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The West Midlands Fire Service said it had to cut free one of the drivers in the three-lorry crash on the M6 this afternoon.
It said he had been taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with serious leg injuries.
A passenger in one of the lorries has also been taken to hospital with less serious injuries.
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West Midlands Ambulance service says it's preparing to take two people to hospital, following a multi-vehicle crash on the M6 this afternoon.
It says one of them has serious injuries, the other has suffered more minor injuries.
The southbound carriageway of the M6 will remain closed between junctions eight and nine while police carry out investigations.
The Duke of Cambridge spent more than an hour at the National Memorial Arboretum with D-Day veterans today, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the landings.
He also laid a wreath carrying a personal message, which read: "In memory of all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. We will remember them. William."
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Image source, AFPThere were 20 D-Day veterans in the gathering of more than 2,000 people at the arboretum, including former Royal Engineer Don Sheppard (picture below), who still carries a sliver of shrapnel in his lung from a German shell fired on D-Day.
The 99-year-old from Essex landed at Juno beach with Canadian soldiers and said he remembered the fighting that followed the landings being worse than D-Day itself.
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The M6 has reopened northbound between junctions eight for the M5 and nine for Wednesbury.
The motorway remains closed southbound between those junctions as the emergency services continue to deal with a serious crash involving at least two lorries.
A parliamentary debate on the working hours of local bus drivers has heard claims that a box of cornflakes has more chance of a safe arrival at its destination than a child on a bus.
Image source, Parliament Live TVLabour MP for Leamington and Warwick, Matt Western, who called for the debate told MPs in Westminster Hall, external that he doesn't believe the current laws "are keeping our public safe".
The debate was in response to the "terrible tragedy" when Rowan Fitzgerald, seven, and Dora Hancox, 76, died as a bus crashed into a Coventry supermarket in 2015.
A trial heard driver, Kailash Chander, then aged 77, had worked more than 70 hours in a week.
Mr Western said there was an "absolute inevitability that such a tragedy would happen," and called for bus drivers’ working hours to be aligned with long-distance and HGV regulations.
Transport Minister Andrew Jones said both the industry and the government were "determined to minimise the chances of this crash ever being repeated".
"There is a strong consensus across the industry that there is no substitute for a closely managed culture in which safety is paramount," he said.
PC Sunil Narr is accused of using excessive force after striking a man on the head with a baton.
Read MoreA police officer who was convicted of a driving offence has been sacked by Staffordshire Police.
The force said 38-year-old Sergeant Karl Breen, who worked in the Stoke North Neighbourhood Policing Team, had been found guilty of gross misconduct by a hearing in front of the Chief Constable.
Image source, Staffordshire PoliceOn 7 May Breen was given a 29-month driving ban by Derby magistrates, fined £100, given a community order and told to carry out 300 hours unpaid work.
He had been convicted for failing to provide a specimen of breath following a road traffic collision in Stoke-on-Trent while he was off-duty.
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West Midlands Ambulance Service says a crash near the junction of the M6 and M5 is "serious" and involves at least two lorries.
The M6 is now closed heading both north and south between junction eight for the M5 and nine for Wednesbury and an air ambulance has arrived at the scene.
Image source, WMASWMAS said it was initially called out at 15:39 and Highways England said the delays are affecting a five-mile stretch of the motorway.
The Duke of Cambridge visits the National Memorial Arboretum to mark the 75th anniversary of the landings.
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All four lanes have now been closed on the M6, heading south between junction nine for Wednesbury and eight for the M5.
Highways England says the police are dealing with a multi-vehicle collision.
Earlier, travel service Inrix reported that two lorries were involved.
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A surgeon who who lied about the number of operations he had carried out to get a job at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, has been ordered to pay back £337,214.78 paid to him by the trust - or face even longer in jail.
Sudip Sarker, who is 50 and who used to live at Broadstairs in Kent, was given a six-year sentence in February 2018 after being convicted of fraud at Worcester Crown Court.
He will serve another three years and eight months if he fails to pay back the money, which he was paid between 2011 and 2015, within three years.
Image source, OtherSarker told interviewers in 2011 he had performed 85 keyhole bowel operations, 51 of them working solo. The true figure was just six.
West Mercia Police said "it soon became apparent that he did not have the required surgical abilities" and that he started to make mistakes.
