East Midlands Agency and Independent Escorts

The main cities and towns are Nottingham, Leicester, Lincoln, Derby, Northampton, Mansfield , Chesterfield , and Kettering . Leicester is officially the largest city in the region, although the largest conurbation is the Nottingham Urban Area.

Transport links

Road

The M1 motorway also serves the three largest conurbations. In the east, the A1 is an important, often overcrowded route for the east coast ports and is important for supplying much of the UK's agricultural production. The A46 since Roman times provided a connection between the south west and north east of the region, although around Newark, it has difficulty coping with capacity. East-west routes by road in the region are essentially single-carriageway roads, with only the dual-carriageway A14 skirting the northern part of Northamptonshire.

Airports

East Midlands Airport in North West Leicestershire is situated between the three main cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham.

Railway

Two of the north-south mainline railways serve the region, The Midland Main Line (operated by East Midlands Trains) in the west and the East Coast Mainline (operated by NXEC) in the east. Both companies operate high-speed trains to London. The main south west-north east Cross Country Route (MR) (operated by Arriva plc) runs through Birmingham and Derby also the West Coast Mainline goes into Northampton & Long Buckley in Northamptonshire run by London Midland and sometimes Virgin Trains call at Northampton & Chiltern Railways and First Great Western provide services to Kings Sutton in Northamptonshire on the Chiltern Main Line. East-west routes are provided by the Nottingham - Skegness, Liverpool - Norwich (through Nottingham), and Birmingham - Stansted Airport (through Leicester) routes; these last two routes are the essentially the only east-west routes in the section of England between Sheffield and London, both routes meeting at Peterborough.

Derby

21/10/2008 Article Link

Police say a two-pronged attack on prostitution and kerb-crawling has reduced the number of complaints received from the public. Police received 111 calls about prostitution from April 2007 to March 2008 compared with 301 from April 2005 to March 2006 – down 63%. Detective Superintendent Andy Hough said:  The only worry is that the trade gets driven indoors. The biggest issue for us now is that of underground prostitution – particularly the exploitation and human-trafficking aspects. It is quite possible that a woman who has come into the country from elsewhere is being held against her will or is working to cover the cost of coming into the UK. We haven't found much evidence of this in Derby but the fact that we have not found it doesn't mean it is not there.

Nottingham

07/10/2008 News Link

Nottingham man denies the rape of a street sex worker from St Anns.

Northampton

19/09/2008 Link

Reducing street prostitution, tackling drugs and eliminating graffiti will form the three priorities of a police team in Northampton.

Agencies