In the papers: Pizza Run scrapped amid bust-uppublished at 17:11 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Some of the top stories to feature in the Birmingham Mail today include:
Summary
Lorry drivers jailed for fatal minibus crash
Family jailed for ammunition supply ring
Men murdered dad after 'money row'
'Frenzied' double stabbing knifeman jailed
Three teens stabbed outside school
Ambulance abuse note woman evicted
Tumour survivor breaks Atlantic record
HS2 payments still unclaimed
Arrest after knifepoint taxi robberies
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In the papers: Pizza Run scrapped amid bust-uppublished at 17:11 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
A 'city in grief together' as memorial held for brotherspublished at 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Amy Cole
BBC Midlands TodayHundreds of people are expected at Coventry Cathedral this afternoon to pay tribute to two young brothers killed when they were hit by a car.
Corey, aged six, and two-year-old Casper Platt-May were killed on Longfellow Road during a trip to a park last month.
A man and a woman have been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
Canon Katherine Fleming from the cathedral says the service is a chance for the entire city to grieve together.
More than £26,000 has been raised to help cover the family's funeral costs.
Could camping be coming to Alton Towers?published at 16:49 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Sophie Calvert
Political Reporter, BBC Radio StokeAlton Towers wants to add more accommodation to its site.
The theme park has submitted a planning application, external for 102 wooden camping style pods which could sleep up to four adults in its Enchanted Village area.
Image source, Alton Towers / Staffordshire Moorlands CouncilMusic venue fire treated as arsonpublished at 16:32 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Alice Rosenthal
BBC WMA fire at a former music venue in Stirchley last night was started deliberately, says West Midlands Fire Service.
About 50 firefighters tackled the blaze at the Roadhouse on Lifford Lane just after 21:30 last night.
The fire service says it affected several sections of the venue and that investigations were ongoing.
Ice danger prompts rolling roadblockpublished at 16:18 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
A rolling road block was put in place today on the main route into Birmingham after reports of icicles and ice hanging over the carriageway., external
Amey which carries out road maintenance work on behalf of the council removed ice from the Aston Expressway, both inbound and outbound, this afternoon.
80K event rescheduledpublished at 16:08 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
The inaugural Shropshire Way 80k walk, postponed due to the bad weather, has been rescheduled.
Image source, Shropshire Hills Discovery CentreThe event, organised by the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms, will now be held on the last weekend in April.
Nearly 150 people had signed up to take part.
Woman accused of her mother's murderpublished at 15:59 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
The dead woman has been named by police as 53-year-old Rocky Sargeant.
Read MoreIn the papers: Team's tribute for player killed in crashpublished at 15:55 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Here are some of the top stories being covered by the Express & Star today:
Dead woman was murder-accused's motherpublished at 15:43 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
A 53-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed has been named by police as Rocky Sargeant - the mother of the woman who's accused of her murder.
Her body was found on Friday at a property in Sun Street in Cheadle, Staffordshire.
Charlene Sargeant, 24, of Sun Street, appeared in court this morning and was remanded in custody.
The accused is due to appear at Stafford Crown Court on Wednesday.
Oscar-winner Silent Child to be shown on TVpublished at 15:35 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
BBC Radio StokeOscar-winning film The Silent Child, written by a Stoke-on-Trent actress, is to be screened on BBC One on Good Friday.
Rachel Shenton said her dad was the true inspiration behind the film.
The story follows a profoundly deaf girl - and Rachel's father lost his hearing after receiving treatment for throat cancer.
Media caption, Six, deaf and going to the Oscars
Quote MessageWatching TV, going out for dinner - all those things become really difficult. They are just normal things you do in life. It forces you look at all areas of your life and how integral hearing is."
Rachel Shenton, Writer and director
£27m investment in 'Britain's largest' 3D printing factorypublished at 15:20 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Britain's biggest 3D printing factory, external is to be created in Worcester, creating 55 new jobs.
German firm Siemens is to invest £27m in the plant, which will serve the aviation, automotive and motor sports sectors.
Image source, SiemensSiemens aims for the new factory to become a "global centre of excellence" employing top class engineers, metallurgists and manufacturing specialists.
The new facility will be situated in the Worcester Six Business Park Development and replaces an older factory in the same city.
Cat dies after 'peppered' with air gun shotspublished at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
A cat has had to be put down after being found on a grass verge "peppered" with air gun pellets.
The RSPCA says a black male cat was discovered on Middlewich Road in Crewe with 10 wounds across his body, and was brought into the Nantwich centre by a member of the public.
Image source, RSPCAQuote MessageGiven there were 10 pellets inside him, we can’t imagine this was a quick attack. He was in a very bad way so the decision was made to put him to sleep to end his suffering. He wasn’t microchipped so we don’t know if he was an owned cat or a stray. It is distressing to think that people take pleasure in causing such horrific injuries to defenceless animals."
Lee Stewart, RSPCA, Stapeley
Burton need clear heads - Cloughpublished at 14:53 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Burton Albion will need clear heads for their final eight games of the Championship season, says manager Nigel Clough.
Read MoreYour pictures: Animals in the snowpublished at 14:50 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
The BBC Weather Watchers have been busy uploading pictures of the snow and ice around the region today.
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Image source, Terry EyreIn the papers: University project gets £500,000published at 14:42 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
These are some of the main stories on the Hereford Times website today:
International break a blessing in disguise for Potters?published at 14:27 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
BBC Radio Stoke SportStoke City manager Paul Lambert is hoping the two-week international break can work in his side's favour.
The Potters return to action at Arsenal in 13 days' time still in the bottom three of the Premier League with seven games of the season remaining.
Image source, Getty ImagesQuote MessageThere are two ways to look at it. If you get a win, you want the next game to come pretty quick - if you lose, you need time to re-group. We've got quite a few little injuries at the moment. I can't fault them with effort but we know we have to to start to win."
Paul Lambert, Potters boss
The Potters - whose only goal was scored by Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting on Saturday against Everton - have won just one of their last 12 Premier League games.
City named as among those with youngest populationpublished at 14:15 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Coventry has been named as the fifth youngest city in the UK, with an average age of 36.2.
According to figures from The Centre for Cities - which looks at built-up urban areas with 135,000 or more people, external - the UK city with the youngest population is Slough, with an average age of 33.9 and only one in 10 people aged 65 and over.
It is followed by Oxford (34.4) and Luton (35.1). The average age in London, the sixth youngest city, is 36.5.
Coventry was also among only six cities which saw a drop in the average age of their population, mostly as a result of expanding student populations and Slough's high birth rate.
Car wash collapse: Driver cut freepublished at 14:00 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Firefighters have freed a man from a car wash after it collapsed in Uttoxeter this morning.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service says, external the male driver had to be cut free from his van after he became trapped, although he wasn't injured.
Firefighters were called to Shell in Uttoxeter at 10:40.
Image source, GoogleCouncillor defends south of France trippublished at 13:48 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
A Shropshire councillor said a recent trip to the South of France was "no jolly" and defended the council's decision to send representatives.
Image source, Getty ImagesShropshire Council spent £20,000 sending delegates to the Mipom property event in Cannes.
Councillor Nic Laurens said he drove himself to the event "so there was no airline costs for me to claim".
"We worked from 08:00 to 21:00 every day we were at the exhibition", he said.
Two-vehicle crash causes delays on M42published at 13:38 Greenwich Mean Time 19 March 2018
Breaking
BBC News TravelA crash involving a lorry and a car has closed two lanes of the M42 northbound in Warwickshire between the M6 Toll and junction nine.
Police are at the scene and drivers are being told to expect delays in the area.
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