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Drivers are being warned not to ignore road closure signs after flooding in Leicestershire.

The county council's flood responder, Ben Nandrame, said a van, stuck in Witherley on Monday, was one of 10 reports of vehicles stranded across the county he has received since Friday.

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Mr Nandrame said Mythe Lane in Witherley (pictured above), Watery Gate Lane in Thurlaston (pictured below) and Slash Lane in Sileby are all closed due to flooding and are not passable.

However, Merrylees Road, Bagworth, is "passable with due care and attention".

He said: "Fast flowing flood water can easily move a car and knock you off your feet, so please do not enter any flood water and find an alternative route."

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Wasps will host the first of two Premiership Rugby semi-finals on Saturday, 10 October.

A main road linking two Warwickshire towns may close for up to nine months for HS2 construction work.

BBC Radio CWR

Demand for spare parts for Austin Healey sports cars has shot up during lockdown, according to a firm in Warwickshire.

AH Spares, in Southam, has been running for nearly 50 years.

Since March, the firm said sales had increased by nearly 40% and parts have been shipped across the world, particularly to the USA.

"We believe it is because the customer is locked down in their garages so they are getting on with their restoration projects that they probably couldn't get on with before," Director Rebecca Kemsley said.

Coventry Live

A few of the headlines on Coventry Live today:

• Sharp rise in Covid-19 infection rates across Coventry and Warwickshire, external
• Driver rescued from flooded car, external
• Future of Nuneaton's iconic Dandelion Fountain confirmed, external

A driver has been rescued from flood water in Warwickshire.

The fire service said , externalcrews from Wellesbourne and Stratford-upon-Avon were called out just before midday on Sunday.

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BBC News

The rivers Leam and Avon will be closely monitored today after heavy rain at the weekend.

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Three flood warnings remain in place , externalwith one on the Leam at Eathorpe, Huningham and Offchurch, near Leamington Spa, and two on the Avon at Wyre Piddle, near Evesham, and Strensham and Bredon.

The Environment Agency has said it expected water levels to remain high through the day.

There are also eight flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, dotted across the West Midlands.

In Worcestershire, the county council has said , externalseveral roads and bridges remain closed while First Worcester said some bus services remain disrupted., external

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

A Monopoly-style board game about homelessness and a theatre piece telling the stories of refugees form part of a new exhibition.

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Coventry Creates was put together during lockdown by artists as part of the city's Year of Culture celebrations.

The result is 18 pieces of digital art which can be seen on the Coventry Creates website from Monday.

Coventry's year as City of Culture will run from May 2021 to May 2022.

Coventry Creates was put together during lockdown by artists as part of the city's Year of Culture.

Wasps secure a home semi-final in the Premiership play-offs with a bonus-point win over a weakened Exeter.

AFC Bournemouth move top of the Championship after beating 10-man Coventry City in a feisty encounter.

The boy told police he was "nine to 10" on a scale of right-wing terror, with Hitler being a 10.

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Two fee-paying schools in Coventry have said they will merge to save money.

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The Coventry School Foundation, which runs both Bablake School and King Henry VIII School, said the move would "achieve efficiencies" and allow it to revamp the campuses.

The plan will see the two private schools merge and both lose their historic names - instead they will be known as Coventry School, which will open in September 2021, with the merger completed by the following year.

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Officials at King Henry VIII School say it was in 1545 with an older date for Bablake of 1344.

A petition has been set up opposing the merger claiming the move "only seemed to be motivated by the incentive of profit" and more than 950 people have signed it.

Coventry University begins disciplinary proceedings against "a number of students".

The number of new cases of coronavirus in the West Midlands appears to be plateauing, according to health officials.

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Clive Wright, from the Department of Health and Social Care, told a regional briefing today the overall rate of infection had come down but "we must not get complacent".

He revealed the figures from Tuesday and then from Thursday for every 100,000 which show:

• Birmingham - from 146.3 to 139.2
• Coventry - from 66.3 to 71.2
• Dudley - from 45.2 to 52.5
• Sandwell - from 113.3 to 107.5
• Solihull - from 75.8 to 79.6
• Walsall - from 78.7 to 72.7
• Wolverhampton - from 76.3 to 74.8

The number of tests being carried out in the region has increased from 30,000 in the week up to 17 September to 42,000 in the last week.

Further restrictions were introduced last month in Birmingham, Sandwell, Solihull and Wolverhampton banning households from mixing.

Mr Wright said the chance of restrictions being eased in the near future was "unlikely" but they might happen it "we continue to go in the right direction".

Balvinder Gahir was found with serious head injuries at a property in Leamington Spa in August.

BBC Weather Watchers

We had an impressive full moon last night and depending on where you were, it seems it appeared in a range of colours.

To a BBC Weather Watcher in Telford it appeared to be bright orange, but in Coventry it was photographed in a more traditional white, while in Admaston it went for the beige look.

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She advises parents to talk to children about how they feel as restrictions bite into normal life.

Defender Michael Rose signs a new three-year contract with Championship club Coventry City.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

The future of Stratford-upon-Avon's minor injuries unit and the first aid centre at Shipston’s Ellen Badger Hospital is going to be reviewed.

They were both closed in March, to allow staff to be transferred to Warwick, to help cope with the extra demand created by coronavirus.

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Both centres are set to remain closed through the winter and the review will determine what happens to them next.

Under NHS England guidance, if they cannot become Urgent Treatment Centres, dealing with minor injuries which don't require a trip to an accident and emergency department, they will have to change, to provide other primary care services.