Crews tackled the fire at a social club in Bournville, Birmingham, through the night.

There have been 18 cases of coronavirus in a "concentrated number of streets" in Normacot.

The officer was injured after looking into the window of a car which then moved away in Birmingham.

Nineteen staff at a DPD site in Sandwell are self-isolating.

Betty Webb has been remembering the part she played in US code-breaking efforts at the Pentagon.

An arts project is asking people to share their recollections of Edgbaston venue, Tower Ballroom.

Nearly £1.5bn of government cash is yet to be dished out to struggling businesses.

Lexy Oliver from Cheshire takes us through her week during the coronavirus pandemic.

A disciplinary panel finds the officer's words discriminatory and in breach of professional standards.

Dozens of firefighters are tackling the fire at The Cadbury Club in Bournville, Birmingham.

Dozens of firefighters battle a severe building blaze in the city.

West Midlands Fire Service has confirmed that the building aflame in the Bournville area of Birmingham this Friday evening is The Cadbury Club social club.

The club's website says it serves both employees of the nearby Cadbury chocolate factory and the local community.

Here's another look at the smoke visible across the city.

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BBC News

Smoke from the building fire in Bournville can be seen from miles around Birmingham, according to social media reports.

Image source, Alana Tomlin

Alana Tomlin tweeted, external: "West Midlands Fire doing amazing job. Road closed Bournville Lane. Hope no one hurt, doesn’t look like it so far."

This man said , externalhe was over the road from the fire and "I can feel the heat from the blaze".

He added: "The flats next door are ringing with every fire alarm triggered. And there was just a huge boom from something exploding."

BBC Radio WM

A new temporary home has been found for a Birmingham athletics club, external after it was forced to move from Alexander Stadium.

Image source, Birmingham City Council

The Perry Barr venue is being revamped for the city's Commonwealth Games in 2022.

The city council says athletes from Birchfield Harriers can use track and field facilities at Wyndley Leisure Centre in Sutton Coldfield.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

The Local Democracy Reporting Service in Staffordshire has been covering these stories this week:

• Calls to have car parking made free in Cannock Chase have been rejected after the council's leader said it could cost the authority £65,000 per month. The idea was put forward by councillor Paul Startin at this month's full council meeting in a bid to encourage visitors back to town centres but was defeated by one vote.

• Staffordshire County Council is being urged to consider a three-month "amnesty" on charging businesses for waste disposal at its recycling centres in a bid to discourage fly-tipping. Cannock Chase Council's making the request, with the authority saying it's seen 299 cases of illegal dumping up to June this year compared to 371 for the whole of 2019.
• Plans for a tipi wedding venue in Staffordshire have been withdrawn after dozens of objections to the idea. Kata Tipis Ltd had proposed putting up the structures on farmland at Elford Heath, near Eccleshall, for seven months each year to host weddings but withdrew the application after objections over noise and traffic concerns.

A former West Midlands Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) has been charged with misconduct in public office and will appear in court.

The 37-year-old is accused over a relationship he allegedly formed with a woman he met during his duties.

The Independent Office of Police Conduct says the accused is no longer serving with West Midlands Police and is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court next week.

Allen Cook
BBC News

Dozens of firefighters are battling a severe fire in Birmingham this evening.

West Midlands Fire Service said , externalit was called to the blaze in Bournville just before 17:30.

They urged people to avoid Bournville Lane, Mary Vale Round and the surrounding area.

Coventry Live

From the Coventry Live website today:

• Stadium safety fears as youths spotted on grandstand roof, external
• Man accused of spree of Coventry arson attacks appears in court, external
• Police smash their way in to home in drugs raid, external

BBC Shropshire

Students who lost their places at university after having their A-level marks downgraded say they feel angry and let down by the government.

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Samantha Smith, from Woodside, Telford, told BBC Shropshire she overcame being homeless in her teens and was anticipating getting three As in her subjects.

But instead, the student, who goes to Newport Girls High School, was given a B, an E and a U by a controversial modelling system and lost her offer from Cardiff University.

"I've called up several universities and the motto seems to be 'we understand how difficult it is, we don't understand how this has happened to you but if you get the grades on appeal we'll let you in and if not, we don't know what we can do'."

Fellow Newport Girls High School student Lucy Dover had been predicted three As but ended up with two Bs and a C and lost her offer from the University of Nottingham.

"I feel like the government's let me down a bit. We trusted them to work out our exam results for us and here I am unable to go to the universities I want to, to do the course I wanted to do, so I'm quite disappointed and a bit angry."

Labour has called on ministers to act immediately to sort out an "exams fiasco" in England and a "flawed system" had led to 280,000 pupils having their marks downgraded.

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended what he said were a "robust set" of grades and said that pupils who believed they were treated unfairly would be able to appeal or, if they wanted, sit exams in the autumn.

Stoke City sign free-agent Scotland international striker Steven Fletcher after Sheffield Wednesday exit.