Finals for both genders are normally played at Hereford Football Club's Edgar Street stadium.

Allen Cook
BBC News

A horse has been rescued after falling into a ditch this afternoon., external

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The fire service's animal rescue team was called after the 22-year-old escaped her field in the Penkridge area of Staffordshire and then got stuck.

They say a vet sedated her while they hoisted her free, adding that the horse is expected to make a full recovery.

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The English Football League approve the relationship between super agent Jorge Mendes and Championship winners Wolves.

A petition calling for Premier League and Championship clubs to introduce safe-standing has hit the 100,000 mark needed to trigger a Parliament debate on the subject.

West Brom had their proposal to introduce safe standing rejected earlier this month.

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Wolves and Aston Villa have joined the clubs calling for sections of so-called rail seats to be built.

League One neighbours Shrewsbury Town have today received delivery of new rail seats and is set to become the first English team to install them.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A dagger, a baton, a golf club, a sharp wooden sword and a large amount of drugs are among items seized by police from a car this morning., external

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Officers say they were acting on a tip-off when they stopped the Honda Civic in the early hours on the A34 in Stone, Staffordshire.

Two men and a woman from Stoke-on-Trent were arrested for offences including suspicion of possession of a controlled drug and possession of an offensive weapon.

A cordon remains in place at a property in Brookside Avenue, Coventry where an army bomb disposal team carried out an investigation yesterday.

Eight homes were evacuated while the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal work alongside West Midlands Police.

A 20-year-old man held under the Explosives Act remains in custody this afternoon and continues to help police with inquiries following his arrest.

A small fire at the scene yesterday evening was the result of a controlled disposal of a substance on scrap land.

Amelia Eldred who lost her limb to bone cancer has rare procedure which could allow her to dance again.

Claudia Berry
BBC News

The Countess of Wessex has paid tribute to the women who risked their health working in the munitions factories of Herefordshire and Worcestershire

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Sophie met some of them at Hereford Cathedral this morning as they were presented with special badges.

The countess was also shown the Weeping Window poppy display and left a visitors card at the exhibition., external

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Hammerson and Intu have officially called off a £3.4bn deal that would have created Britain's biggest property company.

Hammerson, the owner of the Bullring and Grand Central shopping centres in Birmingham, last week withdrew a recommendation calling on shareholders to back the acquisition, prompting Intu's board to announce on Wednesday it would not proceed.

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Intu said it was releasing Hammerson of its obligation to follow through with the deal.

The offer period has now ended, leading to the lapse of the acquisition.

Hammerson said last week the takeover was "no longer in the best interest of shareholders", citing growing dismay over the health of the UK retail property market.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

What's being claimed as one of the darkest planets ever found has been discovered by researchers from Keele University., external

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The Astrophysics Group says it absorbs 99% of light making it darker than charcoal.

The planet is orbiting a yellow dwarf star 470 light-years away from Earth.

"WASP-104b is interesting because it was not even seen," Lead researcher Teo Mocnik said.

"All planets reflect starlight from their host star. Some planets are highly reflective, such as Venus reflecting 70% of the light, while some others reflect only 10%.

The MP for Coventry north east, Colleen Fletcher, has called on the prime minister to support a campaign by the Anthony Nolan charity, external which wants to recruit more young people to join the stem cell donor register.

Ms Fletcher (pictured) said in the weekly Prime Minister's Questions that research showed having a younger stem cell donor improved a patient's chance of surviving post transplant.

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She said 1,000 people in her constituency had already signed up to be donors.

Theresa May told the House of Commons that the Anthony Nolan charity had "done excellent work over many years" and that she would look into the campaign.

Police are appealing for information after a man indecently exposed himself and assaulted a member of train staff in Nuneaton.

British Transport Police said it happened in the waiting room of Nuneaton Rail Station at about 20:30 on 8 April.

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The man then boarded a train to Crewe, before exposing himself again as he walked through a full train carriage.

He later injured the train driver by hitting him on the nose with his mobile phone, after leaving the train at Atherstone.

The man is believed to be white, 5ft 8 with short brown curly hair and was wearing a khaki green track suit.

Tadeusz Polanski arrived in the UK in 1951 from Rhodesia aged seven but does not have citizenship.

BBC Civilisations Stories presenter Mark Williams discovers how the West Midlands was a hotbed of creativity and discovery in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

The evidence can be seen in paintings and other art forms still with us today.

He uncovers tales of flamboyant dandies and deal makers, inventors and innovators - and shares the secrets of what amputations were like in the days before anaesthetics.

Watch the full programme on BBC One next Monday or afterwards on the BBCiPlayer.

The Birmingham-based broadcaster pulled broadcasts of Live: Herbal Medicine after a complaint.

Phil Mackie
Midlands correspondent, BBC News

A girl who's undergone a rare operation that has seen her lower leg attached backwards directly on to her thigh has described the procedure as "scary".

Seven-year-old Amelia Eldred, from Tamworth, who was diagnosed with bone cancer, underwent the operation earlier this year and is still going through chemotherapy.

I asked her Kingsbury Primary pupil if she felt brave, she told me "I'd like to think I was".

"I didn't really know what was happening but the further we want, the more and more I got to know more about it," she said.

She said what surgeon's have done is "amazing".

Ultimately the doctors hope to use Amelia's heel to attach a prosthetic leg.

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Staffordshire University is the biggest climber in the annual league table of UK universities.

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The Complete University Guide 2019 rankings , externalare based on 10 measures, including research, student satisfaction, and graduate prospects.

Staffordshire University, which is based in Stoke-on-Trent, moved up 32 places to joint 73rd.

Promoted Wolves show interest in the introduction of safe standing in the Premier League at Molineux.

There are almost 400 homes and businesses without power in Evesham this afternoon.

Western Power Distribution said it affected customers in the WR11 postcode and engineers hoped to have supplies restored by 15:30.

Carlie Swain
BBC News

Shropshire cricketer Eve Jones has been named as the new captain of Lancashire Women for this season., external

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The 25-year-old from Whitchurch will oversee their 50 over and T20 action this summer.

She joined Lancashire last season from Staffordshire and was named the club's Player of the Year.