Appeal judges say Ofsted failed to identify the problem in schools across the country earlier.

Curtis Stewart is seen swerving to avoid police who filmed him driving at 100mph on the M6.

A 76-year-old man is in hospital after a car hit a lamp post in Stoke-on-Trent this morning.

The A50 High Street in Sandyford was closed for over two hours after the crash at about 09:20.

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The man was treated at the scene and then taken to hospital, after he fell ill at the wheel.

It caused major delays at the Reginald Mitchell Way junction near to the KFC roundabout, but the road has now been reopened.

Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Port Vale midfielder David Worrall thinks the team have lacked character this season.

He joined in the summer after being released by Millwall and started on the bench for Neil Aspin's first game against Millwall last week.

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Cheltenham are the visitors to Vale Park tomorrow and Worrall said Vale need to get points quickly, saying the next two games are "massive" for the club.

Claims of "dogging", drug-taking and out of control dogs caused the Woodland Trust to close it.

A Staffordshire police officer who was convicted of drink driving has been sacked by the force.

PC Thomas Doubtfire, 54, from Kidderminster, and previously based at Wombourne police station, was found guilty at a police hearing of breaching the standards of professional behaviour expected for police officers, amounting to gross misconduct.

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Birmingham magistrates in August disqualified him for 16 months and ordered him to pay £1,215 for driving while over the limit.

James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire

Some strikers don't like to reveal their goal-targets and Shrewsbury Town's top scorer Stefan Payne was a little reluctant to tell us about his.

He's scored seven in all competitions so far, six of them in League One and it seems he's on target to meet his goals.

A Coventry man who reversed up the M6, before fleeing the police at 100mph has been jailed for 23 months.

Curtis Stewart, who is 26, had previously pleaded guilty to two offences of dangerous driving.

Image source, West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police said Stewart eventually left the motorway in his white van at junction 3 and passed through two sets of red lights, driving at 70mph in a 30mph zone.

He was eventually caught when his vehicle stalled.

BBC Midlands Today

A billionaire entrepreneur who has saved 17 struggling manufacturing businesses in the Midland, says he hopes to create more jobs in the region.

Sanjeev Gupta (pictured) has been visiting the former Amtec car components factory in Coventry, the latest to be acquired by his company Liberty House Group.

He says the region's engineering skills are increasingly in demand.

The premiere of the new series of Peaky Blinders will be presented at its home in Birmingham.

The cast and production team will be at the red carpet event on 30 October.

Fans are encouraged to don their flat caps and get in the mood by dressing in the Peaky Blinders style.

Image source, Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd & Tiger Aspect Drama Ltd 2017

BBC Birmingham is inviting members of the public to register for free tickets for the premiere event from 09:00 on Monday on the BBC Shows and Tours website.

Golden ticket winners will then be selected at random to watch the live red carpet arrivals and the first episode of the new series at Cineworld Birmingham, which will be followed by a panel session with the cast and creator Steven Knight, hosted by Edith Bowman.

A body found in the River Wye yesterday evening, between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, has been identified as 40-year-old Martin Humphreys, from Hereford.

He was last seen in the Bridge Street area of the city on Monday.

Police are not treating his death as suspicious.

An investigation is under way into a crash in Shropshire which claimed the life of a motorcyclist in his 70s yesterday.

He collided with a van on the B4176 near Stableford at 12:17 and paramedics declared him dead at the scene.

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The van driver, who was in his 40s, was also hurt, but his injuries aren't said to be life-threatening.

Leamington Observer

Here's a few stories the Leamington Observer are covering today:

• Charity awarded grant in fight against prostate, external cancer
• Singer to compete in new music show looking, external for best vocal group
• Police want to speak to man in relation to hate incident at fish , externaland chip shop

BBC Radio 4

Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Colin Diamond from Birmingham City Council, questioned the basis for the decision that an Islamic school's segregation on the basis of gender was unlawful.

"The logic whereby you can say having, in one part of our city here, a boys' school and a girls' school, secondary schools, adjacent to each other, with a fence between them... so that's OK is it?" he said.

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"Whereas it's not OK to have boys and girls in the same school, when parents have signed up for that form of Islamic education. We don't see the logic, the equity in any of that."

Mr Diamond added "of course" we will work "to get things as they should be".

Claudia Berry
BBC News

Only 16 of the 40 tenants affected by the sell-off of Herefordshire Council farms have managed to stay on their land, despite original promises that no-one would have to leave.

That includes 12 tenants who bought all or part of their farms and four who have stayed on as tenants under a new landlord.

The council said another nine farmers have retired and 13 have found work in the rural or agricultural sector.

Two have yet to decide what they will do.

Both Coventry Blaze and Telford Tigers are in cup action this weekend, while Solihull Barons have a league match against Hull Pirates.

Coventry travel to Buckinghamshire tomorrow to take on Elite League newcomers Milton Keynes Lightning in the challenge cup, and then host Cardiff Devils the following day.

Image source, Steve Brodie

Telford Tigers have home and away fixtures against Swindon Wildcats in the NIHL Autumn Cup.

Solihull Barons are still looking for their first win of the NIHL North season and are without a head coach after Dan McKriel decided to step down in the week.

BBC News Travel

Good news for drivers stuck in jams on the M6 northbound - traffic has now been released between J14 and J15, Highways England says, external.

There are still delays of about 45 minutes in the area.

Two girls have been arrested on suspicion of GBH after a report of an assault on a pupil at the Telford Langley School.

West Mercia Police says officers are working with the school.

Image source, Telford Langley School

A man in his 20s has died following a crash in Bewdley earlier today.

West Mercia Police said the crash happened on the B4194 at around 06:45 and involved a red Ford Fiesta and a silver BMW.

The driver of the Fiesta, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The driver of the BMW, a man in his 60s, has been taken to Russells Hall Hospital with injuries that are not thought to be life-threatening.

The force added there are a number of road closures in the area.

Superstition tells us today should be a disaster but these people say Friday 13th is their lucky day.