BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Four Wasps players have been named in Eddie Jones's squad for the opening match of the autumn internationals.

Elliot Daly, Joe Launchbury, Matt Mullan and Nathan Hughes (pictured left to right) are all picked in the 36-man side to face Argentina on 11 November.

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Back-rower Hughes is included, despite being banned until the 6 November for a dangerous tackle during Wasps' win over Harlequins at the Ricoh Arena on Sunday.

In the last year 37 buildings have been taken of Historic England's "at risk" register in the West Midlands and with only 24 added, the total has fallen in the past 12 months.

Historic England says it has handed out grants totalling £1.51m to help 32 of the region's historic sites and among the buildings saved is the Grade I listed Toll House in Stratford-upon-Avon (pictured below) which has had £197,456 spent on its roof and stonework.

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Other buildings to be saved include a church in Birmingham which was attended by JRR Tolkien, the remains of a blast furnace in Ironbridge and the ruins of Penyard Castle near Ross-on-Wye.

Kevin Reide
Reporter, Midlands Today

The surviving crew of HMS Coventry have returned to the Falklands to visit where the ship sank 35 years ago.

The destroyer was bombed by Argentine Skyhawks and sank in the Atlantic during the conflict in May 1982.

Twenty sailors died and 29 were injured.

Lesley Speed pleaded not guilty to murdering her seven-year-old son, who was found dead in September.

Birmingham Mail

Here are some of the headlines making the news in the Birmingham Mail:

• Teenager stabbed in the back in A34 Birchfield Road, Aston, external
• Everything you need to know about huge STD-carrying ladybirds due to swarm Birmingham, external
• Cross City Line disrupted as lorry smashes into railway bridge in St John Street, Lichfield, external

A man has been charged with attempted murder, following an assault that left a man with life-threatening injuries in Crewe.

Police say the injured man is still being treated at Leighton Hospital.

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It's believed he was involved in an altercation in the early hours of yesterday morning on West Street.

Alex Lester
Presenter, BBC WM

A team of volunteers who knit toy octopuses for premature babies say they need more knitters to help.

The charity Octopus for a Preemie, external operates in premature baby units in 60 hospitals across the UK, including the West Midlands.

So how do they work? The knitted octopuses' tentacles offer the premature babies something to cling to in place of an umbilical cord, as well as helping them to stop pulling out their tubes and wires.

Image source, octopusforapreemie.com

There are strict guidelines on how they are made - no red yarn, as it could be mistaken for blood, tentacles must be a certain size and you must use 100% cotton yarn are just some of the rules., external

Nick Southall
Journalist, BBC Shropshire

A woman has denied murdering her seven-year-old son.

Archie Spriggs was discovered dead at an address in Rushbury Road in Wall-Under-Heywood, near Church Stretton, in September.

His mother Lesley Speed, 44, pleaded not guilty at Stafford Crown Court this morning and is due to stand trial in March.

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) came under fire at the Commons select committee hearing yesterday following claims of food safety breaches at the 2 Sisters plant in West Bromwich.

An undercover investigation by The Guardian and ITV News claimed an undercover reporter witnessed workers changing the "kill dates" on chickens and meat picked off the floor being reused.

FSA Chief Executive Jason Feeney said previous inspections at the plant had revealed only "minor non-compliances".

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"We had no intelligence on this particular site that gave us concerns prior to these allegations," he said.

Environment Food and Rural Affairs committee chairman Neil Parish challenged Mr Feeney over the effectiveness of its oversight of food safety

"You didn't know what was going on in this plant. Why didn't you know? You're the FSA," he said.

One person has been rescued after a fire broke out in a flat above a shop in Wellington, Shropshire, this morning.

The fire service was called at 08:56 and they are still at the scene.

The High Street has been cordoned off.

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Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

The British car designed to go 1,000mph (1,610km/h) will make its first public runs in Cornwall later, and an Atherstone man will be behind the wheel.

