Molly, a 17-month-old black Labrador, was chasing her ball down a bank but then ran into a branch.

Brenda Venables disappeared in 1982 and her remains found in Kempsey nearly 30 years later.

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant says proposals to redraw and rename some parliamentary seats by The Boundary Commission for England show "no knowledge" of his constituency.

Under the plans, Lichfield Trent Valley Station will be cut in two and the eastern edge of Lichfield will be "cut off", the Conservative MP says.

Other parts of the Midlands and the north of England will lose seats while areas in the South gain under a shake-up of England's electoral map in 2023.

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Population changes mean that, in England, the North East, the North West and the West Midlands will lose two seats each while London gains two, the South West gets three extra and the South East is up seven.

It would be the first major overhaul of seat boundaries in England since 2010.

But Mr Fabricant described the proposals as "a nonsense".

"It bears all the hallmarks of boundaries drawn in the 19th and 20th centuries by Whitehall mapmakers in days of empire without any knowledge or care of the regions and people concerned."

Vets suspect the injuries to the Jack Russell terrier were caused by a significantly larger dog.

The five-day office week could become the norm again within two years, the Centre for Cities think tank has told the BBC.

A blend of home and office work is expected to be popular while the UK recovers from the pandemic.

In Birmingham, cafe owners and siblings James and Naomi Morris are looking forward to the arrival of more commuters to the city centre. They set up their business, Morridge, in 2019 specifically to target city workers.

James told the BBC he'd started to see more commuters coming into the cafe again.

"Over the past few weeks, office workers have slowly been returning. People are starting to work in the cafe - a lady came in for breakfast the other day and took a couple of work calls."

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A woman criticises a new police scheme which allows domestic abusers to meet their victims.

With the launch of The Hundred on the horizon, the T20 Blast begins on Wednesday with the aim of providing fireworks of its own.

A new set of business support grants will launch on Wednesday.

The grants from Wolverhampton City Council will aim to assist businesses and organisations not eligible for the government’s mandatory Restart Grant and help them undertake Covid compliance measures.

Eligibility criteria, and how to access the online application process for the new grants, will be available from 13:00 BST on Wednesday.

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Funds are limited and grants will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, the authority said.

Front-line workers who risked their lives to save others during the pandemic will be honoured during a party in the park.

Black Country Musicom Festival will take part in Himley, Dudley, on 11 July.

It will also see local staff presented with the freedom of the borough for their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Councillor Anne Millward, mayor of Dudley, said: "[The festival] has a special meaning this year, giving us the chance to say thank you to all those people who worked so tirelessly risking their lives on the front line to protect us all during the pandemic."

An elderly man is in a serious condition after being stabbed at his home, police said.

It happened at about 12:00 BST on Monday in Three Spires Avenue, Coventry, West Midlands Police said.

The victim, aged 84, was taken to hospital with serious injuries to his abdomen and remains in a serious but stable condition.

A 38-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and assaulting a police officer remains in custody, the force said.

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Officers are examining the scene, the police force said, as well as speaking to potential witnesses and viewing CCTV to try to establish what happened.

Anyone with information has been urged to come forward.

The £22.3m that Telford is getting from the government's Towns Fund will pay for a new digital skills and enterprise hub, the council has said.

There are also plans to spend the money on improved transport links between Telford town centre, Oakengates and Wellington and to get more town centre homes built.

Shaun Davies, Labour leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, said the town had not got the full £25m it had asked for but the money would be a "game changer" for development.

Two men and three youths are charged with murdering Dea-John Reid who died from a stab wound.

A Leek school has five cases of Covid-19, two of which are thought to be a "variant of concern".

High demand for Covid-19 vaccinations at a mobile site in Nechells, Birmingham, means the queue is now full and has closed for the day.

The jabs are being offered to people from the immediate area aged over 25 as well as over-18s in the Cohort 6 group, such as carers.

The two mobile vans will return tomorrow, as health chiefs say they want to "reduce the transmission of the virus, which is particularly important as the new variant is 40% more transmissible".

Hand hygiene and PPE use was not always acceptable on the New Cross Hospital ward, a probe finds.

The average price of a house in the West Midlands has risen to almost £221,000 following an annual rise of 9% in the region.

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Figures from the Halifax suggest UK house prices jumped by 9.5% in the year to May, boosted by the government's stamp duty holiday, which ends this month.

The average house price in the West Midlands now stands at £220,998, compared with £261,743 nationally.

Russell Galley, Halifax's managing director, said buyer preferences were shifting "in anticipation of new, post-pandemic lifestyles".

"Greater demand for larger properties with more space might warrant an increased willingness to spend a higher proportion of income on housing," he said.

Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the west of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by the archaeologists themselves. We discover the camp from which Vikings invaded Britain, and find groundbreaking new evidence that the world-famous Avebury stone circle isn't just a sacred site but a place where our ancestors lived and worked - a discovery that's also changing our understanding of neighbouring Stonehenge. In Staffordshire, the oldest Iron Age gold in Britain is unearthed - a set of beautiful gold torcs, mysteriously abandoned 2,500 years ago.

A van driver died when his vehicle was collision with a car in Worcester.

The crash, which involved a Peugeot 2008, happened on the B4203 last Wednesday.

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"Unfortunately a 66-year-old man from Bromyard who was driving the van was pronounced deceased at the scene," West Mercia Police said.

Officers want to hear from anyone with information about the crash, which happened at the junction with the B4204.

Thieves damaged tills, computers and three doors and took £100 during the break-in in Kings Heath.