He was eventually found out after an investigation by the hospital.
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Services have been taking place today across the country and beyond to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Lt Den Brotheridge occupies a poignant position in the retelling of the opening day of action.
Born in Smeithwick, he was the first allied soldier killed in combat on 6 June 1944.
When he left to go to war, his wife was eight months pregnant with their first child.
A talented footballer and cricketer, he had signed up at the beginning of the war and been promoted from the ranks to become an officer.
It took his daughter 40 years to discover her father's role in one of D-Day's most famous operations.
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Prosecutors claim Paul Oliver was using fox cubs to "blood" hunting hounds in Herefordshire.
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A group set up to preserve a Shrewsbury landmark says it's looking to raise £500,000 to replace the statue at the top, and it's looking to Shropshire Council for support.
The Friends of Lord Hill’s Column wants a new statue in place by 2022, the 250th anniversary of Lord Hill's birth, and says the replacement should be made out of Coade stone - the same material as the original statue.
A number of repairs have been carried out to the statue by Shropshire Council over the last five years, because the stonework has cracked and pieces of the statue have fallen on to the pavement below.
Reverend Richard Hayes, the chairman of the friends group, said: "“Rather than spending £10,000 or £20,000 a time when something falls off it, now is the right time to bring the current Lord Hill down and replace him with a brand new like-for-like model."
A huntsman, accused of animal cruelty offences, has described in court how he killed two fox cubs with the blunt end of an axe before they were picked up by hounds.
Image source, PAFormer hounds master with the South Herefordshire hunt, Paul Oliver, denies claims that he "fed" live foxes to his hounds in May 2016 after keeping them in a cage.
Giving evidence in the second week of his trial, the 40-year-old of Sutton Crosses, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, said he had rehomed two cubs and decided to kill them due to an impending government inspection.
"I didn't think it was right to have them on the property," he said.
"I decided to get rid of them and kill them. I didn't think they would survive if they were just left alone."
Oliver is standing trial alongside his partner, Hannah Rose, and Nathan Parry, who also deny causing unnecessary suffering to the cubs.
A 95-year-old D-Day veteran has been speaking in Bayeux, where commemorations are taking place to mark the 75th anniversary of the landings.
Frank Baugh described how he was a signalman on a landing craft that took 200 troops from 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry to Sword beach.
He said: "My most abiding memory of that day is of seeing our boys. We had been talking to them minutes before they were cut down with machine gun fire."
Image source, PAHe continued: "They would fall into the water, floating face down, and we couldn't get them out. We couldn't help them and that is my most abiding memory and I can't forget it."
MPs are set to debate the working hours of local bus drivers - prompted by the deaths of two people in a crash at a supermarket.
Kailash Chander, then aged 77, smashed into a Sainsbury's in Coventry in 2015. A trial heard he had worked more than 70 hours in a week.
Rowan Fitzgerald, seven, and Dora Hancox, 76, died when the bus crashed in Trinity Street.
Image source, West Midlands Ambulance ServiceLabour MP for Leamington and Warwick, Matt Western, who called the debate, said encountering a driver "too tired to be on the roads has the potential to be fatal – particularly if driving is their job and they work incredibly long hours".
"At present, it is completely legal for local bus drivers to drive an eye-watering 130 hours over two weeks," he said, "because local bus drivers are not subject to the same regulations as lorry or long-distance bus drivers."
He tweeted today, external that fatigue could be "the difference between life and death".
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Shrewsbury Town's former goalkeeping coach Danny Coyne has said the decision not to offer him a new deal "came as a great shock".
The former Welsh international keeper, who has twice stood in as caretaker-manager at Shrewsbury, was released by the current boss Sam Ricketts, who is building a new management team.
Image source, Getty ImagesCoyne said he could understand the decision and leaves on good terms with the club, but would have liked the opportunity to say goodbye to the fans at the end of the season and said in a statement "Shrewsbury is a lovely place where I have made many great friends".
It was announced earlier this week that Graham Barrow, Ricketts's number two at his previous club, Wrexham, was being brought in as his assistant.
Organisers of the Kenilworth Show, external say they're looking for a new venue for next year's event because Stoneleigh Park will be unavailable.
Work on HS2 is due to cut through the site next year.
Image source, GoogleMore than 12,000 people are expected at the agricultural show this weekend.