Shropshire's fire service has released this footage of car fires in Telford last night.

Crews were called to Brookside at 00:55 to find two burning cars and two minutes later to reports of another three cars on fire, just a few streets away.

An investigation into the cause of the fires is under way.

A man is arrested following the discovery of a 50-year-old man with fatal injuries in Erdington.

The Environment Agency (EA) is warning that there could be more flooding towards the end of the week.

Heavy rain is forecast for some areas of the West Midlands and Wales on Friday and EA spokesperson Dave Throup tweeted to say "With saturated ground and fairly full rivers we’re monitoring the situation closely."

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A note giving paramedics a "big thank you" and enclosing a £5 note for a cuppa has been left on an ambulance.

Image source, West Midlands Ambulance Service

Two ambulance workers, Beverley and Sarah, discovered the note on their windscreen yesterday in Hollymoor, Birmingham.

The unsigned note added "I know at times it can be a thankless job but I'm grateful to you and your colleagues for being there should I need you".

The ambulance service tweeted, external it was "very much appreciated".

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A police officer who was hit by a car and seriously hurt is continuing his recovery at home after spending a week in hospital in an induced coma.

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PC Christopher Burnham, 48, was struck by a Mini in Holbrook Lane, Coventry, last month.

He suffered a fractured skull and a shattered knee but was discharged last week, sooner than expected, West Midlands Police said.

PC Burnham's wife thanked well-wishers and colleagues and the NHS for his treatment, adding h, externale "still has a long road of recovery ahead of him".

Tekle Lennox, 37, of no fixed address, has been charged with attempted murder and other offences and will next appear at Warwick Crown Court on 31 October.

The officer suffered a fractured skull and shattered knee when he was struck by a car he tried to stop.

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BBC News

We told you earlier that the northbound side of the A38 was shut due to a crash, according to Staffordshire Police.

The force has now clarified that the collision happened this morning at about 07:45 when a Toyota Yaris hit the central reservation between Barton and Clay Mills, near Burton-upon-Trent.

The northbound section is closed this afternoon for resurfacing work.

The driver of the car, a man in his 30s, had managed to get out of his vehicle by the time paramedics arrived and he was discharged at the scene, the ambulance service added.

Hereford Times

Here are three stories from the Hereford Times today:

• MP urges train company to add extra carriages, external
• Main road into Hereford to close for three days, external
• Tax threat victim's life in limbo, external

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BBC News

A man's been arrested on suspicion of murder after a body was found in a house in Birmingham.

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The 50-year-old was found with head injuries yesterday by West Midlands Police and pronounced dead at the scene on Kingsbury Road, Erdington. , external

A 65-year-old man has been detained on suspicion of murder but officers say they are still treating the death as unexplained as it's not yet clear how the victim was killed.

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The A38 northbound has been shut near Burton-upon-Trent due to a crash, Staffordshire Police says.

They tweeted it had happened just after 13:30 , externalbetween the junctions for Branston and Clay Mills.

The MP for Telford MP has asked the prime minister to reverse the decision to downgrade the town's A&E department.

Under plans that were backed by the health secretary last week it is due to become an A&E Local instead.

Emergency medicine and specialist women and children's services be centred instead in Shrewsbury

Lucy Allan told the House of Commons Telford was a growing town with health problems and "while funding is being pumped into the affluent county town of Shrewsbury, some 20 miles away, Telford is losing vital services."

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Ms Allan asked: "Will my right honourable friend reverse the decision of the health secretary to approve this plan and will he urge them to listen to the concerns of my constituents and representatives of the local area?"

Boris Johnson replied: "I can tell her that as a first step, my right honourable friend the health secretary has called on the A&E at the Princess Royal Hospital to stay open as an A&E Local, but has asked for the NHS to come forward with further proposals for better health care in Telford."

He promised to take up her points with Matt Hancock.

It has not yet been clarified what an A&E Local will be or how it would be different from the urgent care centre planned for Telford.

Worcester City Council could seek a licence to shoot gulls.

It has tried a number of non-lethal control methods, including replacing their eggs with fake ones, but at a meeting last night some councillors described that policy as a failure.

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The council will discuss legal advice over the move behind closed doors next week.

All wild birds are protected by law, but it is possible for councils to apply to Natural England for a licence to kill them, if they’re seen as a risk to public health and if other methods have failed.

The RSPB said a number of gull species were in decline and it prefers to see steps taken to avoid conflict with humans, such as gull-proof bins and campaigns to stop people feeding the birds.

A photographer has taken these amazing drone images of the cooling towers at Ironbridge power station, weeks before they are due to be domolished.

David Street, from Hull, said he missed the chance to photograph the Ferry Bridge cooling towers in Yorkshire, before they were demolished and "knowing these were I wanted to make sure I had the view before it disappeared forever".

Image source, David Street Photography

Image source, David Street Photography

Image source, David Street Photography

Mr Street said: "Last night everything just came together in terms of the weather and made for the perfect shots."

The cooling towers have become part of the landscape of Buildwas and Ironbridge, and some local residents unsuccessfully campaigned to keep them after the station was decomissioned.

Parents are "over the moon" as Staffordshire Council says funding for overnight stays will continue.

Staffordshire Live

The Staffordshire Live website's headlines today include:

• Major £1.2m expansion to start at Lichfield nursery, external
• Council issues warning after fears unsafe mattresses being sold by cold callers, external
• Poverty-hit thief tucked into church's Christmas lunch before stealing £180 donations, external

Logistics company DHL was convicted of numerous health and safety breaches after a three-year probe.

We reported earlier that former residents at a retirement home in Crewe destroyed by fire are still waiting to receive their share of the £52,000 raised by members of the public.

The BBC has been told the fire at the Beechmere retirement complex is still under investigation, two months after many of the 150 residents lost almost all their belongings in the blaze.

Image source, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

Fire crews arrived on 8 August to find a fire in the roof space of the timber-framed building. At the time, they said it was not clear how the blaze managed to spread so quickly, although Staffordshire Fire and Rescue said there were no sprinklers installed.

Now England's biggest provider of extra care housing - those designed with the needs of older people in mind - said it had added sprinklers to all of its properties over six storeys high.

Birmingham-based Housing 21 said in its latest financial statement , externalthat fire safety was at the "top" of its agenda and it would be reviewing other fire measures.

London Fire Brigade has called for sprinklers to be fitted to all blocks of flats over six storeys and all housing purpose built for elderly and vulnerable people, no matter their height.

A 50-year-old man is in hospital with serious injuries after a house fire on College Road in Oswestry last night.

It broke out at around 18:50 and fire investigators are working to discover the cause.

A second person in the house was not injured.

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An agricultural show which has been held for more than 50 years is being scrapped as it's too expensive to put on., external

Organisers of the Leek Show in Staffordshire said visitor numbers fell by about 5,000 this year due to poor weather in July.

They add they also had to give refunds last year after officials decided some parts of the Birchall Playing Fields showground weren't safe for animals.

Those two setbacks, combined with an annual cost of £80,000, means the group have been left "in an impossible position financially".

Donald Driver's daughter says he was ignored by staff as he lay seriously ill in a corridor.