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It was the ten-second, supermarket purse-snatch that turned heads online and on TV.
The ten-second Aldi snatch
West Mercia Police said on Tuesday it had arrested two people in connection.It happened on 14 October at a branch of Aldi in Oswestry.
Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Port Vale manager Neil Aspin says he has given ex-player Chris Eagles the next few days to decide whether he wants to re-sign for the club.
Eagles left in the summer and has been training at Vale Park for the last week, having not signed for anybody else since.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe midfielder has played the bulk of his career in Lancashire, for Burnley and Bolton, but made 20 appearances for Port Vale last season, scoring four goals.
Quote MessageObviously with a player who has ability, who's not got a club and who's out of contract, it would be silly not to have a look at him and see what sort of shape he's in."
Neil Aspin, Port Vale manager
Ian Perry
BBC Radio Shropshire
There's a chance this week to see the work being done to conserve a Handley Page Hampden bomber at the RAF's Cosford museum., external
The World War Two aircraft crashed in Soviet Union territory after being attacked by German fighter planes and was only recovered after the Berlin Wall came down.
Image source, RAF Museum Cosford
The museum said the forward fuselage and cockpit section had been completed in the past 12 months - manufactured entirely from scratch based on pre-production drawings.
A woman was killed in a crash in Stafford last night, police say.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called at 20:50 to Tolldish Lane, near the junction with the A51 in Great Haywood, to reports of a collision between a lorry and the car she was driving.
The driver of the lorry was uninjured.
A surge of young voters is "highly likely" to have caused the Conservative defeats in the Newcastle-under-Lyme and Crewe and Nantwich seats at the last general election - according to BBC research.
Analysis of data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act suggests the Conservatives may have been denied an overall majority by the hundreds of thousands of young voters who used the government's online system to join the electoral register after the election was called.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe research suggests the Conservatives might also have won the Kensington, Perth & North Perthshire, Dudley North and Canterbury seats - which were all lost by fewer than 200 votes.
There won't be a big event to mark the Christmas light switch-on in Hanley this year.
The Christmas market has also been cancelled in a money-saving move by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Councillor Dan Jellyman said the production company that was used previously was quoting up to £80,000 for a 20-minute show - a figure that was "not good value for tax-payers' money".
The 77th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz will be marked in the city today.
Hundreds were killed and thousands of houses damaged or destroyed in the raid carried out by German bombers.
Here, Blitz survivors describe the morning after the bombings:
Many of the city's half-timbered medieval streets were destroyed in the raid.
Coventry Blitz and the aftermath
A Coventry Cathedral spokesperson said: "Today we give thanks to those before us who had the courage and grace to preach forgiveness rather than vengeance".
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Gordon Banks has backed another Stoke City goalkeeper to be the first-choice for England at next summer's World Cup.
Jack Butland had to miss Friday's friendly against Germany because of a broken finger and he is expected to be out for another six weeks, but Banks said he had "a good chance" of making the starting line-up.
Image source, Getty ImagesFraser Forster, Joe Hart and Jordan Pickford are all competing with Butland for the role.
Quote MessageI think he's got a good chance. I think he's definitely in that line-up, so if he can keep playing like he was before he got that break then I'm sure he's going to be OK."
Gordon Banks, Former England goalkeeper
Traffic lights are likely to be in place until the spring at a Grade II Listed Shropshire bridge which was damaged by a lorry.
The vehicle overturned last Thursday and was eventually removed from the brook beside Soulton Bridge on the B5065 near Wem on Saturday morning.
Image source, @MDraytonCopsShropshire Council said that all repairs to Listed structures had to be agreed with its Historic Environment team.
It said the materials needed for the repairs could not be used in cold weather, making it difficult to carry out the work in the winter.
A kitten with a distinctive "moustache" is causing a stir at a rescue centre.
Image source, RSPCAFour-month-old Tasha was picked up by the RSPCA as a stray with an injured eye and is recuperating at Birmingham's Animal Centre.
Staff think she has a touch of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Poirot about her - but surely, without the twirly ends, she's a bit more Burt Reynolds?
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Plans for rugby club Wasps to build a training centre on the site of Coventry City FC's youth academy have been shelved.
Image source, Ward McHugh AssociatesWasps had planning permission for the base earmarked for the Alan Higgs Centre on Allard Way but will not proceed.
In a statement, the club's chief executive Nick Eastwood said it had "not proved possible to coordinate our own plans with the time frame needed".
The club said a number of separate sites had been identified.
A planning application for a new Olympic-sized swimming pool at the centre has been submitted - likely set for the site of an indoor pitch there which would be replaced in another area of the site.
Our BBC Weather Watchers have been busy uploading pictures of scenic skies this morning.
Daisy boo posted this image of the sunrise over Sutton Coldfield.
Image source, daisy booJohnqa took this one in Lyonshall, Herefordshire.
Image source, JohnquAnd Kingfisher Whisperer found some blue sky in Coventry.
Image source, Kingfisher WhispererEight people from Stoke-on-Trent have been shortlisted to feature as part of a giant photography project in the city.
Image source, The People's PictureOne of the eight, who've shared their personal stories with the project organiser, will be announced as the "Face of Stoke-on-Trent".
The People’s Picture, external, commissioned by Stoke-on-Trent for UK City of Culture 2021, will be a giant photo mosaic featuring about 3,550 photographs of local residents.
mosaic
The artist behind the scheme, Helen Marshall, was previously commissioned by the BBC to create a digital mosaic of a British Army private killed during World War One. It used more than 30,000 images.
The Woodland Trust says Uffmoor Woods in Worcestershire will reopen on Thursday.
The woods have been closed for nearly six months after complaints of illicit sexual behaviour, drug-dealing and dog attacks.
The trust says it is has used the period to make the area safer for visitors.
Plans for a new 50-metre swimming pool in Coventry have moved a step closer after a planning application was submitted.
Image source, GoogleIf approved, the new £16m pool will be built at the Alan Higgs Centre, owned by Coventry and Warwickshire Award Trust.
It's likely to be constructed on the site of an indoor pitch which will be replaced elsewhere on the same site.
The new indoor pitch would be ready for use in September 2018, with the pool open to the public in summer 2019.
Shropshire Council says the cost of looking after a number of foreign children abandoned in Shrewsbury earlier this year is more than £1m.
Councillor Peter Nutting, leader of the authority, said extra responsibilities meant the council had to look for savings of £5m elsewhere in its budget by the end of March 2018.
Mr Nutting said a van pulled up in the Battlefield area in spring and dropped off the children.
Quote MessageThese children have travelled halfway round the world, they've been in France for a few months, they were loaded into a van, they came to Shropshire. The police went and picked them up, rang social services in the Shirehall. We are now the corporate parents
Peter Nutting, Leader of Shropshire Council
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
Effie Bowman from Castle Gresley isn't your usual four-year-old.
She spent Saturday night sleeping in a cardboard box at Burton Albion FC to raise money for a homeless charity.
A crowd-funding campaign to raise £25,000 towards the cost of repairing Shropshire's famous Iron Bridge has passed £20,000.
Image source, PAThe appeal to raise the sum - the final part of a £3.6m conservation project - was launched by English Heritage yesterday.
More than 400 people have donated money.
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