Summary

  • Updates from Friday 22 October

  1. Struggling families to receive Diwali hamperspublished at 14:55 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2021

    The Diwali Basket Brigade has raised £25,000 to provide 2,500 hampers.

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  2. Nightclub to offer drink-spiking testing kitspublished at 11:56 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2021

    The Nightingale club is bringing in the kits amid a spate of recent spikings around the country.

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  3. Pedestrian dies after being hit by two carspublished at 11:27 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2021

    The man was taken to hospital in a critical condition and died soon after arriving, police say.

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  4. JCB signs green hydrogen deal worth billionspublished at 10:47 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2021

    JCB will take 10% of the green hydrogen made by Australian mining company Fortescue Future Industries.

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  5. Climate change: Is this when it all went wrong?published at 09:28 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2021

    Could the industrial revolution's founding fathers' spirit of ingenuity also help solve the problem?

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  6. Wasps see off winless Bath at The Recpublished at 19:34 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    Bath slump to a sixth straight loss as Wasps win at the Rec to leave the Blue, Black and Whites still bottom of the Premiership.

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  7. Birmingham end Boro's winning runpublished at 18:22 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    Birmingham City end Middlesbrough's three-match winning run with two goals in three second-half minutes at the Riverside Stadium.

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  8. Crawley Town 1-4 Port Valepublished at 18:13 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    High-flying Port Vale make it seven wins from their last nine League Two games with a 4-1 comeback victory at 10-man Crawley.

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  9. Crewe Alexandra 1-4 Milton Keynes Donspublished at 17:57 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    MK Dons can afford the luxury of a Mo Eisa penalty miss as they return to winning ways by thrashing bottom club Crewe.

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  10. Godden goal gives Coventry win at Hullpublished at 17:14 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    Matt Godden scores the only goal of the game as fourth-placed Coventry win at struggling Hull City

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  11. Police probe man's death at foundrypublished at 17:04 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    The man, aged in his 50s, died at the scene on Friday, West Midlands Police said.

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  12. Lorry crash leads to M5 closurepublished at 12:33 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    The collision has also damaged a lamppost which could fall onto the motorway, police say.

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  13. Spiking victim felt she was not taken seriouslypublished at 07:21 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    Polly Sutherland still feels unsafe after being spiked five years ago at a university nightclub.

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  14. The teenager making films fun for deaf childrenpublished at 00:56 British Summer Time 30 October 2021

    Mariella, 17, made an app during lockdown that's helping some kids enjoy films for the first time.

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  15. Suspect's Sikh headwear 'not stamped on' by policepublished at 21:08 British Summer Time 29 October 2021

    A watchdog says it understands the incident has caused "understandable unrest" but calls for calm.

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  16. Blood test trialled in bid to detect early cancerspublished at 19:51 British Summer Time 29 October 2021

    A mobile unit opens in the West Midlands as part of a trial aiming to recruit 140,000 volunteers in England.

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  17. Man charged over fatal assault of 74-year-oldpublished at 18:55 British Summer Time 29 October 2021

    Richard Barbeary was found injured in a Coventry street last November and died in hospital.

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  18. Woman with Down's to fight court abortion rulingpublished at 18:38 British Summer Time 29 October 2021

    Heidi Crowter says her failed bid to change the law made her feel "people didn't want me in the world".

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  19. Further appeal over shooting of two boys, 13published at 17:55 British Summer Time 29 October 2021

    Police have made a further appeal for information after two 13-year-old boys were shot in Stoke-on-Trent.

    Staffordshire Police said it happened close to garages on Borrowdale Road near Spragg House Lane in Norton at about 22:05 BST on Wednesday.

    Det Supt Tom Chisolm said the boys entered the areas of the garages when the weapon, believed to be a shotgun, or a weapon capable of firing shotgun cartridges, was fired at them.

    He appealed for anyone with information, CCTV, or dash cam footage from the area at the time of the incident to come forward.

    "This is really concerning and we don't want these types of things to happen in Staffordshire," he added.

    Both boys sustained injuries consistent with those associated with the suspected weapon. They are not thought to have been seriously hurt.

  20. 'Unexplained' deaths probed at Redditch homepublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 29 October 2021

    The unnamed man and woman had been dead for several weeks by the time they were discovered, say police.

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