Louise Porton murdered her two young daughters after they "got in the way" of her sex life, prosecutors said.

During her trial, jurors heard how Porton did not seem distressed by her daughters' deaths.

She admitted sending nude photographs to a photographer and offering sex acts in return for money while Lexi was in hospital in early January.

The day after Lexi's death, on 16 January, Porton accepted 41 friend requests on the dating app Meet Me and was also messaging men on another app, Badoo.

She also arranged a date with a man named Leon that night and was overheard laughing in a funeral parlour days after Lexi died.

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The judge told the court Porton had "no medical history or mental disorder that goes any way to explaining what happened in this case".

She added: "One way or another you squeezed the life out of each of your daughters, only calling the emergency services when you knew they were dead."

The murder of two children at the hands of their mother has been described by a judge as "evil" and "calculated".

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Louise Porton of Skiddaw, Rugby, was found guilty of murdering Lexi Draper, three, and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan at Birmingham Crown Court and today she was jailed for a minimum of 32 years.

Jailing the 23-year-old Mrs Justice Yip said: "These were blameless young children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them.

"Instead you took their young lives away."

Women's Super League side Birmingham City sign former Everton Ladies forward Lucy Whipp.

A mother found guilty of murdering her two young children 18 days apart has been jailed for a minimum of 32 years.

Louise Porton killed Lexi Draper, three, and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan in Rugby in 2018.

The part-time model had denied murder but was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday.

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Coventry Live

Some of the Coventry Live headlines today are:

• Killer mum facing sentence over murder of two daughters, external
• Jaguar Land Rover pays tribute to biker who died in crash, external
• Shoplifter 'forced into crime by Universal Credit', external

Number plate recognition cameras are being installed across Staffordshire, in a bid to help police tackle crime.

There will be 47 of the cameras, but Staffordshire Police won't say where they will be located.

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The force says the cameras are very effective at tracking travelling criminals, as well as helping find missing people.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Auditors have refused to sign off the annual accounts for Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, after discovering "fairly big errors" in the authority’s financial data.

Grant Thornton told councillors it had discovered an increased pension liability of £2.3m, and concerns about the valuation of some properties.

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The auditors said one of the issues had been the retirement of a senior council finance officer, who had been doing the job for five decades and held a lot of information "in his head".

BBC Weather Watchers

It was a misty start for some of the BBC Weather Watchers looking at some of the pictures uploaded today.

These images were taken in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Kings Norton, and Lydbury North in Shropshire.

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Shropshire Star

Here are three of the top stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Seventeen children left Shropshire A&E without being seen, external
• Hospital trust boss says no plans to shut Telford A&E, external
• Plea for action over Shropshire road deaths, external

A delivery driver caused chaos on the M6 in Birmingham after repeatedly crashing, a video shows.

CCTV shows the red van swerving between lanes, hitting a number of vehicles.

Driver Awil Hayow eventually parked on the hard shoulder before being arrested.

The 34-year-old of no fixed address has admitted dangerous driving, failing to give a specimen and obstructing a police constable. He is set to be sentenced on 13 August.

Emergency departments in Shropshire are still failing to keep people safe, says the CQC.

BBC News Travel

A train has broken down on the west coast mainline between Crewe and Stafford

It means delays of up to an hour, and some cancellations on Virgin Trains southbound.

Tickets are being accepted on West Midlands services.

A hospital managing director has warned drug supplies could be hit if we leave the EU without a deal.

Jane Ives, from the Wye Valley NHS Trust, said there was "a lot of concern" about their availability after 31 October, but explained she had been told not to stockpile drugs, because that could cause more problems for the system.

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The trust runs the Hereford County Hospital, community hospitals in Leominster, Bromyard and Ross-on-Wye, as well as other health services in Herefordshire.

Ms Ives said pharmacies "are having to work very hard to find alternative sources of drugs that have run out."

She added that a number of nurses had also returned to Europe ahead of Brexit.

Yesterday the Home Secretary and Bromsgrove MP, Sajid Javid announced that £2.1bn would be set aside for things like more border force officers and the stockpiling of medicines.

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Port Vale's new winger, David Amoo, has the ability and the pace to become a fans' favourite, manager John Askey has said.

He added: "I think everyone's excited to see what he can do. Hopefully he can keep performing as he's done pre-season."

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Askey did concede "he needs to score more goals", but said they would work to help him achieve that.

Actor Cillian Murphy has helped curate the first official Peaky Blinders-themed festival, set to take place in Birmingham in September.

It's been put together by creator and writer Steven Knight who said he wanted to put together a festival sanctioned by the show's makers, after an unofficial event last year.

It will feature live music from Mercury Prize nominees Anna Calvi, who has worked on the score for the forthcoming series, Nadine Shah and Primal Scream.

The event will see 200 actors recreate Peaky Blinders scenes live in the historic streets, warehouses and factories of Digbeth

The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival will be held in Birmingham, where the show is set, on 14-15 September.

Chancellor Sajid Javid has written to HM Revenue and Customs, telling it to make preparing for a no-deal Brexit its "absolute top priority".

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The Bromsgrove MP ordered the tax authority to help the public prepare for a no-deal - including with a business helpline and contacting traders directly.

It comes as the government ramps up preparations, after pledging to leave the EU on 31 October "deal or no deal".

HMRC said it has already been preparing for and prioritising Brexit.

Birmingham Live

Some of the Birmingham Live headlines today are:

• Official Peaky Blinders Festival coming to Digbeth Arena , external
• 'Pure luck no-one was killed' - M6 chaos as van driver goes on rampage, external
• Miracle escape as car hurtles into front garden and overturns , external

It's the last chance to have your say on plans for a radical overhaul of the Perry Barr road network, external ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

The area is set to host the athletes village and after 2022 that will be replaced by a major housing development.

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The proposals would see the A34 fly-over demolished, replaced by a dual carriageway on ground level.

A bus lane and cycle route will also be introduced on the southbound side and the existing cycle route would be extended.

A roundabout would be demolished and replaced by a crossroads and pedestrian crossings.

The consultation closes today, external.

More sanctions have been imposed on accident and emergency departments in Shrewsbury and Telford after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

A CQC report said too many patients were waiting too long to be seen and that some children were leaving without being given an appropriate clinical assessment.

It also said there was insufficient protection for patients with mental health issues.

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As a result of April's inspections, the CQC has told the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust to implement an effective system to assess all children presenting at its emergency departments within 15 minutes of arrival.

It also has to ensure it has the right mix of staff on duty and provide weekly updates detailing the progress it has made on these new conditions.

Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, which is currently rated as Inadequate overall, said it has made a series of "significant improvements"since the inspection, including the recruitment of more staff.

And it said: "Our workforce remains a major issue for us, but we are making some progress in this area."

Overcrowding in prisons is fueling violence, a charity is warning.

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The Howard League for Penal Reform said three in five men's prisons were holding more inmates than allowed.

Jails where high numbers of overcrowding raised concerns include G4S-run Oakwood in Wolverhampton and HMP Birmingham.

Howard League Chief Executive Frances Crook said: "Keeping thousands of men cooped up like battery hens in overcrowded cells is never going to help them to lead crime-free lives on release".