Hospitals in Shrewsbury and Telford will get another 176 nurses from India from December.

It follows a meeting with the Indian Consul in Birmingham, organised by Telford and Wrekin Council. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTh) thanked it and Shropshire Council for their support.

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SaTh said it was still short of being fully staffed, but recruitment campaigns were continuing and it recently visited Dublin to look for more recruits there.

Barbara Beal, the trust's director of nursing and midwifery, said it was "very important that our nurses feel welcome and we are doing everything we can to ensure they feel at home when they arrive".

The oldest surviving fragments of a 13th Century French poem have been discovered in Worcester.

Le Roman de la Rose tells the romantic adventures of a medieval courtier and the hand-written pages were found in the archives of the Diocese of Worcester, the University of Bristol said.

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The pages were discovered by professor Nicholas Vincent from the University of East Anglia, who asked professor Marianne Ailes (pictured below) from the University of Bristol to confirm their identity.

They aren't in great condition, but she said they are "something very special and unique" and include some lines from the end of the story, which have previously been missing.

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The complete story, which was written by two authors is 22,000 lines long, and the University of Bristol said it contains "one of medieval European literature’s best-known sex scenes".

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BBC Midlands Today

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Coventry Blaze will be playing back-to-back games in Scotland this weekend and head coach Danny Stewart said it helped to have the fixtures grouped together like this because it helps "to take travel out of the equation".

They face Dundee Stars tomorrow and Glasgow Clan on Sunday. "We're facing two teams that are scoring a lot of goals," Stewart said.

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Coventry have three Elite League wins so far this season, but Stewart said he was pleased with their performances and that they could have had more wins if some moments had gone their way.

Jaguar Land Rover has said it's important the new Brexit deal "protects tariff-free and frictionless trade and guarantees a level playing field on critical areas of regulation and immigration."

But a statement from the company said it was still considering the details of the latest deal would not be commenting further until MPs vote on it tomorrow.

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Boris Johnson's deal commits Britain and the EU to work towards a Free Trade Agreement and also says the UK and the EU should "uphold the common high standards... in the areas of state aid, competition, social and employment standards, environment, climate change, and relevant tax matters".

Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders welcomed the deal, and said it "moves us further away from a damaging no-deal Brexit" but he was also cautious about possible future regulation.

He added: "To give the UK automotive industry certainty, however, and to assure its continued global competitiveness, we need a truly ambitious future relationship – one based on tariff-free and frictionless trade."

A footpath where a man was killed by a falling tree is going to fully reopen today after safety works were carried out.

Neville Scattergood, 58, from Stafford, was killed on a footpath on the Isabel Trail, off Eccleshall Road, in the town, on 3 October.

An inquest into his death's been opened and adjourned and it is also being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive.

Staffordshire County Council said staff had inspected the trail and, while minor works would be carried out next week, barriers were being removed today.

Officers are investigating a burglary at the property but are not linking it to a spate of other break-ins.

A man who was killed at a house on Humphrey Avenue in Bromsgrove on Monday has been formally identified as 36-year-old Wayne Coventry.

West Mercia Police has arrested a 37-year-old woman from Birmingham on suspicion of his murder.

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Officers were initially called to reports of a seriously injured man at the address at around 22:00.

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Worcester Warriors have made four changes to their starting line up for tomorrow's Premiership opener against Leicester Tigers at Sixways.

Ashley Beck (pictured below) will play in the centre as he continues his comeback from a broken leg that led to him missing most of last season.

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In the pack, Callum Black, Graham Kitchener and Cornell Du Preez all start, while the side will be captained by Marco Mama and GJ van Velze will be among the the replacements.

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BBC News

World number 12 David Gilbert is into the semi-finals of the English Open.

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The 38-year-old from Tamworth, Staffordshire, beat Ricky Walden 5-4 in their best of nine quarter-final., external

Heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury is to feature on a new Christmas album by Robbie Williams.

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It's called The Christmas Present and Sir Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams will also contribute to the 28-track double album, which was written in London, Los Angeles and Stoke-on-Trent.

Burton Albion sign goalkeeper Ben Garratt on a short-term deal as cover for injuries to Stephen Bywater and Callum Hawkins.

Earlier we reported on a week of action by forces across the region against so-called county lines, that see drugs ferried from cities to market towns.

The BBC was given access to the West Midlands Police Regional Organised Crime Unit , externalas it tried to crack down on drugs gangs and traffickers.

At least one county line drugs operation was suspected to be moving drugs from Birmingham to Droitwich, in Worcestershire.

This single line is making £4,000 per day, police believe.

The team followed the drugs to their destination and lay in wait for the dealers.

Eventually, a car was picked up by an automatic number plate reading camera outside Birmingham, heading to the area.

The suspects reportedly switched cars before police mounted a high-speed "hard stop" on a busy rural road and arrested them.

Youth mentor Jordan Moazami was stabbed at least five times by Hamed Hussein in April.

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The new owners of Kidderminster Harriers say they're committed to keeping the club at its Aggborough Stadium home "for the foreseeable future".

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The club revealed yesterday it had been sold to a group of local business people, external, headed up by Richard Lane.

As well as their commitment to Aggborough, the new owners say they want to further develop the stadium by making more money from local firms.

Their aim is to make it self-sustainable as well as achieve more success on the pitch.

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A few of the top stories on the Dudley News website:

• Dudley councillors had to be reminded to pay council tax, external
• Hundreds arrested as part of UK-wide 'county lines' crackdown, external
• Police probe after man's body found in Tipton home, external

Characters from the best-selling author's books are to be brought to life around a new ride and attractions.

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Cheshire Political Reporter, BBC News

A council is calling for stronger laws around the fittings of sprinklers, following a devastating fire at a retirement complex.

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The apartments at Beechmere, Crewe,were destroyed in a blaze which swept through the building on 8 August.

After the fire, Cheshire Fire Service said it had spread quickly, external "at an unusual pace" and there weren't sprinklers in the building.

Cheshire East councillors agreed last night to ask the government to change the law so sprinklers are included in more new buildings.

It follows a similar call from the London Fire Brigade, which wants sprinklers to be mandatory in all buildings housing vulnerable and elderly people, and on flats over six-storeys.

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BBC News

People on a street in the West Midlands are being asked not to keep trying to recycle a road bollard.

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Sandwell Council's tweeted , externalto say the equipment "somehow kept making its way into someone's recycling bin".

It hasn't revealed which street but have retrieved it from the bin as "unfortunately it can't be recycled".

Former Wales striker Hal Robson-Kanu extends his contract with West Bromwich Albion until the summer of 2021.