A 27-year-old woman has been charged after a police officer was shot while attending an incident in Nottingham.

Aisha Zaman, from the Hyson Green area of the city, has been charged with possession of a prohibited firearm and possession of that firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence.

She has been remanded into custody and will appear before Nottingham magistrates court on Friday.

The officer, who is in a stable condition in hospital, had approached two people at a bus stop at 4.50am last Sunday when he was shot in the foot, Nottinghamshire police said.

A weapon was recovered and a large crime scene cordon put in place around Angel Row in the city centre.

Several other people have been arrested in connection with the incident including two men, aged 24 and 30, and two women, aged 25 and 21, on suspicion of assisting an offender.

A 35-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman have also been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and assisting an offender.…