Cyran Stewart was moving heavy bar stools from the basement of the Walkabout bar when he was crushed.

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

The history of Ross on Wye is going to be made available to people around the world, with the help of a £70,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Ross Gazette Archive Project will use the money to digitise the newspaper archive and photographs dating back to the first paper, which was published in 1867.

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The archive will be available on the Herefordshire History website, external, which is run by the county's libraries.

It will also include memories, stories and films done in partnership with the local community.

BBC WM Sport

Former Aston Villa striker Garry Thompson says the side have hit form at the right time as they target reaching the automatic promotion places in the Championship.

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Villa have won four league games in a row to move within three points of second-placed Derby.

Thompson told BBC WM last night he believes it's because key players are starting to show their worth at the right time.

Thomas Mackintosh
BBC London News

The Home Office says it is "determined" to tackle knife crime, in response to an earlier article about how Scotland has managed to significantly reduce violent deaths.

A spokesman added: "We are collaborating with a number of partners including social services, schools, the police, and the voluntary sector, as well as local councils to address the root cause of the problem.

"Last month alone we provided £765,000 to local projects supporting communities in tackling knife crime.

"We also fund young people's advocates who work directly with women affected by gangs to ensure they get the support they need to break the cycle of violence.

The Home Office insists it has "good links with the VRU in Scotland and share good practice about what works."

It also says it supports a London-based charity called Redthread, which engages with you victims of assault and exploitation when they are taken to A&E departments.

The spokesman added: "Its youth Violence Intervention Programme focuses on what's called the "Teachable Moment” when young vulnerable people coming through hospital doors question what behaviour and choices may have led them to that point.

"The organisation is well established in London and with support from the Home Office they are now expanding to Nottingham and Birmingham.

Workmen have been attempting to secure the end of a footbridge which connects Bridgnorth to the Severn Valley Railway.

Last week Shropshire Council discovered eight bolts which are designed to hold down the walkway "appeared to be hanging dangerously in mid-air" and that support cables had lost some of their tension.

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These photos were taken today and show the council workmen using weights to hold down the bridge while new bolts are fixed in place.

This work is being described as a temporary solution by the authority, with a permanent repair job due to take place later in the year.

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Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

Birmingham Airport says last year was its busiest on record., external

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Nearly 13 million passengers went through the terminal in 2017, which it says is up nearly 12% on the year before.

Despite the collapse of the airline Monarch in October, the airport says the return of other airlines made up the lost passenger numbers.

Worcester News

These are some of the headlines from the Worcester News today:

• School pupils forced to cross road too dangerous for lollipop lady, external
• Deer culling at woodland slammed, external as "disgusting"
• Car crashes into a house in Worcester, external

River levels are expected to peak this evening or overnight on a number of rivers across the West Midlands.

Three Environment Agency flood warnings remain in place for stretches of the River Wye in Herefordshire and there are several flood alerts, external for rivers in Shropshire and Worcestershire.

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Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Stoke City winger Xherdan Shaqiri says defender Moritz Bauer will get better as he gets used to the Premier League.

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Bauer joined Stoke two weeks ago from Rubin Kazan for an undisclosed fee.

He only spent 18 months at the Russian club, playing 41 times, after joining from Grasshopper Zurich for £3m in 2016.

Bauer was named man-of-the-match on his home debut at the weekend.

Shropshire Council agreed to buy the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside centres in December.

Allen Cook
BBC News

An inspection of a food supplier's factory in Birmingham is what led to steak being pulled from the menu at JD Wetherspoon pubs across the country, it's been revealed today.

Last night he company cut the meat from its steak club menu, blaming a "supply issue".

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This afternoon, it was revealed the supplier, Russell Hume, had been investigated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) over non-compliance with hygiene regulations.

The FSA says it started a nationwide inquiry at all the supplier's sites after an inspection of its Birmingham site earlier this month, external found "serious non-compliance" with regulations.

The agency says it told Russell Hume to withdraw all affected product.

The supplier says that was a precaution due to mislabelling and there was no reason to think the steak "was unsafe to eat".

MP Jess Phillips addressed sexual harassment claims brought by an undercover reporter at a charity event.

BBC Business News

The government will have to issue new tenders for Carillion's halted building projects if it wants to get value for money, the boss of one of the UK's biggest construction firms says.

The Wolverhampton-based company went into liquidation on 15 January.

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Haydn Mursell, chief executive of Kier Group, said other firms would be "daft" to pick up Carillion's projects under their current contract terms.

Public contracts are likely to be delayed as surveyors assess progress.

Kier was Carillion's joint-venture partner on the HS2 rail project.

Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

We've had a windy and, at times, wet day for much of us in the West Midlands today.

Here's tonight and tomorrow's forecast - you can get latest updates at any other time from the BBC Weather website.

Eight-year-old Mylee Billingham's father is arrested on suspicion of her murder, police confirm.

A woman who grew up in Stoke-on-Trent is behind a new exhibition about opera.

Anna Jones designed the Passion, Power and Politics exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She says it'll let visitors wander through "fragments" of opera sets until 25 February.

Sara Brown's housing benefit payments were stopped for nearly two months, causing her to be evicted.

Shropshire Star

Here are three of the headlines from the Shropshire Star website:

• Telford couple fined £300 for Christmas card fly-tipping, external
• Flood barriers in place as Shropshire hit by more wind and rain, external
• A5 near Oswestry closed as lorry overturns, external

BBC News England

Photographs which are invisible to the human eye will go on show in an exhibition in Birmingham.

Designed by The Big Bang Fair, which is calling it the world's first invisible photography exhibition, the idea was developed using nanotechnology with tech company Scrona.

The organisers hope the show will inspire young people to consider a future in science or engineering.

Dotography: The World’s First Invisible Photography Exhibition will run from 24 to 27 January at Unit K2, Link Road, Birmingham.

The Stratford-on-Avon MP Nadhim Zahawi says he condemned the behaviour at a men-only charity dinner, which he attended last week.

He was among the guests at the Presidents Club Charity Dinner, held at London's upmarket Dorchester Hotel, where it is claimed hostesses working there were groped.

The Conservative education minister says he attended in a "personal capacity" and told Newsnight: "I didn't stay long enough to really comment on the occasion."

He later tweeted, external: "I do unequivocally condemn this behaviour. The report is truly shocking. I will never attend a men only function ever."