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Timothy Evans was jailed after encouraging the girl to reveal intimate parts of her body.
Read MoreDetectives investigating the murder of a man in Stoke-on-Trent have released a photo of a potential witness they want to trace.
Anas Chergat died in the early hours of last Friday (23 August) after suffering stab injuries in Josiah Wedgwood Street, Etruria.
Staffordshire Police said the woman was not being treated as a suspect.
Image source, Staffordshire PoliceThe force said the woman, believed to have been wearing running leggings, was in the area of Josiah Wedgwood Street and Clough Street on the evening of Thursday 22 August.
The kittens are given names after characters from Fireman Sam in honour of their recovery.
Read MoreWolves will take on Besiktas, Braga and Slovan Bratislava in Group K on their return to Europe.
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Manchester United face a 6,000-mile round trip to play Astana in Kazakhstan, and will also take on Partizan Belgrade and AJ Alkmaar.
Arsenal, who lost to Chelsea in last season's final, have drawn Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard Liege and Vitoria.
Celtic will face Lazio, while Rangers are in a tough group with Porto.
The engineering firm TSP Projects employs 400 people across five sites in the UK.
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BBC Sport
Former Wasps player Christian Wade will find out tomorrow whether he's earned his dream place on an American football roster.
His team, the Buffalo Bills, is due to announce who will be in its 53-man squad for the new NFL season at 21:00 BST.
Image source, Getty ImagesHe has been playing as a running back and featured in the Bills' pre-season win over the Minnesota Vikings last night, rushing for 15 yards and gaining another seven as a receiver.
If he fails to make the cut, Wade will be allowed to remain with the Bills' practice squad to continue his training, because he came to the NFL through a scheme set up to develop players from outside the United States.
He said: "I've done everything I can to make it. If I do, it'd be absolutely incredible because the support I've got back home is huge - from rugby fans, football fans, my family and friends."
Ben Godfrey
BBC Midlands Today
A charity which fights hunger and food waste says it has provided 1,500 meals a week over the summer holidays to children across the West Midlands.
FareShare is supplying food to 35 holiday projects and camps.
It says for parents of children who normally receive free school meals, the summer can be a really difficult time - and their figures reveal a "glaring need".
You can see more on this story on Midlands Today on BBC One at 13:30.
Police uniform used to remind Jack Smith of when his sister died from sudden infant death syndrome.
Read MoreLeague One side Coventry City sign Reading defender Tennai Watson on loan until 2 January.
Read MoreStaff at a Tesco Express in Hereford were threatened with a knife by two masked robbers yesterday.
West Mercia Police said it happened just after 22:00 at the store on Holme Lacey Road.
Image source, GoogleTesco said no staff were hurt and the offenders made off with cash and several bottles of alcohol, which were later recovered.
Police have arrested two boys aged 15 and 16 in connection with the robbery and have seized a knife.
The pair are in police custody.
Firefighters on a hi-tech hunt for a litter of kittens have found the feline quintet whose outdoors welfare had been a cause of public concern.
Initially, thermal imaging cameras were used by the Oldbury crew to try to find the cats who had been reported to be living on waste ground in Bearwood.
The cameras didn't pick up the kittens, but working with charity Cats Protection, firefighters eventually found them in a nearby shed; coaxing them out so they could be checked over.
Image source, Oldbury Fire ServiceThey were answering a social media call to help rescue the litter.
After being looked over by a vet, the five - Steele, Elvis, Boyce, Sam and Penny - are in the care of a charity volunteer, and will eventually be available for adoption.
The charity said volunteers were working on bringing in the stray mother cat, who would be neutered before being found a safe place to live.
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Protesters tell parents that relationship education lessons will encourage children to masturbate.
Read MoreA man with serious facial injuries is at the centre of a police kidnapping investigation.
Specialist officers were called at about 12:45 yesterday following concerns for the welfare of a man on Leswell Street, Kidderminster, amid reports he'd been dumped there.
Image source, GoogleWest Mercia Police said the man in his 20s was taken to hospital, but has since been discharged.
Bomb disposal experts say a grenade found in a Ludlow attic yesterday afternoon wasn't in danger of exploding.
West Mercia Police said it was called to a house in New Street at 13:00 after a man found the grenade stored in a box there.
Image source, GoogleThe building was cordoned off, but the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team concluded the casing was empty at 15:00.
BBC Radio Stoke Sport
Gareth Southgate has been explaining why he left Stoke City's Jack Butland out of his latest England squad.
Butland conceded 10 goals in his first four Championship games this season before making way for Adam Federici against Leeds.
Southgate said: "There's no hiding from the fact that it's a difficult period for him."
Image source, Getty ImagesThe England boss said he had called Butland to offer his support and added he hoped the penalty Butland scored in the cup win over Leeds would boost his confidence.
But he added "at this moment in time it's clear that guys who are playing in the Premier League and are playing well have the advantage".
From the Coventry Observer:
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Meat from animals killed and stripped of their meat in fields is potentially being sold illegally to restaurants and shops, a union has warned.
In Warwickshire, 113 sheep have been reported as butchered in fields this year, with a further 74 reported stolen from farms.
The NFU's James Peck said the crimes were unprecedented and were being carried out by a gang of organised criminals "who appear to have an operation with an outlet" to sell the meat.
He added there was a "real risk to human health" from eating meat from carcasses that had not been processed in a licensed abattoir.
"We'd ask people to avoid it like the plague," he said.
There's some wet weather forecast this weekend, but it's dry enough so far this morning for the BBC Weather Watchers to be out walking.
These pictures were taken near Southam, Leek and Edgmond.
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