Image source, BLOODHOUND SSC/STEFAN MARJORAM

RAF Wing Commander Andy Green aims to break the world land speed record in 2019.

Bloodhound SSC is conducting initial "slow-speed" trials and should get up to about 200mph (320km/h) on the runway at Newquay Airport.

Mr Green said: "We've designed and built the most extraordinary, sophisticated, high-performance land speed record car in history.

"It will do 0-200mph in about eight seconds. For a five-tonne vehicle - that's eye-popping performance."

Shropshire Star

Here are some of the stories making the headlines on the Shropshire Star this morning:

• Whitchurch town centre 'at risk' with rundown and empty buildings, external
• Ludlow hotel hit by Legionnaires' outbreak still shut , external
• Shropshire's A529: Find out why it has been named one of the country's most dangerous roads , external

An 18-year-old man is being treated for stab wounds to his back after police were called an area of Birmingham last night.

West Midlands Police say they were called to Birchfield Road, Aston, at about 18:00.

The 18-year-old is in a stable condition in hospital.

Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

On Tuesday night firefighters tackled a blaze which is believed to have been started by the family dog.

Plastic toys were left near the cooker. The dog had been left alone and somehow managed to turn on the cooker, causing flames to spread across the kitchen.

Thankfully the owner owner spotted the blaze and rescued the dog who was then given oxygen at the scene.

Image source, Staffordshire Fire Service

The house has been left in an uninhabitable state but thankfully nobody was injured.

The fire service say this kind of fire, external is not as unusual as you think and remind people not to leave flammable materials on or near their cookers.

BBC News Travel

Trains running between Lichfield and Four Oaks face delays after a vehicle hit a bridge, train operator London Midland says, external.

The boss of one of the UK's biggest chicken suppliers has apologised to MPs after allegations of food safety breaches at its West Bromwich processing plant.

The 2 Sisters Food Group claims to provide a third of all poultry eaten in the UK every day.

A joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV News last month claimed an undercover reporter witnessed workers changing the "kill dates" on chickens.

Footage has also emerged appearing to show a worker retrieving meat from the floor and returning to the production line.

Giving evidence to the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 2 Sisters Chief Executive Ranjit Singh Boparan said he was "absolutely not aware these problems were happening".

"We produce safe food and we will continue to improve our systems," he said.

Mr Boparan said the firm planned to increase CCTV coverage in its factories and invited MPs into the plants.

Joanne Malin
BBC Midlands Today

A bridge over the river Severn in Worcestershire is among a list of sites in the West Midlands added to the "heritage at risk" register by Historic England.

The 18th Century bridge in Bewdley has shown signs of erosion and needs restoration.

Across the region, more than 400 buildings, monuments and parks are on the register, with more than £1.5m being spent by Historic England last year to protect them.

Express and Star

Here are some of the stories making the headlines in the Express & Star:

• Mental health staff attacked 15,000 times , external
• Under-fire Wolverhampton council rakes in £1.2m from 'cash cow' taxi licences , external
• Backlash as Walsall Manor Hospital chief Richard Kirby moves on, external

BBC Midlands Today

A 93-year-old army veteran from Staffordshire is training teenagers to sell poppies as this year's Poppy Appeal begins today.

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Roy Marren was one of the British Legion's youngest beneficiaries in the 1930s aged just 10, when his father died.

He served in the armed forces himself during World War Two with the Royal Engineers.

Since retiring at the age of 90 he's dedicated time to raising money for the Royal British Legion.

Photos of two men have been released by police after CCTV footage of an 87-year-old woman being pickpocketed while shopping in Shropshire was released, external.

Image source, West Mercia Police

CCTV footage appears to show a woman standing in Aldi being spoken to by a man, while someone else goes into her handbag.

Officers say the robbery took place on Tuesday morning at about 10:00 in the supermarket on Oswald Road.

Police want to speak to these two men and ask anyone who recognises the men to get in touch on 101.