A Sainsbury's supermarket complete with petrol station is being lined up for Newark.
It was a fantastic turnout for Wednesday's annual Beaumond House Sunflower Run for Fun which took place in glorious sunshine.
When the action heats up in Walford in future for the likes of Kat, Alfie, Phil Mitchell and Ian Beale it will be thanks to an Ollerton-based company.
X Factor semi-finalists Rough Copy performed for pupils at the Magnus Academy, Newark, this afternoon.
East Midlands Ambulance Service receives a new 999 call every 45 seconds and is predicting an increase of up to 15% on that over the weekend as the glorious weather continues and England play their first World Cup match.
A pensioner celebrated his 88th birthday with a pint at the village pub where he has been a regular ever since he was old enough to get served.
Soldiers from the Nottinghamshire infantry battalion, 2 Mercian have relocated from Northern Ireland to Chester.
The new Newark MP, Robert Jenrick, victorious in last week's by-election, has been sworn-in in the House of Commons today.
The total number of unemployed people in the East Midlands fell to its lowest level since June 1996 in the three months to April, according to figures released today (Wednesday).
Robert Jenrick, the newly-elected MP for Newark, told members of Newark Business Club this morning he wanted to improve transport links to the town - and would look at developing a relief road south of Newark.
The Farage bandwagon wasn't welcomed by all.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage faced a barrage of flashguns as he drank a pint in a Newark pub after arriving in town with hours to go before polling closed in today's by-election.
A tiny room in Nottinghamshire's smallest pub, the Beehive at Maplebeck has become a polling station for the day.
Heavy rain wasn't the only deluge in Newark this morning as up to 1,000 Tory Party activists and 100 MPs pounded the pavements.
Voters in Fiskerton have faith in their choices as they go to the polls in the village chapel.
Voters weren't exactly camping out at this polling station - a caravan in a pub carpark which is clamped so it can't be towed away.
A resident who put a UKIP sign on a tree opposite a polling station agreed to take it down "before I get arrested."
A poll on a UKIP website puts the party in the lead in today's by-election.
One of the more unusual polling stations in Newark is the Castle and Falcon on London Road, Newark, where ale could influence a vote or two.
An author and historian named Newark who has released a book on protest voting is in Newark today - on the day the constituency could produce one of the most significant protest votes in recent times.
