'Hair chair' artist says creation is 'a bit itchy'published at 16:03 British Summer Time 28 June 2019
Reaction has been "positive" to the seat made from barbers' off-cuts - and back hair from a friend.
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Reaction has been "positive" to the seat made from barbers' off-cuts - and back hair from a friend.
Read More'Heartbreak' for 'distraught' pupils midway through GCSE and A-level courses.
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The RMT union says it is preparing to ballot for the first national rail strike since privatisation more than 20 years ago.
It says it has written to transport secretary Chris Grayling, the industry's regulator, all the train operating companies and the Rail Delivery Group to spell out that if there is a move to impose reductions in future pension benefits, or significantly increase member contributions, it will take the "necessary action" to defend pensions.
Mick Cash, general secretary, said: "If it takes the first national rail strike in a generation to defend our members pensions then so be it".
A scheme to feed hungry children in Stoke-on-Trent over the summer holidays proved so popular that it ran out of food.
Read MoreThe letter warns debit cards could combust due to a fault in a factory in "Molton Keynes".
Read MoreOur BBC Weather Watchers have been basking in the sun this morning across the West Midlands.
We have more photos of brilliant blue skies, this time from users Foggy in Ludlow, Shropshire, Sarahlou86 in Stone, Staffordshire and Custard Lodge in Pershore, Worcestershire:
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Boots has announced it is to close 200 stores across the UK.
It is not clear at the moment which stores will be affected, but they are expected to be local pharmacy branches where there are other stores nearby,
It is also unclear how many jobs will be affected, but Boots said it would find new roles for staff where possible.
A man has been taken to hospital after being hit by a bus in Coventry this morning.
His injuries weren't suspected to be serious, said the ambulance service, after the incident on Ironmonger Row in the city centre at about 11:30.
Kristian O'Hara, 32, was jailed for six years for the manslaughter of Mohammed Faisal outside a bar.
Read MoreFunding worth £31.6m is to be spent to boost Coventry's "cultural identity and reputation" before its tenure as City of Culture 2021.
Street lighting and cycle links will be created with other improvements to the roads and canal tow paths.
The city originally applied for £61.6m from the West Midlands Combined Authority, however in light of "availability within the timescales required" it has been reduced.
About £6.4m will be spent on leisure facilities in the city across seven different sites including the area around new water park, The Wave.
About £2m will be spent on improving the area around the Pool Meadow bus station and White Street.
A lorry fire on the M6 in Warwickshire has been extinguished says Highways England.
Two lanes of three are still closed with seven miles of queuing traffic in the area.
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MPs want an inquiry into 'missing' money destined to hep feed the poorest children
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A food supplier linked to a listeria outbreak says it is to go into liquidation, with the loss of 125 jobs, just two days after being told it could restart production.
On Wednesday, the Food Standards Agency said the Good Food Chain in Stone, Staffordshire, was no longer part of its investigation into the source of the outbreak, which has been linked to the deaths of five hospital patients.
The company had voluntarily ceased manufacturing on 5 June but today said that move had been "too great for the business to remain viable".
BBC News Travel
There are still long delays on the M6 southbound near Coventry this afternoon as emergency services deal with a lorry fire between J3A and J3.
Highways England said congestion was back to the M42 junction and average speeds past the scene are just 5mph., external
People in a small aircraft have escaped serious injuries after it crash landed in a field of potatoes.
Hereford and Worcester Fire Service said the small aircraft came down yesterday at the farm near the runway at Shobdon, near Leominster, Herefordshire., external
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A man has been arrested after a resident snapped a photo of a burglar he disturbed at his home, police said. , external
Staffordshire Police said the householder had arrived home on Heath Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, yesterday afternoon and found the intruder.
A 29-year-old man from the town's been arrested on suspicion of burglary and is in custody.
BBC Shropshire
A nurse forced to twice halt her attempt to swim the length of the River Severn is hoping to finish it tomorrow.
Earlier this month, Melissa Compton, an intensive care nurse at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, started the 220-mile challenge in Wales at the river's source.
Since then, she's had to stop in Shropshire after the river burst its banks in heavy rain and then she was hospitalised this week after "swallowing sewage".
Ms Compton was back in the water yesterday and reached Gloucester,, external not far from her finishing point at Severn Beach in the Bristol Channel.
BBC News Travel
A lane's shut on the M6 near Coventry this afternoon due to a lorry fire.
Highways England said the blaze, external between J3A and J3 was producing "considerable amounts of smoke".
A woman who pushed a toddler in a pushchair into the middle of a busy road while attempting to steal a mobile phone has been jailed
Anne-Marie Cadette launched the "shocking" attack on a 29-year-old mum as she pushed her 22-month-old son along Coventry Road, Birmingham in May, police said.
The 38-year-old from the Small Heath area of the city attempted to snatch the mobile phone, before lunging for shopping bags from the back of the stroller, officers said.
She was sentenced to three years and four months at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to attempted robbery.