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Worcester Warriors director of rugby says "small errors" cost them as they failed to beat Sale away for the first time in almost a decade.

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Sharks had led 18-0 at half-time courtesy of tries from Josh Beaumont and Denny Solomona.

But Worcester made the hosts sweat with scores from Bryce Heem and Chris Pennell to claim a losing bonus point.

It means the Warriors are still without a win after the first two games of the new Premiership season.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

The Stoke-on-Trent Live website is featuring these stories today:

• Residents: Our horror as girl, 9, left fighting for life after crash, external
• Blind shopper slams store - after being told to switch off body-worn camera, external
• Pervert breaches court order again - after playing football with sex offender, external

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BBC News

A man's been rescued after being found at the bottom of a cliff., external

The ambulance service says he was found in the High Road area, off Telford Road, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, last night.

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It says the man, in his 20s, was found at the bottom of a 25m (82ft) cliff, but it wasn't clear how he'd ended up there.

He was lowered down an embankment on a stretcher and then taken to hospital with back and shoulder pain.

Police said they had received a report of concern for the man and another, who was subsequently found safe and well.

BBC News Travel

A broken down train is blocking rail lines between Leamington Spa and Banbury.

Disruption to services is expected until at least 10:30, said National Rail.

The police officer suffered a serious head injury, broken ribs and a punctured lung when she was hit.

In a joint statement, Birmingham City Council and local Clinical Commissioning Group said they were "very disappointed" with the findings of the recent inspection, external of special education and disability services in the city.

The report by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission highlighted failings in the service "which we fully accept" the statement said, external.

It added that services need to improve "significantly" and "rapidly" and in order to do that there needs to be a "fundamental change in how we work together, and also with children, their families and carers".

A joint action plan, focusing on a number of key priorities, would now be produced, it said.

Disabled and special needs pupils (SEND) in Birmingham are failing to achieve as well as they should, a report has found.

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The joint inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission , externalfound pupils were making "weak academic progress, attend less often and are excluded more frequently" than other pupils in Birmingham and all pupils nationally.

Inspectors looked at how the city had implemented disability and special educational needs reforms as set out in the Children and Families Act 2014, and found leaders had not ensured the reforms had a "marked impact" on improving outcomes.

The report also found not enough young people were entering employment or supported employment, and the proportion of adults with learning disabilities in paid employment was below the national average.

The city council has been approached for a response.

The trial of a former mayor of Leamington Spa, charged in connection with a fatal Coventry bus crash, is due to start today.

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Kailash Chander, 79, is charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

All the charges relate to a crash in Trinity Street, Coventry, in October 2015 which resulted in the death of seven-year-old Rowan Fitzgerald, a passenger on the bus, and pedestrian Dora Hancox.

Bus operator, Midland Red (South) Ltd admitted failings following the crash.

Coventry Live

These are some of headlines on the Coventry Live website this morning:

• Suicides in Coventry nearly tripled last year, external
• Men jailed after woman robbed at knifepoint, external
• This is how your old waste will be used at the new water park, external

Dominic O'Connell
Business Presenter, BBC Radio 4 Today programme

Aston Martin says it will more than double production in the medium term - from 6,200 a year to 14,000.

However, it doesn't say what the medium term is.

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The carmaker, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange after last month posting half-year profits of £42m.

At the time, it said it aimed to build nearly 10,000 vehicles in the 2020 calendar year.

West Midlands Police is introducing new measures aimed at tackling criminal activity at Birmingham Airport.

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Armed officers, vehicle checkpoints and search dogs will all be used for Project Servator - which is already being used at other airports and railway stations across the country.

The "highly-visible yet unpredictable" police deployments in and around Birmingham Airport can happen anywhere and at any time, said the force.

Worcestershire will be without Martin Guptill and Ravichandran Ashwin for the close of the county season because of injuries.

BBC Shropshire

West Mercia police is to recruit an extra 100 officers, says the Police and Crime Commissioner.

It will bring the total number of officers to just over 2,000, said John Campion, but that is still fewer than the number of officers the force had in 2012, before cuts.

Speaking to BBC Radio Shropshire, he said increasing the number of officers is his "first priority".

The maternity unit in Shrewsbury is due to reopen fully at 8:30 after being hit by staff illness.

The midwife-led unit (MLU) was closed on Friday for births, with women directed to the Wrekin MLU or the constultant-led unit in Telford.

Anthea Gregory-Page, Deputy Head of Midwifery at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said the closure was necessary "to ensure the safety of our mothers and babies".

Express and Star

These are some of the stories making the headlines on the Express and Star website this morning:

• SATs shock as thousands of pupils aren't meeting government standard, external
• Council leader will not back controversial hostel plans, external
• Latest stage of Goodyear masterplan set for approval, external

A farewell party was held in Birmingham to mark the end of Dippy the dinosaur's time in the city.

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More than 250,000 people visited the exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, making it the museum's most successful temporary exhibition.

The replica diplodocus skeleton used to stand in the entrance hall to London's Natural History Museum, but has been in Birmingham since the end of May.

The exhibition now moves to Ulster Museum where it will open on 28 September.

Council leaders in Walsall, Wolverhampton and Dudley have written to the leader of Birmingham City Council, asking him to make sure a proposed clean air zone doesn't lead to worse pollution elsewhere.

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The letter raises concerns about older taxis, buses, vans and lorries being pushed on to routes in the Black Country when charges to use them in Birmingham come in in 2020.

Birmingham City Council set out proposals to ask the government to fund £36m worth of mitigation measures, including a scrappage scheme for old diesel cars.

BBC Midlands Today

The first new secondary school to be built in Staffordshire for 25 years has opened to pupils.

The John Taylor Free School in Burton-upon-Trent has cost £30m and will eventually accommodate more than 1,500 pupils.

It's taken two years to build and features state-of-the-art science rooms.

It also has a specially built dance studio, a sports hall and a large Learning Resource Centre.

DVLA registered companies are selling vehicle licence plates to drivers without carrying out proper checks, a BBC investigation has found.

In some cases this has led to registered owners facing fines or arrest when it wrongly appears their vehicles are involved in crime.

One Birmingham firm made cloned plates in 10 minutes, with no log book checks.

When confronted, another licence plate retailer said the business did not "deliberately flout its obligations".

A nine-year-old girl has been left with potentially life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car, police said. , external

She was initially airlifted to Royal Stoke hospital after the crash which happened at about 16:30, in Lower Milehouse Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

She was later flown to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool.

Staffordshire Police is asking for any witnesses to come forward.