The firm ignored warnings over the "erratic" driver, a 77-year-old ex-mayor, after earlier crashes.

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A former fire station in Stone is going to be sold to a local brewery, so it can form part of a new pub and theatre development.

Joule’s Brewery plans to use the building on Crown Wharf as a heritage centre.

The wharf, next to the canal, is currently used as a car park and the brewery described the old fire station as "charismatic" and "an extraordinary building".

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The #GivingTuesday hashtag is trending - but what is it, where did it come from and what are people doing?

A bus company that ignored warnings about a driver who crashed into a supermarket, killing two people, is calling for a review of age discrimination law.

Midland Red (South) Ltd admitted health and safety breaches after Kailash Chander, now 80, accelerated into a Sainsbury's in Coventry in 2015, and was fined £2.3m.

Managing director Phil Medlicott said the company now had a "more robust safety regime than is required by law".

"Our parent company, Stagecoach, is working with our industry partners to establish a consistent approach by government on these issues," he said.

"This includes whether there should be a statutory maximum legal age limit for drivers of buses and other heavy vehicles."

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Crewe manager David Artell says that if the team can be no lower than 14th at the end of January, they'll be in a good position for a playoff push.

He believes the fixtures over the next two months will be crucial in where they finish this season.

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They are 16th in League Two going in to tonight's game at home to Cambridge.

Retired lecturer Noel Conway whose appeal to the Supreme Court over the "blanket ban" on assisted dying has failed said the judgement was disappointing.

"It means that I will not be able to have my arguments heard by the highest court in the land," he said.

"Dying people like me cannot wait years for another case to be heard."

The judges said they had to weigh up the chances of success in deciding whether to give him permission to appeal, with all that would entail for him and his family, and they decided they weren't high enough.

"Not without some reluctance, it has been concluded that in this case those prospects are not sufficient to justify giving permission to appeal," a statement said.

The charges follow an IOPC investigation into an arrest of a man in 2016.

A consultation which came out 65% against proposals to reorganise Shropshire's hospitals hasn't changed the minds of the NHS leaders behind the plans.

The chief executive of the Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Simon Freeman, said he was less interested in the numbers and more in the comments being made - and none of them brought up new concerns.

The £312m being offered by the government to carry out the changes were a "massive opportunity," he said.

The recommended plans involve Telford's specialist women and children's centre moving to Shrewsbury and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital having the county's only full accident and emergency unit.

It was revealed yesterday that two thirds of the respondents were against plans to relocate the services to Shrewsbury, but also that the majority of those respondents were from Telford.

Douglas Macmillan Hospice says the latest incident has caused damage totalling thousands of pounds.

A terminally-ill man has been refused permission for a challenge over the law on assisted dying.

The Supreme Court justices rejected a bid by 68-year-old Noel Conway to appeal against an earlier ruling in his fight over current legislation which prevents him from being helped to die.

Mr Conway, from Shropshire. has motor neurone disease and lost a Court of Appeal challenge in June.

A man's been arrested after a 73-year-old woman was dragged to the ground and robbed.

Staffordshire Police said she was attacked from behind on High Lane on Saturday morning and had her bag and a credit card stolen - it was used in two shops shortly afterwards.

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The 38-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent was detained earlier today.

A man suffered serious neck and head injuries when he was hit by a car following a number of altercations in Nuneaton.

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The incidents involved several people driving a number of different vehicles in Camp Hill and Stockingford on Sunday, Warwickshire Police said.

A 30-year-old, believed to have been hit by a car, remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.

A 30-year-old man from Nuneaton has arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and causing serious injury by dangerous driving and a 25-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault.

A 44-year-old man was cautioned for assault and criminal damage.

A yellow warning for high winds has been updated and extended.

The Met Office is warning of an unsettled spell of weather, external with strong winds combined with heavy rain for Crewe and Nantwich and Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Winds are expected to increase early on Wednesday with gusts of 60mph, with a few more exposed locations seeing 70mph gusts.

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Seamstress and pattern cutter Nyheke Lambert says she had to move from Birmingham to London to make her business work.

About one-third of all new jobs created in the UK in the past decade have been in London, analysis by the BBC's Shared Data Unit shows.

Ms Lambert says people know there are opportunities in the capital.

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Telford Tigers have done a deal with Nottingham Panthers to bring back netminder Sam Gospel.

He'll be available when the Panthers don't need him and will be back-up to the Tigers' Tom Hovell, while Denis Bell is out.

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The 24-year-old played for three years in Telford and was part of two title-winning sides before moving to the Elite League at the end of the 2016/17 season.

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Port Vale's owner has apologised to the club's fans for offering tickets in home sections of Vale Park to some Stoke supporters.

But while Norman Smurthwaite recognised the "emotion and passion" associated with football, he said the club was a business and needed to make money to break even.

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The offer of the extra tickets was made with Stoke City's 4,000 allocation for the Checkatrade Trophy tie selling out, but it has now been withdrawn.

Unite claims members who took part in strikes have been denied a payment made to those who did not.

A bus company fined £2.3m after admitting health and safety failings following a fatal crash in Coventry said it bears the weight of responsibility for the "terrible tragedy".

Primary school pupil Rowan Fitzgerald, seven, and 76-year-old pedestrian Dora Hancox were killed when a Midlands Red (South) bus ploughed into a supermarket.

Sentencing the company Judge Paul Farrer QC said the company "failed to follow policy" in the run-up to the fatal crash.

In a statement read outside court Phil Medlicott, managing director of Midland Red (South) apologised to the families of the bereaved and admitted the company's own policies affecting health and safety had not been followed.

"We know and fully accept there were a number of failings at our company and we bear the weight of our responsibility for this terrible tragedy," he said.

The driver of a bus which smashed into a Sainsbury's supermarket in Coventry, killing two people, has been handed a two-year supervision order.

Kailash Chander, a former mayor of Leamington Spa, was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial due to dementia, however a fact finding trial ruled the 80-year-old had been driving dangerously.

Midland Red (South), part of Stagecoach, pleaded guilty last year to offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act after permitting Mr Chander to continue working, and have been fined £2.3m.