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Coventry Live
These are some of the Coventry Live headlines today:
A coroner has said none of the authorities involved with the family of Archie Spriggs could have foreseen the seven-year-old's murder by his mother.
He was killed in Shropshire in 2017 and at an inquest earlier, a verdict of unlawful death was recorded.
At a criminal trial last year, Archie's mother, Lesley Speed, was jailed for at least 18 years, having murdered her son during a bitter custody battle. The judge accepted she had a "chronic" mental illness.
Archie's father, Matthew Spriggs, had claimed authorities dismissed his concerns about his son's safety and missed opportunities to prevent his death.
Image source, Family photoA deal to buy a landmark building in Wolverhampton has been withdrawn by a local university due to "mounting costs".
Image source, GoogleThe University of Wolverhampton said it had expressed a "strong interest" in buying the Beatties building.
The 142-year-old store, on Victoria Street, is shutting up shop after parent company House of Fraser went into administration in August.
While Frasers, a new concept from the retail stable of Sports Direct's Mike Ashley, is coming to the city, it will take over a spot in the Mander Centre that Debenhams vacates in January. That left the university planning to make use of an empty Victoria Street site nearby.
A "lengthy due diligence" process had been entered into with administrators, said the university, but the decision had since been taken to "withdraw from the process".
A statement said: "This is not a decision we have taken lightly but is due to the subsequent mounting costs of having to refurbish the building due to its infrastructure, the risk was too high when considering the wider university and our commitment to our future vision."
'The people on social saying it was dull obviously weren't there' - how a Midlands club rugby game somehow finished 0-0!
Read MoreBatsman Adam Hose signs a two-year contract extension with Warwickshire, which expires at the end of 2022.
Read MoreThe Labour manifesto, which is being launched in Birmingham, includes a commitment to "complete the full HS2 route".
It puts the party broadly in line with both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, who have also suggested they would continue with the high speed rail project connecting Birmingham to London and beyond, despite rising costs.
The Green Party has said it would scrap HS2.
From the Hereford Times today:
Michael O'Neill has appoints his former Northern Ireland number two Billy McKinlay as his assistant manager at Stoke City.
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Women can expect to take on caring responsibilities for an older, sick or disabled relative more than a decade earlier than men, a report concludes.
Image source, Getty ImagesResearch by Birmingham and Sheffield universities suggests by the time women are 46, half will have been a carer. But with men, researchers find that it isn't until they reach the age of 57 that they have the same 50-50 likelihood.
The research suggests two-thirds of UK adults can expect to become an unpaid carer during their lifetimes.
You can read more on this story here.
An 81-year-old woman has been conned out out more than £10,000.
Cheshire Police said she was called at her home in Shavington, near Nantwich by a man who said he wanted to talk about her bank account and following a short conversation was transferred to a woman claiming to be a police officer.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe woman told her she needed to withdraw all her money and a taxi arrived to take her to a bank, where she withdrew over £10,000 and handed it over to a man posing as a courier.
BBC Sport
Warwickshire's Dominic Sibley scored 22 on his England debut against New Zealand.
He opened the batting with Rory Burns at Tauranga and was caught off the bowling of Colin de Grandhomme with the score on 52.
Image source, Getty ImagesEngland pushed on to 241-4 by the end of play, with Joe Denly scoring 74 and Ben Stokes 67 not out.
Billy McKinlay is appointed as assistant manager by Stoke City, teaming up again with boss Michael O'Neill.
Read MoreIt might not officially be winter, but it feels like it out there.
These photos were taken near Rubery, Lydbury North and Leek by the BBC Weather Watchers.
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Image source, VideomanLabour will launch its general election manifesto in Birmingham later, calling it the "most radical and ambitious plan to transform our country in decades".
Image source, Getty ImagesThe plans include more cash for the NHS and to tackle climate change, which the party says it would pay for by taxing higher earners and borrowing.
Political correspondent Iain Watson, in Birmingham to cover the manifesto launch, says Jeremy Corbyn - who is currently lagging behind the Conservatives in the polls - believes today's manifesto "might now be able to turn the polls around".
"Back in 2017, he credited the manifesto then with restoring his flagging fortunes," says our correspondent - and adds that Mr Corbyn is hoping the same could happen this time.
A man has died after two cars were involved in a crash in Worcestershire on Wednesday.
The collision happened on Worcester Road in Tenbury Wells, near the show ground, said the ambulance service.
Image source, @HelistigOne driver died at the scene, while the driver of the second car was treated for minor injuries before being taken to hospital for further assessment.
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A broken-down car is causing severe delays on the M6 southbound in Warwickshire.
There are hour-long delays around in the roadworks area from J3 to J2.
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Bobsleigh racers Joel Fearon, from Coventry and Stuart Benson, based at RAF Cosford, will finally receive their bronze medal today from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe athletes were part of the four-man team, which originally finished fifth in Sochi.
Two of the Russian teams who beat them have since been disqualified for doping offences.
The British quartet will be awarded their medals at the Team GB Ball this evening.
Families of victims killed in the Birmingham Pub Bombings have called for the police investigation to be handed over to another force.
It comes exactly 45 years after the bombs that killed 21 people in two pubs and injured 220 others.
Image source, Birmingham InquestsAt an inquest into the deaths of the 21 victims earlier this year, a jury decided that the IRA was responsible but did not name the alleged perpetrators.
Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was one of the those killed, said the investigation "could and should be passed on to an independent force".
West Midlands Police says its investigation is "live and active".
Birmingham Live
Some of the Birmingham Live headlines today include:
