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Train passengers are facing delays on services between Rugby and Nuneaton due to damage to the overhead wires.

Services are being diverted from Rugby via Birmingham to Stafford to avoid the area, Network Rail says., external

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Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow is given an 11-year prison sentence for the killing.

BBC Radio Shropshire

Shropshire Council had to pay out £476,000 when it parted company with its chief executive, Clive Wright, it has confirmed.

And that is on top of the money it gave Mr Wright in severance pay when he left in 2020 after nearly eight years in the job.

The sum is what it had to pay to the local government pension fund following Mr Wright’s departure, but it wasn't made public at the time.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A deli has been told it is not allowed to screen Euro football matches in the venue's garden past 21:00 as it would cause "unnecessary disturbance" to neighbours.

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The Deli Social in Sutton Coldfield, which offers eat-in and alcohol options, had applied for temporary event notices (TENs) covering potential England games and the UEFA Euro 2020 final.

The tournament's later evening matches kick off at 20:00 and the venue wanted to show them. But the cut-off time for the venue's garden use is an hour later, just as each game's second half gets under way.

A licensing sub-committee meeting heard the venue had already screened two of the games.

West Midlands Police and environmental health officers have objected, with councillors upholding the objections and serving notices to the venue.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service said it had been shown evidence by staff that they were initially told by the council they had permission.

But councillors' ruling means the venue will not be able to show evening games in their entirety for the remainder of the competition.

Six-week-old Leo was having breathing difficulties when a Stourbridge GP would not see him.

Midfielder Jon Mikel Obi joins Kuwait Sporting Club after having his deal with Stoke City cancelled by mutual consent.

A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms has been issued by the Met Office for Saturday.

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Heavy rain is expected across the day and there are warnings it may cause some disruption.

The warnings are in place for most of England - although if you're in the western-most parts of our region you may escape the worst of the weather.

Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith after a six-week trial.

A teenage boy has been attacked by two others as more filmed his ordeal, police say.

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The 13-year-old victim was assaulted on St John’s Playing Fields, Guy Road, Kenilworth on Wednesday.

Warwickshire Police, external, which said the two attackers were also 13, called it a "nasty incident".

British number one Dan Evans will be in action later having made it to the third round of Wimbledon.

The Birmingham player, 31, reached the last 32 for the third time - equalling his best result at the All England Club.

He'll take on American Sebastian Korda and is due on Centre Court at 14:45 BST.

The organisers of the Fishmongers' Hall event where two people were killed by a convicted terrorist should step down, one of the victim's families have said.

Saskia Jones' uncles say they would be "insulted" if the leaders of Cambridge University Learning Together programme stayed in their roles.

Saskia, From Stratford-upon-Avon, and Jack Merritt were stabbed to death by Usman Khan at the event, held in central London, in November 2019.

The M6 southbound was completely closed overnight due to a lorry fire.

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The blaze happened between J16 and J15, near Stoke-on-Trent, at about 02:30 BST.

Highways England said, external the southbound side had been completely closed but by 05:30 only one lane remained shut.

The emergency services have not said if anyone was injured in the blaze.

Covid-19 cases have continued to rise across the West Midlands region, according to the latest government figures.

Nuneaton and Bedworth was the only local authority area in the region to register a drop in cases, though modest, in the seven days up to and including 27 June.

In Tamworth, the rate increased 452% week-on-week from 81 new cases per 100,000 people to 446 - one of the highest rates in England.

Health experts in the area are linking the rise to Euro 2020, which started on 11 June.

The rate in Warwick increased 135% to 369 per 100,000 people over the same period, up from 157.

More than half of all local authorities in the West Midlands saw their Covid rates at least double week-on-week, with those in North Warwickshire and Stafford increasing three-fold.

Despite that, hospital admissions and deaths remain low - a pattern replicated across England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted on Thursday.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust continues to have some of the highest Covid admissions in England, but they have remained at a similar level for the past three weeks despite a rise in cases in the area.

BBC Weather Watchers

The clouds on Thursday night combined with the sunset to provide our local BBC Weather Watchers with some spectacular conditions for photographs.

Here are three, from users RichardsPics, in Kingswinford, Dudley; TitanPhotoUK, in Leominster, Herefordshire; and Serena, in Gnosall, Staffordshire:

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A main road in Shrewsbury that's been closed for nearly a month because of fears a house could collapse has reopened.

The building, in St Michael's Street, has had a special type of foam pumped into it to help support it and engineers now say it's no longer in imminent danger.

The next stage will be to decide whether it can be repaired or safely brought down.

Tracy Darke, assistant director at Shropshire Council, says there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes.

"It's structurally unsound and it's not been possible for anybody to go into the building," she says.

"This has obviously been quite stressful for the people living in the property. They've had all their belongings in the property so they've not been able to go back in the property either."

BBC Weather

It's a mainly cloudy start to Friday with the odd spot of rain around followed by a sunny afternoon mixed with a few sharp showers. High: 23C (73F).

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Any showers should die out at the start of tonight but it will turn cloudier with outbreaks of rain by the early hours of Saturday. Low: 14C (57F).

You can get a latest forecast for your area at any time by going to the BBC Weather website.

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A sports bar closes as Tamworth experiences England's biggest rise in cases in a week.

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