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An overturned lorry is partially blocking a stretch of the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent.

Image source, West Midlands Ambulance Service

It's closed between the A5007 Victoria Place Link and the A500 D Road at Heron Cross.

Traffic towards Newcastle-under-Lyme is being affected.

West Brom close in on the signing of Huddersfield striker Karlan Grant, who is set for a medical with the Premier League club.

BBC Weather

Today the weather is forecast to be dry and cloudy, with the chance of some sunshine and temperatures up to 11C (52F).

It's expected to stay like that for the rest of the week.

This was the misty scene earlier in Edgmond, Shropshire, as taken by BBC Weather Watcher Monomark.

Image source, Monomark

Wasps flanker Jack Willis is voted players' player of the year at the Rugby Players' Association awards.

Daniel Sharples kicked "helpless" Michael Mairs to death in an unprovoked attack, police say.

A man and two teenage girls died after their car hit a tree in Bromley Lane, Kingswinford, Dudley.

The events firm was previously been spoken to about Covid-19 regulations, the council says.

Two nurses are thought to be the source as cancer patients are treated for coronavirus.

Jockey Hollie Doyle breaks her own British record for winners ridden in a year by a woman with victory on State Occasion at Kempton.

Rhys Reynolds, 20, offered to help 72-year-old Tony McCorry home after he mislaid his walking stick.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Another 720 places will be created at secondary schools in Coventry between 2022 and 2024, the city council has said.

It is planning to spend £11.9m on the expansion of places and 240 will be ready in time for September 2022.

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Ernesford Grange, Finham Park, Blue Coat, Bishop Ullathorne, Lyng Hall, Sidney Stringer, Westwood, plus a further school to be identified will be the schools to expand in the first wave, in 2022.

The project is funded by £23.7m from the Education Skills Funding Agency in May and the majority of the new buildings will be temporary structures.

Cabinet member for education Cllr Kevin Maton said: “There’s nothing worse than building expensive buildings that then are no longer required in five to 10 years time.”

Local Democracy Reporting Service

More than 200 complaints have been made against companies in Coventry, over claims they broke coronavirus restrictions.

The city council said half the 218 reports it had received since the middle of March related to pubs, restaurants, bars, takeaways, social clubs and nightclubs.

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And about half the complaints were about a lack of social distancing at venues. or about them opening during lockdown.

The council said 10 were still being investigated, but the vast majority were sticking to the rules.

BBC Weather

We could have some showers this evening, but it should then remain cloudy and dry for the rest of the week.

Temperatures overnight could fall to 4C (39F).

Image source, Snapper Simon

The sentence of a 30-year minimum term is "unduly lenient", the Court of Appeal hears.

BBC Radio WM

A Birmingham basketball coach has been revealed as the first face of a new promotional campaign for the Commonwealth Games.

Ricardo D'Alva, external has coached hundreds of beginners and elite young players at the City of Birmingham Rockets club.

Image source, Birmingham 2022

Organisers of the 2022 games are now looking for more community sporting volunteers to be part of the Hometown Heroes billboard campaign next year.

The 16-year-olds are being held over the death of Keagan Crimes, 27, in a "disturbance", police say.

Four Wasps players and three staff members who work in the playing department of the Premiership finalists test positive for Covid-19.

Eddie Bisknell
Local Democracy Reporter

Nearly 3,000 people face waiting a year for NHS hospital treatment or operations in Chesterfield, Burton and Derby.

The huge increase - from 45 in March - has been caused by operations being cancelled in lockdown, Derby City Council was told at a meeting.

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Zara Jones, planning lead for Joined-Up Care Derbyshire, which oversees all NHS services in the county and city, said such waits were rare before the pandemic.

She said the main area affected was elective surgeries in orthopaedics - including hip and knee operations - but cancer treatments continue to be prioritised.

Figures show 2,509 people waiting 52 weeks for treatment at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust as of the week ending 2 October.

At the Chesterfield Royal Hospital the figure was 298 patients.

Ms Jones also highlighted an "unidentified need" of people believed "not to have presented for health care" - avoiding NHS services due to Covid-19 concerns.

Hereford Times

Here are three stories from the Hereford Times today:

• Court told driver was seriously hurt and dog killed, external in crash
• Farmer in running for £1,000 prize, external
• Herefordians told not to behave like people in Worcestershire, external

One student who was given a used kit said some people had opened and used the testing kits.