Summary

  • Updates on from Monday 23 November to Sunday 29 November

  1. Catch-up: Shrewsbury Town v Oxford Citypublished at 18:30 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    Watch live coverage as League One's Shrewsbury Town host National League South side Oxford City in the FA Cup second round.

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  2. Bears earn bonus-point win over Warriorspublished at 18:25 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    Bristol score three second-half tries - including a late penalty try - to beat Worcester, who are stung by injuries to Matt Kvesic and Marco Mama, and two yellow cards.

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  3. Sheff Wed & Stoke in dull goalless drawpublished at 17:31 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    Sheffield Wednesday's struggle for goals in the Championship continues as they play out a goalless draw with Stoke City.

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  4. Gloucester overpower Wasps at Kingsholmpublished at 17:19 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    Gloucester bounce back impressively from a tame opening-round defeat at Leicester to score five tries and beat Wasps at Kingsholm.

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  5. Port Vale 2-3 Leyton Orientpublished at 15:41 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    Leyton Orient condemn Port Vale to their fifth straight league defeat in a thrilling 3-2 victory at Vale Park.

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  6. Man arrested after pedestrian hit by car diespublished at 13:34 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2020

    A man is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

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  7. Our live coverage across the weekpublished at 19:00 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    Andy Giddings
    BBC News

    We'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Monday.

  8. Your pictures: Coventry in the fogpublished at 18:48 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC News

    Local photographer Dylan Parrin has sent us some stunning images he has taken of a foggy Coventry city centre.

    CoventryImage source, Dylan Parrin
    CoventryImage source, Dylan Parrin
    CoventryImage source, Dylan Parrin

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  9. Masked men drag out drivers in carjackingspublished at 18:39 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    There have been two carjackings in Cannock this week involving masked men.

    The first happened just after 14:15 on Monday, after a motorist pulled in to a lay-by off Lime Lane and Wyrley Lane.

    Staffordshire Police said when three or four men dragged the driver out and attacked him, before driving off with his car and their own.

    Staffordshire Police carImage source, Staffordshire Police

    The second incident happened at the same spot, just before 19:00 on Wednesday and this time it involved up to six men, armed with baseball bats.

    Again, they attacked the driver and pulled them out of their car.

  10. Askey worried about lack of training timepublished at 18:18 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    BBC Radio Stoke Sport

    The Port Vale players aren't getting enough time on the training pitch, because of the number of games at the moment, the manager has said.

    John Askey is now looking for "a week where we're not doing anything, so that people can recover".

    John AskeyImage source, Getty Images

    Port Vale have suffered four league losses in a row and Askey said: "There's very little you can do in training other than making sure everybody's as rested as much as possible."

  11. Hospital running out of critical care bedspublished at 18:04 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    BBC Radio Stoke

    The Royal Stoke University Hospital says it has reached a point where it has very little capacity in its critical care unit and at times it has had none at all.

    It means some seriously ill patients have had to be transferred to other hospitals.

    Royal Stoke University Hospital

    The chief executive of the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Tracy Bullock, said the positive news was that case numbers "do seem to be coming down".

    She added: "We hope that that in the not too distant future will translate into lower numbers in our critical care unit as well."

  12. 'Callous' fraudster stole from elderly patientspublished at 17:44 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    'Relentless offender' June Weatherman stole purses, jewellery and photographs from vulnerable patients.

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  13. Driver denies knowing migrants were in back of vanpublished at 17:40 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    Valentin Calota is accused of being part of a plot linked to 39 migrants found dead in a trailer.

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  14. Deaths of couple found in house 'no longer suspicous'published at 17:31 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    The deaths of a couple found at a house in Nuneaton are no longer being treated as suspicious, police say.

    The bodies of the couple in their 80s were found in their house in Bucks Hill on 15 November.

    A post-mortem examination carried out proved inconclusive and further tests will be required, said Warwickshire Police.

    A file will now be passed to the coroner, the force added.

  15. Heineken workers to be balloted on strike actionpublished at 17:15 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    About 200 staff at Heineken's cider brewery in Hereford are being balloted on strike action.

    The Unite union said it was taking the action because the company was asking staff to sign new contracts which it said "would result in huge pay reductions for many workers".

    Bulmers factoryImage source, Google

    Heineken said it was making the changes to make sure its pay packages were "attractive for colleagues, sustainable for future growth and aligned to market practices".

    It said it was disappointed discussions with the union had broken down without agreement.

    The factory in Hereford makes Strongbow and Bulmers.

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    Unite and Heineken have had a good relationship for many years, but the company should be in no doubt that the union will do everything in its power to stop these attacks on our members’ contracts."

    Joe Clarke, Unite national officer

  16. Pair deny murder after fatal shootingpublished at 17:09 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    The men appear in court via video link accused of killing Murtaza Nazir.

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  17. Ram-raid car kills cyclist in later crashpublished at 16:48 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    Police are still trying to establish what happened leading up to the two incidents, five miles apart.

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  18. Brewery exploring partnerships with takeawayspublished at 16:47 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester

    The Wye Valley Brewery is looking at partnerships with local takeaways, so its pubs can fulfill tier two requirements to serve "substantial meals".

    Its founder, Peter Amor, said pubs that don't serve meals has been "let down" under the restrictions due to be imposed next week and argued they are "probably a lot safer than supermarkets".

    Wye Valley BreweryImage source, Google

    The brewery operates eight pubs and Mr Amor said staff had worked very hard to make them safe for customers, but faced having to stay shut unless they can serve meals with their beer.

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    We're trying to explore what a substantial meal is and whether we can tie up with another supplier, whether it's fish and chips or curry or pizzas so we can fulfill the requirements."

    Peter Amor, Wye Valley Brewery

  19. Rapist who robbed sex workers at knifepoint jailedpublished at 16:38 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    Aaron Gardner lured women to hotels in Nottingham, London and Birmingham to rob them, a court hears.

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  20. 'Realistic' hope of tier relaxation pre-Christmaspublished at 16:25 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2020

    A move from tier three to tier two restrictions across Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire could be a "realistic" hope before Christmas, according to West Midlands Mayor Andy Street.

    The government has said the tiers will be reviewed on 16 December.

    Andy Street

    Mr Street's comments were made at a regional coronavirus briefing on Friday afternoon.

    In Warwickshire, restrictions have jumped from tier one pre-lockdown to tier three and the leaders of two district councils have written to the government in protest.

    Coventry and Warwickshire were "much closer to the tier two threshold," than other parts of the region, said Mr Street.

    “It has been said by ministers that that was a finely balanced call so I think it is still realistic for that area of the region to hope there will be a change pre-Christmas.

    "But it will all still be dependent on the five indicators and them continuing to move in the right direction.”