Wolves prepare for their Premier League return by signing Mexico forward Raul Jimenez on a season-long loan deal from Benfica.

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A 31-year-old Kidderminster man has been sentenced to life in prison for imprisoning and raping a teenage boy.

Ben Murphy, had pleaded guilty at Worcester Crown Court to a number of offences, including rape, false imprisonment, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and making indecent photographs of a child - all took place in 2016.

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West Mercia Police said Murphy spent a month grooming his victim and said "what he went through was unimaginable, especially for someone so young".

Murphy will serve at least eight years of his jail sentence.

Stoke City's Egyptian winger Ramadan Sobhi has been signed by Huddersfield Town for £5.7m.

The 21-year-old made 41 appearances for the Potters after joining from Al Ahly in July 2016, scoring twice.

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He's part of the Egyptian World Cup squad and was given permission to take time out from their preparations to agree the signing.

A Worcestershire village which had a fake speed camera earlier this year (pictured below) is now going to get visits from the official speed camera vans.

Clows Top is one of eight new sites which the mobile camera will be using, after concerns were raised with the Warwickshire and West Mercia Road Safety Partnership.

The road safety partnership said it had collected data at each of the locations and found 36% of drivers were exceeding the speed limit there.

Ronan Blake is wanted over the death of Anthony Nicholls, whose house was gutted by a firework.

Ian Bell's second century of the match helps Division Two leaders Warwickshire to a four-wicket win over Glamorgan.

A woman has been taken to hospital after her car was involved in a crash with a lorry.

She was freed from the vehicle by firefighters who used an electric saw to cut her door off. West Midlands Ambulance service said she was complaining of neck, back and shoulder pain.

The collision happened at 08:30 near the Travellers Rest pub at Affcot, near Church Stretton. The driver of the lorry was unhurt.

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM

City councillors meeting in Birmingham discovered they've been leaderless for the past month as a swearing-in ceremony hadn't been held since local elections in May.

The issue was raised as a point of order at a full council meeting with the question posed: Who's been making decisions in the meantime?

Labour retained control of Birmingham City Council at the recent election, under leader Ian Ward, amid a change in ward boundaries and a reduction in the number of seats.

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Walls of scaffolding are being built alongside Worcester's southern ring road so an electricity pylon can be moved.

Work is starting on turning Carrington Bridge into a dual carriageway, and before that can take place the pylon has to be moved.

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The authority plans to sling netting between the scaffolding, to protect cars from overhead cables when it is brought down and replaced with a temporary pylon.The scaffolding and net barrier will remain in place until the autumn.

Job losses at Jaguar Land Rover's (JLR) Solihull plant are "part of the manufacturing plan" a government minister has claimed.

Production of the Land Rover Discovery is to be moved to Slovakia, the company announced.

There are 1,800 agency workers in the Solihull plant, out of a workforce of 10,000, and it's thought they will bear the brunt of job losses.

Responding to a question by Conservative MP for Solihull, Julian Knight - Business Minister Clare Perry told the Commons that job losses in the town were "concerning" but part of the company's plan.

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Volunteers who go out to catch speeding motorists say they won't be put off after an angry taxi driver abused them and chased them through the back streets of Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent.

The incident, which took place on Hartshill Road on Sunday afternoon has been reported to the police, who spoke to the taxi driver, but took no further action.

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Just two days previously, the volunteers had their sign taken by a group of children, who dismantled it and threw it down a hill.

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The government is to be asked to reverse a decision to have criminal remand cases centralised at one court.

Following a consultation, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service ruled that from April all remand cases from across West Mercia can only be heard in Kidderminster.

Solicitors say the move has caused a number of issues for people across Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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In one case, a wanted man from Telford tried to hand himself in four times before his case was heard.

A notice of motion is now being put forward at next week’s Hereford City Council meeting, calling on David Gauke MP to allow the county courts to hear county cases.

HMCTS said it has always been its intention to review the changes.

Shrewsbury Town's failure to win promotion to the Championship wasn't what caused manager Paul Hurst to move to Ipswich Town - he said he would have left even if they'd gone up.

They finished third in League One behind Blackburn and Wigan and were beaten by Rotherham United in the playoff final.

Hurst told an Ipswich press conference the "history and ambition" at Ipswich were a major reason for him leaving.

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Delays after points failure at Wednesbury Parkway.

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There is currently a 50-minute delay on the M6 northbound after a coach crashed into the central barrier at Corley Services, said Highways England.

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All lanes have re-opened, including the exit slip road into the service station, after the crash which happened shortly before 13:00.

Two people have been taken to hospital, but more than 30 escaped injury after the coach crashed at the entrance to the service station.

Volunteers out on the River Severn are using a boat made of recycled bottles to help with their clear-up efforts.

Image source, Shropshire Wildlife Trust

They're spending three days on the water, collecting any rubbish they see and have already picked up this insolation board.

They began this morning in Shrewsbury and will move on to Ironbridge and Bridgnorth.

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We've been getting lots of reaction on the BBC Midlands Facebook , externalpage about Helen Clues, who's been speaking about her 13 years as a carer and life afterwards.

The 49-year-old artist from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, looked after both her parents before they died and also devoted her time to helping her husband Andy, who died in February from head and neck cancer.

Helen's daughter Sally posts, external: "We have had the hardest time as a family over the past few months and she has been absolutely incredible.

"She has stayed so positive and so accepting, taking each day as it comes. She really is an inspiration to myself and so many others.

"It just goes to show that you can come out of the other side and start a different life, in a positive way.

"❤️I am so proud of her."

A £5,000 reward is being offered for information on the whereabouts of a man wanted in connection with a firework attack which is being treating as murder.

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Anthony Nicholls, 56, died five days after a large commercial firework started a severe fire at his Birmingham home in November last year.

Police said his partner, a 50-year-old woman, sustained life-changing injuries after escaping through a first-floor window.

Officers wish to question 18-year-old Ronan Blake, believed to be in Sheldon, Birmingham and the £5,000 Crimestoppers reward, external is being offered for information on his whereabouts.

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM

Teachers and parents at a Birmingham primary school are taking a second week of action outside the school over what they say is a lack of staff and issues with management.

Parents of children at Springfield Primary in Sparkhill say there's no stability and their children's education is suffering.

Members of the National Education Union are taking part in a fifth day of strike action over a proposed restructure "which they believe will increase workload" said the union's David Room.

The board running the school say the changes are helping to deal with financial issues and children will eventually benefit.