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BBC Weather

A chilly night in store with some clear spells but also the chance of a few showers with lows of -1C (2C).

A further 496 properties in Solihull have been left without anyone in them for less than six months.

Eight people died in the crash between two lorries and a minibus last August.

Kate Tebby
Journalist, BBC Shropshire

A consultation process is underway about a possible badger cull in Shropshire.

Natural England, which issues the licences for them, says it's received applications or "expressions of interest" to carry out new culls in eight counties in England including Shropshire.

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Culling is part of the government's 25-year strategy to eradicate bovine TB, although opponents say there is no evidence it's effective.

The location of the possible cull in Shropshire is not being revealed due to the sensitivity of the issue of badger culls and Bovine TB.

The consultation is aimed at people who think their livelihood or daily activities would be affected by a cull.

A jury deliberating over a 54-year-old Stoke-on-Trent lorry driver charged with eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving have gone home for the day.

David Wagstaff is also charged with four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. The jury at Reading Crown Court will return to continue its deliberations tomorrow.

Earlier, the jury delivered unanimous guilty verdicts on all counts against Ryszard Masierak of Evesham after almost nine hours of deliberations.

The Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced he's stepping down after more than 20 years.

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Mr Bintley, who will move on in July 2019, says he will look back on his time at the ballet as "the pinnacle of my life in dance and the ones which brought me the greatest artistic and personal joy”.

The ballet said it would be starting a "global search" for a successor, adding Mr Bintley wanted to "pursue increasing international requests to choreograph new works".

A Warwickshire army veteran has set off on a two-year trip raising funds for the armed forces charity, SSAFA.

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Charity officials gathered to send off Dave Mills from Bedworth from the Cenotaph in London.

His journey will take him through Europe, arriving in Russia in time for the World Cup.

The former infantryman in The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is raising funds for the Warwickshire and Coventry branch of the charity.

A jury finds Dr Amirul Haque not guilty of five charges relating to alleged sexual assaults.

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Andrew Foster died "using his body as a shield" to protect his wife from a massive rock fall.

Ryszard Masierak from Evesham, one of two lorry drivers who were involved in a motorway crash which left eight people dead on the M1, has been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving.

The driver of a minibus and seven passengers, on their way to Disneyland in Paris all died in the crash.

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A doctor has been cleared of sexually assaulting five female patients.

Dr Amirul Haque, aged 33, from Balsall Heath in Birmingham, was found not guilty of five separate charges by a jury after an 11-day trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

He had denied carrying out the attacks while training in general practice at a surgery in the Dudley area.

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Long delays are expected on the M6 southbound, between Sandbach and Crewe, Highways England says.

It's because of a broken down lorry in the roadworks area, which has spilled oil on the road.

Traffic is already queuing back to junction 19.

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A group of men armed with axes attacked a security van on a Coventry garage forecourt before making off with cash boxes containing thousands of pounds.

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Officers were called to the Texaco garage on Black Prince Avenue in Coventry just before 10:30.

A security guard was taken to hospital for treatment for a suspected broken nose and concussion.

One of the cash boxes was dumped in an alleyway still intact and has been sent for forensic analysis.

Descendants of World War One soldier Allan Lewis hope to raise £60,000 in his honour.

People living in rural Herefordshire say locals have been working hard to get them free.

A man injured in an accident at a trampoline park might not walk again, his grandfather has said.

Daniel Moseley, 20, from Whitgreave suffered a double neck fracture after hitting his head on the edge of a foam pit at Flip Out Stoke in Stone on 27 January, Stan Winterton said.

Image source, Stan Winterton

Mr Winterton described his grandson's injuries as "life changing" and that he had been in an induced coma.

Flip Out Stoke said an independent inquiry had confirmed it had followed the correct process and that every jumper is given a full safety briefing.

An audit has found children suffer worse injuries at public trampoline parks than when using private ones.

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Rising knife crime incidents across the region are being studied by Aston University academics in order to help police to "target interventions" more sucessfully, police said.

Det Supt Ian Parnell said West Midlands Police had also stepped-up knife searches and their education programmes in light of 22 fatal stabbings in the last year.

He denied there was a "massive link" between knife crime and gang culture.

"What you see in the majority of cases are people making mistakes - it's very much spontaneous incidents - for example a fight when a knife is produced and used on the spur of the moment."

The Flybe aircraft landed safely following a suspected technical fault.

A large display of ceramic poppies is being set up at Hereford Cathedral.

They're from the display seen outside the Tower of London in 2014, to mark the 100th anniversary of World War One.

The poppies have been touring the UK and will be in Hereford from 14 March to 29 April and in Stoke-on-Trent in August and September.