Customers affected by a burst main on Broad Street Birmingham should start seeing their water come back, Severn Trent has said.

It has moved water around its network of pipes after the nine-inch pipe was burst by workers involved in the Metro tram extension.

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There will be 25 customers, likely to be businesses it said, who won't get their water supplies back until engineers had completed the repair on the pipe.

A Midland Metro Alliance spokesperson apologised for the inconvenience the loss of supply has caused to businesses in the area.

Singer Craig David surprised commuters by performing at Birmingham New Street railway station as part of BBC Music Day.

Birmingham's central library is among those forced to close after workers damage a Broad Street pipe.

The police officer left seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry has been named as PC Christopher Burnham.

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The 48-year-old officer was struck as he tried to stop a Mini on Holbrooks Lane to identify its owner just before 14:45 on Wednesday.

Officers are treating it as a deliberate act.

PC Burnham, who's been with the force 25 years, was left with a fractured skull, a bleed on the brain and a shattered knee.

Traffic has now been released on the M6 in Staffordshire after an earlier police incident.

Congestion is expected to clear soon southbound at J11a, said Highways England.

We're still awaiting word from the police on what led to the incident.

Traffic is at a halt southbound on the M6 in Staffordshire, due to a police incident, Highways England says.

The incident is affecting J11a for the M6 Toll.

Highways England said traffic would be released "as soon as possible".

An auditors' report shows there are no longer concerns about the way Cheshire East Council is run, after four years of critical reports on the local authority.

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They've refused to issue a clean bill of health since 2016, because of concerns over the way contracts were awarded, senior managers were suspended and land was bought.

But the new report says major changes have now been made.

Birmingham Library has been shut for the rest of the day due to a lack of water after a main burst on Broad Street.

The library said the situation would be reviewed on Friday.

Businesses on and around Broad Street are being affected, said Severn Trent.

Traffic and buses aren't being affected as the street is currently closed for work to extend the Midland Metro service.

A police officer injured in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry has suffered a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain.

West Midlands Police is continuing to hunt for the driver of a Mini, recovered near the scene in Holbrooks Lane in Radford yesterday afternoon.

The officer, who is married and has a son aged 10, has been with the force for 25 years.

The 48-year-old is expected to remain in hospital for some time.

Detectives are treating it as a deliberate act.

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Perdiswell Primary School in Worcester has been evacuated because of a suspected gas leak.

Parents are being asked to collect their children from Tudor Grange Academy.

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The Birmingham City Council Workplace Choir were serenading commuters at New Street station this morning.

Across the UK there are some 2,000 events taking place as part of the BBC's Music Day.

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Stoke City manager Nathan Jones has said it's impossible to say if the players still want to play for him or not.

Speaking after their mid-week defeat to League Two Crawley Town, he said: "They played poorly. Now whether that's because they don't want to play for me, or they just play poorly, I don't know.

"You'll have to ask someone like Sherlock Holmes that one."

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He went on to say he thought it was more likely it was just a poor performance from the players, saying he didn't think they showed the right work rate or attitude in the game.

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A public consultation on plans to limit the number of maternity units where women can give birth in Shropshire has been delayed until later in the year.

The county's clinical commisioning groups had planned to ask for the public's views from next month, but said they were still waiting for the go-ahead from NHS England.

The maternity units in Oswestry, Bridgnorth and Ludlow have faced a series of temporary closures for the last three years, with staff being concentrated at the main hospitals in Shrewsbury and Telford instead.

The CCGs favour having women give birth at those two main hospitals and say 98% of women give birth away from the rural units at the moment.

Jaguar Land Rover is set to shut all of its UK factories for a week in November "to prepare for Brexit", its boss says.

The company previously warned that a "bad" Brexit deal would threaten £80bn worth of investment plans for the UK and may force it to close factories.

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The UK's biggest carmaker, owned by India's Tata Motors, said its "heart and soul is in the UK".

Headquartered in Coventry, the firm also has key plants in Solihull and outside Wolverhampton, among other bases.

At the beginning of the year, JLR said it would cut production at its plant in Halewood, Merseyside where it builds three of its Range Rover models.

In April, it decided not to renew the contracts for 1,000 temporary workers in Solihull.

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Businesses on and around Broad Street in Birmingham are being affected by a burst water main, said Severn Trent.

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The company said it was working to move the water around its network of pipes in a different way, so it could get people back on supply as quickly as possible.

It is not clear how many people in the area are affected.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Conservative MP Maria Miller accused Labour's Jess Phillips of "screaming the loudest" during yesterday's heated debate.

She said it added to the "significant impression of the hostility that the media reported".

"Isn't one of the issues here the equal implementation of the code of conduct so that all members of this house feel as affected by the code and its requirement for all of us to treat all of us with respect, regardless of party," Ms Miller added.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn later thanked Birmingham MP Jess Phillips for securing the urgent question and said "the language politicians use matters and have real consequences".

"To dismiss concerns from members about the death threats they receive and to dismiss concerns that the language used by the prime minister is being repeated in those death threats is reprehensible," he said

MPs have been debating the use of language in the House of Commons today, after debates yesterday reached boiling point.

Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips was among those granted an urgent question today about recent language used in the chamber.

"I have had a death threat this week that quoted the prime minister and used his name and words," she said.

She accused number 10 of a "clear strategy" "to divide" people with his use of language.

"It has clearly been tested, workshopped, worked up, entirely designed to inflame hatred and division," she says.

"The bravest, strongest thing to say is sorry."

In response, minister Kevin Foster said the government was looking at how it could create a safe environment

"I'm always clear that no-one is a traitor for saying what they believe or for arguing a different political point, that is part of public debate," he said.

He added the government was tackling some of the "corrosive nature of the debate online".

Mr Foster later said it should be about arguments and proposals being put to the test, not about "how thick a skin they've got".

A man has died after being hit by a lorry in Worcestershire.

The pedestrian was hit on Worcester Road close to the Four Acres Caravan park in Stourport-on-Severn at about 07:00, said the ambulance service.

"Unfortunately it was not possible to save him and he was confirmed dead at the scene," said a spokesperson.