Lily Heath-Massey, who grew up in the UK, and her husband fled with their dog and passports.

Yeovil slip three points behind leaders Barrow in the National League title race as they are held at home by Solihull Moors.

Substitute Harry Arter scores moments after coming on to send Fulham into the fourth round of the FA Cup with victory over Aston Villa.

Saracens score 10 tries as they bounce back from last weekend's defeat at Exeter to thrash sorry Worcester.

Caolan Lavery and Josh Gordon are on target as Walsall win at Salford to leapfrog them in the League Two table.

Jeremie Bela's 90th-minute strike gives 10-man Birmingham City an FA Cup third-round win over Blackburn Rovers.

Sean Goss cancels out Famara Diedhiou's first-half header as Shrewsbury Town secure a replay with Bristol City.

Officers appeal for witnesses and dash-cam footage following last month's crash in Sandwell.

The five-year-old's family says they will learn if the treatment has been successful within a week.

The Birmingham Yardley MP has become the third Labour MP to enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn.

The third MP to join the contest says Labour members are "ready to try something different".

We'll be back with live updates from 07:00 on Monday.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Fears have been raised that a major expansion of the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) operation in Solihull - set to start in earnest this month - could mean a "chaotic" 12 months for local roads.

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Construction on the logistics operations centre, which will provide warehouses covering an area of about 13 football pitches (91,800 square metres), plus offices and parking facilities, will last more than a year.

Planning permission for the scheme, which will supply parts to the nearby Lode Lane car plant, was granted by Solihull Council back in 2017.

When it won approval to proceed almost three years ago, JLR had argued the scheme was "critical to the long-term future of our UK manufacturing operations" and insisted that the centre would improve efficiency and reduce HGV movements in the region.

Councillor Glenis Slater (Lib Dem, Elmdon) said it was "going to be pretty chaotic for a year or so" and predicted the biggest issue would be managing the realignment of Damson Parkway, given the already heavy traffic in the area.

Contractors have said they will work to "minimise disruption".

In its latest bulletin, JLR said: "[The project] delivers a range of operational and environmental benefits, including one million less HGV miles on Midlands roads."

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• Motorist spotted watching television while driving down M6 in Staffordshire, external
• Dog owners warned to keep pets away from deadly toxic reservoir near M6, external
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Gold, jewellery and cash have been stolen from a charity shop.

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Burglars broke into the Oxfam branch on Hunters Row, Stafford, yesterday morning, police said. , external

A glass case containing jewellery was damaged in the break-in.

BBC News Travel

Drivers planning to use parts of the M6 and M5 tonight are being warned of several full closures of the motorways.

Highways England's said, external the M6 will be shut northbound between J14, for Stafford, and J16, for Crewe, from 21:00 until 06:00.

While the M5 closures will be southbound from J1 to J2, near West Bromwich, and north from J4, near Bromsgrove, to J1, both from 20:00 until 06:00.

Ken Matthews won the 20km (12.5-mile) walk at the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo.

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BBC Midlands Today

A landmark that has stood on the slopes of The Wrekin for 200 years has been restored and reopened to the public.

The Halfway House had become dilapidated since the 1970s but work by several local people has seen it restored as a cafe and a community centre.

Their next move they told the BBC is to turn it into an educational resource and set up activities for the local community in the area.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A decision to build a temporary travellers’ site in Coseley has been branded a 'betrayal' - while the leader of Dudley Council has been accused of breaking his word to local residents.

The announcement came last night in an email saying the plan for 40 caravan spaces close to playing fields at the rear of Budden Road will now go ahead.

Councillor Susan Ridney, Labour ward member for Coseley East, said: "[Council leader] Patrick Harley gave assurances that it wasn’t going to come back to Coseley because it was too close to residents’ homes and the roads weren’t sufficient."

The scheme was granted planning permission in 2018 but was postponed when the Labour Party took control of the council later that year.

In May 2019, Mr Harley said the Conservative group had no plans to reintroduce the scheme if it won back control of the local authority in elections.

But in a statement released by Dudley Council today, he said: "We really have exhausted every alternative in a bid to find the right site, and that is Budden Road.

"What is important now is that we monitor the site closely throughout the two years and listen to the views of local people at that time, before reviewing the future of the site at the end of its tenure."

Angry residents complain about the state of roads around the village of Beckbury in Shropshire.