Registrar Timothy Evans encouraged the 13-year-old girl to reveal intimate parts of her body.

BBC Politics

The Conservative MP for North Shropshire Owen Paterson said he thought Theresa May's Brexit deal was dead.

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It comes after the House of Commons' Speaker, John Bercow, this afternoon ruled out another vote on the government's previously rejected Brexit agreement if the motion remains "substantially the same".

He told MPs parliamentary conventions dating back to 1604 meant they could not be asked to vote on precisely the same subject twice in the same session.

Mr Paterson, a former cabinet minister and prominent Brexiteer, said the ruling would "concentrate minds" ahead of a EU summit on Thursday - at which EU leaders will consider whether to grant the UK an extension to the Brexit process.

Batsman Ian Bell will miss the start of Warwickshire's season, after surgery to repair a ligament tear in his toe.

Allen Cook
BBC News

The government is to oversee a council's children's services department after a report found vulnerable children in Stoke-on-Trent are "not being protected".

The damning report from Ofsted says Stoke-on-Trent City Council's children's services are inadequate and there had been serious decline since its last inspection in 2015.

The government says it expects the local authority to improve “as a matter of urgency”.

The Department for Education says it’s in the process of appointing a commissioner to “direct the urgent improvement of children’s social care services”.

Allen Cook
BBC News

There are more cases of flooding across Shropshire this evening as there are now five flood warnings in place., external

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The warnings, which mean flooding is expected, are centred around Shrewsbury, Ironbridge and Bridgnorth, along the route of the River Severn.

There are also seven flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, across the West Midlands, mainly in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

The Environment Agency says it expects the River Severn to peak tomorrow afternoon, external and has been putting up temporary barriers and installing pumps today.

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Ofsted says Stoke-on-Trent City Council has failed "on the most basic of levels" to safeguard children.

The organisers of St Patrick's Day celebrations in Birmingham have revealed plans to extend the live music festival that follows the parade.

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Tens of thousands of people braved the hail, showers and rain to watch the annual festivities in the city yesterday.

There were two stages of live music for the first time this year, featuring Irish music talent and the committee are hoping to turn it into a three-day event.

The parade is a "huge tradition" said festival chairman Peter Connolly,"but people are always stuck for something big to do afterwards".

A three-day festival would be able to celebrate international and local Irish culture, he said.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It will be a cloudy evening with the odd shower and the possibility of fog patches and highs of 7C (45F).

Investigators are examining the cause of the fire which caused disruption to commuters.

Police believe the explosion to be "suspicious" and called for people with information to come forward.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Joe Sweeney

New speed cameras are set to be installed across key routes in Wolverhampton and the Black Country.

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So far, the routes under consideration are Wolverhampton’s A449 Stafford Road and A4444 Black Country New Road, Walsall’s A34 Birmingham Road and the A41 Black Country New Road from Moxley to Dangerfield.

The cameras are set to be phased in over a period of months and have been devised to assist in reducing speeding road accidents and also to clamp down on careless drivers.

The new cameras are also aimed at supporting the West Midlands Combined Authority’s road safety strategy, which is specifically targeted at reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads.

A gas explosion above a Staffordshire shop, which threw a large amount of debris from the building and started a fire, is thought to be suspicious, police say.

The blast tore through walls and doors in the building above a Select and Save in Cannock Road, Chadsmoor, Cannock at about 10:50 on Sunday.

One man was treated for shock at the scene.

Officers have released video footage of the explosion and are appealing for the public to come forward with any information.

Birmingham City and Aston Villa are each fined £5,000 by the FA for failing to control players in their derby on 10 March.

Phil Bowers
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

Almost 400 people are set to lose their jobs after the closure of the Stoke-on-Trent branch of insurance firm Ageas was confirmed today.

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The firm says it told employees today that the Trentham Lakes site would shut in 2020.

It is blaming the decision on a fall in demand from customers wanting to buy insurance over the telephone and increased efficiency.

Nearly 30 men have been convicted for their part in a five-hour "ride out" on Birmingham streets.

There's been an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

The NHS trust running the site says five bays in wards are closed due to several patients with symptoms and it's urging people to only visit if necessary., external

BBC News Travel

There's six miles of queuing traffic on the approach to a crash on the M6 in Birmingham.

One lane is closed between J7 and J8 after a collision involving two cars.

A woman has been threatened and assaulted by three men who broke into her Warwickshire home and demanded cash and car keys, police say. , external

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The victim and her children fled the property on Charles Eaton Road Bedworth, and went to a nearby neighbour.

The woman, in her 20s, suffered injuries to her face and leg during the attack on 11 March, but didn't require hospital treatment.

Nothing was stolen, but it's thought the offenders were looking to steal a car which they believed belonged to the victim, said Warwickshire Police.

Victoria Derbyshire

Despite a record-breaking defeat in Parliament for the first vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal, the sequel last week saw several Tory MPs, including Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard, switch sides to back her.

If the deal returns to Parliament tomorrow or next week, Theresa May needs 75 more MPs to back her to get the deal through.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski says he is ready to make the switch even without so much as a full stop being changed on the terms of the deal.

He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that he had been lobbied in an "unprecedented way" by local businesses, councillors and the local Conservative association to change his position.

"I think the mood in my constituency is changing very, very quickly," he said.

Express and Star

Some of today's headlines on the Express and Star website are:

• Huge factory fire causes train disruption on nearby rail lines, external
• New images show planned transformation of Birmingham station, external
• Popular Darlaston pub is set to go under the hammer, external