How drug-fuelled sex parties cost a man his house, job, and almost his life.

Reginald Bacon's death "was an accident waiting to happen", an inquest jury hears.

Chelsea Under-21s will travel to Lincoln in the Checkatrade Trophy semi-finals, while Shrewsbury host Yeovil or Fleetwood.

A man who claims he was abused by the former football coach tells a court he has flashbacks.

Andy Giddings
BBC News

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Kriss Wilkes says he was in a desperate place when he was offered a job by a passer-by.

The club needs volunteers to help out and to help in competitions in which the sighted keep losing.

Nicola Payne, 18, went missing walking to her parent's house in Coventry in 1991.

Work on a new shopping centre on a former factory site in Burntwood will start next month.

LCP said the 68,000 sq ft retail park would cost £15m and contain at least nine units, plus a drive-through restaurant and 300 car parking spaces.

It will be built on the former Olaf Johnson site on Cannock Road and it should be ready to open by the end of 2019.

At the moment it said no "anchor tenants" have been confirmed, but talks were at an "advanced stage".

A club for blind and partially sighted people in Birmingham, where they learn how to shoot with a rifle, is searching for new volunteers to help run it.

But how does the sport work?

Allen Cook
BBC News

An empty BHS store in a West Midlands shopping centre is coming back into use as part of multi-million pound expansion plans., external

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Intu, the owner of the Merry Hill centre in Brierley Hill, says it's agreed terms with Primark for the retail firm to expand its current store at the site into the former BHS shop.

It's been empty since the department store chain went bust in April 2016.

Intu says it's part of its plans to spend £100m on Merry Hill , external since taking full control of the site two years ago.

Commuters at Birmingham's New Street station were treated to a performance by young musicians.

A large cannabis farm has been found at a house in Stoke-on-Trent

Officers raided the property on Dundee Road in Etruria just after 13:00.

Image source, Staffordshire Police

A 21 year-old-man from the city has been arrested on suspicion of cannabis production.

Chanise Evans
BBC Online

Wormleighton is the first parish in Warwickshire to receive a HS2 grant.

The £75,000 sum will pay for a kitchen and toilet facilities at the St Peter's church, which will open it out for wider community use.

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The village has been granted the largest sum out of £245,000 allocated to community projects along the HS2 route.

The idea is that the money is given to communities close to the planned HS2 route in a bid to bring it closer together,

Sandwell council is cracking down on landlords who fail to comply with housing rules.

Worcester News

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

• Terrified dad wakes up to stranger in bra and knickers holding knives above him, external
• Malvern X Factor star announces she is pregnant, external
• Wanted twins arrested at city railway station, external

Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Crewe's loan signing Daniel Barlaser says being coached by Newcastle's manager Rafael Benitez has helped him develop as a player.

The 21-year-old has joined on loan until the end of the season and came on as a late substitute in Crewe's 3-2 defeat to Wycombe at the weekend.

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Barlaser has made four appearances for the Championship club and has also been named on the substitutes' bench a number of times.

An Evesham-based business has been crowned the best mobile fish and chip operator at the National Fish and Chip Awards., external

Starchip Enterprise takes its van to villages in the surrounding area and picked up the award at a ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel earlier today.

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A Shropshire fish and chip van, The Sizzling Squid, finished as a runner-up.

The Sentinel

Here are some of the top stories from Stoke's Sentinel newspaper today:

• Super fertile couple have five babies in just three years, external
• Warning after suspicious yellow markings left on properties, external
• Two in hospital after three vehicle accident, external

BBC News Travel

The M6 between junctions 14 and 15 in Staffordshire has reopened, Highways England says, but there are still long queues of traffic.

Earlier they were up to nine miles (14km) long, it said.

Image source, Highways England

It has been working to remove debris and spillages from the road after a collision earlier this afternoon.