Coventry City goalkeeper Lee Burge is an injury doubt after being hit on the head with an ice hockey puck.

A mother with a two-day-old baby and female pilots are among those who have included their images in an art project marking the 100th anniversary of some British women being able to vote.

Artist Helen Marshall said she was "pleased and quite surprised" that about 500 photos were submitted in the first week of the Face of Suffrage project.

Photos of thousands of women will form a giant mosaic of a suffragette, which will unveiled at Birmingham New Street Station on 15 November.

Some contributors also give details of their lives or of the woman they have included.

"Some of the stories are really moving," Ms Marshall said. "Sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed.

"It is a lot of responsibility to portray all these people's dreams and lives in one art work."

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Emily Lloyd

A children’s home in Shrewsbury that was found to have “serious failures” is improving according to Ofsted.

Inspectors rated the home run by Cambian Childcare Limited "inadequate" following a visit in July , externalwhen it found the young people living there were “not protected or their welfare is not promoted or safeguarded”.

A monitoring visit at the end of August, external praised staff for making changes at the home, catering for vulnerable young people aged 11 to 18.

Rumbi Mangoma, social care inspector, said: “Managers and staff have worked hard to address the shortfalls identified at the last inspection.

“They have made good progress and have met three of the four requirements and the one recommendation raised."

The jury has been sent out in the Mylee Billingham murder trial.

William Billingham is accused of murdering his eight-year-old daughter at his home in Brownhills, Walsall in January.

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The birth of the southern white rhino is the third at West Midland Safari Park in as many years.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Tom Davis

A former Coventry freight railway loop line will be transformed into a woodland walk into the city centre thanks to a £150,000 council loan.

Image source, Historic Coventry Trust

Historic Coventry Trust (HCT) has spent five years negotiating with private owners to buy a section of the Coventry Loop Line, but lacked funding.

The line opened in 1914 to enable trains to avoid Coventry station, and was closed in 1981.

Coventry City Council has now approved a loan to finance the deal.

The circular walking route will help link Gosford Green, Charterhouse and the Sherbourne viaduct to the centre, and is part of HCT’s wider plans to develop the Heritage Park.

West Midlands Police have said tests carried out on a liquid substance that was thrown at a man last night have shown it was not corrosive., external

Mike Glover-Johnson was sitting in his car on Bloxwich High Street just before 19:00 when he was approached by a man who threw liquid in his face.

He was taken to hospital, but has since been discharged having suffered no long-standing injuries, the force said.

Image source, Mike Glover-Johnson

Detectives have now reviewed CCTV footage and suspect the liquid was thrown as a tactic designed to distract the man while his laptop was taken from the passenger seat.

Sgt Matt Slattery said: "Although tests are still being carried out on the substance we are now confident it was non-corrosive. We believe it was used as a distraction for the robbery.

"We fully appreciate how distressing this was for the victim and we are determined to find whoever was responsible for this robbery."

A woman has been arrested after a "disturbance" at the Conservative Party conference, West Midlands Police said.

A spokesman said officers were called to Hall 11 at about 14:20 on Sunday after reports of a disturbance during a talk on Hong Kong.

The incident happened during an annual session of the Human Rights Commission of the UK Conservative Party, which held a sideline meeting on Hong Kong, inviting so-called Hong Kong independence activists.

A 48-year-old woman from Kings Cross, London, was arrested on suspicion of common assault and remains in police custody.

A southern white rhino has been born at West Midland Safari park - the third in three years.

Image source, West Midlands Safari Park

Image source, West Midlands Safari Park

The male calf was born to mum Ailsa during the early hours of Tuesday morning, following a 16-month pregnancy, said the Worcestershire park.

The calf has weighed in at 67 kilograms, which is about 10 and a half stone.

Although the newborn is yet to be named, keepers will be choosing a name beginning with ‘G’, as all babies born at the Park in 2018 will begin with this letter.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

Here are some of the stories Stoke-on-Trent Live is covering today:

• 'The pain was frightening' Roslyn wins £30k payout after five years of dental blunders and toothache hell, external
• Winter Wonderland is coming back to Stoke-on-Trent this Christmas, external
• This is why mum and daughter died in horrific Stoke-on-Trent, external fire 12 months ago today

"Hundreds" of patients may have lost vision "unnecessarily" as a result of poor service at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), a charity has warned.

Ophthalmology for the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is based out of the RSH.

The Macular Society has written to the health secretary calling for an urgent investigation into eye services at the hospital trust.

