in the last decade.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jeremy Ball
Man made 'assassination kits' from his back gardenJeremy BallSocial affairs correspondent, BBC East MidlandsBBCArmed police seized four kits containing guns, silencers, bullets and latex glovesDetectives have revealed how they uncovered a makeshift factory that produced lethal "assassination kits" for organised crime groups. Armed police arrested Ronald Knowles as he tried to burn a "treasure trove" of evidence in his back garden in Alfreton, Derbyshire.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jeremy Ball
Rap video lured children into county lines networkJeremy BallSocial affairs correspondent, BBC East MidlandsSuppliedThe court was shown Godpraise Bouwen and Sipho Ncube boasting about their wealth in drill videosTwelve drug dealers have been jailed for running an "industrial" supply network that flooded heroin and crack cocaine into towns across the East Midlands and Aberdeen.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Jeremy Ball
Sacked PC jailed over 'treasure trove' of weaponsJeremy BallSocial affairs correspondent, BBC East MidlandsIsaac AsheCounter Terrorism Policing East MidlandsAndrew Campbell was arrested by counter-terrorism police A former policeman has been jailed for almost six years after counter-terrorism officers seized a haul of Nazi memorabilia and more than 100 weapons.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Jeremy Ball
Newly-elected councillor was sacked as police officerJeremy BallSuppliedAndrew Hamilton-Gray was dismissed from Leicestershire Police in January 2024The BBC can reveal that a newly-elected Leicestershire County Councillor was sacked from the police last year. Andrew Hamilton-Gray won a seat in Loughborough for Reform, with almost 40% of the vote.
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Nottingham approves sixty new student developments in a decade. A @bbcemt #foi request also reveals that’s created 9,000 new bed spaces. The council says it’s freeing up shared houses for locals, but a housing adviser says they’re too expensive and it’s causing resentment
How student flats are changing city skyline https://t.co/Ibb6ShbphU
Summer nights in #notts https://t.co/IWwf2lbzAJ
RT @jeremyball3: Garden gun factory made ‘assassination kits’ for organised crime groups