After his lost season in 2017-18, Worcester Warriors' Scotland stand-off Duncan Weir signs a new two-year contract.

The 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham city centre left 21 people dead and another 220 injured.

Rob Bowker said it was the second year he had run a collection for families who have ill children.

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The chairman of the Football Association, Greg Clarke, has praised plans for a new £1.9m football centre in Telford on a visit to the town.

It's being set up as a partnership between the Shropshire FA and Telford College. In addition to indoor and outdoor pitches, it's set to offer classrooms and courses.

Mr Clarke (above right) said: “It’s not just about football. It’s more about social inclusion, mental health, physical health, getting people to feel good about themselves, fighting obesity, fighting heart disease, and benefitting a wide range of people in the area.”

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This wet weather is forecast to disappear overnight. The rest of the week should be largely dry until Friday.

Plans to build a factory on a 23-hectare site on land near Telford have attracted more than 300 letters of objection from people living nearby.

Agents acting for the applicants said it could be up to 40m tall at its highest point and the land, on the easterm edge of Shawbirch, would also have warehouses built on it.

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The site is farmland at the moment, but Telford and Wrekin Council has already earmarked it as being suitable for businesses.

The councillor for Shawbirch, Bill Tomlinson, said he's been told it will be a toilet roll factory and could bring in up to 400 jobs, but says he is worried about chemical emissions and it should be built on industrial land.

The objectors say it is too big, will bring too much traffic to the area and would be better built somewhere else.

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Coventry City striker Jonson Clarke-Harris says the team is playing good football and that results will improve if they carry on doing what they're doing.

The Sky Blues haven't won a match since Mark Robins was named manager of the month for October.

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The Sky Blues will take 1,600 supporters to Shrewsbury this weekend for their League One game.

Staffordshire Police is appealing for help identifying 15 men following the violence at Vale Park earlier this month.

A toilet block in the away end of was severely damaged and a number of offences occurred before, during and after the Checkatrade Trophy tie against Stoke City.

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A number of arrests have already been made.

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A council tax increase of up to £24 a year is "the only option left to protect officer numbers", West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson says.

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He has launched a public consultation exercise today, saying the rise is "necessary" to stop the force "shrinking further".

Mr Jamieson said raising council tax was not something he wanted to do, and even an extra £24 a year would only be enough for the force to "stand still".

Last week the government announced an extra £300m for police forces to help pay for pension expenses and other costs, however the Labour PCC said this was "misleading" and still not enough.

The victim is in a 'serious condition' in hospital after what police say was an 'isolated incident'.

Three men have been arrested during police raids this morning as part of a crackdown on so-called car key burglaries.

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Five addresses in Birmingham were targeted, leading to the arrests of men aged 19, 20 and 21 from Highgate, Stirchley and Yardley respectively.

They're suspected of being involved in a series of burglaries across the West Midlands and West Mercia force areas.

Officers recovered several weapons as well as class A drugs and jewellery.

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There's going to be a review of A-board charges amid a row over an £85 fee to display them.

Many traders in Rugeley, Hednesford and Cannock town centres stopped putting out the boards after the charge was introduced in October last year. Others simply refused to pay the fee.

The charges were brought in with the aim of regulating "obstructions" on the pavement and generating income for the local authority.

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In October 2018, a council working group recommended the policy should be changed to a system where “advice and guidance” are offered instead of applying the charges, but councillors voted to carry out more research.

The policy will be re-considered at a full council meeting in January.

Centre Will Butler scores twice in the first 12 minutes of his full Premiership debut, but Worcester lose at Northampton.

A shortage of pathologists means people can wait up to a year to find out how a loved one died, the senior coroner for Stoke-on-Trent and north Staffordshire says.

Ian Smith says "the whole structure needs to be changed" by the government and "post mortem work should now be part of the NHS structure".

The department of Health and Social Care says there are hundreds more pathologists in the NHS since 2010, and from April 2019 the introduction of medical examiners will mean all patient deaths will be individually scrutinised.

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A bus company is cutting its rural routes in Warwickshire after saying they don't make enough money.

Stagecoach - which made £95m before tax last year - said it was pulling out of routes around Leamington, Nuneaton and Rugby.

Warwickshire County Council says the authority has asked Stagecoach to review its position, but if the company won't pay for rural buses, the council will.

Fresh inquests into the deaths of 21 people killed in the Birmingham pub bombings have been put back two weeks to allow lawyers acting for victims' relatives to examine thousands of official documents.

More than 20,000 pages from sources including the government and police have been identified, with another 2,000 or so to come.

At a hearing ahead of the inquests that had been scheduled for 11 February, Kevin Morgan - counsel for 10 families - submitted that he should have up to mid-March to discover the contents.

Coroner Sir Peter Thornton postponed the inquests until 25 February.

Mr Morgan described the documents as a "golden thread", adding it was vital for "public confidence" that "every stone is turned over" amid a case where "rumour and suspicion abound".

The IRA is suspected responsible for the 1974 killings, but has never admitted responsibility. Six men jailed for the atrocities had their convictions quashed.

A lawyer representing a further two families said the documents might well contain "material we haven't seen".

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More than 4,000 badgers were killed in Staffordshire and Herefordshire in the last 12 months as part of the government's culling programme, new figures have revealed., external

Staffordshire accounted for 3,979 of those; the highest total of any of the 32 cull-zones.

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The government says the culls are part of a number of measures designed to reduce TB in cattle.

Flood alerts have been issued, external for a number of rivers in Herefordshire and Shropshire, with water levels expected to continue rising.

They affect the rivers Wye, Lugg, Arrow, Frome and Teme and the Environment Agency says there's a danger roads and farmland could be affected.

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More rain is expected tonight and some road diversions are likely to be in place.

A van driver has been rescued after his vehicle became stuck in 3ft (1 metre) of flood water near Pershore this afternoon.

Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has urged motorists to be careful in the conditions.