Rory Farrell has been jailed for a "campaign of torment" against his partner during lockdown.

The line-up for the 2022 series of Dancing On Ice is gradually being unveiled.

Liberty Poole, 22, fresh from appearing on Love Island, will be taking to the rink.

The waitress and marketing student from Birmingham said: "I grew up watching Dancing On Ice and my mum actually used to be a figure skater."

A man is in hospital in a critical condition after he was hit by a bus.

It happened just before 19:50 BST on Monday on Bilston Street, in Wolverhampton, close to the police station, West Midlands Police said.

he 70-year-old man suffered head injuries and was taken to hospital.

The road was closed while collision investigators collected evidence.

The force has asked anyone with information about the collision to come forward.

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Residents and business owners in Kings Heath, Birmingham, will get their first chance today to react to plans to extend a controversial traffic calming scheme.

Parts of the area were made a Low Traffic Neighbourhood, funded by money from central government, which prevents cars going through the filters on nine local roads.

And a pedestrianised area has been created on York Road.

But some residents said it had turned to annoyance.

Birmingham City Council has revealed proposals to close more roads in the area to make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

It is holding an online briefing on the plans at 18:00 BST.

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A Uttoxeter travel agent said scrapping the traffic light system would make it easier for people to go on holiday.

Under new UK rules revealed on Monday, the system has been replaced with a single "red list" and testing rules are being eased for people travelling from non red-list destinations who have been vaccinated in the UK, the EU, the US or any of 18 other recognised countries.

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Claire Bell, from Journeys a la Carte, said: "You've still got to think of your requirements to go into a country, just because we don't have to test to come home doesn't mean to say you might not have to test to go out there.

"But of course, booking a package you get the full information.

"And [the Canary Islands] for example aren't requesting that, so it makes it quite easy to go to."

The world's leading female cyclists compete as the race comes to the town for the first time.

Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market is looking to recruit more than 200 people to support its stalls when it returns to the city centre next month.

People are able to apply for the event online for customer-facing roles, including bar staff, catering assistants and salespeople on gift stalls, kitchen assistants and porters.

There are a mix of part-time and full-time roles working alongside the German stallholders and their core team of staff.

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Applications for all vacancies opened today.

Interviews are due to take place week commencing 1 November, for an immediate start when the market opens on 4 November.

The market will run until 23 December, with the caveat of change or cancellation, should Covid restrictions come back into effect during the winter.

A woman has been knitting "trauma teddies" for firefighters to give to young children to comfort them during frightening incidents.

The toys, made by Sheila Allies, 73, are now part of Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service's call out equipment.

The project was inspired by Watch Commander Jayne Collins, from Redditch fire station, after speaking to colleagues from other fire service and appealed on Facebook for volunteers.

Ms Allies, from Pershore, made contact as she’d already made some and was wondering who could benefit in her area and quickly sent a boxful to the station.

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Ms Collins said the service is "so grateful" to Ms Allies.

"The very first day I got the green light to start using them, there was a nasty road traffic collision right in front of the station – although we hadn't even started duty we heard the crash and rushed out to help," she said.

“A six-year-old little boy whose mum was injured was struggling to be brave but was very shaken, so he was thrilled to be given a teddy. He thought it gave him superpowers to be brave for his mum and it worked a treat.

“The teddies, as well as some hedgehogs, are Sheila's handiwork and her friends have also knitted mice which go down well.

"I now have about 90 in total and plan to distribute them across the service area, in plastic bags to keep them clean."

Ms Alles added: "I am so glad they are being put to good use.”

A patch of Staffordshire oak is giving insight into the impact of climate change on woodlands.

Tamba Momodu, 20, was unlawfully killed in Telford, an inquest into his death concludes.

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A tanker driver said he was tailed by about 20 drivers who were angry after discovering he was not transporting petrol.

Johnny Anderson, who drives for Weaver Haulage, was trying to transport building materials from Bilston to Northamptonshire last week.

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He said one driver had wound down his window to ask where he was taking his trailer of petrol to, when Mr Anderson told him he was carrying cement.

"He looked at me despondent," he said.

"He said 'You haven't got fuel on board' quite aggressively and I said 'No I'm not carrying fuel' and he said 'Well you could have stopped and let us know.

