Shrewsbury sign Ipswich's Emmanuelpublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
League One side Shrewsbury Town sign Ipswich Town defender Josh Emmanuel on loan until the end of the season.
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Shrewsbury sign Ipswich's Emmanuelpublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Thousands expected at food and drink festivalpublished at 17:27 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Vicky Norton
BBC Radio StokeThousands of people are expected to descend on a corner of Cheshire over the next three days for a food and drink festival.
Organisers of the event in Nantwich, external say they're expecting about 45,000 visitors.
The festival will see more than 200 stalls exhibiting food and drink, alongside live music and other entertainment.
Hospital trust still 'requires improvement'published at 17:17 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Allen Cook
BBC NewsThe trust running Coventry's main hospital has been told it still needs to improve with inspectors highlighting patient care concerns in A&E and maternity services.
Image source, GoogleThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) says that's why it hasn't changed the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust's rating , externalfrom "requires improvement".
As well as potential risks to patient care in some areas of urgent and emergency care and maternity, the CQC says it found not all staff had had mandatory training and discovered issues with some record-keeping.
The trust says it has improved its rating in many areas since the last inspection but acknowledged it needs to cut waiting times in A&E and keep recruiting and training key staff., external
Life sentence handed to road drag death driverpublished at 17:06 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
A man who dragged a pedestrian from the window of his van, leaving him with fatal injuries, has been jailed for at least 21 years for murder.
Image source, West Midlands PolicePaul Emmerson grabbed 22-year-old Mohammed Miah in West Bromwich High Street in the early hours of 17 March this year, and sped off with him dangling through the window.
Mr Miah was found lying on the road with serious head and chest injuries and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers said the 38-year-old plumber, of Kemp Road, Kitts Green dragged Mr Miah for about 100 metres "at one stage accelerating through red lights".
M42 carriageway closed after crashpublished at 16:56 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
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BBC News TravelTraffic's been stopped on the M42 southbound near Redditch due to a crash., external
Highways England says the air ambulance has also been called out to the collision between J3A and J3 and warns drivers to expect delays.
Image source, Highways EnglandBlackburn sign Walsall striker Candlinpublished at 16:54 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Championship side Blackburn Rovers sign teenage Walsall striker Mitch Candlin on loan with a view to a permanent move.
Read MoreOldham sign Aston Villa's Lydenpublished at 16:49 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
League Two side Oldham Athletic sign Aston Villa midfielder Jordan Lyden on loan until 1 January 2019.
Read MoreLabour loses overall control of council after defectionpublished at 16:41 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
BBC ShropshireLabour has lost overall control of Telford and Wrekin Council as a former mayor's defected to the Liberal Democrats., external
Kevin Guy, who represents Woodside, says, although he supports his local Labour group, he can no longer support the national party and Jeremy Corbyn.
Image source, GoogleHe tweeted, external: "I believe Jeremy Corbyn is taking the Labour Party in the wrong direction and Labour’s fudge on a second referendum is not something I agree with.
"The Labour run council in Telford & Wrekin have done a fantastic job in defending local people from the savage Tory cuts & I will continue to support that but I cannot stay in a party which, nationally, I so fundamentally disagree with on the main issue facing this generation," he added, external.
His decision leaves Labour with 27 councillors - they are still the largest party but with no overall control out of a total of 54 seats., external
Moeen Ali turns fourth Test England's waypublished at 16:30 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Allen Cook
BBC NewsWorcestershire's all-rounder Moeen Ali's turning the fourth Test against India on its head at Southampton.
Image source, Getty ImagesWith England all out in their first innings for 246, India had been heading for a comfortable lead just before tea at 185-4.
But Moeen's taken the last four wickets for just 13 runs in 16 balls, leaving the visitors 195-8 after 61 overs.
Your can stay up-to-date on the BBC Cricket website.
Man guilty of plotting to kill PMpublished at 16:28 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
The would-be attacker was trapped in an undercover operation involving the FBI, MI5 and police.
