Cotterill: Blues weighed down by anxietypublished at 18:06 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Birmingham City boss Steve Cotterill says the Championship's bottom club are totally lacking in confidence.
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Attempted murder arrest over teen stabbing
£80k fine for fire safety breach at hotel
Boy 'hanging by his neck' from tower block window
Champion skater left off ice after blades taken
Sick girl to go home for Christmas
'Monster' fatberg could take days to clear
Christmas Eve disruption for trains
Prankster gets police help for 'safe getaway' from fans
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Cotterill: Blues weighed down by anxietypublished at 18:06 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Stoke City fans' anger 'understandable' says managerpublished at 18:04 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio StokeThe Stoke City boss says anger from his club's fans over a poor run of form is "understandable".
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Potters lost 3-0 at home at the weekend to West Ham, their fifth defeat in six matches and have conceded the most goals in the Premier League.
At the final whistle there were chants of "Hughes out" and "sacked in the morning".
Quote MessageThat's understandable. Up to 75 minutes before the second goal, I thought the fans were absolutely magnificent, they were driving us on, totally behind us."
Mark Hughes, Stoke City manager
Family home makes 'intriguing' listpublished at 18:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
A family home in Shropshire has made it on to the National Heritage List of 20 Intriguing Places for 2017. , external
Image source, Historic EnglandBridge House in Condover is a three-bedroom house and was given Grade II status earlier this year.
It was built by Mervyn Seal in 1958 as a home for his young family while he worked as an architect for Shropshire County Council.
Images released on anniversary of stab deathpublished at 17:53 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Officers investigating the death of a man found stabbed in Birmingham a year ago have released new images of people they wish to trace.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceIbrahim Ismail, 23, was found with wounds to his chest and back outside the Raxo Shisha lounge in Highgate, Birmingham, on 17 December.
While no one has been charged, detectives have arrested 19 people in connection with the events of that night.
Nine remain on police bail.
Police's icy canal search for missing manpublished at 17:47 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Officers are carrying out a search of a canal in the Brierley Hill area of Dudley in an effort to locate a missing man, police say.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceThey shared these ice-breaking scenes earlier.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceIn the papers: Pressure on A&E servicespublished at 17:41 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Among the main stories on the Coventry Telegraph website today:
Lebanon diplomat death: Tribute to 'champion of the underdog'published at 17:29 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Rugby School has paid tribute to former pupil Rebecca Dykes, the British diplomat whose body was found on the side of a motorway in Lebanon on Saturday.
Image source, Family HandoutThe school said Ms Dykes was a pupil in Stanley House, Rugby's sixth form boarding house from 2003-2005.
Jane Phelps, housemistress at the time, said "Rebecca was a thoughtful girl, keen on politics and debating, and she very much championed the underdog".
The school said she was a "good student" who "did very well" before leaving to study at Manchester University.
New services to London launchedpublished at 17:20 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
BBC Midlands TodayNew railway services have been launched in Kidderminster and Stourbridge in a bid to make it easier to get to England's capital.
Chiltern Railways has introduced new direct trains to London Marylebone on Saturdays and Sundays.
Concerns over dead people's remains in water systempublished at 17:08 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
A council hoping to offer a new "water cremation" service has put plans on hold amid concerns about liquid remains of dead people getting into the water system.
Sandwell Council in Oldbury has been granted permission to offer "water cremation" at Rowley Regis crematorium, which it says is "more environmentally friendly than traditional cremation".
But water provider Severn Trent refused the council a "trade effluent" permit which dictates which substances may go into sewers.
A source at Water UK, which represents water companies, said the technology needed to be explored in much greater depth.
"It is the liquefied remains of the dead going into the water system," it said. "We don't think the public will like the idea."
Moeen and Woakes fail to stop Australia's Ashes winpublished at 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
BBC SportWorcestershire's Moeen Ali and Warwickshire's Chris Woakes failed to prevent England from losing by an innings to Australia in the third Ashes Test.
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Chris Woakes' wicket was the last to fall as Australia claimed the Ashes
The win means the home side secured the Ashes by taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series of five Tests.
