Photographer Steve Melville took a stunning photo of a peregrine falcon catching its prey.

Shropshire Star

Here are some of the stories making the headlines on the Shropshire Star website this lunchtime:

• Baseball bats used in Wellington High Street attack , external
• Shropshire magistrate calls for courts U-turn, external
• Super Shrewsbury Town are off to Wembley again, external

Scout huts, care homes, and golf clubs are among 122 sites which will be used as police bases in Cheshire.

Kevin Reide
Reporter, Midlands Today

Work is under way to create two new nature reserves in one of the most picturesque parts of the Midlands.

It's all part of long-term restoration plans for the Montgomery Canal in Shropshire, which was left abandoned in the 1940s.

The canal runs from Frankton Junction in Shropshire to Newtown in Wales.

You can find out more on BBC Midlands Today with Amy Cole at 13:30 on BBC One.

BBC Business News

Worcester Bosch has admitted a data breach in which "tens of thousands" of customers' private addresses have been sent to the wrong people - with some recipients receiving multiple emails containing data that is not their own.

A customer service representative from the boiler firm, based in Worcester, admitted the breach was identified at an unspecified time yesterday and that a fix was applied to the "system error" yesterday afternoon.

While admitting customers' private residential address had been made public, the customer service representative claimed no "sensitive" information - such as email addresses or phone numbers - were leaked.

Deaf children to lose £4m of support as over a third of councils plan support cuts, says charity.

BBC WM Sport

Aston Villa midfielder Mile Jedinak says the players are well aware it's only half-time in their Championship play-off semi-final.

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The Australian international scored the only goal in the first leg at Middlesbrough on Saturday.

Jedinak says it's all still to play for in the second leg at Villa Park tomorrow night..

Don Armand, Danny Cipriani, Faf de Klerk, Jamie Gibson and Vereniki Goneva are Premiership player of the season nominees.

Ambulance crews were all dressed up and on stage to receive the Bafta for Best Factual Series last night.

Production company Dragonfly TV said the series was a "love song to the NHS" and paid tribute to the "heroes in green".

Among those on stage in London were Rich Phillips and Katie Cartwright, who featured in the very first story of the first episode when she helped to save the life of a cardiac arrest patient.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of assault after a man suffered "nasty" head injuries during an incident in Rugby, police say., external

The 22-year-old was taken to hospital after the assault at St Andrew's Church, Church Street in the town at about 06:00 on Saturday.

A 20-year-old man and 19-year-old woman arrested have been released under investigation.

The woman was also cautioned after being found in possession of cannabis.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It should be a dry and warm afternoon, with plenty of sunshine and highs of 20C (68F).

Ben Godfrey
BBC Midlands Today

A teenager has appeared at Dudley Magistrates' Court in connection with an incident at Merry Hill shopping centre in Brierley Hill over the weekend.

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Shoppers fled the Eat Central food court on Saturday lunchtime following reports of a hammer attack.

A 16-year-old boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, has been charged with possessing two carving knives in the precinct.

He was given conditional bail and is due before Wolverhampton Youth Court on Wednesday.

BBC Business News

The collapse of construction and services giant Carillion in January left thousands of suppliers unpaid.

An investigation published today by MPs suggests that the firm leaned on small suppliers to delay paying its bills and tried to conceal the true scale of its debts.

Frank Field, the chairman of the joint select committee inquiry into the firm's collapse, said the Wolverhampton firm had “displayed utter contempt for its suppliers”.

“The company used its suppliers as a line of credit to shore up its fragile balance sheet, then in another of its accounting tricks ‘reclassified’ this borrowing to hide the true extent of its massive debt," he said.

A pilot is set to stand trial at Warwick Crown Court accused of murdering his estranged wife.

Image source, Warwickshire Police

Andrew McIntosh, 54, of Woolscott, Warwickshire, denies murdering Patricia McIntosh, who was found dead by police at her home in Knightcote,

In a statement issued shortly after the 56-year-old's death, her son, Stephen Clemons, described her as a loving daughter, sister, auntie and mother.

Birmingham Live

These are some of the main stories on the Birmingham Live website today:

• Hotel plan for landmark former council office in city centre, external
• Birmingham barber knocked out in brutal holiday attack, external
• Thousands expected to bid farewell, external to Birmingham's 'King of Scoops'

BBC Shropshire

Wildlife is returning to a polluted river in Shropshire, that has run bright orange for years.

The Serpentine which runs below the old brickworks at Trench Lock was turned orange by iron escaping from an old mineshaft.

It is now recovering due to the installation of reed beds and leaky dams which help slow the water up, filter it and collect debris.

BBC Business News

Dignity, the UK's only listed funeral business, has had a strong start to 2018, performing 21,400 funerals compared with 20,100 in the same period last year.

But the Sutton Coldfield-based firm says trading this year will remain "volatile" but in line with the expectations it outlined in April.

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"While the first quarter produced a much stronger result than we had anticipated when implementing the price changes in January, the current year is all about completing our review of our funeral business," says Dignity chief executive Mike McCollum.

Wasps fly-half Danny Cipriani joins Premiership rivals Gloucester, staying in England to boost his international career.

Police are trying to trace the driver of a blue BMW that was involved in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry, in which a man in his 80s died.

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Neighbours found the man lying injured in Burnaby Road on Saturday after he was hit by the vehicle.

Detectives said the wing mirror and possibly the windscreen of the car would have been damaged and are hoping anyone who's seen a car matching the description will come forward.

More than 60 new foster families are needed in Staffordshire in the next year according to social services.

There are more than 900 children in care in the county - 700 with foster families, in children’s homes, or adopted.

Daniel Sinclair from The Fostering Network said the majority of children in care in the county were over 10 and there was a "particular need" for foster carers to look after teenagers.