Former Aston Villa striker Dwight Yorke applies for the vacant manager role at Villa Park.

Police have released the name of a 40-year-old Wednesbury man who died after being found unconscious in the street on Sunday.

Daniel Pelechacz was discovered on Temple Street in West Bromwich just after 04:30 and died later in hospital.

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West Midlands Police said his death was being treated as unexplained at this stage and a post-mortem examination has yet to take place.

Bradley Tout remains at large after he escaped from a courtroom moments after being convicted.

About 20,000 people are expected to visit the Stone food and drink festival over this weekend, with the event chairman claiming the town has become the national "food and drink capital".

It is held at Westbridge Park and has taken place every October since 2004.

Festival chairman Richard Stevens also said the event had been a big boost for the local economy and had brought other food and drink businesses to the town.

A blade concealed in a walking stick, a machete and zombie knives have all been handed in at police stations across Warwickshire, during an initiative to help tackle knife crime.

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A total of 157 knives were surrendered during the week-long amnesty, said Warwickshire Police. , external

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Knife surrender bins were placed at four stations across the county from 18 September.

Seventeen-year-old Othman Said was shot and left for dead by masked gunmen.

Another two men have been arrested by detectives investigating the death of a Stoke-on-Trent woman.

Staffordshire Police said the 33-year-old man from Wigan and the 33-year-old man from Liverpool had been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Officers have also been given a further 36 hours to question a 35-year-old man from Wigan who was also arrested on suspicion of murdering 32-year-old mother of four, Avan Najmadeen.

She was found at her home in Glebedale Road, Fenton, on Monday 1 October and a post-mortem examination revealed that she died of multiple stab injuries.

The head of nursing at Shropshire's two main hospitals says her team is under "enormous pressure" because of staffing shortages.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust says it needs at least 15 more nurses as well as extra doctors to adequately staff its two accident and emergency departments and last week decided to close the Telford A&E overnight, in the interests of patient safety.

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Deirdre Fowler said the trust was doing everything it could to support the nursing staff it has and that they remain "dedicated and committed to patient safety".

West Brom's Harvey Barnes has been handed his first England Under-21 call up.

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Barnes has scored four times in 13 games after joining on a season-long loan from Leicester.

He's joined in the squad by Aston Villa's Tammy Abraham.

A post-mortem examination reveals 32-year-old Avan Najmadeen died from multiple stab wounds.

Barbara Fielding-Morriss, a former election candidate for Stoke Central, said her blogs were "educational".

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Othman Said fled Libya aged 17 after his father was murdered and he was shot and left for dead by masked gunmen.

Stowing away on boats and trains, he left behind his mother, twin brother and other siblings. He is now building a new life in Hereford thanks to his passion for boxing and says the South Wye Police Boxing Club has become his new family.

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Plans for Stoke-on-Trent City Council to buy the derelict East-West Precinct and redevelop it, at a cost of £7.25m have won the support of the local authority's cabinet.

Developer Realis Estates put the site up for sale in July after abandoning its plans for the shopping centre and leisure complex.

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It will cost the council £4m to buy the land and another £3.25m to build a "youth zone" on the site, which will include sports, music and arts facilities for eight to 19-year-olds.

The rest of the land could be used for housing, a hotel or other developments.

The authority’s cabinet backed the scheme earlier in the week and it will go to a full council meeting on 18 October.

A review into the deaths of a mum and baby, external, murdered by an abusive former partner, has found that their deaths could potentially have been prevented.

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Wesley Williams, 29, admitted killing Yvonne Walsh, 25, and seven-month-old Harrison Walsh at their home in Chells Grove, Billesley, West Midlands, in 2013, and jailed for a minimum of 29 years.

Both died as a result of pressure to the neck in an attack which police said was "shocking and senseless".

The review described Williams as a serial perpetrator of domestic abuse and said if Ms Walsh had been promptly told about the risk he posed to her and to her children, appropriate safeguarding measures could have been taken.

The review has made a number of recommendations including that police and social care services review domestic violence training.

A senior police officer said Ms Walsh had been "let down" by professionals.

Birmingham Live

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Railway timetables introduced to help train drivers cope with leaves on the line are set to start later this month, external.

The problem, often seen as something of a national joke, causes "slippery rails" and makes it more difficult for drivers to safely brake, without overshooting platforms, and pull away from stations, Network Rail said.

West Midlands Railway said its "leaf fall" timetable would run from 15 October to 7 December, with many other operators expected to follow suit.

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To avoid lengthy delays, less popular stations are set to be missed out on some services, particularly during peak times.

In 2015, West Midlands Railway's predecessor London Midland was forced to reinstate services to some stations after a backlash from passengers.

Every year thousands of tonnes of leaves fall on to tracks, Network Rail says, which are then compressed as trains pass, creating slippery conditions.

It said signals can also be affected as they rely on electric currents in the track to locate trains, but leaves can interrupt "the connection between the rail and the track".

As a result, Network Rail said it needed to allow longer gaps between trains.

Worcester's giraffe statues are being removed this weekend, after 10 weeks on display.

The 57 painted statues were part of the Worcester Stands Tall art trail and they will now be auctioned off to raise money for St Richard's Hospice.

A farewell event is being held in the chapter house of Worcester Cathedral until Sunday.

Aston Villa caretaker boss Kevin MacDonald asks for unity after Steve Bruce had a cabbage thrown at him before his final game as manager.

A former Stoke-on-Trent election candidate who praised Hitler in her online blog has been jailed for 12 months.

Barbara Fielding-Morriss appeared at Stafford Crown Court this morning and was told by the judge he found her attitude during the trial "sinister".

In June, she was found guilty of three charges of stirring up racial hatred.

In four blogs between September 2016 and September 2017, she included statements about how asylum-seeking Jews were like termites and made comments about mentally disabled migrant children, the jury heard.

As she was led away this morning, Fielding-Morriss told the judge he'd "completely ignored freedom of speech laws".

England's Sian Massey-Ellis is appointed as an assistant referee for the Women's Champions League final on 24 May.