Needing 259 to make the home side bat again, the tourists lost their remaining six wickets in 34 overs to be bowled out for 218 on the fifth day.
Moeen was lbw to Nathan Lyon for 11 while Woakes was the final wicket to go as he was caught behind off Pat Cummins.
Royal Blood mobile phone thief jailedpublished at 16:47 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
A total of 53 phones were recovered by police after the show at the Arena Birmingham.
Read MoreNew £34m Hereford link road openedpublished at 16:38 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
This edited video reveals images prepared for Herefordshire Council to show what the road may look like in future.
Read MoreIn the papers: Wife recovering after attackpublished at 16:29 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
These are among the top stories on the Shropshire Star's website today:
Latest statue makeover is bear-facedpublished at 16:11 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Vanessa Pearce
BBC NewsThe residents of a Warwickshire village have, once again, dressed an old statue as part of a tradition going back decades.
Locals in Dunchurch have been secretly dressing the Lord John Scott memorial since the 1970s.
He's been everything from a Star Wars stormtrooper to an Olympic athlete.
Media caption, A statue in Warwickshire is secretly dressed up by locals at least once a year
Lambert: I'd have had Wolves up therepublished at 16:04 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Sacked Paul Lambert tells BBC WM that he could have been as successful as Nuno at Wolves with the same money to spend.
Read More'Nightmare' paddle board commutepublished at 15:50 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Matt Lee
Reporter, BBC Radio StokeA Cheshire man's arrived for his last day at work this morning after a rather unusual four-day commute - by paddle board.
Kevin Bell set off from his home in the Macclesfield area on Friday morning and got to his office in Stoke-on-Trent this morning, external after paddling 35 miles along a canal.
He's so far raised more than £1,000 for The Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust in memory of his dad and father-in-law., external
Quote MessageFriday when I set off, lovely and sunny, bit icy but I had a narrowboat going ahead of me, breaking the ice, so that was all cool. Saturday, very different. Frozen solid, no boats moving so I had to carry the board half the time which was a nightmare frankly."
Kevin Bell, Paddle boarder
Killed taxi driver 'wanted new job'published at 15:33 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
The profession of a man who died in a crash that killed five others "worried" his family.
Read More'Stoke's issue is not with scoring goals' - Phil Nevillepublished at 15:21 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
BBC SportStoke City need to stop becoming a soft touch when it comes to conceding goals or they'll be relegated this season, according to BBC pundit Phil Neville.
The Potters' latest defeat, 3-0 to West Ham, saw them slip to a point and a place above the Premier League's bottom three.
Media caption, 'Mark Hughes is on the brink at Stoke' - Match of the Day 2 Extra pundits
Stoke have now conceded the most goals in the league and have kept just one clean sheet in their last 16 league games.
Neville told the BBC Sport website that the club has plenty of quality when going forward but, in terms of defending, it now looks as if the floodgates are open.
He added that needed to change, otherwise Stoke would end up in the bottom three.
Driver follows sat-nav into 'icy water'published at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Calum McKenzie
BBC NewsTwo people had to be rescued from the roof of their car after blindly following their sat-nav into "icy water".
Image source, Leicestershire PolicePolice from Market Bosworth and Hinckley, external said they were expecting to be "covering the Christmas party goers" on Friday night but got called out to this rescue.
The driver and a passenger, from Birmingham, had driven onto Watery Gate, Thurlaston while following instructions and ignoring what was in front of them.
They took refuge on top of the car, before being rescued by firefighters on a raft.
Birmingham crash: Two victims named by familiespublished at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2017
Two more victims of a Birmingham crash in which six people died have been named - Mohammed Fasha, 30, and 26-year-old Tauqeer Hussain, known as Tox to his family.
Image source, Family HandoutImage caption, Mohammed Fasha pictured with his baby nephew
Both lived in St Benedict's Road in the Small Heath area of the city.
Image source, Family HandoutImage caption, Tauqeer Hussain
The pair were among three people travelling in an Audi who died. A fourth man who was in the vehicle is in a serious condition in hospital.
A taxi driver who died along with two passengers was named earlier as Imtiaz Mohammed.
