Summary

  • Driver jailed for nine years for brothers' hit-and-run deaths

  • Sports coach convicted of child sex offences

  • Mosque hit-and-run 'may be terror-related'

  • GP jailed for assaulting patient

  • Labour expels activist over remarks to MP

  • Wolves reveal details of promotion celebrations

  • Taxi driver fined for refusing to pick up disabled passenger

  • Jackknifed lorry blocks M5 for several hours

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  • Updates from Friday 27 April

  1. Worcester 44-13 Harlequinspublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    Worcester Warriors beat Harlequins to secure Premiership safety and consign London Irish to relegation.

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  2. Second day at New Road rained offpublished at 15:18 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    Day two of Worcestershire's match against Nottinghamshire at New Road is abandoned without a ball being bowled.

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  3. Solihull Moors 1-4 Eastleighpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    Sam Matthews hits a hat-trick as rampant Eastleigh thrash Solihull Moors in the National League

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  4. Hit-and-run victims 'were targeted'published at 13:39 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    The collision involving two men outside a Birmingham mosque was not terror-related, police say.

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  5. Hit-and-run sentence 'too lenient'published at 11:51 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    Corey and Casper Platt-May were on their way to a Coventry park when they were struck by a car.

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  6. Warrington's Currie out for the seasonpublished at 11:02 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    Warrington forward Ben Currie is ruled out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.

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  7. Cocaine is a 'life-ruiner' - Evanspublished at 09:33 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    British tennis player Dan Evans is set to return this weekend - a year after testing positive for "life-ruining" cocaine.

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  8. Six deaths at HMP Birmingham this yearpublished at 01:54 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    One person died of natural causes while five more deaths are being investigated.

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  9. Murder charge over Hollie Kerrell deathpublished at 00:53 British Summer Time 28 April 2018

    A 35-year-old man is due in court charged with murdering the 28-year-old mother-of-three.

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  10. Coroner asks for review over man's deathpublished at 20:34 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Gary Parfitt, 41, drowned just 200 metres from the unit he had been allowed to leave.

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  11. Man jailed for boys' hit-and-run deathspublished at 19:25 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Casper Platt-May, two, and his brother Corey, six, had their lives "ripped away" by drug-driver Robert Brown.

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  12. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

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

  13. Teenager recovering after A50 crashpublished at 18:55 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Lee Thomas
    Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

    A teenager who was critically injured in a fatal crash earlier this month is now said to be in the early stages of recovery, according to the police watchdog.

    Scene of the crashImage source, Lyz Sweetland Stubbs

    The 18-year-old, from Stoke-on-Trent, was a passenger in a car that police say was going the wrong way down the A50 near Longton, Stoke-on-Trent when it collided with two others.

    The 19-year-old man behind the wheel died at the scene.

    Police had been chasing the car before the the crash early on 15 April and the Independent Office for Police Conduct is now assessing the incident.

  14. Wembley 'should definitely not be sold' - Gordon Bankspublished at 18:52 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Stuart George
    Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke

    England World Cup winning goalkeeper and Stoke City legend Gordon Banks has told BBC Radio Stoke that Wembley Stadium should not be sold.

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    Fulham owner Khan confident of Wembley purchase

    Fulham's billionaire owner Shahid Khan has made an offer thought to be worth £900m.

    BBC Sport understands selling Wembley would allow the FA to make a major investment into football at grassroots level.

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    When you think in terms of what it does for football, it's remarkable. The cup finals, the international matches and, of course, the years when we hosted the World Cup, were just absolutely fantastic. It's just something special for football and it should definitely not be sold."

    Gordon Banks, Stoke City and England World Cup winning goalkeeper

  15. Manslaughter charge after teenager's deathpublished at 18:46 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Allen Cook
    BBC News

    A man's been charged with manslaughter, external after the death of a teenager attacked outside a McDonald's.

    The McDonald's in TamworthImage source, Google

    Liam Roche, 18, suffered serious head injuries in the assault outside the restaurant at the Ventura Retail Park in Tamworth on 22 January.

    The victim, from Kingstanding, died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in February.

    Samuel Kelly, 24, from Kingsbury near Tamworth, has been charged with manslaughter and is due to appear at the North Staffordshire Justice Centre tomorrow.

  16. Extra lorries to tackle 'terrible state' of county's roadspublished at 18:38 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Andrew Hewkin
    Newsreader, BBC Shropshire

    Two new specialist lorries have been taken on in Shropshire to tackle potholes, external as the councillor in charge of transport says he shares "people’s anger and frustration".

    Council with their new lorriesImage source, Shropshire Council

    Steve Davenport's admitted many of the roads in the area have been in a terrible state over the past few months following the severe winter weather.

    Shropshire Council says the two new lorries, which can clean and then fill potholes, will be used in the coming weeks.

    The authority says its contractor has made 504 permanent road repairs since 5 April.

  17. Shrewsbury Town revel in season's success of the underdogpublished at 18:27 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    James Bond
    Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire

    Shrewsbury Town's Omar Beckles says it's one of the most enjoyable seasons he's had in his football career but there's still work to do for the side.

    Omar BecklesImage source, Getty Images

    With two games of the League One season to go, Shrewsbury are guaranteed to finish in third place, their highest finish in 29 years.

    It's an impressive result as the side were among the favourites for relegation at the start of the season and Beckles says it took a while for opposition teams to notice.

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    I think we were underdogs up until around maybe December, January and then it got to a point where teams were just raring to go against us, their strategy changed."

    Omar Beckles, Shrewsbury Town defender

  18. Housing estate plan at Rolls Royce sitepublished at 18:21 British Summer Time 27 April 2018

    Local Democracy Reporting Service
    Carl Jackson

    A former Rolls Royce factory could be turned into a housing estate.

    Birmingham City Council’s planning committee has given approval for decontamination and remediation works to proceed at the site in Hall Green.

    Rolls Royce siteImage source, Google

    The 6.4-acre plot on York Road was where Rolls Royce designed, tested and manufactured machine aircraft components until it relocated the operation to Birmingham Business Park.

    The buildings, including the firm’s main factory, have been demolished in recent months.