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A street in Wellington is re-opening and people are returning to their homes after a gas leak.
Earlier police had placed a cordon around Church Street and gas engineers identified a fault in a pipe on Vineyard Street.
Image source, GoogleIt's the second time this week that a Shropshire town centre has been closed by a gas leak - on Tuesday, High Street in Bridgnorth was cordoned off.
A Volkswagen involved in a police pursuit ploughs into the front of a furniture store in Cannock.
Read MoreParents and others angry about equality teaching have been demonstrating for weeks.
Read MoreThe 17-year-old was a passenger in a car which hit a wall, West Midlands Police says.
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Lisa Wright
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Different sides of the argument are being aired outside a Birmingham primary school where campaigners are protesting about its LGBT relationships teaching.
Hundreds are protesting at the site which has been attended this afternoon by police as Anderton Park shut early amid an eighth week of demonstrations.
Many parents did not want to talk about the situation but one who did was Rawasia Bibi who has two children at the school.
“We don’t agree with what [head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson] is teaching our children. It should be at secondary school,” she said, citing a complaint of many protesters that children there were too young to be taught about LGBT equality.
Dionne Reid, who has six-year-old twins, supports the school.
She said: “I don’t think anyone should be bullied about anything that’s prevalent in our society, my kids get really upset about it. They love Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson and they say everyone’s got rights. They don’t understand the protest."
A 15-year-old Telford girl has used a "large dollop of fantasy" in her account of two men accused of trafficking her to Birmingham for sex, a court heard.
Prosecutors in the child sexual exploitation trial said the teenager was "scared and coerced" into performing sex acts.
But barristers representing two of three defendants at Shrewsbury Crown Court said the girl was inconsistent in statements given to police and the proceedings.
Image source, HELEN TIPPERAyad Abdulla Hizam, Ghamer Sulayman and Saleh Qasem deny charges relating to a teenage girl
Mark George QC, representing 22-year-old Ghamer Sulayman, who is accused of her rape and three counts of trafficking, said his client accepted taking her to Birmingham, but said she went willingly.
He said there was little evidence another visit to Birmingham - allegedly for the purpose of sex - ever happened.
Co-defendant Saleh Qasem, 19, is charged with one count of trafficking and one of sexual assault, and like Mr Sulayman denies all charges against him. Representing him, Lesley Manley raised doubts about his ability to "arrange or facilitate" trafficking her to Birmingham for sex, saying "he is no help to anyone whatsoever".
On Thursday, a third man who had "consensual" sex with the girl said he thought she was 16 - which the Crown disputes. He denies four counts of sexual activity with a child and four of child abduction.
Rosie and Gucci were fed bananas to stop them escaping through the hole caused by the blaze.
Read MoreBichon frise Gemma was fatally attacked by "a great white dog" in a park, her owner says.
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Allen Cook
BBC News
Home have been evacuated in Shropshire this afternoon because of a suspected gas leak.
Police have put a 100-metre cordon around Church Street in Wellington.
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Local Democracy Reporting Service
A city marina is set for more than double its current number of houseboats.
There are 20 moorings in Worcester's Diglis Basin Marina used as permanent homes, but that's set to increase to 42 after the council backed the plan.
It pushes the proportion of the site's 110 moorings used by houseboats to 38%.
Image source, GoogleCouncillor Bill Amos said: "It adds another supply of small and relatively cheap housing to the city’s affordable stock. It’s a neat and tidy development."
Some people neighbouring the site had criticised the plan, complaining about a lack of parking at the marina. The move adds another 28 spaces to the existing 63.
Users of leisure moorings have to prove they do not live permanently on their boats, although those vessels can be lived in occasionally in usage akin to a holiday home.
Defence barristers question the evidence given by a teenage girl allegedly trafficked for sex.
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Telford and Wrekin’s council leader told the first meeting since the local elections that voters had chosen “hope and positivity”.
Labour's Shaun Davies said voters had seen through the opposition’s campaign.
The group increased its majority after the 2 May vote, going from 28 to 36 seats. Of the 54 available, the Conservative group's total slipped from 20 to 13.
Image source, Telford & Wrekin CouncilMr Davies said: "Our communities have spoken. They have overwhelmingly placed their trust in me and my group to deliver policies to invest, protect and care for Telford and Wrekin."
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Warwickshire's chief executive says the team has a lot of work to do after losing its opening three County Championship matches.
Image source, Getty ImagesSomerset celebrating victory over Warwickshire
The Bears are bottom of Division One and play the two teams directly above them, Essex and Nottinghamshire, in their next two matches.
Quote MessageWe've got a young, relatively inexperienced side. I think there's some really exciting young players that we've got but we need to improve those performances and get some results."
Neil Snowball, Chief executive, Warwickshire
Lisa Wright
BBC News
The mood outside a school at the heart of a row about LGBT relationship education has been mainly peaceful so far as it closed early ahead of another protest.
Image source, PAA previous protest at Anderton Park Primary School
The street by Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham has been busy with parents, children, police and reporters.
There were protesters too, using a microphone to encourage people to attend the latest demonstration against the lessons. It's due at 14:30.
There have also been people representing the LGBT community.
Among them was a 16-year-old boy who said he'd come because the protesters’ message was “fundamentally wrong”.
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A reward of up to £10,000 has been offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the murder of a man at a house party.
Image source, CrimestoppersRezwan Ali, 19, was stabbed at a house in Willows Road, Walsall, in January.
He collapsed in the kitchen after being wounded in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Six teenagers were arrested on suspicion of his murder and released under investigation but no-one has been charged over the death.
Charity Crimestoppers said the reward might help, external "to bring justice for Rezwan and his loved ones".
Rezwan's sister Hafsa Khatun says his family "still feel the same pain" more than a year after his death.
Our local BBC Weather Watchers bring us plenty of the colour of the countryside in the West Midlands, along with their local forecasts.
These three today are from users Mrs Baggins in Bromyard, Herefordshire; Mr Twister in Leek, Staffordshire; and Di's walk in Sutton Coldfield:
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Image source, Di's walkTwo women are arrested after a 30-year-old woman died in Fenton on Thursday.
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Council bosses in Shropshire are working with the Welsh Assembly on plans to dual the A5 around Oswestry.
Shropshire Council’s leader said he was “absolutely confident” the measure for the road between Montford Bridge and Ruabon would go ahead.
Councillor Peter Nutting said he was working on the plans with colleagues from the Welsh side of the border, with the Assembly keen to bring economic benefits to both sides.
He said he was delighted full council signed off the government’s £54.4m funding for the Shrewsbury north west relief road last week.
Worcestershire all-rounder Wayne Parnell is an injury doubt for their next County Championship match on Monday.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe club said its monitoring his fitness after he missed the final day of the defeat at Lancashire and couldn't take the field for the second innings.
But the Pears have had a boost as paceman Josh Tongue's fit for the Middlesex game, having been ruled out of the last match with a niggle., external
