Summary

  • Updates from Monday 28 October to Sunday 3 November

  1. Fans heartbroken as England lose to South Africapublished at 16:47 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Fans were up early to watch England in their first final in 12 years - but things did not go their way.

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  2. Vicar had 400 indecent child images on his phonepublished at 15:24 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Christopher Goble pleaded guilty to downloading images of children and will be sentenced in December.

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  3. England fans glued to Rugby World Cup finalpublished at 09:27 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Fans back Eddie Jones's side to beat South Africa and join the class of 2003 as tournament winners.

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  4. Solihull Moors 2-1 Dagenham & Redbridgepublished at 06:28 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Solihull register their fifth successive National League victory at home as they defeat Dagenham and Redbridge 2-1.

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  5. Swindon Town 2-1 Walsallpublished at 06:26 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Eoin Doyle scores his 14th goal of the season as Swindon extend their winning run to three matches by beating Walsall.

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  6. Coventry City 0-0 Accrington Stanleypublished at 06:24 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Ten-man Coventry play out a low-quality goalless draw against Accrington as both sides struggle to create chances at St Andrew's.

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  7. Losing sight not enough for special needs fundingpublished at 03:40 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    A young woman who lost her sight cannot get funding for a specialist college for the blind.

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  8. Trains return to flood-damaged railwaypublished at 01:09 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Direct services between north and south Wales resume after repairs to the line finished early.

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  9. The facts about fiction in true story balloon filmpublished at 00:29 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    Eddie Redmayne's new movie The Aeronauts is based on real events - but just how accurate is it?

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  10. Inside a power station's doomed cooling towerspublished at 00:20 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November 2019

    The giant towers have loomed over the horizon in Ironbridge for years but will soon be demolished.

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  11. Underground fire rises above city centre streetpublished at 22:02 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    An electrical fault caused the flames that emerged on a street in Birmingham in big flashes.

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  12. 'I helped test a wonder drug - then I was denied it'published at 20:41 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    When Louise Moorhouse took part in a drug trial she was able to eat normally for the first time in her life.

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  13. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 19:00 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 on Monday.

  14. Warning as floods clean-up continuespublished at 18:52 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    With the levels of the River Severn falling, the clean-up after the flooding is continuing in Worcester.

    The city council says its street cleaning teams are working on riverside paths but warn the areas are still slippery., external

    Work to clear pathsImage source, Worcester City Council
    Pumping waterImage source, Worcester City Council
  15. Double jackpot winner almost invalidated ticketpublished at 18:42 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    A woman who won two Lottery Thunderball draws, after mistakenly copying out the same numbers twice, said she almost asked the shopkeeper to cancel one of the tickets after spotting the error.

    Gayle and Philip SayImage source, PA Media

    Gayle Say, 65, from Coventry, said she changed her mind about cancelling the ticket because she'd thought at the time "it's not like we will win anyway".

    The couple's Thunderball wins, matching five numbers and the bonus ball twice in the draw on October 22, mean they have picked up a £1m prize.

    Describing the moment they won, her husband Phillip said: "I immediately started to text the family with the news but no-one believed me.

    "I then saw a sight I will never forget - my wife dancing around the living room singing Frank Sinatra's Who Wants to be a Millionaire."

  16. Floods force club to change Rugby World Cup planspublished at 18:37 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    Pitches and even a marquee at Bridgnorth Rugby Club were left under a metre of water.

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  17. Crime fears over switched-off street lightspublished at 18:32 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    BBC Hereford and Worcester

    Calls are being made to "review" a scheme that has seen thousands of street lights switched off across Worcestershire, despite it saving almost £1m over the past four years.

    Street lights

    After a trial in Droitwich Spa, the county council, which manages 52,000 street lights, decided in 2014 to switch off two-thirds of them in mainly residential and industrial estates., external

    The move was to save money and cut carbon emissions , externalwith the local authority claiming it's reducing spending by £970,000.

    But people in places like Droitwich have told BBC Hereford and Worcester it's led to an increase in crime.

    Town councillor Alan Humphries said it had "led to an increased amount of drug dealing, because it was in the dark, people couldn't see what's going on".

    But the council's rejected the suggestion with cabinet member for infrastructure, Ken Pollock, saying "that's certainly not what the police are telling us".

    West Mercia Police said it understood people being concerned with lights being turned off, but officers "have not seen a definitive link between the lights being switched off and any increase in crime".

  18. Gasps as underground fire rises from city streetpublished at 18:25 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    Flames from an electrical fault have reached top side in two big flashes of orange.

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  19. Video: What's the weather got in store?published at 18:15 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    Rebecca Wood
    BBC Midlands Today

    It will be cloudy and wet this evening with showery rain and lows of 7C (45F).

    Media caption,

    Latest weather for the West Midlands

  20. Council 'ignored proposals to improve children's services'published at 18:04 Greenwich Mean Time 1 November 2019

    Sophie Calvert
    Political Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

    Improvements to Stoke-on-Trent's children's services could have been made years ago, it's claimed.

    Stoke-on-Trent City Council's Civic Centre

    Eleanor Brazil, a government-appointed commissioner brought in to oversee the city council, found recommendations made in 2015 weren't acted on.

    Her report into the services, external said if they had been "this would have made a big difference".

    Ofsted inspectors rated the department as inadequate in March and yesterday the council was told it must partner with a better performing authority by 31 January.

    Mrs Brazil told BBC Radio Stoke there would be short-term help in place in the meantime to provide "intensive support" from two other, better performing councils.

    The city council says it's fully committed to doing all it can to improve., external