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A student from Smethwick has been unable to get a loan for university because someone with the same name, birthday and place of birth has already applied for one.

Emily Hughes, 18, was told by the Student Loans Company in April she could not be registered on its system.

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She has now sent them her passport in the hope of being recognised in time to study medicine in Birmingham.

Miss Hughes, said: "It's been chaos.

"Just so much unnecessary stress and it's quite embarrassing as all my friends are sorted with their loans, but not me."

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The Birmingham Bears face T20 Blast North Group leaders Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road this evening.

The Bears have won three and lost three, including a home defeat to the Foxes.

Bears coach Jim Troughton says they'll be looking for more of the same from Ed Pollock, who made 66 on his debut in the win over Derbyshire.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

After a cloudy start it should be a dry and clear day with sunny spells and top temperatures of 22C (72F).

Adam Nasralla was restrained by as many as nine members of staff at a private hospital in Birmingham

Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Online

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Susan Draper is sentenced to four weeks' jail, but is out on bail after lodging an appeal

Footage played to a court shows them driving through roadworks at up to 100mph (160km/h ).

We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow.

Keep an eye out here for more updates and breaking news before then.

A care worker who sprayed deodorant in the face of a 78-year-old woman with dementia has been sentenced to four weeks in prison.

BBC Business News

Business Secretary Greg Clark is visiting Birmingham today and has announced the "Faraday Challenge" under which £246m will be invested in the research, innovation and development of battery technology.

It's named Faraday because next month marks the 150th anniversary of the death of scientist Michael Faraday, who did pioneering studies into electricity and magnetism.

Mr Clark says he also wants to make the UK's energy system "smarter", which, he says, should reduce customers' bills.

More on this and today's business news here.

BBC Weather Watchers

Here are two pictures from our BBC Weather Watchers.

It's been a bit of a grey day, but that didn't stop Outwiththedog from sending in this snap from Wishaw.

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Dammo sent us this one from Birmingham city centre.

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Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

We're forecast another mild night and tomorrow we'll have more of this light cloud, with some sunshine around.

The Government's announced that talks will begin immediately on a second "devolution" deal for the West Midlands.

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The Treasury is already giving the region £36m a year over the next 30 years as part of a package that led to the creation of an elected mayor.

Speaking at the University of Birmingham, the business secretary Greg Clark said extra funds would be made available, with the West Midlands Combined Authority given additional powers.

Bargains to be had as stolen bikes go under the hammer in one of the biggest auctions of its kind.

A care home worker who sprayed an aerosol can in the face of a 78-year-old woman with dementia has been handed a four-week jail term.

A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said Susan Draper, 43, was later granted bail by the court, pending an appeal to the sentence.

Express and Star

An independent General Election candidate spent more than £10,000 on his campaign for a city seat that saw him win less than one per cent , externalof the vote.

A care home worker who sprayed an aerosol can in the face of a 78-year-old woman with dementia has been handed a four-week jail term.

Susan Draper, 43, was told she had been slovenly, perfunctory and "cavalier" while ill-treating Betty Boylan, whose family uncovered the offence by rigging up a covert camera in her room.

Although the court heard the pensioner was not physically hurt, district judge Ian Strongman said a custodial sentence was necessary to mark the seriousness of the reckless offence.

Birmingham Magistrates' Court was told Draper, of Cranehouse Road, Kingstanding, denied ill-treating the immobile pensioner but was found guilty of an ill-treatment offence earlier this month after a day-long trial heard she had "dehumanised" her victim.

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CCTV footage played at the trial showed Mrs Boylan coughing and gurgling after being hoisted into a chair and sprayed in the face in September last year.

In a statement issued after the court hearing, the family of the victim said: "At last justice has been done. "The sentence is a message to all carers who abuse the elderly to let them know what to expect."

Nicola Beckford
Reporter, BBC Midlands Today

I've been out in Solihull where the community is reacting to the news that a man drove off in a woman's car while she was still inside with her baby.

The man was among a group of four who confronted the driver and demanded she get out of her vehicle when she stopped at the traffic lights on Lode Lane on Saturday evening.

As she attended to her baby, he got into the Audi RS6 and drove off.

She escaped with the infant when he pulled into a side road before driving off again. No-one was hurt.

One lady told me: "Unfortunately there are people in society today who will behave in such atrocious manners."

A local resident said: "[The] area's gone down hill over the last few years, it used to be a lovely area, a sought after area but nowadays it's different all together."

Another lady added: "My heart goes out to her, I don't know how I would have been in that situation."

Michele Paduano
Health correspondent, BBC Midlands Today

A care worker has been handed a four-week jail term for the ill-treatment of dementia sufferer Betty Boylan.

Susan Draper is the second care worker to be convicted of ill-treating the 77-year-old, after her family rigged up a covert camera in her room.

Draper, 43, from Kingstanding, was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates' Court this afternoon.

She has been dismissed from Birmingham's Bupa-run Perry Locks Nursing Home.

Michele Paduano
Health correspondent, BBC Midlands Today

Care worker Susan Draper has been sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment for the ill treatment of Betty Boylan at Perry Locks Nursing Home.