Stephanie Barnard
BBC News

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Paul Shuttleworth
Reporter, BBC Shropshire

Boarded-up windows at a disused supermarket in Ludlow are to be brightened-up with what's being dubbed the town's biggest mural.

Budgens closed 18 months ago and the site is due to be redeveloped.

Ludlow councillor Andy Boddington said he approached the developer who agreed for the site to be used as a giant mural, after it came to light that the "giant eyesore" wouldn't be developed for another two years.

Craft gin worth £50,000 has been auctioned after a festival firm went into administration.

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Stephanie Barnard
BBC News

Motorway police were rather unimpressed when they came across two cyclists this afternoon.

Officers found them on the M6 northbound after a sat nav app sent them there.

As Central Motorway Police Group said on Twitter: "Not the adventure they were looking for."

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

After some late evening sunshine it will be a dry night with clear spells and lows of 11C (52F).

BBC Radio Stoke

Action needs to be taken to stop the so-called Monkey Dust epidemic in Stoke on Trent, according to a former drug user.

Darren Murinas, chief executive of Expert Citizens, external, who himself used to be homeless and use drugs now advises vulnerable people in the city.

On Friday, emergency service workers said the drug was at epidemic levels in the city.

A man has been jailed for helping a murderer responsible for a fatal stabbing in Hereford city centre.

Last week, Anthony Boyd, 23, of Temple Road, Willenhall, and Artaf Hussain, 32, of Slater Street, Tipton, were jailed for life for the murder of Robert Eacock who died in a "revenge killing".

Today, a third man, Luke Mansell, was jailed at Worcester Crown Court for helping Boyd after he stabbed Mr Eacock on Hussain's request.

Image source, Family handout

The 21-year-old admitted assisting an offender after Boyd met with Hussain at Mansell's Tipton flat.

There, Mansell also provided Boyd with a clean set of clothing.

He was sentenced to 46 months in prison after also admitting charges of possession of class a and b drugs with intent to supply.

Gavin Kermack
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

More than 2,000 incidents of fly-tipping were reported in Herefordshire over the past two years.

According to Herefordshire Council, the worst-hit streets were Great Western Way and Waterfield Road in Hereford and Leominster’s Broad Street, Croft Lane and Etnam Street.

The combined clear-up cost for the council over the two financial years came to just under £19,000.

BBC Radio Stoke

A 20-year-old man and a woman aged 19 are in hospital with serious injuries after a crash in Dresden over the weekend.

A black Suzuki Swift they were in hit a tree at 03:30 on Sunday morning on Cocknage Road at the junction with Rugby Drive.

Three other passengers suffered minor injuries.

The Church in Wolverhampton has fewer than half the needed volunteers during the summer holidays.

Worcester has a brand new baseball team - and the self-starters have their sights on setting up a new league to play in.

Worcester Sorcerors have been created by Luke Borton and Lee Jackson, who currently play for Stourbridge Titans, but who wanted to play a bit closer to home.

Image source, BBC / Worcester Sorcerors

Deb Drew suffered life-changing injuries when trying to help a young boy at sea.

John Acres
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

A man from Stafford who has to use a wheelchair after an accident at a trampoline park says his condition won't stop him living his life.

Daniel Moseley, was left paralysed after a visit to Flip Out in Stone in January - he was jumping from a trampoline into a foam pit, but landed on the edge, sustaining a double neck fracture and some spinal damage.

The 20-year-old has also lost some feeling in his hands.

Mr Moseley said it had been a "very tough" time, but thanked his "amazing family and friends".

BBC Radio Stoke has contacted Flip Out about what happened to Daniel and are yet to hear back.

In a previous statement the firm said: "Our thoughts are with Daniel and his family. Everyone is given a full safety briefing and staff followed the correct process in dealing with the case."

Ellie Underhill, 20, died a week after the fall in a Tesco Extra car park on Boxing Day 2016.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

The transport minister and Herefordshire MP Jesse Norman has apologised after a Conservative Party tweet suggested new road safety laws were designed to protect "our most vulnerable road users" from cyclists.

Yesterday, plans for a new offence of causing death by dangerous or careless cycling were announced, four years after a 73-year-old Hereford woman died after she was knocked down by a cyclist.

Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman and TV and radio presenter Jeremy Vine were among those to criticise the tweet.

Mr Norman said the tweet had now been deleted and didn't reflect either the policy announcements or the careful work the government had done to improve road safety.

He tweeted: , external“This is one of many measures to improve road safety and protect vulnerable road users, including cyclists - and we would value your views."

An 11-year-old girl was battered to death with a table leg by her uncle just hours after a phone call to a nearby mental hospital crisis team for help, a jury has been told.

Jasmine Forrester died in hospital on 9 February after being found with a serious head injury at a house in Kent Road, Wolverhampton.

Delroy Forrester denies murdering Jasmine on the basis he was "legally insane" at the time of her death.

Image source, Family handout

On the opening day of the case at Wolverhampton Crown Court, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said Jasmine was the "subject of a frenzied and sustained attack".

Mr Forrester's daughter Tyler contacted the crisis team at Penn Hospital, that evening because she was angry her father was not in hospital, the court heard, although she told staff he was not at risk.

When being held by police, QC Mr Rees said, Mr Forrester told an officer: "The devil had to die, I kill her blud' and 'the devil is dead'."

The trial continues.

The Oldbury viaduct on the M5 has been partly closed since April 2017.

The A426 southbound in Warwickshire has been closed after a crash near Rugby.

Highways England says it is already causing long delays on the approach to junction one of the M6 and is advising drivers to find alternative routes, external.

Police have raided a so-called chop shop in Birmingham as part of a crackdown on car thefts.

Three people were arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods following the raid on a unit at Cherrywood Industrial Estate, in Bordesley Green.

West Midlands Police says vehicle thefts have almost doubled in the last four years. It's believed parts from stolen cars are used to repair write-offs which are then sold at a large profit.

A total of 13 vehicles were seized, with one already confirmed as stolen.

Police have given tell-tale signs to look out for, external, which include:

• Noise coming from units late at night or in the early hours of the morning• Vehicles that look out of place going in to workshops and not coming back out• Shipping containers in unusual locations• Items for sale via on-line auction sites from the same seller, often in large quantities of the same item or similar.