Birmingham City score twice in two minutes at Ewood Park to earn a late Championship draw against Blackburn Rovers.

James Blair from Worcester suffers with the genetic condition Noonan syndrome and regularly receives hospital care.

Josh Adams and Alafoti Faosiliva both score tries as Worcester beat Pau 23-7 at Sixways to go back top of European Challenge Cup Pool 2.

A blaze has led to the evacuation of visitors at the UK's most popular zoo.

The 64-year-old woman died after she was hit by a car in Coventry late on Friday afternoon.

Remand prisoner John Delahaye should not have been given the medication unsupervised, a jury concludes.

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Outline proposals for a new student accommodation block near Hereford railway station have been approved.

The 180-room building will house students from Hereford College of Arts and the city's technology and engineering university, NMiTE.

The County Council is hoping it will be completed by 2020.

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The authority says the accommodation will help the city attract more students and it is hoping a commercial investor will come in to fund the construction.

More detailed plans will now be drawn up.

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It will be a cold night with clear periods and patchy cloud and lows of -2C (28F).

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Plans for a specialist £6m social care and health centre in Rowley Regis to help patients leaving hospital have won the backing of Sandwell Council.

The proposed centre is designed to help reduce delayed transfers of care, commonly known as bed blocking.

Councillors at this week’s cabinet, external gave their approval for officers to draw up detailed plans for the centre in partnership with Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group.

Shropshire Council has begun a consultation on whether to remove the large recycling banks often found at supermarkets and in village or pub car parks.

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There are recycling banks at 120 sites across the county, but the authority says it wants to remove them to help reduce fly-tipping and littering and help save money.

The consultation runs until 25 January.

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The search for a contractor to finish the stalled £350m Midland Metropolitan Hospital will begin in the new year.

Toby Lewis, chief executive of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, said he was waiting for government approval to get the process started.

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The aim is to have the hospital completed by 2022, with an accident and emergency department capable of treating 170,000 patients a year.

In the meantime, workers are carrying out repairs and weather-proofing at the Smethwick site.

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More than 100 people have been taking part in lantern-making workshops, ahead of a parade in Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens tomorrow afternoon.

The free workshops have been taking place all month, with those taking part creating star-shaped lamps.

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The lead artist, Sophie Handy, said it was a way of getting more people to appreciate the 18th Century gardens and the lanterns would be used to create a Christmas constellation of stars.

The parade starts at 16:30 on Saturday and will end with a shadow puppet show.

An investigation has been launched after reports of a boy with a knife in the grounds of a Coventry primary school.

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Courthouse Green Primary said one of its pupils was "targeted" by a secondary school aged pupil who came on to school premises with the "intent to harm".

There were no reported injuries or threats made and no further sightings, after officers attended the school just before 15:30 on Thursday, said West Midlands Police.

In a statement issued on its website, external, the school said staff "ensured that he safely left school site without incident, along with all other children and families".

Enquiries are ongoing to trace the person responsible, police said.

Students find learning with virtual reality (VR) technology more engaging than traditional methods, a study has found.

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VR headsets were found to be the most stimulating, according to the University of Warwick report, external, followed by textbook learning then video.

Environments created in VR can also allow for learning that cannot be replicated in reality, or would be too costly to be accessible, it said.

Devon Allcoat, a PhD student from the Department of Psychology said the technology could "transform" teaching.

A two-year-old patient at Birmingham Children's Hospital has helped unveil a train after winning a competition to name it.

The Chiltern Railways locomotive is going to be known as the Choo Choo Express during December and George Moore's mother, Fay, said it was a proud moment, because he loves trains.

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George has been treated for croup and infected tonsils, while his sister Betty has been in the hospital's high dependency unit with pneumonia and bronchiolitis.

Fay said: "We hope that this will be a memory he holds close to him for the rest of his life."

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Coventry Blaze have signed Croatian international defenceman Ivan Puzic from the Austrian league.

The 22-year-old has represented his country 10 times in the World Championships, and also has experience playing Champions League Hockey and the Continental Cup.

Puzic will fly into the UK next week and head coach Danny Stewart described him as a "reliable and steady defenceman" who is "at a young age and is only going to get better".

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This weekend Coventry face Sheffield Steelers and Dundee Stars.

Telford Tigers face Nottingham Lions at home and away in the league, while Solihull Barons play Hull Pirates and a friendly match against Coventry Blaze.

Dean Ward died a week after being injured by an 18-year-old in a park.

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New Street Station is going to spend £1m on 97 sensors, to monitor toxic fumes from the trains.

It follows a University of Birmingham study earlier this year which found Nitrogen Oxides exceeded the recommended 15-minute exposure limit on 26 out of 68 days.

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The 98 fans at the station will also be adjusted, to make them more reactive to harmful gases.

The station said platform supervisors would also be asked to have "polite conversations" with train drivers who left their engines running for too long.