The Health and Safety Executive says workers have faced a "potentially lethal risk".

The man killed when a wall collapsed at a Birmingham building site was a construction worker, police say.

The wall inside the Grade II listed Unity Works in Vittoria Street came down just before 18:00 on Wednesday.

The 49-year-old from London was found trapped under a "significant amount of rubble" and died at the scene, said West Midlands Police.

Ch Insp Dave Keen said: “Attempts were made by paramedics to resuscitate the man but there was nothing that could be done to save him."

His family have been informed, the force added.

A man has been arrested following a three-car crash in Oldbury which has left one woman critically ill in hospital.

Two women had to be freed from two separate vehicles and a toddler rescued, after the crash on Wolverhampton Road just after 14:00 yesterday.

One of the women, 20, remains in hospital with critical injuries and the other with serious injuries.

The driver of a third car, suspected of being involved in the crash, was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and remains in police custody.

A 33-year-old man is arrested after a man whose body was found in a house in Bedworth.

The maintenance of some grass verges in Birmingham hasn't been carried out due to a delay in buying in the correct equipment, said the city council.

Some city residents have been telling BBC WM that verges had been left "unloved","messy" and "very run down".

The city council made a manifesto pledge to bring the job "in-house" said council leader Ian Ward.

"Having taken the decision to do that, we've had to procure new equipment to carry out all of the grass cutting and we've had to wait to the start of this financial year to carry out that procurement," he said.

"But now we've completed that and the grass cutting will now be under way as we roll forward through the summer."

A "much more robust approach to asbestos" is being promised by the NHS trust which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

It comes after the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SATH) was fined £16,000 and ordered to pay costs of more than £18,000 for failing to properly deal with a release of asbestos in an accommodation block in 2012.

SaTH said it had been working "very closely" with the Health and Safety Executive since the concerns were raised and that a number of disciplinary hearings have taken place as a result of the investigation.

It added no one was harmed as a result of the asbestos leak.

BBC Sport

Telford Tigers have pulled off what they're calling "a key signing" by bringing in netminder Brad Day from Elite League side Sheffield Steelers.

The 24-year-old impressed while on loan at Hull Pirates last season, where he had a .921 save percentage over 10 games.

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The 5ft 10in tall player has been playing his ice hockey in Sheffield since 2006, but said: “My opportunities have been limited playing at the Steelers over the past few seasons and I’m ready to be the starting netminder."

He's the club's second summer signing after the announcement that Adam Taylor is returning for a 10th season with the Tigers.

A burst main in Redditch has caused the problem which motorists have been told to avoid.

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The NHS trust which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has been fined £16,000 for health and safety breaches after concerns builders were exposed to asbestos during work on nursing accommodation in 2012.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH) was also ordered to pay more than £18,000 in costs.

Last year the Health and Safety Executive announced it was going to prosecute the trust and yesterday at Telford magistrates court, SaTH pleaded guilty to two breaches of health and safety rules relating to the incident.

The HSE said it found hospital employees were removing fixtures and fittings from an empty flat when they disturbed asbestos-containing materials and that the trust then "failed to take adequate measures to deal with the initial release of asbestos, exposing other contractors who later worked in the flat".

The hospital trust has been approached for a comment.

A burst water main has closed part of the Warwick Highway in Redditch and forced seven schools to close.

The schools in the Church Hill area have also been left without water and the road is closed both ways with congestion back to Arrow Valley Health Club.

Worcestershire County Council have tweeted this image.

A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found in a Warwickshire house.

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The 33-year-old man, who had been stabbed, was discovered in Bulkington Road, Bedworth, on Monday.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, said Warwickshire Police.

Another man, 35, from Bedworth, arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday, remains in police custody.

A 39-year-old man from Coventry, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender also remains in custody.

A block of flats in the Hadley area of Telford is ready to reopen after undergoing a multimillion-pound revamp.

Manor Heights will now be called The Haybridge, and its new tenants are set to move into the 61 apartments over the next few weeks.

The 12-storey block had remained empty for 18 years, following a police raid.

It will have free electric car charging points and there will be a trial in the summer of a driverless vehicle, to take residents to nearby locations.

BBC News

When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex named their newborn son Archie Harrison, many people were surprised. None more so than the Archie Harrisons in the UK.

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Jody Harrison, from Worcester, had just come home after picking her children up from school when she heard that Prince Harry and Meghan had picked the same name as her six-year-old son.

Ms Harrison, 51, said she loves Prince Harry and thinks the matching name is "amazing", adding: "I think it's a great name, obviously.

"He's going to go into school tomorrow and tell the teacher, 'just call me Prince Archie, miss'."

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Another Archie Harrison, 19, from Southam, Warwickshire, said his friends and colleagues have been making jokes.

"They have been calling me your royal highness and leaving the room they do a little bow."

Birmingham Live

Here are some of the headlines on the Birmingham Live site today:

• Man dies after Birmingham building collapse in Vittoria Street, external
• Shooting victim named locally as police hunt gunman, external
• Huge fire rips through former pub, external

A woman who was a teenage victim of sex trafficking says she’s still being punished because of criminal convictions linked to her sexual exploitation decades ago.

“Jane” - not her real name – says she has around 100 convictions for soliciting after being groomed and eventually forced into prostitution.

Workers from a Birmingham aerospace plant are set to lobby the company's owners over plans to shut the site.

The GKN Aerospace site in Kings Norton is set to close in 2021 with the company saying it did not have a sustainable future.

Workers will be lobbying shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of parent company, Melrose, over plans to shut the site with the loss of 200 jobs.

Melrose has previously said the decision was made by GKN, not the parent company.

Members of the Unite union, will be urging shareholders to push the board to think again about the business-case behind the planned closure of the facility.

A man is set to appear in court later via videolink charged with kidnapping and five counts of rape.

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Joseph McCann, 34, was arrested in Congleton, Cheshire, on Sunday after two girls, aged 14, were abducted in the town.

The 34-year-old was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, but refused to come up from the cells.

Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot authorised the use of force to bring him before her by videolink from Belmarsh prison.

A man has died after a wall collapsed at a building in Birmingham.

Medical crews were called to Vittoria Street in the Jewellery Quarter at 17:40 on Wednesday.

The ambulance service said staff were faced with the "aftermath of a wall collapse".

"Tragically, one man was confirmed dead at the scene," it said.

A second man was taken to hospital, with a third discharged at the scene.

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The A500 northbound in Stoke-on-Trent is expected to remain closed through the morning after a lorry crashed, causing fuel to spill across the carriageway.

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There's queuing traffic back to Longton, after the incident within the A52 Whieldon Road junction.

A diversion is in place via Whieldon Road and City Road to rejoin the A500.

A Birmingham street remains closed after a wall collapsed inside an old factory, injuring two people.

Vittoria Street is closed from Graham Street to Warstone Lane for emergency services to inspect the site.

Staff and pupils from Birmingham City University's School of Jewellery are being advised to access the building from the rear.