Two goals from David Brooks help Bournemouth move up to fourth in the Championship after a comfortable win at Birmingham City.

Police say 30 mourners left a service to join a further 80 people at the gathering in a park.

Panashe Bako, 20, was fatally stabbed at Birmingham's Crowne Plaza in July.

The Culture Recovery Fund is designed to support projects affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

A man is being questioned after a 29-year-old found seriously injured in Burslem died.

Birmingham's Festival of Lights, usually celebrated in the city centre, will be streamed online.

They were with other vintage toys that risked being thrown away by a couple who inherited them.

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A Wolverhampton bar has lost its licence after showing a "severe and flagrant disregard” for Covid-19 regulations, said the city council.

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"Severe overcrowding and a complete lack of management to prevent the spread of infection" was found at Blossoms in North Street, the council said.

"Multiple" breaches of licensing requirements and coronavirus regulations were witnessed at the bar in August and September the council added.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

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

• Council workers have been heckled as they clean up fly-tipping in Stoke-on-Trent, the city council's leader revealed. Abi Brown said street cleaners had been regularly shouted at by residents for not turning up sooner or they denounce the council as useless.

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• Five flats are set to be built on the site of a former pub. New plans have been put forward for the corner of Marston Road and Peel Terrace, Stafford, after the Albion closed and was demolished.
• A new apartment block is going to have fewer car parking spaces than planned after developers found they couldn't buy all the land they needed. Councillors agreed they could alter the layout from 24 to 20 spaces at the former mill Stanley House, Stafford, after they discovered part of the land they had agreed to buy was designated highways land and couldn't be purchased.

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A memorial statue commemorating the bravery of 19th Century Sikh soldiers is set to be created and placed at a Wolverhampton temple.

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Members of the City of Wolverhampton Council cabinet resources panel are expected to agree to transfer authority-owned land to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Well Lane, Wednesfield.

The Sikh temple is looking to unveil the Saragarhi Monument, which will be sculpted by Black Country artist Luke Perry of Industrial Heritage Stronghold.

The memorial statue will commemorate the Battle of Saragarhi, which was a conflict between Sikh soldiers and Afghan tribesmen on 12 September 1897.

Councillor Rois Ali apologised and said he appreciated he should "lead by example".

BBC Midlands Today

Caravan owners at a holiday park have said the new lockdown measures in England have put them at risk of becoming homeless.

The Coppice Leisure Park, near Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, has told its residents, some of whom live there most of the year, they must leave so the site can be closed.

They said all customers were required to have another permanent address, but some said they had nowhere else to go.

Dorothy Fletcher told the BBC she bought a lodge at the site for £120,000 in July.

"When we bought this cabin we were told by the manager that we could use it as and when we wanted and there was no contract signed, it was just a verbal agreement," she said.

The managing director of Hillandale Caravan Parks, Denis Lloyd Jones, said it had no choice but to close.

"Our holiday homes are just that, holiday homes and customers are unable to live in them and they are well aware of that and they are well aware of our park rules," he said.

Sixteen of the people at the park have been told they can stay but the rest have been told they must leave.

Families criticise a council over £50,000 of repairs to a cemetery that keeps flooding.

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A road linking Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme could be closed at peak times to reduce pollution levels and avoid a congestion charge zone.

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The government had told Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council they had to cut the level of nitrogen dioxide on the A53 Etruria Road.

Staffordshire County Council, which is the highways authority for the borough, said the proposals would see the westbound side of the road closed from the A500 junction during the morning and evening rush hours. , external

The lcoal authority said motorists would face a charging zone unless the traffic reduction plans were introduced by late 2022.

The proposals will be examined by all three councils before going forward for a decision.

A group of men armed with meat cleavers and machetes have smashed windows and doors on streets in a town.

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The gang of eight, all wearing balaclavas, were reported to Staffordshire Police on Thursday evening, external destroying property on Cambrian, Tamworth.

When officers arrived, the group fled on foot.

Hereford Times

Some of the stories appearing in the Hereford Times today:

• Coronavirus death toll at hospitals in Herefordshire rises, external
• People in England can't go to Welsh pubs during new lockdown, external
• Trains from Hereford cancelled as track needs 'urgent repairs', external

Fireworks and bricks have been thrown at police cars and fire engines responding to an emergency call.

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They had been called on Thursday night to Havelock Place, Stoke-on-Trent, to reports of a small bonfire started by a group of youths, Staffordshire Police said., external

The force had also had calls about trouble on neighbouring streets.

Officers said the missiles were thrown by the group at patrol cars and fire vehicles but no-one was hurt.

Paul Dunleavy, named after a judge's ruling, prepared acts of terrorism and joined a neo Nazi group.

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A steering wheel used by Formula One legend Ayrton Senna and gifted to a Staffordshire man for his work with the Lotus team has sold for more than £5,000 at auction.

The wheel, dating back to 1987, was given to 68-year-old Bob Preece, from Cannock, who worked in F1 for more than 20 years from the mid-1980s.

The lot bears the inscription "Presented to Bob Preece for his help and co-operation in helping his friends at Team Lotus - Senna Imola 87".

Rik Alexander from Derbyshire-based Hansons auction house, said Senna, who died at Imola in 1994, was the driver "that everybody remembers, he's the one that is that icon of Formula One".

The Brazilian died aged 34 during the San Marino Grand Prix, where Mr Preece was given the steering wheel seven years earlier, Mr Alexander said.

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