The new home secretary says she wants to "reset the relationship" between police and the government.

A fundraising event has brought in more than £11,000 for a woman diagnosed with a brain tumour after going for an eye test.

Christel Callow, 26, from Shropshire, was found to have a tumour the size of a tennis ball.

Although most of it was removed through surgery, she is now raising £62,000 for proton beam therapy, which she said would target what is left more effectively than radiotherapy.

Friends organised an event at Shifnal War Memorial on Saturday in a bid to help boost her fundraising total, and say it generated donations of more than £11,000.

It is in addition to more than £28,000 which has been donated online since the appeal was launched at the end of last month.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a father-of-two, who was stabbed to death in the street.

Dale Grice, 32, died at the scene after the attack outside a property on Cooksey Lane in Birmingham's Kingstanding area on Saturday.

Construction worker, Ravinder Heer, 37, of Pimpernell Drive in Walsall, is charged with murder.

At Birmingham Magistrates' Court today he was remanded in custody and next set to appear at the crown court on Wednesday.

The opening of Birmingham's Primark earlier this year has helped the retailer boost its sales, with full-year results expected to be 4% ahead of last year.

Like-for-like sales are actually 2% down, but parent company Associated British Foods said the opening of an extra 14 stores across the world had made the difference.

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The World's largest Primark opened in Birmingham in April, covering 161,000 sq ft over five floors and employing almost 1,000 staff.

The results to some extent buck the trend with retailers enduring a torrid time in the last few years.

Coventry Live

Some of the Coventry Live headlines today are:

• Man suffers suspected life changing injuries in A46 smash, external
• Two teenage boys 'stabbed with scissors and screwdriver', external
• The toughest schools to get into in Coventry and Warwickshire revealed, external

Traffic is now running past the scene of a crash on the M6 northbound involving several vehicles.

One lane remains closed after the crash at J10.

There's currently congestion back to J7, Great Barr.

The MP for Stourbridge, Margot James has said she can't envisage being restored to the Conservative party under the government's current Brexit policy.

The former cabinet minister was one of 21 Tory rebels expelled from the party last week after voting against the government on Brexit.

She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the prime minister's top aide Dominic Cummings was "a deeply malevolent force".

Ms James, who lost the party whip after defying the government over Brexit last week, said Mr Cummings was "somebody who wants to crash everything to get what he wants".

BBC News Travel

A crash involving multiple vehicles is blocking two lanes of the M6 northbound close to Walsall.

Congestion is heavy with queues building, said Highways England.

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Worcester News

The Worcester News' top stories today include:

• Roadwork delays blamed for heavy city centre traffic, external
• Cemetery applies for planning permission 14 years after opening, external

• Call for cyclists to help preserve ancient churches, external

BBC News England

A father from Worcester, who travelled to Ukraine to confront the man he blames for his daughter's death, says he will continue in his fight to get justice.

Doug Shipsey's 21-year-old daughter Bethany, from Worcester, died after taking an overdose of diet pills containing dinitrophenol (DNP) in 2017.

The BBC's Adina Campbell accompanied him to Ukraine, where it's not illegal to produce or sell DNP. He wanted to confront the man who he believed sold her the drugs online.

DNP is a highly toxic substance widely available online, but in the UK it's illegal to sell for human consumption.

Dale Grice died outside a property in Birmingham early on Saturday.

A man who today admitted running down a police officer was responsible for a "sickening" attack, prosecutors have said.

PC Gareth Phillips, 42, suffered potentially life-changing injuries after he stopped a suspected stolen car on Moorcroft Road, Moseley, Birmingham in August.

He was later struck by a police car and at one point was pinned underneath it.

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Mubashar Hussain, 29, formerly of Sherwood Road, Hall Green, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm as well as a string of other offences at Birmingham Crown Court today.

He is due to be sentenced next month.

Speaking after the plea, the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement Hussain ran over PC Phillips’ chest with both front and rear passenger side wheels before he made off.

It said Hussain also knocked over and injured three other police officers with his "only thought" to "ensure his escape".

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BBC Hereford and Worcester

The father of Worcestershire cricketer Moeen Ali says England could have regained the Ashes if they'd kept his son in the team.

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Australia won by 185 runs yesterday to give the home side no chance of taking back the urn as they can only now draw the series.

Moeen was dropped by England last month after the first Test and took a short break from cricket.

But he returned to Worcestershire and, over the weekend, struck 121 off just 60 balls to power the Pears to the T20 Blast Finals Day.

Kidderminster Shuttle

The Kidderminster Shuttle's headlines today include:

• Man seriously injured after car crash into wall in Bewdley, external
• Scheme launched to reform dangerous drivers, external
• New bus for Kidderminster charity to help lonely people make friends, external

Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Crewe Alexandra goalkeeper Dave Richards says saving a penalty in their win over Grimsby has given him a huge boost in confidence.

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The home side would have taken the lead in the first half if the spot kick hadn't been saved.

The Alex then took the lead almost immediately after half-time through Tom Lowery and Charlie Kirk added a second in stoppage time.

A man has denied dangerous driving after a crash that closed the M5 motorway.

Wayne Smith, 27, of Tamworth, was arrested after a crash near Clevedon, North Somerset, on 5 August.

Smith also faces charges in connection with events in Staffordshire earlier in the day.

At Stafford Crown Court, he also denied false imprisonment, assault by beating, sexual assault, cruelty to a person aged under 16 and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

He will appear at the same court for trial on 27 January.

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A second Coventry Labour MP has announced he won't be standing for re-election.

Jim Cunningham, who represents Coventry South, said "the time has come to hand over the baton to someone new".

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The 78-year-old said it had been an "honour" to be MP since 1992 but the "current uncertainty in politics and "ongoing speculation about a snap general election" had led him to decide to stand down.

His decision follows Coventry North West's Geoffrey Robinson's in July to also decide not to stand for re-election, citing ill-health in his case.

BBC Weather Watchers

Wet, grey and miserable - pretty much sums up the weather this morning but that hasn't stopped our local BBC Weather Watchers getting out and taking photos.

These three autumnal scenes are from users Dawn Treader in Congleton, Cheshire, Step Counter in Hereford and Les at Large in Wolverhampton:

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Birmingham Live

Some of the Birmingham Live headlines today include:

• Mercedes rammed off drive as thieves steal £82k Range Rover, external
• Murder victim named as dad-of-two with 'infectious smile' as man, 37, charged, external
• Three children among five taken to hospital after serious Belgrave Middleway crash, external

The 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to serve more than six years in a young offenders institution.