Deodorants stored at the site explode, "popping right through the night", the fire service says.

Smoke could be seen from miles around and residents were advised to keep doors and windows shut.

Five-year-old Mathew Richards' family says hydrogen sulphide from the site is damaging his health.

He is caught after a member of the public supplies the grateful local council with CCTV footage.

Worcestershire opening batsman Jake Libby signs a new contract with the Pears until 2024.

Residents in a Cheshire village whose homes were flooded in January are still unable to return home.

A man who assaulted a sleeping woman while his wife was in the same room is jailed by appeal judges.

Some residents in Stoke-on-Trent say they were misled over 25-year contracts.

Heart patients can get their pacemakers and ECG monitors checked without leaving the car.

She saves her vehicle from a transporter's ramp shortly after leaving a slimming club at a church.

The tawny owls have been cared for at a rescue centre while developing their flight feathers.

More areas than ever before have put in bids to be made the next UK City of Culture.

They include Wolverhampton, which is among 20 places to express their interest in hosting a year of cultural festivities in 2025, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said.

The successful bidder will take on the baton from Coventry, which is the 2021 UK City of Culture.

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Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: "This record number of applications from all four corners of the country is testament to the huge success of City of Culture in generating investment, creating jobs and boosting local pride.

"This prestigious prize creates a fantastic opportunity for towns and cities to build back better from the pandemic and I wish all bidders the very best of luck."

The 20 bidders will be reduced to an initial longlist in the coming weeks and then cut down further to a final shortlist in early 2022, with the winner announced in May 2022.

Josh Larcombe has been given a suspended jail sentence at Plymouth Crown Court.

BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester

A drive-through clinic has been set up at a hospital in Worcester to speed up checks on patients with pacemakers.

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Bosses at Worcestershire Royal Hospital said, external waiting lists had built up in their cardiology department due to the pandemic.

They have set up a pod in their car park for people with pacemakers and implantable cardiac loop recorders.

Patients park in the pod, are handed wireless equipment and it downloads information which doctors can then review within minutes.

Will Foster, from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said the drive-through clinic would free up capacity in the cardiology unit.

"We do not just need to go back to our previous level, we need to do more so we are trying to aim to do 125% of what we were doing pre-pandemic," he said.

Three men used a digger to steal the phone box, belonging to Chelford Parish Council, police say.

BBC Weather

Mainly dry and cloudy today with some bright spells this morning and scattered showers moving in later this afternoon. High: 21C/70F.

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Things will be overcast this evening with some spots of rain around and a band of heavy rain is expected to push into the region overnight. Low: 15C/59F.

You can get the latest forecast for your area at any time from the BBC Weather website.

Dominic Allan needs a metal plate to protect a part of his brain covered by skin and no bone.

Judges say Jamie Taylor must spend longer in prison due to "disgusting" racism before his fatal blow.

Carvel Bennett, 74, was jailed for 1970s rape after his daughter's DNA was used as evidence.

Laura Heath also denies child cruelty charges following the death of her boy Hakeem Hussain, seven.