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Severe weather conditions are delaying services between Kidderminster and London by up to an hour.

Chiltern Railways said services are having to run at reduced speed.

Stoke midfielder Joe Allen says he was not bitten by Derby's Bradley Johnson when they clashed on Wednesday.

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A signalling system fault is delaying rail services between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stourbridge Junction.

The town of Telford, named after civil engineer Thomas Telford, is celebrating its 50th birthday today.

Image source, Gavin Dickson

Now home to 170,000 people, it's often called the “birthplace of industry” due to places being recognised for their role in the industrial revolution.

BBC News has been looking at how you start a town from scratch.

Investigations are continuing into allegations of modern slavery and human trafficking in Rugby.

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Officers visited a hand car wash and a residential property in Abbey Street on Wednesday and arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of human trafficking.

Three alleged victims have been identified and measures have been put in place to safeguard them, Warwickshire Police said.

Two boys seriously injured in an incident in which 16-year-old Jaydon James was fatally stabbed have been released from hospital.

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The friends were in Deedmore Road, Coventry, just before midnight on Saturday when they were attacked.

West Midlands Police said it was pursuing a "number of active lines of inquiry," and officers were "determined to get justice for Jaydon’s family".

A service will be held at St Chad's Church in memory of Jaydon later.

Michael Buchanan
Social Affairs Correspondent, BBC News

The damning report into services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust will be an awful read for the families who have lost babies as a result of errors.

Speak to any of them, and their fervent wish is that nobody has to go through the same experience as they did.

The continuing inability of the trust, therefore, to ensure heart rates are properly monitored and the failure to learn lessons after incidents, smacks of a callous arrogance towards those families.

Fundamentally this is a trust that has been badly led for years.

Today's report is stark in its denunciation of the current management - not all of them have the "right skills and abilities" to provide "high-quality sustainable care."

Chief executive Simon Wright insists he is not out of his depth, but under his watch the trust has demonstrably deteriorated.

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Aston Villa have now scored 12 times in three matches, after last night's 10-goal thriller against 10-man Nottingham Forest.

Image source, Dan Westwell

Forest squandered leads on three occasions, while Villa only led once in the entire match - yet still the teams could not be separated after 90 minutes.

At the end of a breathless encounter, the two sides remained three points apart in the Championship table, with eighth-placed Villa still unbeaten at home since Dean Smith's arrival on 10 October.

Villa have taken 13 points from a possible 21 since he took charge.

You can relive all the action here.

A vigil will be held in Coventry later in memory of a teenager stabbed to death in the city last weekend.

Jaydon James, 16, known as JJ, was wounded in Coventry on Saturday night, and died later in hospital.

He was attacked while with friends in Deedmore Road, Wood End, a suburb four miles north of the city centre.

Two of his friends were also seriously injured in the attack.

A book of remembrance has been opened at St Chad's Church in Hillmorton Road which is hosting the service in memory of Jaydon from 19:00.

A hospital trust which is being investigated over a cluster of deaths and injuries to babies has been rated inadequate.

A 112-page report, published by the Care Quality Commission, lists a catalogue of issues, including a culture of bullying and harassment, at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, Shropshire.

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, which runs the two sites, is already in special measures and emergency and maternity services are deemed unsafe.

Chief executive Simon Wright apologised and said the trust was "disappointed that we have not made as much progress to tackle the issues and challenges that the trust faces as we all want".

The trust was previously rated as "requires improvement" overall.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

After a windy start, with the risk of gales, rain will clear leaving some bright spells with highs of 13C (46F).

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

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