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BBC Midlands Today

A Warwickshire working men's club that helped launch the career of Larry Grayson is to reopen, after avoiding the threat of demolition.

The entertainer, from Nuneaton, performed at club on Fife Street in 1948.

He went on to be one of the country's biggest TV stars in the 1970s and 1980s, hosting the Generation Game.

Community volunteers have helped renovate the club, which opens to the public on Friday.

You can see more on this story on BBC Midlands Today, on BBC One at 18:30.

Dom Sibley hits a ton for the sixth successive match in first-class cricket but Warwickshire face defeat against Hampshire.

The unidentified man is in a critical condition in hospital after collapsing at Shrewsbury station.

Police say they still don't know the identity of a man who collapsed at Shrewsbury railway station at the weekend.

He remains in a critical condition in hospital, but had no form of identification on him, so the West Mercia force has released this image in the hope someone knows him.

Image source, West Mercia Police

It's thought he may have come from a beer festival in Ludlow and wasn’t with anyone when he fell.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Gurdip Thandi

Celebrating the achievements of Wolverhampton women will be one of the city’s new civic leader’s themes for the coming year.

Image source, City of Wolverhampton Council

Councillor Claire Darke, who has served the Park ward since 2008, was officially sworn in as the 61st Mayor of Wolverhampton at a ceremony held at the Civic Centre on Wednesday.

“I am the 61st Mayor of Wolverhampton but only the 10th woman mayor so to reflect this, one of my themes of the year is celebrating women’s contribution to the city,” she said.

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David Irwin

A scheme to build more than 40 homes on the former Hampton-in-Arden Cricket Club ground is set to move forward.

Image source, Solihull Council

Solihull Council had already approved the principle of the housing development on the Meriden Road site.

Changes to the design of the scheme were agreed by the planning committee on Wednesday. , external

A total of 43 properties – 17 of which are designated affordable – are to be built on the parcel of land.

The cricket club, which formerly played at the site, has since moved to a new home at nearby Shadowbrook Lane.

The Worcester-based Royal Life Saving Society is launching a new qualification teaching people how to use a throwline.

It's making the move following the death of 18-year-old University of Worcester student Thomas Jones, whose body was found in the River Severn nine months ago.

The charity says it hopes that training more people to use the water rescue equipment will save lives.

The schoolgirls claimed masked men tried to abduct them as they walked home from school in Birmingham.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

While Shropshire councillors have voted in favour of declaring a "climate change emergency", there was a reluctance to set a firm date for becoming a carbon neutral authority and one councillor suggested the threat was exaggerated.

Councillor Ed Bird (below, left), the Conservative member for Shifnal South and Cosford, said: “Like many things I don’t think climate change is as bad as is being made out,” and he questioned whether it was really a priority for people in the county.

Image source, Shropshire Council

The Conservative leader of the council, Peter Nutting (above, left), also had concerns, saying: "We are making so much progress but what I do not want to do is put undue pressure and targets on us by setting dates that are even more ambitious than those suggested by scientists.”

But Julian Dean, leader of the Green Party group said, “If you are not frightened, you are not paying attention" and added, “there are opportunities now. If we get it right we can make a difference. We can do rapid transitions. We have to.”

About 100 climate change protesters gathered outside the council's Shirehall, to call on the authority to take action.

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

It will be a cloudy night with some light showers and lows of 6C (43F).

BBC Shropshire

A Telford teenager has been giving evidence against three men accused of sexually abusing her, when she was 15.

Ayad Abdulla Hizam, Ghamer Sulayman and Saleh Qasem, all from Birmingham, deny 20 charges between them.

The girl said she was forced to have sex with Mr Sullayman and numerous other men against her wishes.

She claimed that in one instance, after being picked up from her home by Mr Sullayman and Mr Qasem, she was taken to an address in Birmingham and forced to stay the night.

The teenager was given an unidentified liquid to drink - after which she felt dizzy. She says she was then raped by Mr Sullayman and a another man she didn't recognise.

The trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court continues.

A new leader of Rugby Borough Council has been elected, following local elections earlier this month.

Image source, Rugby Borough Council

Councillor Seb Lowe, who represents Coton And Broughton Ward, was elected at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today.

Accepting the position he said he intended to focus council resources supporting the town centre.

The former leader, Michael Stokes, stepped down from the position he'd held for five years, despite the Conservatives maintaining control in the local elections.

A village primary school with 38 pupils is set to close later this year, because of funding difficulties.

The Shropshire Hills Federation, which runs Stiperstones Church of England School and two other schools, says most of the children will be moved to Norbury, seven miles away, and will be offered a free minibus.

Image source, Google

Shropshire councillors are being asked to approve the move and if they agree, it could shut later this year.

It's not known what will happen to the school building, which is held in an educational trust.

The bodies of a man and woman were found in a house in Hednesford.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

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• Man died after being 'detained' by public in city street, external
• Armed police swoop following 'disorder', external
• Bodies of man and woman found at house, external

The Margaret Fleming murder trial hears evidence from a journalist who interviewed one of the co-accused.

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David Lawrence

The new leader of Warwick District Council has reached out to opposition parties in the hope they can work together on issues including poor air quality and the loss of the open countryside.

Image source, Warwick District Council

Conservative councillor Andrew Day was elected at Wednesday's annual meeting of the council. He takes over from Andrew Mobbs, who lost his seat at the local elections at the start of the month.

The Conservatives only managed to stay in power by forming an alliance with the three Whitnash Residents Association councillors to take their combined number of seats to 22 – the same as the number held by the opposition group made up of the Lib Dems, Greens and Labour, but the Tory chairman will have the casting vote.

“I want to work with the other group leaders on an improved and more collaborative form of government and that is clearly something our residents want too,” Mr Day said.

Lucie Plant
BBC Hereford and Worcester

A vicar afraid of flying and heights has taken on a wing walk in a fundraising bid for her local churches.

Reverend Joanne Musson, from Worcestershire, flew 1,000 feet in the air on top of a biplane yesterday, to raise money for new facilities at Claines Church and St George's in Barbourne.

Rev Musson, who spoke to BBC Hereford & Worcester after the flight, also raised funds for cancer charity Bloodwise.

Tomasz Kuszczak, Greg Stewart and Senegal midfielder Cheikh Ndoye are all released by Championship club Birmingham City.