Durham beat Worcestershire via the DLS method, despite totalling only 209 in a rain-hit game at Gosforth.

A large tree that's fallen on St Michael's Street, Shrewsbury, has been getting in the way of traffic travelling in and out of the town centre.

The fire service said it fell on to a car, but the occupants were able to get out of the vehicle before crews arrived.

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Monster trucks will be one of the big attractions at the Shropshire County Agricultural Show , externalin Shrewsbury tomorrow.

This will be the third time Michael Murty from York has brought his vehicles to the annual event, and he says they'll be jumping them over cars and using them to rip other vehicles in half.

The annual show, which started in the 19th Century, will also feature bands, stalls and livestock events.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

It should be a mainly dry night with low cloud and lows of 11C (52F).

Jennie Aitken
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

An elderly man's been threatened in his own home with garden shears, external in a "terrifying" burglary.

The victim went into his home on Vicarage Lane, Audlem, Cheshire, yesterday afternoon to, be confronted by three men, police say.

They had smashed their way in through a window and demanded keys to a safe which the man didn't have.

Two more men then came in and officers say they then fled, carrying the safe with them.

Work to raise a road to try and stop it getting flooded in the future has been put on pause until a series of summer festivals are over.

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Worcestershire County Council is working to increase the height of part of the A4104 in Upton-upon-Severn by up to 0.8m (2.5ft) between the A38 and the Marina. , external

The authority says it's after the town was badly hit by flooding in 2007 and 2014.

Work started earlier on this year, but today the council says it's finished until 3 September so it doesn't disrupt , externalthe town's festivals this summer and shows in Malvern.

The build-up to Coventry's Biggest Weekend festival has included a 10-day outreach fringe programme in and around the city, involving performances from local musicians and talks by Sarah Cox and Jeremy Vine.

Today shoppers at the city's West Orchard Shopping Centre were treated to some music by local gospel choir Gospability.

Tens of thousands of people are expected in Birmingham for the Pride festival this weekend.

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The two-day event begins with a parade from the city centre to the Gay Village in Hurst Street.

Headline artists including Rudimental, Jake Shears from the Scissor Sisters, and Beth Ditto.

Only 50 balls are bowled in Blackpool as Lancashire's One-Day Cup group game with Warwickshire is abandoned.

As well as the big acts coming to Coventry for the Biggest Weekend the second stage will also welcome some exciting up and coming performers.

Joe Dolman, 21, from Leamington Spa will be the opening act.

"You can't play a bigger gig than Memorial Park in Coventry if you're a boy from Leamington," he said, "I can't wait".

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A van's been taken off the road by police after they found wooden blocks were being used as its suspension., external

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The Ford Transit was pulled over in Doxey, Stafford this morning.

Officers say they found the wood was tied on to the rear axles with wire.

Allen Cook
BBC News

The Shrewsbury Town flag is now flying over Shrewsbury ahead of the club's bid for promotion in the League One play-off final.

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On Sunday, the team will play Rotherham at Wembley, hoping to return to the English second tier for the first time since 1989.

Today, Shropshire Council arranged to have their flag and banner flown from the flagpole and railings on the top of Lord Hill's Column., external

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More than 36,000 Coventry City fans will be cheering on their side at Wembley on Monday as they face Exeter for the right to play in League One next season.

Fans have been signing a giant card, organised by BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, which will be presented to the club in London.

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• Police respond to report of armed man near pub, external
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Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A man's in a critical condition in hospital after being found with serious injuries near a pub., external

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Police say they were called early this morning to reports that something had happened outside the Bridge Inn, Shropshire Street, Audlem in Cheshire.

Officers say they don't yet know how the 45-year-old suffered his injuries, saying it could have been an assault or a road crash.

Gordon Findlay admitted hitting motorcyclist Malcolm Willis in a crash near Machynlleth last year.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Aled Thomas

The NHS trust funding Worcestershire's main hospitals overspent its budget last year by £4.8m due to an increase in admissions.

In a report, the county's clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) say they budgeted £265.8m for the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, but they ended up paying out £270.6m.

The hospital trust runs the Worcestershire Royal, Kidderminster Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.

In their latest board meeting, the CCGs heard admissions to A&Es cost £18.3m last year, £84,000 more than budgeted.

Birmingham youngsters were blown away by their audience with a special dinosaur.

Officers searching a field for the body of a man almost a decade after his death, say "nothing of significance" has been recovered.

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Jesse Richards, 40, died in Evesham, Worcestershire, in July 2009, but his remains have never been found despite police offering a £10,000 reward.

Warwickshire Police officers searched farm land in Corley after suspecting his body was dumped somewhere in the county.

The search has now been concluded, the force said, however there will still be police activity at the site over the next few days to return the site to its original state.

All the remaining mortar shells have been removed from a building site in Staffordshire, after a large number of them were found yesterday morning.

The Army's bomb disposal team carried out a series of controlled explosions overnight and this morning.

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