Stuart Lymer and a teenage girl were taken to hospital following the incident in Perth.

The specialist team could not meet its target of seeing high-risk children several times a week, a report found.

The former Wolves and Shrewsbury Town midfielder Dave Edwards has announced his retirement from international football.

The 32-year-old, who now plays for Reading, was picked to go to the European Championships in 2016, but hasn't been included in Ryan Giggs's first Wales squad, for the China Cup.

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BBC School Report

One of the workshops at BBC Birmingham for School Report was the Coding Slalom.

We watched as year nine students from Parkside Community School in Chesterfield were set the challenge of guiding an electric ball along a course through coding.

Holly enjoyed the whole day and said she loved getting a small insight into coding.

Warwick and Leamington MP, Matt Western, is hosting a meeting to discuss homelessness in the area.

More than 20 local organisation are taking part in the summit, organised by the Labour MP.

Recent government figures show , externalWarwick District has one of the highest rate of rough sleepers in the West Midlands.

He highlighted the issue during his maiden speech in Parliament saying that last year 705 applied as homeless to the local authority, a rise of 130% since 2010.

Bomb disposal specialists have carried out a controlled explosion in Worcester this afternoon.

Police were called to Crookbarrow Way in the city at 10:40 this morning and the device, thought to be an old grenade, was destroyed shortly before 13:00.

Worcester Warriors' Ben Te'o keeps his place in the starting line up for England's final Six Nations match against Ireland at Twickenham on Saturday.

Dylan Hartley has recovered from injury and he returns to captain the side.

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Fly-half George Ford has been dropped along with scrum-half Danny Care, lock Joe Launchbury and prop Dan Cole.

England also make two injury-enforced changes, with Courtney Lawes and Nathan Hughes unavailable for the game.

Some of the main stories in this week's Coventry Observer are:

• Listed George Eliot home's owners ordered to restore it by council, external
• £350m government fund granted for new West Midlands homes, external
• Councillors pay tribute to long-serving colleagues set to step down, external

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A man who stabbed his pool opponent four times after a row about the rules has been jailed for life.

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Armed with a 14cm (5.5in) knife, Lyndon Smith, 46, stabbed 20-year-old John Joyce as he went to hail a taxi on 17 August 2017.

Smith, of Owen Road, Bilston, had earlier been playing pool with Mr Joyce at a pub in the town. He claimed he stabbed him in self-defence.

At Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday, he was ordered to serve a minimum term of 22 years. He was found guilty of murder at an earlier hearing.

A cat owner said her pet "didn't stand a chance" when a hound killed her cat in the garden.

A steam locomotive from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has arrived in Shropshire after a longer-than-expected journey.

The Tornado was supposed to travel to the Severn Valley Railway by rail, but got stuck when a bin lorry damaged a bridge along its intended route on Monday.

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It was transferred to a lorry and has arrived just in time for a steam event at the historic railway tomorrow.

There are conflicting reports about the number of child sex abuse victims in Telford and other towns.

Telford's MP Lucy Allan said "many victims do not come forward" and so police numbers would "never reflect the full scale", while the former chief prosecutor for north west England Nazir Afzal said there could be "hundreds, if not thousands (of girls) across the country".

Former Blackburn MP Jack Straw said the gangs were "particularly prevalent among the Pakistani-heritage community" and, in some towns, the police and social services "really covered their eyes with disastrous consequences" to the crimes.

There's been a sharp rise in the number of people threatening council staff, physically and verbally, according to Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

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The authority says there's been a significant rise in the year to January. It says one worker was threatened with a make-shift axe, while others were told their children's lives were at risk.

The council says it's taking a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, and will be offering guidance to staff.

A volunteer who has been cleaning police cars for the last five years has been thanked by Staffordshire Police.

Phil Daly has been turning up at the Stafford police station all year round, saying he enjoys the work and "it gives me independence, just something to do, out and about".

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Phil said the police officers at the station are "really, really nice people" and his mother, Sharon, said "he doesn't actually like going out of the house but when he comes here and everyone is so friendly, he enjoys doing what he's doing".

Two new student tower blocks in Coventry are being considered by planners at a city council meeting today.

Work has already started on the development next to the city’s ring road, which would house almost 800 students.

The student accommodation would be split into two main buildings with a maximum height of 16 and 18 storeys each.

The city's conservation officer was among those raising concerns about the negative impact the towers might have on city's heritage sites.

Stoke City's Jack Butland has been included in the England squad for the friendlies against the Netherlands and Italy.

He is one of four goalkeepers called up by Gareth Southgate, alongside Joe Hart, Nick Pope and Jordan Pickford.

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BBC News Travel

The number of Environment Agency flood alerts, external is falling and so are river levels across the West Midlands.

In Upton-upon-Severn this means New Street is likely to reopen at midday tomorrow, Worcestershire County Council says.

The concerns raised by Airbus about the proposed hostile takeover of the engineering firm GKN are significant because Airbus is one of its biggest customers.

The aircraft-maker accounts for 20% of GKN's aerospace sales last year.

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GKN is fighting off a bid from Melrose, a USA group that specialises in turning companies around and selling them on. Earlier this week it rejected a final £8.1bn takeover offer.

Tom Williams, the aircraft maker's chief operating officer, warned it could not give any new business to GKN if the deal with turnaround specialist Melrose went ahead.

GKN employs more than 59,000 people, including 1,784 across the West Midlands, including at its headquarters in Redditch.

Worcester News

Here are three of the headlines from the Worcester News today:

• Rail delays after train breaks down near Droitwich, external
• Salvation Army offer homeless shelter new base after spike in use, external
• Event aims to encourage women into the building trades, external

A Birmingham man who tried to hide a cannabis farm in a hay barn has been jailed for three years and two months.

Staffordshire Police said 46-year-old Mitchell Nicholls from Shard End had been linked to the operation at Newchurch in Staffordshire through his fingerprints and had been on the run in Europe since police discovered it in 2015.

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During the search of the farm, officers found a series of secret rooms which were completely concealed by hay bales and contained hundreds of cannabis plants.

It's thought the operation was capable of producing drugs with a street value of more than £400,000 a year.

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Nicholls pleaded guilty to the production of cannabis at Stafford Crown Court yesterday.