Read MoreLandlord fined £35k for 'callous disregard' of tenantspublished at 16:25 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
A Birmingham landlord, who the council said showed "callous disregard" for his responsibilities and put the lives of vulnerable tenants "in danger", has been fined after admitting health and safety breaches.
Image source, Birmingham City CouncilInspectors said the property, at 129 College Road, Moseley, was the worst they had seen in a decade after finding smoke detectors hanging off the ceiling, broken windows and blocked fire escapes.
Image source, Birmingham City CouncilTenants at the 10 self-contained flats also had no access to hot water and heating, and the front and rear doors were insecure, leaving the property open to the elements, said Birmingham City Council.
Image source, Birmingham City CouncilAt Birmingham Magistrates' Court yesterday, landlord David Greene, 64, of Brooke Lane Billesley admitted seven breaches of the House in Multiple Occupation Management Regulations and was fined £35,000 plus costs of £1,941.
Four miles of queuing traffic on M42published at 16:20 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
BBC News TravelThere is about four miles of queuing traffic on the M42 southbound, due to a crash between J6 and J5.
Image source, Highways EnglandThree lanes remain open past the scene of the crash, between a car and a van, but traffic is slow moving back to J8, says Highways England.
In the papers: Change in chicken focus in countypublished at 16:04 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
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Hull sign Martin and Elphick on loanpublished at 15:56 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Hull sign striker Chris Martin and defender Tommy Elphick on season-long loans from Championship rivals Derby and Aston Villa.
Read MoreGreen Party hopeful suspended due to 'complaints' probepublished at 15:48 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
BreakingThe Green Party has suspended a member who pulled out of the race to be its deputy leader after her father was jailed for child sex offences including the rape of a girl.
Aimee Challenor, from Coventry, has been suspended on a "no fault basis" from the party following "consideration of a number of complaints that have been made against her," it said.
In a statement, the party said: "In line with our procedures, the suspension will remain in place until the next meeting of the Green Party Regional Council, when it will be reviewed.
"An investigation will be conducted by an external agency into the circumstances and disclosures surrounding Aimee's father being able to act as her election agent, while facing charges for serious sexual assault against a minor."
Chief exec to leave ailing hospitals trustpublished at 15:38 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
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Political reporter, BBC Hereford & WorcesterThe chief executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has announced she's leaving, just a year-and-a-half after taking the job., external
Image source, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustThe trust has been in special measures since December 2015, well before the arrival of Michelle McKay.
More recently the Care Quality Commission watchdog has said improvements had been made, external, but more was required to protect patients.
The hospital trust says she is heading back to her native Australia in mid-December to take up a new role.
Man jailed for life for plot to kill Theresa Maypublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
BreakingA terrorist who plotted to kill Prime Minister Theresa May has been jailed for at least 30 years.
Image source, Met PoliceThe Old Bailey heard Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, originally from Walsall, planned to bomb the gates of 10 Downing Street, kill guards and then attack Theresa May with a knife or gun.
Your pictures: Godiva Festival site from the skypublished at 15:15 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Drone photographer Kerry Blakeman has taken these shots, external of the War Memorial park in Coventry, ahead of this weekend's Godiva Festival.
Image source, Droneheights.co.uk
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Image source, Droneheights.co.ukGates open for the three-day festival at 18:00 today.
Council 'failed my deaf son'published at 15:04 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
Anna Jameson
BBC ManchesterA mother of a young boy who is predominantly deaf says her local council has failed her son.
Image source, Jenny Lindop-LamensLast December, Jenny Lindop-Lamens from Sandbach, Cheshire, took seven-year-old Jenson out of a mainstream school as she says it was unable to provide a teaching assistant fluent in sign language.
She says she was left for three months without contact from Cheshire East Council and says his legal paperwork hasn't been updated in nearly three years, leaving him without educational provision.
The council says it runs a "robust process" to make sure a child's needs are met and this matter will be considered by a tribunal in November.
Quote MessageWhen you have a special needs child, you rely on the support of the specialists and every single specialist at Cheshire East has failed my son."
Jenny Lindop-Lamens, Mother
In the papers: Driver sentenced after house crashpublished at 14:55 British Summer Time 31 August 2018
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