West Mercia Police beat Warwickshire Police by 45-5 in last night's charity rugby match at Sixways.

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A crowd of just over 2,000 turned up to help raise money for the Oscar Saxelby-Lee appeal.

The five-year-old from Worcester, who's battling an aggressive form of leukemia, is currently having more tests to see whether he's well enough to travel to Singapore for potentially life-saving treatment

An appeal has raised almost £563,000.

Wolves said they tried to find a way for their supporters to follow them to Slovakia despite a stadium ban against their opponents being upheld.

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The team will play their Europa League game at Slovan Bratislava on 24 October behind closed doors.

Uefa dismissed the Slovak club's appeal after they were charged over fans making racist chants in a play-off game against PAOK of Greece.

Slovan have confirmed on their website that only spectators under the age of 14 will be allowed in the stadium.

This is the second Europa League game Slovan have been forced to play behind closed doors this season.

Work on a new railway station in Worcestershire is nearing completion it's been announced.

Image source, Worcestershire County Council

Services from Worcestershire Parkway at Norton, about four miles from Worcester, are expected to be included in Network Rail's timetable from mid-December.

Passengers will be able to access Great Western Railway services between Hereford and London Paddington as well as CrossCountry trains direct to Cardiff, Nottingham and Derby.

People in Birmingham have some of the longest mobile phone conversations in Britain, an Ofcom survey suggests.

Liverpudlians, it found, topped the survey, spending six minutes and 51 seconds on a single call, on average.

Data for the survey was gathered from 150,000 mobile phone users between 1 January and 31 March this year.

Express and Star

Some of the Experss and Star headlines today include:

• 'Talented' teenager caught dealing drugs locked up for four years, external
• Retiring dinner lady rings final bell at Smethwick school, external
• Man hid 15,000 child abuse images on dark web, external

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A church in Worcester wants to build four flats to raise money for its upkeep.

St George's Catholic Church on Sansome Place has applied to convert a neighbouring disused garage which is being used for storage.

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The 190-year-old building is the city’s largest Catholic church and the planning application submitted to the city council says flats will put the storage site to better use.

Personel from RAF Cosford in Shropshire are taking part in a simulated plane crash at the Ironbridge power station today and tomorrow.

It's part of routine exercises to prepare for the event of a real emergency.

Locals are being warned to expect large numbers of emergency service staff in the area over the next 48 hours.

Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter

After a bright start it will be a cloudy day with some showers and highs of 15C (59F).

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

Welcome to our live service for Thursday.

We'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather for the West Midlands.

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Kong Linlin is accused of assaulting a delegate at a Tory Party conference in Birmingham.

Andy Giddings
BBC News

We'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 tomorrow.

Drivers working for the taxi firm Go Carz in Telford could install cameras inside their vehicles, which it said would provide reassurance for drivers and passengers alike.

The firm approached Telford and Wrekin Council with the idea and to ask for a change in its licensing conditions to allow this to happen.

Image source, Telford and Wrekin Council

Go Carz said once it has permission it will encourage its drivers licensed with the council to start the voluntary installation of the cameras.

The company said it would also support the council's calls for a national standard for taxi drivers.

A 15-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a weapon after a stabbing in Smethwick this afternoon.

West Midlands Police said officers were called to Cape Hill at 15:45 and found one person had suffered a stab wound and another a head injury.

Both were taken to hospital.

A Chinese reporter on trial for slapping a Conservative Party Conference delegate has told Birmingham Magistrates' Court she pushed him away in self defence.

Linlin Kong, who works for Chinese state TV and lives in Kings Cross, London, said she was approached by Enoch Lieu from Newcastle-under-Lyme Conservatives and was asked to leave.

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Speaking through an interpreter, she told the court: "I refused to leave and then he started to touch me. He used his hands to push me."

"Not only was the man pushing me, I was surrounded by four or five people. I was in fear."

And she added: "I was being attacked by a male in public, it was my natural instinct to do this."

The trial continues.

How will life change for the UK ticket-holder who has become Britain's richest lottery winner?

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Shropshire's fire authority has voted in favour of a closer alliance with the Hereford and Worcester Fire Service.

The two fire services have been sharing fire control, risk management and computer systems for the past year, but plan to share procurement in the future.

Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority will discuss the proposal when it meets next Tuesday.

Shropshire's fire authority wanted to stress it didn't see this as a merger.

Allen Cook
BBC News

Fake cigarettes and tobacco worth about £68,000 have been seized in raids on eight shops in Stoke-on-Trent.

Image source, Stoke-on-Trent City Council

The city council's trading standards team led the searches, backed by police and immigration officials, in Hanley, Stoke and Longton.

They said they found 100,000 counterfeit cigarettes and 20kg of counterfeit hand-rolling tobacco and three people are under investigation., external

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

We're in for a dry night in the West Midlands and it'll be quite breezy:

Get a latest forecast for your area at any other time by heading to the BBC Weather website.

Drone footage of the new Worcester Parkway station has been released today by the county council, just weeks before building work is set to be completed.

The station, which was originally due to open in autumn 2017, will have three platforms and a 500-space car park.

After that, Network Rail and the train operators will move in to put it through a series of tests, with the aim of having the first trains calling there before the end of the year.

BBC Weather Watchers

We've had more great photos from our local BBC Weather Watchers, these ones showing the changing colours of the leaves in autumn.

This trio are from users Postman Les in Bromyard, Herefordshire, Noodles__93 in Coventry and Di's Walk in Moseley, Birmingham:

Image source, Postman Les

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