The Nottingham Evening Post has bolstered its coverage of major stories with use of aerial photographs.

The paper has used images from online aerial photography service Getmapping to illustrate crime stories and an article about a landscape development proposal.

Evening Post picture editor Steve Mitchell said: "I have to say we are fans of this service and have become regular users.

"We have used the service several times to provide an extra dimension to major stories.

"There have been two crime stories, one of which was about a crime spree in a particular street where we used the photography to pinpoint individual businesses.

"In another we used the photography to illustrate a piece of inner city parkland scheduled for redevelopment and were able to show how it would affect neighbouring properties.

"It certainly adds to the picture editor's armoury and it's available online whenever we need it."

Getmapping provides bird's eye views of every part of England and Wales and much of Scotland.

It enables newspapers, magazines and TV production companies to download high resolution images that cover areas from 0.5sq km to 10sq km.

It also features ultra-detailed images of towns and cities which clearly show such details as road markings and garden features.

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