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Worcester Warriors say the decision to make Sixways a cashless stadium will reduce queuing and speed up service.

From 7 December all bars, food and drink outlets, programme sellers and hospitality areas will only accept credit or debit cards and payments by mobile phone.

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The Warriors’ managing director Peter Kelly told the club's website, external: “We live in a society that is becoming increasingly cashless in which customers are used to purchasing goods using a card or their mobile phone."

Lawyers acting for families affected by the Shropshire maternity scandal say they are "not surprised" by the leaked findings reported today.

Lanyon Bowdler solicitors said they were "working on behalf of a significant number of families who have suffered bereavement and life-changing brain injuries as a result of failings at these hospitals".

The parents represented by the firm include Sharon Morris, daughter suffered a brain injury when she was born 14 years ago.

She said: "No amount of money can change things and all we can now hope for is that changes are made to ensure other families don't suffer like we do. How can we trust the NHS?”

Homes have been found for all 60 dogs who were recovered from a property in Cannock.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Plans for a seven-storey tower block on the site of a derelict building in Stoke-on-Trent have been approved.

Stafford House on Upper Clough Street in Hanley will be demolished to make way for a building containing 30 apartments - mostly one bedroomed..

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There are also plans for a roof terrace and a ground floor cafe.

Shropshire Council has announced a spending freeze until the end of the financial year, because it's facing a £6m overspend.

The Conservative leader of the authority, Peter Nutting, said "the pressures are mainly in adult and children's social services", and he is aiming to balance the books by April.

Mr Nutting also said he would make another bid for extra funding, once the general election was over.

The mother of a baby who died because of failings at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has said today's leaked report shows the trust has an inability to learn from past mistakes.

Kate Stanton-Davies died after delays transferring her from Ludlow Community Hospital to a doctor-led maternity unit in March 2009.

Rhiannon Davies, along with Richard Stanton, has been campaigning for answers and for change at the trust.

The Ockenden inquiry has identified more than 200 maternity cases so far, but Ms Davies said she felt the review was still not "half close enough to the actual numbers".

"This is a current issue. Lessons are not being learnt, they will not been learnt, they haven't been learnt for decades," she said.

She argued the only way progress could be made now is if the police get involved and carry out their own investigation.

A man has been arrested for violent disorder in connection with the death of Fidel Glasgow.

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The 21-year-old grandson of The Specials singer Neville Staple died after being stabbed near Club M in Coventry on 1 September 2018.

The man was arrested after he handed himself into a police station after the force issued an appeal for information, police said.

A 26-year-old man was arrested on 7 November on suspicion of murder and has been released on police bail.

Another 23-year-old man has been identified by detectives and was arrested on suspicion of murder and violent disorder on Friday and bailed.

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Officers are now trying to help identify a further suspect.

The inquiry ordered by the government into the maternity failings at two Shropshire hospitals appears to be critical of a previous report, carried out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).

A leaked copy of a progress report from the Ockenden inquiry said the RCOG review failed to speak to families and that evidence is lacking throughout the study.

The RCOG report was carried out at the request of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust and included 37 recommendations.

But the person leading the latest inquiry, Donna Ockenden, said a follow-up a year later which claimed progress had been made "was based on some flimsy evidence that was not subsequently tested by a further visit to speak to staff and families on the ground."

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David Irwin

Five members of staff at Solihull Council have quit since April after they were found to have made fraudulent overtime claims.

The cases are among 44 audit investigations carried out by the local authority in 2019/20, half of which have been completed.

A report this month confirms that five employees had resigned after the bogus claims emerged.

While a report says that the several dozen investigations to date had, in total, saved the local authority £63,000, the council said it would not give any further details on the overtime claims.

The dangers of swimming in lakes and rivers has been highlighted by a coroner after a man drowned during a day out with his friends and their children.

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Carl Storer died after getting into difficulty at Chasewater reservoir in Burntwood, Staffordshire, on 30 June.

Nearby signs warning of the dangers of swimming in the water were ignored, the inquest heard.

Cannock Coroner's Court heard the 21-year-old swam beyond one of the children and then was seen to disappear under the water.

Assistant coroner for South Staffordshire, Ian Smith, recorded a conclusion of accidental death.

He said: "Sadly, it appears that all concerned ignored the warnings they were given around Chasewater."

The leaked progress report into baby deaths at two Shropshire hospitals includes details of the pain suffered by families.

They include:

• One father whose only feedback following his daughter's death was when he bumped into a hospital employee in Asda.
• Families who told how "the trust made mistakes with their baby's name and on occasions referred to a deceased baby as 'it"'.
• Multiple families "where deceased babies are given the wrong names by the trust - frequently in writing".
• One family who was told they would have to leave if they did not "keep the noise down" when they were upset following the death of their baby.
• Families who were advised "they were the only family", and that "lessons would be learned".

The trust has apologised unreservedly to the families.

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A shortage of train crew means there will be a reduced service between Nuneaton and Leamington Spa until the end of the day.

Bus replacement services will run in place of cancelled trains, said National Rail.

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Goalkeeper Liam Roberts signs a new, unspecified-length "long-term" contract extension with League Two club Walsall.

Carl Storer died after getting into difficulties while swimming in Chasewater reservoir in June.

A brief timeline of events at the two troubled hospitals at the centre of a baby death scandal:

• March 2009: Rhiannon and Richard Stanton Davies lose baby Kate after birth at Ludlow Community Hospital. NHS inquiries later found her death was avoidable.
• 2017: The hospital trust invites the Royal College of Obstetricians to carry out a review of its maternity services. The review found significant problems. The trust did not publish the report and the college failed to tell regulators of its concerns.

• July 2017: Independent inquiry, ordered by the government, to be led by Donna Ockenden, initially looking at 23 cases.
• August 2018 - Inquiry's scope was expanded to look at 40 cases between 1998 and 2017, then later to 100.
• November 2018 - Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust put into special measures amid claims of "a culture of bullying and harrassment".
• June 2019: The number of cases uncovered by the review revealed to have doubled.
• Interim report leaked to The Independent shows major failings at trust.

The health trust at the centre of a leaked report which criticises its maternity care says it has not seen or been made aware of the interim report into failings there.

The report, seen by The Independent, criticises both the care given by the hospitals in Shrewsbury and Telford and the response to questions raised by families.

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Paula Clark (pictured above), the interim chief executive at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, gave an unreserved apology for the failings.

"A lot has already been done to address the issues raised by previous cases," she said.

The trust will "await the findings of Donna Ockenden’s report so we can work with families, our communities and NHS England/Improvement to understand and apply all of the learning identified," she said.