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It's going to be rather unsettled over the next couple of days, with some wet and windy conditions.
The Met Office has issued some weather warnings for ice and fog across much of our region.
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BBC News
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Thieves have broken into a charity shop in Telford and taken cash from the safe.
Severn Hospice said the burglary happened last night and the shop in Lawley has been closed while staff tidy up.
Image source, Severn HospiceShop manager Gary Stephan said: "It’s hard to comprehend why anyone would steal from a charity shop which serves the community, especially at Christmas.”
The Christmas wreath adorning the door to Number 10 this year was made in Nuneaton.
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It was made by Stephanie Stanley, who said it took her about 45 minutes to craft.
"I was trying to think of something out of the box that's going to be different and stand out," she said. "I thought the oranges would look great on the black as well."
BBC Sport
Coventry Blaze have a new netminder - 28-year-old CJ Motte from the United States.
He joins them from HC Innsbruck in the Austrian league and will replace Canadian Jamie Phillips, who is leaving the club after playing 33 times in the Elite League this season.
Motte has previously played in the American Hockey League and the East Coast Hockey League.
Image source, Chicago WolvesHead coach Danny Stewart said Phillips had been a "model professional" but that the club "simply just decided to move in a different direction."
Motte will make his Blaze debut on Saturday against Guildford Flames.
Here are three of the headlines from the Hereford Times website today:
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A cycle route between Kenilworth and Leamington is going to go ahead, after Warwickshire councillors agreed to set aside £4.75m to pay for it.
The 5km (3.1 miles) cycleway will include a bridge over the River Avon.
Image source, Getty ImagesMore than 3,000 people had signed a petition in support of the cycle route and work is expected to start in the spring of 2022.
BBC WM Sport
Aston Villa will face a young Liverpool side in the League Cup quarter-final tonight, but goalkeeper Tom Heaton said "whoever comes out, we know it will be a tough test."
Liverpool's senior squad are in Qatar for the World Club Championship, handing Villa a good chance to make the semi-finals.
Image source, Getty ImagesVilla are coming into the match off the back of three defeats and Heaton said Liverpool were a massive club and "they've got quality in depth".
BBC Shropshire
People living near Shrewsbury's old prison have been told their street will have to close for a year, while an old school is turned into luxury flats.
Residents on Beacall's Lane in Castlefields say they weren't consulted and have been given no alternative place to park their cars.
Image source, GoogleThe councillor for the area, Alan Mosley, called the planned closure an "absolute shambles" and hoped an alternative plan could be agreed with the developers and Shropshire Council.
Quote MessageResidents who live here, know the area, know the problems and might come up with some solutions have not been consulted before this order was made."
Councillor Alan Mosley, Shropshire Council
Deliberations continue on a charge faced by one convicted man and in the case of two co-accused.
Read MoreA Stoke City football fan has been fined £310 and received a three-year football banning order after he racially abused a goalkeeper.
Image source, Getty ImagesCarl Mason, 53, of Franklyn Street, Stoke-on-Trent, admitted using racially aggravated threatening or abusive words or behaviour with intent to cause alarm or distress at Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates' Court following the incident at Stoke City stadium on 27 September.
Two witnesses said hearing Mason shout abuse at the Nottingham Forest goalkeeper while watching the game with his son made them "angry".
The Crown Prosecution Service said Mason had agreed what he had said was wrong and hurtful, and said he was ashamed of the racist comment he made.
Quote MessageRacism in football is unacceptable and causes serious distress. Carl Mason chose to use words that are racist to express himself and this has cost him dearly with a criminal conviction.
Timothy Bishop, Crown Prosecution Service
Woodland at the Weston Park estate in Staffordshire has been illuminated with coloured lights again this Christmas.
It's the second year it's staged what it calls Enchanted Weston and the lights took about two weeks to set up.
The woodland, originally designed by landscape architect Capability Brown, also features smoke canons, glitter balls, colour changing globes and flame-effect lamps along the mile-long walk.
The estate said the light display lasts for nine days and it has sold around 1,000 tickets for each day.
Police are appealing for information after a dog walker reported being sexually assaulted at a beauty spot by a man who "smelled very strongly of urine".
Image source, GoogleThe woman, in her 30s, was walking her dog near the visitors centre in Lickey Hills between 07:30 and 08:00 GMT when she was attacked, West Mercia Police said.
She sustained minor injuries and was left shaken following the incident, up a steep bank in the nearby woodland.
Police said the suspect was wearing a coat and smelled strongly.
The force said there would be extra patrols in the area to reassure the public.
Prosecutors thanked Stoke supporters who reported the abuse hurled at the Nottingham Forest keeper.
Read MoreA man who was found dead in a roadside tent in Wombourne yesterday has been identified by the police as 68-year-old Robert Keith White.
Staffordshire Police said officers were called to Stourbridge Road at 13:20 and that his family have been told.
Image source, Staffordshire PoliceThe force also said he'd chosen to live in the tent and that it didn't think there were suspicious circumstances.
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Plans to spend more than £19m on Nuneaton town centre have been approved by Warwickshire County Council.
The money, from the Capital Investment Fund, will pay for a new library, cafe and business centre.
Image source, GoogleThe development will be on Church Street, on the site where the current Wilkos, Powell House and the Royal Mail are based.
BBC Sport
Warwickshire's Dominic Sibley scored 58 for England in their tour match against a South Africa Invitational XI, and then retired.
He opened the batting with Rory Burns and hit eight fours in his half-century, batting alongside Joe Denley.
Image source, Getty ImagesEngland play another warm-up game against South Africa A on 20 December and the first test starts on 26 December at Centurion.
