A police officer has been injured in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry.

The neighbourhood officer was struck as he attempted to stop a car in Holbrooks Lane, in Radford, just after 14:45, West Midlands Police said.

The vehicle then fled from the scene, the force said, leaving the officer with head and leg injuries.

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Ch Supt Mike O'Hara, from Coventry Police, urged the driver to "do the right thing" and contact the force.

"It is completely unacceptable for a police officer to be injured in the line of duty," he said.

"He has been taken to hospital for treatment and we await further updates on his injuries.

"We will be offering the officer and his family our full support."

The vehicle was later recovered a short distance away from the scene.

BBC Business News

Luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda has raised £120m from a bond issue today.

The Gaydon-based firm has the option to raise another £80m if order targets are met, to bolster its cash in a uncertain trading environment.

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Shares in James Bond's favourite vehicle maker have dropped 3.24% this morning.

Birmingham Live

Here are some of the stories featuring on the Birmingham Mail website today:

• Mum collapsed and died after watching relatives fight in her front garden, external
• Child rapist who put victim through three years of hell, external is jailed
• Birmingham's Christmas Market at the cathedral , externalis not returning for 2019

West Midlands Police has been tweeting pictures, external of some bad parking in parts of Birmingham today, earning several drivers a £200 fine and three points on their licences.

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Rain and sodden outfields causes major disruption in the County Championship once again on Wednesday.

Sgt Stephen Shaw, 46, sent an indecent photo to an undercover colleague posing as a 12-year-old girl.

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM

Birmingham City Council has announced it will remove more than 60 CCTV cameras across the city.

The local authority says the cameras no longer meet Home Office guidance, but that it’s committed to making sure public safety is still a priority.

Up to 62 will be decommissioned out of the 197 CCTV cameras that make up its community safety network from November onwards, after a review of their positioning and efficiency.

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They were either out of date technologically, or were situated in areas of low crime and anti-social behaviour, and are no longer justifiable under new surveillance laws.

There will still be 250 cameras in operation across the city that form part of other schemes - and any money saved will go back into measures to protect the public - including eight new portable CCTV units, the local authority says.

A wing taken over by inmates who attacked HMP Long Lartin officers with pool balls is reclaimed.

BBC Radio Stoke Sport

The Port Vale manager John Askey has said getting Manny Oyeleke back on the pitch adds strength to their midfield.

Oyeleke has missed a number of games with a hamstring injury and last night's win at Macclesfield was his first since the second weekend of the season.

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Askey praised his physical qualities and said: "He's able to keep the ball, he's very strong when he's got the ball and it just gives us another option."

Stoke-on-Trent Live

Here are three of the stories appearing on the Stoke-on-Trent Live website today:

• Four injured after being shot near park, external
• Sex beast repeatedly raped schoolgirl, external
• Couple race to reorganise big day , externalafter Thomas Cook collapse

Local Democracy Reporting Service
David Lawrence

Stratford-on-Avon District Council is working on a Brexit Impact Assessment around farming and agriculture, officials say, despite criticism that no plan is in place.

Councillor Nigel Rock, Lib Dem for Napton and Fenny Compton, questioned why there was no mention of an assessment in the latest audit committee briefing.

“I believe the government requires us to do one and I can’t see it anywhere on the council’s website, so where is it?," he asked at Monday's audit and standards committee meeting.

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Interim chief executive David Buckland said the authority was working closely with the National Farmers’ Union ahead of the October Brexit deadline.

“We have done work within the management team to look at a number of issues and our website has a lot of information to help residents and businesses," he says.

“We have declared an action plan that we are working through and I can provide that at the next meeting."

A two-day-a-week doctors surgery in the village of High Ercall could come to an end because of concerns the service may be unsafe, because it has no defibrillator, drugs or nurses.

Shawbury Medical Practice currently sends a doctor to High Ercall every Tuesday and Friday afternoon.

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The practice said any closure would need to be ratified by clinical commissioners, while home visits and the medicine delivery service would continue.

Tom Symonds
Home Affairs Correspondent

Work to stop children and vulnerable young people being exploited by drugs gangs and traffickers is often "weak" and "may not be making a difference" according to one of the country’s most senior police officers.

Simon Bailey, national lead for child protection, has been telling a conference in Birmingham that police and social services were failing to work closely enough with those at risk and the problem threatened "the fabric of society itself".

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He says "diversionary activity" and mentoring schemes were not well designed and were not being properly evaluated. He described the exploitation of vulnerable people as the "greatest challenge the police service, the public sector and society faces today".

Mr Bailey was speaking at the first national conference aimed at improving the response to exploitation in a variety of forms, including drug gangs, modern slavery, and domestic violence.

He warned that: "Unless we stem this explosion of exploitation we will become so overwhelmed, I fear that the fabric of society itself will be damaged beyond repair."

Some of the holidaymakers returning to the UK after the collapse of Thomas Cook are landing at Birmingham airport today.

They include a number of passengers who left from other airports, as this Liverpool taxi firm pointed out.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the House of Commons that some 2,300 holidaymakers repatriated have had to come back to the wrong airport.

He said they had been given free onward travel.

In all, the government's repatriation programme is expected to cost £100m as some 150,000 people stranded abroad are brought home.

An agreement between the chief officers of the Warwickshire and West Mercia police forces, to protect services during their break-up is being interpreted in different ways by the two forces.

They are in talks to decide how services will be provided after they end their "strategic alliance" and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Warwickshire, Philip Seccombe (below right), says the declaration of intent signed last month is an understanding between the two forces that police services will continue as they are until negotiations are complete.

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But in a statement, West Mercia PCC John Campion (above left) and Chief Constable Anthony Bangham says "it does not guarantee any continued service provision beyond 8 October" and that any collaboration beyond that date would need another agreement.

"To date all offers made by West Mercia have been rejected," the statement says.

BBC Sport

There will be no play today in Worcestershire's match against Sussex at Hove.

The umpires met to inspect the pitch and decided the outfield was still to wet to play on.

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They're hoping to be back for the final game of the match, and the season, tomorrow.

MP Jess Phillips says she hopes to help push through legislation to protect victims of domestic abuse now MPs have returned following yesterday's Supreme Court ruling.

The Women's Aid charity had said it feared "months of hard work" on the government's "vital" Domestic Abuse Bill could be "thrown out" with the parliamentary shutdown and a new Queen's Speech.

"Now the justices have done us a favour and the bill is back on the books, I'll be working to make sure cross-examination by perpetrators in the family courts can no longer go on in our country," she says.

She hopes the bill can be progressed as far as possible "so if Parliament falls again for whatever reason... it can just be restarted".

BBC WM Sport

Wolves winger Adama Traore says the players have to be prepared to play through a congested fixture list, if they want to win things.

They continue their busy schedule with a league cup tie at home to Reading tonight and Traore said: "This means less time to recover, less time with your family, it means less time with everything, but if you want to be at the top it has to be like this, so this is our job and I love my job."

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Wolves are scheduled to play six games in September and have a bottom-of-the-table match against Watford on Saturday.

BBC Weather Watchers

There are some great photos from our BBC Weather Watchers today, including these views of Wolston and Coleshill, in Warwickshire, and Kings Heath in Birmingham.

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Express and Star

Here are some of the stories making the headlines on the Express & Star website this afternoon:

• Teenager and man injured in West Bromwich double stabbing, external
• New Cross Hospital healthcare assistant stole thousands from seriously ill patients, external
• Sunny spells on way as West Midlands recovers from torrential rain, external