Amateur baker Rochica has become the third contestant to leave the tent on the latest series of The Great British Bake Off.

The 27-year-old junior HR business partner from Birmingham, who is inspired by her Caribbean heritage, was voted off after a few unsuccessful bakes in bread week.

After the elimination, Rochica said: "I have really, really enjoyed it and not everybody gets to bake in the Bake Off tent so I'm proud of where I've got to and I'm just going to keep baking, just don't do anything till that time."

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Political Reporter, BBC Radio WM

The West Midlands Mayor Andy Street has said he was "surprised" the Justice Secretary Dominic Raab appeared to fail to understand the meaning of the word misogyny in an interview about violence against women.

"I think actually we should see what his actions are like," he told the BBC.

"Personally, I'm surprised he didn't understand it, because it's been much discussed, the whole discussion about whether it should be technically termed a hate crime.

"And my own reading of that is that if there is clear intention to discriminate on the basis of any agenda or sexuality issue, which I know isn't misogyny but any issue like that is already a crime."

Louis Watkiss's family pay tribute to the musician who died after he was injured at a ski centre.

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Students at Warwick University who want to see a return of face-to-face lectures are staging a protest on campus later.

Many have been told their lectures will be held online and 2,000 students have signed a petition calling for the university to change its stance.

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Student David Bush who organised the protest said: "We want the university to rectify this and offer students the option of full, in person, teaching."

The university has been contacted for comment.

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West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says transport bosses in Birmingham aren't readying to close the Queensway tunnels, despite details released yesterday by the city council.

The local authority's transport plan suggested rerouting traffic away from the central section of the A38, making room for the creation of new green spaces and allowing areas either side of the road to be connected up better.

"The most important thing is getting good quality public transport and as that policy was being published, I was literally sitting down with the transport secretary talking about this billion-pound-bid to get the cash in for the public transport," Mr Street said.

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"My own view is that we are in no way ready to close the tunnels as yet because we have to have considerable improvement in our public transport before that," Mr Street told the BBC.

"I don't think it's the right thing to do at this stage, but where there is a lot of common agreement is actually about this point that we have to invest massively behind our public transport, and that is exactly what I'm trying to do."

The views echo those of Waseem Zaffar, council cabinet member for transport, who said the plans were the starting point for a discussion about a transport vision for Birmingham.

• Read more: The history behind Birmingham's St Chad's and Queensway tunnels

Drivers are being urged to avoid a stretch of M6 this weekend as a junction will be closed for further bridge works.

Work is continuing to install the new four-lane bridge spanning the motorway over junction 10 at Walsall.

Two new bridges are being built as part of a £78m improvement scheme designed to ultimately improve congestion.

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Work was carried out on the north bridge in August and the 44m-long steel beams were lifted into place for the south bridge late last month.

The road closure this weekend will enable over half of the bridge deck panels to be put in place over the beams.

Traffic will follow an up-and-over diversion, but Highways England is advising drivers to use alternative routes where possible.

The old bridges will be demolished later on.

Scientists from the Natural History Museum and the University of Birmingham have helped identify the oldest theropod dinosaur in the UK.

The specimen, dubbed "chief dragon", is part of the family which includes the T. Rex and modern birds, and is thought to be the oldest meat-eating dinosaur to be found in the UK.

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The fossil was named Pendraig milnerae - Pendraig meaning chief dragon in Middle Welsh, and milnerae honouring Dr Angela Milner, who was the Natural History Museum's (NHM) deputy keeper of palaeontology for more than 30 years.

The theropod probably had a body the size of a modern-day chicken and would have been a metre long including its tail. It lived between 200 and 215 million years ago.

Organisers said they get "fantastic support" in Warwickshire where they keep 'breaking new ground'.

Keon Lincoln, 15, was repeatedly stabbed by a group of youths in Birmingham, jurors hear.

An exhibition of work by the artist Grayson Perry is coming to Hereford.

The Vanity of Small Differences opens at the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday and runs until the week before Christmas.

It will feature six tapestries by the artist who has featured in a number of television programmes on the BBC and Channel 4, including Grayson’s Art Club, with his wife Philippa.

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An appeal has been renewed to find a man wanted in connection with a serious assault a year ago.

Crimestoppers is offering up to £5,000 for information on the attack which left a man with serious brain damage.

On 5 October last year at about 22:00 BST, a 57-year-old man was walking in Birmingham city centre along Upper Dean Street, when a group of men and women approached him.

Shortly after he was punched in the head and knocked unconscious to the floor.

The group walked away from the scene.

He's been left with serious brain damage that will last a lifetime, police said.

Five of the group have already been arrested, but one man wanted in connection with the assault has still not been identified.

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More than 60,0000 homes in the Sandwell area are likely to have been affected by a bin strike today.

Members of the GMB union are in dispute with Serco, which runs the service for the local council.

They are striking over safety, wellbeing and wage issues.

The council says it is trying to minimise any disruption to residents and has urged Serco to work with the unions to settle the dispute.

The thief used a "bizarre dance" to distract his victim before taking a £9,000 watch.

The baton will cover 72 nations and territories before arriving in Birmingham for the 2022 Games.

A vicar has cycled 156 miles (251km) in a day to help fund a community support worker to help Iranian asylum seekers and refugees.

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Reverend David Tomlinson, of St Paul's church in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, raised £2,000 in sponsorship by completing last month's London's Ultra cycle challenge and said it was a good bike ride, taking in some of the city's iconic landmarks.

His fundraising also unlocked a £4,000 grant from the Allchurches Trust.

"They have been working for three or four months and are doing a superb job helping people integrate into life here," he said, adding work included helping with paperwork and providing emotional support during difficult times.

Kelly Butler discovered she had leukaemia from a routine blood test during her pregnancy.

Green bus shelters which can improve air quality, generate their own power and attract bees are being trialled in Halesowen.

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has worked with the Halesowen Business Improvement District (BID) and Halesowen in Bloom to bring in the plant-topped bus shelters .

The shelters are made from recycled materials and their roofs include plants designed to reduce carbon in the environment as well as filters to catch fine particles and improve air quality.

Further to this are solar panels which will generate power for the display screens and lights and allow people to charge their mobile phones while waiting for the bus.

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Two prototypes have been installed on Queensway and if the trial is successful, more than 5,000 could be installed across the region.

Councillor Kath Hartley said: “As we face this climate emergency it is important, we look at new ways of improving our environment.

“Not only can it make a difference to the air we breathe but offers real convenience for bus passengers with the offer of free solar-powered phone charging while they wait – a great innovation."

Plans to develop a new waste depot are due before Birmingham City Council's cabinet next Tuesday.

The project would see the existing Montague Street and Redfern Road depots brought together on a new site also situated on Redfern Road in Tyseley, set to cost £13.6m.

The Montague Street site was sold to Homes England in March 2020 and, if the proposals are agreed by cabinet, the existing Redfern Road site will also be disposed of.

It is anticipated the new depot could be operational as soon as mid-September 2022.

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Councillor John O’Shea said: "“It would have been easy to carry on using the dated and inadequate depot facilities our hardworking crews have had to operate out of for many years.

"This bold plan will ensure our services are equipped to meet the future needs of the city’s people.”

Construction on the Rugeley John Taylor School is set to begin later this year.