An independent review into some services at the trust is being carried out, but doesn't include ophthalmology services, which, the charity said, it had been "extremely concerned about for several years".

The charity's chief executive Cathy Yelf said: "We’re extremely troubled that this situation in Shrewsbury is continuing and that patients are potentially coming to harm."

In response, the hospital trust said it had introduced a number of improvements in recent years, including bringing its team of consultants up to full strength and reintroducing services.

We reported over the weekend that a horse was taken into a pub in Bilston, Wolverhampton and since then you've been having your say on Facebook.

The horse was taken into the Sir Henry Newbolt on Friday, as customers enjoyed an afternoon drink.

A video posted on Facebook by Kerry Ashfield has since been shared thousands of times.

Image source, Kerry Ashfield

Writing on Facebook, external, Lois Victoria said: "Horse walks into a bar and asks for a pint. The barman says why the long face?"

Lucy Hobson added: "The sign on the door says no dogs except guide dogs it doesn't say no horses."

Lindsay Doyle
BBC Midlands Today

Work has begun on the building of HS2 in Birmingham.

As the Conservative Party conference continues in the city, the transport minister Chris Grayling officially declared work under way on the new high-speed rail link at the Curzon Street station.

Mr Grayling said: "This is a big moment because the project is actually happening."

West Midlands metro mayor Andy Street added: "You see renovation, regeneration all around us, there's 6,000 jobs in Birmingham already directly related to HS2, so this is already rebalancing the economy."

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Two men have threatened staff with a firearm at a convenience store in Crewe, Cheshire Police said, making away with cash.

It happened on Sunday at 22:30 at the McColls shop on Badger Avenue.

The force said the first man was described as wearing a grey hooded jacket with an orange lining and a motif on the left breast, blue jeans and dark shoes or trainers.

The second man was wearing a blue hooded Nike tracksuit top and blue jeans. Both had their faces covered.

DI Claire Jesson said: "This is an isolated incident and my officers are working tirelessly to find the suspects."

Mike Glover-Johnson said he suffered 'horrendous pain' when he was attacked in his parked car in Bloxwich.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

A 15-year-old boy who has cancer of the bone in his face and eye socket has flown to Germany for life-saving treatment.

Doctors can't operate on Billy White's tumour because it's so close to his brain, meaning the only option is focused proton beam therapy which isn't available in the UK.

The 15-year-old from Malvern and his family were originally told the NHS wouldn't pay for him to go abroad, but last week that decision was reversed.

He said he'd been "overwhelmed" by the support he's received.

Hereford Times

These are some of the headlining stories on the Hereford Times website today:

• Flowers left at scene of fatal A40 crash, external
• Village now has its own war memorial thanks to new bell, external
• Cyclist dies in crash near Fownhope, external

Local Democracy Reporting Service

The leader of Dudley's Conservatives has said he has no plans to step down as leader of the group despite losing control of the council last week.

Councillor Patrick Harley spoke after the borough's sole independent member, Councillor Heather Rogers, backed Labour.

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At May's elections the Conservatives came from behind to win 35 seats, equal with Labour, and with the defection of the sole remaining UKIP councillor to the Tories, and the support of Ms Rogers, the group took control.

Mr Harley said his party would now target Norton, where former Conservative councillor Mike Attwood defected to labour.

"I'm no quitter, I'll lead my troops and we will go out and campaign and I'll personally knock doors in Norton," Mr Harley said.

"The people of Dudley voted for a Conservative administration, they didn't vote for people to throw their dolls out of the pram and cross the floor to vote with the opposition."

BBC Business News

Aston Martin has cut the maximum share price range for its imminent stock market listing.

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Shares in the Warwickshire company are being sold for between £18.50 to £20 each. That compares with a previous range of £17.50 to £22.50.

It means the market value of luxury car maker will be below the £5bn-plus that could see the company lifted into the FTSE 100 in December's reshuffle.

A national shortage of penguins has left a Telford zoo enclosure empty.

Telford Exotic Zoo in Priorslee has spent months building a penguin enclosure and was expecting to get a delivery of Humboldt penguins, native to South America this summer.

However, cases of penguin malaria have swept through zoos in the UK, killing scores of them, owner Scott Adams said.

"If we'd been looking for penguins a few years ago we would probably have already had them by now," he said.

Mr Adams said zoos depended on penguins bred in the UK and Europe to protect those in the wild and to monitor the gene pool.

He added that the enclosure was so specialised, it would be impossible to adapt it for other animals, and for the time being the zoo has installed models (pictured) instead.