Birmingham Live

Birmingham Live is looking at these stories today, among others:

• Nursing student, 19, discovers she has an inoperable brain tumour after struggling, external to read texts
• Hospital A&E staff 'out of touch with reality' and patients left in corridors to get worse, external
• Child sex offender died of heart attack at HMP Birmingham after twice complaining, external of chest pains

A former captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment will be buried with full military honours today after his remains were discovered a century after his death during World War One

Henry John Innes Walker was a New Zealander fighting with the British Army when he came under enemy fire in West Flanders in Belgium.

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His great nephews and wider family attended a service of Remembrance at the Menin Gate.

A team of archaeologists found Captain Walker's remains two years ago.

BBC Politics

Stoke-on-Trent North MP Ruth Smeeth and her Labour counterpart Luciana Berger were both applauded in the Commons after their speeches about anti-Semitism.

The MPs listed the abuse they had received, with Ms Smeeth saying they would "not be bullied out of political engagement".

BBC Hereford and Worcester

Hereford FC have secured a third promotion in as many seasons.

A Rob Purdie penalty was enough to secure a 1-0 win at Biggleswade Town last night and the three points needed to guarantee the Southern League Premier Division title.

Promotion means Hereford will play in either Vanarama National League North or South next season - just two more promotions away from the Football League.

BBC Midlands Today

Health inspectors have warned the trust that runs Russells Hall hospital in Dudley that its emergency services are inadequate.

A report by the Care Quality Commission has found there was a "significant risk that life-threatening conditions would not be identified and treated as quickly as they should have been".

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust says it has put an improvement plan in place for the emergency department to ensure patient safety.

BBC Weather

There's plenty of sunshine around this morning and through the day too. Highs of 23C (73F).

You can check your local forecast here.

Monica Rimmer
BBC News

Welcome to our live service for Wednesday.

We'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather for the West Midlands.

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Jason Pearce and Josh Magennis are on target as Charlton win at Shrewsbury to move back into the League One play-offs.

We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 on Wednesday, but keep an eye out here for more updates before then.

Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

Access to two main roads from a roundabout in Cheshire is going to be cut off for three months from tonight, external as work on a roundabout hits its second phase.

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The Crewe Green Roundabout is being overhauled at a cost of £7m in a bid to improve the flow of traffic, external through the junction.

The link between the roundabout and Hungerford Road and Sydney Road will be closed until July.

Cheshire East Council says there'll just be a single lane with traffic lights between the two roads.

Frank Cochran left his victim "a shadow of her former self", Staffordshire Police say.

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The Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer's covering these stories today:

• Man dies after being struck by car near roundabout, external
• Father calling for disability training in national pub chain, external
• Dog is thrown out of car and kicked three times, external

BBC Business News

Five Lloyds banks in the West Midlands will close as part of a cost-cutting plan announced earlier this year.

Overall, the lender will cut a further 305 jobs and shut a total of 49 branches.

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It follows the announcement of 930 job cuts in February.

The five are Hednesford, Staffordshire; Brierley Hill, Dudley; Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire; Ledbury, Herefordshire; and Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire.

Mark Elliott
BBC News

Shrewsbury Town head into tonight's game at home to Charlton knowing they need a win to keep up their push for automatic promotion from League One.

They are five points behind leaders Wigan and Blackburn who occupy the top two places, although they have a game in hand on Blackburn.

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Defender Omar Beckles (pictured) won't play as he's suspended.

Eleanor Parkinson
BBC Spotlight

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A lorry driver who left a woman with life-changing injuries has been given a two-year suspended sentence and 300 hours of unpaid work at Truro Crown Court.

Paul Ince, 47, of Leyland, Lancashire, was driving when a loose stability leg on his company's lorry pushed a van into the path of a partially sighted woman.

Kay Kitto was crushed in between that vehicle and her own car outside her house in Falmouth in September 2016 and spent several months recovering in hospital.

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On a previous occasion Ince pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Last week Gavin Bentley, 40, director of Midlands Poling Services in Staffordshire, was fined £9,000 for causing or abetting dangerous driving.

The firm's maintenance manager Paul O'Toole, 50, from Cannock, Staffordshire, was fined £2,000 for the same offence.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Stephen Topping

Hospital bosses say they want to double the capacity of an A&E unit for the most seriously injured patients.

Leighton Hospital in Crewe currently has 10 "majors cubicles" but the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wants to increase that to up to 20.

NHS figures show the hospital had 73,985 A&E admissions from March 2017 to February, compared to 68,053 for the year before.

The trust says it'll now look for political and national financial support for the expansion work.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It should stay largely dry tonight, although breezy in places, but feeling mild with lows of 12C (53F).

Five women are thought to be victims of trafficking and have been taken into shelters.

Grace Currie, who has a serious brain injury, was wrongly asked to leave for being "too drunk".

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Carl Jackson

Birmingham's £10.5m adult education budget is set to transfer to the West Midlands Combined Authority – prompting concerns it will add "another layer of bureaucracy".

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The move will affect how services for around 9,000 adult learners in Birmingham are delivered from April next year.

The WMCA can then either "passport" the funding to the council or commission services through specific contracts, which has prompted concerns.

A report which went to the cabinet today , externalstated there could be "financial implications" for the council if the combined authority decided to operate in that way.