"How on earth would I know what you're about and what you're doing? I'm just going ahead doing my daily delivery."

Police identified Kashif Rafiq, also known as Anjum Nawaz, as head of an organised crime gang.

Shane Bryant died after being confronted by a group during a robbery at a convenience store in 2017.

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A developer has lodged an appeal after its plans to demolish a derelict council office block for housing were rejected.

Housing Plus Group had put forward proposals to knock down the former Bridgnorth District Council headquarters at Westgate and build 30 properties, but the scheme was refused by Shropshire Council’s southern planning committee earlier this year.

It has now taken its case to the planning inspectorate, after the committee said the development would have an unacceptable impact on road safety and the layout lacked cohesion and failed to reflect local context and character.

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A hearing date has been set for next month

Councillor Andy Boddington said: “The southern planning committee had no objection to redevelopment of the former Shropshire Council offices.

“We were happy for it to be used for housing. The problem lies in the proposed layout. “

The Westgate building was the home of Bridgnorth District Council until Shropshire Council was formed in 2009, after which its use diminished and it eventually closed. In 2015.

A man suffered life changing injuries when a car hit a tree in Wolverley, Worcestershire.

The blue Kia Optima crossed the carriageway in Shatterford Lane before hitting the tree at 17:45 BST on Friday.

A 46-year-old man was taken by ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

West Mercia Police has asked anyone who witnessed the crash to come forward.

The chief constable of West Midlands Police says describing Wayne Couzens, the Metropolitan Police officer who kidnapped, raped and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in London, as a "bad apple" is to view the crime through "the wrong lens".

It follows questions as to whether police forces do enough to vet officers or whether, as Conservative MP George Eustice said on Question Time, Couzens was simply "one bad apple".

Addressing his male colleagues, Chief Constable Dave Thompson wrote "an act like this is seen at the end of a continuance of a curve of misogynistic behaviour that women experience".

"There is a deep concern, highlighted through media coverage, that colleagues did not challenge and concerns may not have been acted upon," he wrote. "This case indicates that misogynistic attitudes to women are tolerated in policing."

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He also wrote about incidents where the force had "sacked officers in the last few years for misogynistic WhatsApp messages and abusing their position for sexual gain".

In September, PC James Ankrett admitted striking up a relationship with a domestic abuse victim, and in January former officer, Emerson Estridge, was jailed for having sex with victims while on duty.

"Some individuals are attracted to policing because it gives them power, access to vulnerable people, an ability to coerce others to get their own way," Mr Thompson said. "There is no place for them and we all have an obligation to identify, challenge and report concerns where we see them."

He called on his officers to be more alert to "more mainstream behaviour" that "shows the wrong attitudes" and set out four key actions "to make policing an exemplar for the right attitudes and approaches to women".

"Ultimately this is all about how men behave to women," he wrote. "So let’s be the change we need to see in society."

Twenty-year-old Amin Talea had a "pure soul and contagious energy", his family says.

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Residents who have been affected by smells and noxious gases from a landfill site in Staffordshire are being invited to speak to officials about the issue.

There have been thousands of complaints about the odour coming from Walley's Quarry, in Silverdale.

Many residents said it was having a negative impact on their health, quality of life and businesses.

Today will be the first of two drop-in sessions on successive Tuesdays where members of the public can meet the council, police and public health officials to discuss what is happening.

A road in Kidderminster remains closed following a burst water main.

Worcestershire County Council Highways and Travel has shared a picture of the damage to Comberton Hill following the burst.

Severn Trent said while repair work was still under way, all customers should have water supplies back.

It said it would provide further updates once work was complete.

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MP Nadhim Zahawi has promised to repay the teachers who helped him when he first moved to England.

The education secretary was speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

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His family fled Iraq in the 1970s and he could not speak English when he arrived.

"Because of what they did for me," he said, "I am able to stand before you as the Member of Parliament for Shakespeare's Stratford and the Secretary of State for Education in Her Majesty's government.

"[The UK] took in a young Kurdish boy without a word of English and made him a Cabinet minister.

"Now it's my turn to make sure that the opportunities that transformed my life are available to every child in every corner of our great country."