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Here are some of the stories to feature online today:

• Three power cuts in an hour cause problems across Coventry, external
• Woman in intensive care after breaking neck at Bedworth pub, external
• Mum who refused to be 'fat bride' loses eight stone in nine months, external

Mark Elliott
BBC News

Plans to reorganise hospital services in Shropshire may face further delays.

Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) met yesterday and were expected to sign off on plans for a public consultation, due to begin 30 May.

However, they refused and raised concerns about the impact of possibly moving the women and children's unit from Telford's Princess Royal Hospital to Shrewsbury.

NHS England and Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group have both given their backing for the consultation to begin.

Telford CCG will meet again on Friday.

Peter Wilson
BBC Midlands Today Special Correspondent

The government is spending £9m in the West Midlands over the next three years to help with the problem of rough sleepers .

Rough sleeping has gone up by half since last summer in Birmingham alone.

This was the first week for the new housing secretary, who visited Digbeth Centre today.

People I've spoken to say they need support with housing, mental health services and addiction to succeed on their road to recovery.

The University of Warwick is investigating after screen shots of the group conversation emerged.

Eleven students are suspended from a university after jokes made in a Facebook group chat emerged.

Burton Albion offer six players new contracts to stay with the club following their relegation from the Championship.

Almost 600 ancient trees are in danger of being destroyed in the West Midlands if a change in government policy goes unchallenged, The Woodland Trust says.

It has 1,483 ancient trees recorded on its ancient tree inventory here with 582 are outside a designated area such as a national park meaning they have less protection.

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The Trust said the planning policy protection for ancient and veteran trees could be lower than the protection given to ancient woodland.

It is calling for irreplaceable habitats to be given equal protection from development.

• In Herefordshire, 334 trees are outside a designated area
• Shropshire has 123
• Staffordshire has 25
• Warwickshire has 15
• West Midlands has 12
• Worcestershire has 73.

Mahboob Hussain, a former deputy leader, took the authority to court in a dispute about a report.

Nell Jones was one of 22 people who died in the bomb attack at the Manchester Arena last year.

Police have moved to block a nightclub opening at the former Rainbow Venues warehouse - which was shut down following two drug-related deaths.

The venue at Lower Trinity Street in Digbeth had its licence revoked by Birmingham City Council in November.

The decision came after 19-year-old Michael Trueman, a Birmingham City University student from Northfield, died on 30 October after taking ecstasy in the club the night before and Dylan Booth, 18, from Solihull, passed away after taking a substance at Rainbow on New Year's Eve 2015.

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Bristol-based MJR want to re-open a club there, which would not be called Rainbow, but West Midlands Police alongside council licensing officials have objected ahead of a formal hearing before a licensing sub-committee on Monday.

The objections centre around extended opening hours.

Crewe Alexandra manager David Artell releases four players from the League Two club.

Walsall first-team coach Ian Sharps has left the League One club after 18 months.

The world's first life-sized knitted garden will be on show at the Malvern Spring Festival over the next few days.

It's been designed and largely created by Gloucester widow, Clare Young, in memory of her husband Ken, who died of cancer at Leckhampton Court Hospice, in Gloucestershire.

The display is of a knitted hospice bed overflowing with knitted flowers and plants. Ms Young said it's so she could bring the outside in to him when he was ill.

Shrewsbury boss Paul Hurst believes his low-budget promotion-chasing team are the underdogs in this year's League One play-offs.

Officers looking into the illegal dumping of waste across 17 sites in England have detained a 46-year-old man.

The Environment Agency says the man was held this morning in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

The agency says it's working with the police under Operation Cesium as it's looking into illegally dumped baled waste, weighing up to 25,000 tonnes.

Image source, Environment Agency

The investigation is focusing around eight sites in the Midlands including Staffordshire and Herefordshire, five in Merseyside, two in Lancashire and two in Yorkshire.

A £4m contract for a housing scheme for small derelict sites has been put out to tender.

Wolverhampton Council identified eight former garage sites as part of the process with work due to start this summer.

The sites are expected to yield 36 new homes.

A 20-year-old man appears in court after eight homes were evacuated in Coventry.

A watchdog finds "reasonable" force was used on a man who was struck several times with a baton.

The Longbridge Shopping Park in Birmingham has been sold to a finance firm.

Property developer St Modwen will sell the centre to Zurich Assurance for £53.6m.

St Modwen chief executive Mark Allan said the company planned to use the capital to bring forward future phases of the Longbridge development.

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The shopping centre is on the former MG Rover site which employed 6,000 people before its 2005 closure.

According to St Modwen, the park offers a variety of stores, external, anchored by an 85,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s and a 150,000 sq ft Marks & Spencer, which opened in November 2015.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle takes place in just under two weeks.

You've probably spotted the commemorative mugs and Union Jack bunting and flags in the supermarkets as some of the country look to celebrate the day on Saturday 19 May.

Worcestershire water firm, Holywell Spring Water, has come up with its own way of celebrating the Royal Wedding by creating two limited edition bottles "Still Harry" and 'Meghan Sparkle'.

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