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Intercepting Weapons: Hundreds of knives destined for the East Midlands have been seized from air freight parcels this year. Now police are cracking down on illegal weapons that were ordered online by criminals or collectors

"Facebook Fiends"?: Police forces in the East Midlands reveal that over a hundred people were charged with committing crimes using social media last year. They received thousands of complaints including child prostitution, conspiracy to murder, and death-threats against an MP

Sexist Hatecrime: Nottinghamshire's Chief Constable says she expects police forces across the country to start treating misogyny as a "hate crime", following the first arrests by her officers

"Grave breach of trust": former social worker, Andris Logins, is jailed for 20 years, for a string of rapes and indecent assaults at the Beechwood children's home in Nottingham.

Breaking the cycle: Employers in Nottingham will help tackle homelessness by considering applicants with criminal records. It's one of several demands made by hundreds of campaigners at Nottingham's Citizens Assembly

Tackling Trafficking: a Nottingham academic describes how she was bought and sold as a child slave. Minh Dang is now setting up a global Survivor Alliance to tackle modern slavery

Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers: rising numbers of lone children from Afghanistan and Eritrea are dispersed to the East Midlands for council care

Urban Ballet: young rappers and dancers give Shakepeare's "Romeo and Juliet" a modern makeover, as part of Prince Harry's youth project in St Anns

Harry's Back: Prince Harry returns to the Community Recording Studio that he's been supporting in Nottingham, during his third official Royal Visit to the city

Refugees Welcome?: Volunteers are welcoming refugees to stay in their homes, and to join local football clubs - but others say they're concerned about the numbers of people arriving here (pt 2 of 3)

Refugees Resettled: East Midlands councils agree a regional response to share responsibility for vulnerable Syrian refugees and unaccompanied child asylum seekers

"Legacy of Integration": A memorial to Britain's first black magistrate is unveiled at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham. Eric Irons became a prominent race equality campaigner, and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan

Dangerous Games: Schoolchildren are being warned that violent extremists are grooming people through computer games, as the far-right group National Action is banned

Victim Remembered: Cheryl Stollery pays tribute to her husband, John, who was killed in the Tunsia terrorist attack

Terrorism Conviction: A Nottinghamshire man is jailed for helping British extremists to fight the so-called Islamic State in Syria. Adeel Ulhaq is the first person the the East Midlands to be prosecuted for "jihadi terrorism"

"I feel abandoned": A translator from Leicestershire describes his concerns over losing the right to work across Europe after Brexit. Simon Barnes lives in Paris, and says new controls on immigration could badly affect Brits abroad

Tackling Exploitations: East Midlands Today reveals that a national team of "modern slavery" investigators is being set up by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in Nottingham

Dangerous Journeys: hundreds of items of clothing, abandoned by refugees in Greece, have been turned into a work of art and suspended in Leicester Cathedral