Awards in honour of the late University of Warwick manufacturing professor Lord Bhattacharyya are being set up with the aim of encouraging young people into engineering.

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The announcement was made in the Commons this lunchtime by the Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark.

Mr Clark praised Kumar Bhattacharyya and said a prize of £25,000 a year will be given to a team who show how industry and universities can work together.

And the Bhattacharyya engineering inclusion programme will make 80 bursaries a year available for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The founder of Warwick Manufacturing Group, a man who "encouraged many firms to locate in Britain", died in March.

Anthony Grant must train with Shrewsbury's youth team after being banished from the first team for the season for "in house" reasons.

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A B&Q Extra store in Crewe has been bought for £23.3m by Cheshire East Council.

The authority will continue to lease the building to the DIY company and said it bought the site in March.

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The council said it will now earn an income from the building and it was part of a long-term strategy to find new sources of income.

The mayor of Bridgnorth, Jean Onions, has died, the town council has announced.

Her deputy, Ron Whittle described her as a "true entrepreneur".

"She could be fierce and, I am pleased to say, did not suffer fools. But on the other hand she had a soft heart and would defend friends and those in need with great tenacity," he said.

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Mrs Onions took up the role earlier this year but passed away on Monday, after a "lengthy illness" the authority said.

Misinformation over LGBT teaching in schools is "vast and in danger of spreading," a Commons debate has heard.

It follows an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme into demonstrations outside Parkfield School and others in Birmingham over the teaching of same-sex relationships.

It's feared demonstrations could spread across the country - with some calling for Government help for schools to overcome parental opposition.

The Education Minister, Nick Gibb, told the Commons the government is trying to achieve a consensus with parents - but the schools need to take charge.

"Ultimately it is a matter for the school itself to decide on the curriculum - and when the school has decided on what it wants to teach and when it will have the full support and back of the Department for Education."

But Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, Angela Rayner, said the issue was "not about consultation".

"It's about LGBT and the misinformation that's being given out and the bigotry that's being displayed by some minorities on our streets," she told the debate.

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A £10,000 reward is being offered for the return of silverware stolen from the University of Sussex, in Brighton.

The objects, which include two chalices by the sculptor Hans Coper, were taken from the University's sacristy, and are worth £100,000.

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The objects were taken after locked doors and containers were forced open at the sacristy in Falmer, sometime between 13:50 and 14:20 GMT on 7 December.

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Detectives believe the thief may have connections with Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Wiltshire.

A CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to has been released.

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Jamie Lee Sawyer, 20, was swamped by waves and drowned off the coast of Cyprus in March 2015.

Jurors have retired to consider a verdict in the trial of a driver accused of targeting cyclists and police outside the Houses of Parliament.

Salih Khater, 30, is accused of aiming his car at members of the public before swerving towards police officers in Parliament Square, in a deliberate attack.

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The Old Bailey trial heard him claim to have travelled from his Birmingham home to the capital to visit the Sudanese embassy but got lost.

He denies two charges of attempted murder and alternative counts of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.

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A cemetery closed at night because of concerns about drug-dealing and underage drinking is going to open earlier.

The Red Lake Garden of Rest had been closed from 20:00 until 10:00 after concerns were raised with the police, but it will now open at 08:00, with the gates left half-open to let in pedestrians, but not vehicles.

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Simon Harmer takes 6-75 as Essex beat Warwickshire by 188 runs at Chelmsford to go top of the Division One table.

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The author who created the How To Train Your Dragon series is backing campaigners who want to prevent homes being built near an iron age hillfort.

Cressida Cowell, recently named the new Children's Laureate, said she used monuments like the 3,000-year old Shropshire hillfort as an inspiration for her work.

She visited the Oswestry site two years ago before writing her latest book, The Wizards of Once.

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"Sites such as Old Oswestry Hillfort are an irreplaceable part of our history, and part of the shared cultural heritage of generations to come," she said.

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Campaign group Hands Of Old Oswestry Hillfort is opposing a planning application by Galliers Homes to build 120 houses within 300m of the site.

Old Oswestry was built and occupied during the Iron Age (800 BC to AD 43) and is one of the best-preserved hillforts in Britain, according to English Heritage.

One resident estimates flames of up to 20ft at the site in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Flames reached as high as 20ft according to one witness.

A man and a woman have been seriously hurt in the crash which happened after a police operation.

The family of a soldier who drowned during a training exercise has settled a claim against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for £500,000.

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Jamie Lee Sawyer from Birmingham died during a British Army-led kayak training exercise off the coast of Cyprus on 12 March, 2015.

His vessel was swamped by waves up to 2.5 metres (8ft) high.

The failure to take account of a weather forecast warning of high winds and thunder storms contributed to the drowning, a coroner ruled in 2017.

His mother, Tracey, 47, brought the legal action against the MoD.

At a hearing in London, the court heard the MoD had agreed to settle her claim in the sum of £535,000, with the MoD admitting liability for her son's death.

It will take six minutes to shuttle travellers between the new HS2 interchange station in Solihull and Birmingham Airport, HS2 Ltd has said., external

Driverless vehicles will travel along a 2.3km (1.4 miles) raised viaduct and will also stop at the NEC and Birmingham International.

The viaduct will stand 12m (39ft) above the ground at its highest point.

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There will be services every three minutes, with the capacity to carry 2,100 passengers an hour in each direction.

The first images of what the automated transport link could look like were released on Tuesday.

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Plans will be available at public drop-in sessions this week, external, ahead of a formal planning application being submitted to Solihull Council in the autumn.

A motorbike crash in Hagley on Sunday, which left a teenager in hospital, has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

West Mercia Police referred itself because it had been called out to reports of speeding cars on the A456 at 21:50.

The crash happened a short time later.

The crash involved a motorbike which had been part of a gathering and the passenger, an 18-year-old woman, was seriously injured when it collided with a traffic island.

West Mercia Police said it wasn't pursuing the motorbike and wasn't directly involved in the crash.

Support staff walk out for two days following "failed negotiations over fair pay", a union says.

A security guard was assaulted and cash stolen during a raid near a bank in Shirley.

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The guard suffered injuries to his hand during the robbery outside HSBC on Stratford Road, earlier.

It is not yet known how much was taken, said West Midlands Police.

Support staff at the University of Birmingham are taking strike action in a row over pay and conditions.

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Caterers, cleaners, security guards and other staff who are members of Unison are taking two days of industrial action.

The union says senior managers have refused to negotiate over fair pay and have and imposed a below-inflation pay rise of 2%.

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The University of Birmingham said a "very small number" of staff were involved in the industrial action and it remains "business as usual on campus."

“The University has met a number of times with Unison and the other support staff unions over the last week in order to try to bring an end to the action and made an extensive offer around pay and the voluntary Living Wage," it added.