Four people suffered serious injuries when two vehicles crashed in Coventry on Monday.

It happened on Foleshill Road at about 13:50 shortly after Warwickshire Police attempted to stop one of the vehicles, the force said.

Teenage boys and a man from one car received trauma care at the scene before being taken to hospital.

The driver of the second, a woman, sustained serious injuries and was taken to the city's University Hospital.

The case has been referred to the force's professional standards department.

A fruit distribution centre in Coventry remains closed today after a total of 30 staff tested positive for coronavirus.

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Banana supplier Fyffes said it was putting "enhanced infection control measures" in place and stopping normal operations at the site in Walsgrave, Coventry, until Wednesday morning.

An outbreak was reported last week after 10 employees tested positive.

The site at Cross Point Business Park on Richardson Way was set for a "thorough clean", Fyffes said, adding the safety of workers was its "number one priority".

Wasps forward Thibaud Flament opts to leave at the end of the season after turning down an offer from the Premiership club.

A Coventry student has described a government U-turn on how A-level grades are awarded as a "weight off my shoulders".

A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, it has been announced.

Zara from Bishop Ullathorne School in the city said: "I have been feeling so heavy and miserable and angry these last couple of days.

"I was predicted A*AA and was given A*AB and that one grade meant that I couldn't go to any medical school.

"I understand though that my university does have a set amount of spaces and that they might not have enough space for me, so if I have to defer for a year I will."

The fruit supplier's distribution centre in Coventry has closed for 48 hours to allow for cleaning.

Police say inquiries into the death of one-year-old Elaina Rose Aziz are continuing.

Pressure is mounting on ministers to resolve the exam grades crisis.

They face calls to delay the results, change the grading algorithm or use the grades estimated by teachers, after complaints of unfair A-level results.

Students protested in Coventry's Broadgate on Sunday saying they had faced a "huge injustice".

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One of the event organisers, Yaqoub Imran from Sidney Stringer Academy, said due to the downgrading of marks he had missed out on a scholarship to the University of Birmingham.

Students across Coventry and the whole country have faced a "huge injustice" he said.

"I want the government and Ofqual to acknowledge their mistake and have the courage to make a change."

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Image source, Alan Van Wijgerden

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In England, 280,000 A-level results were downgraded from teachers' assessments on Thursday, almost 40% of the total. In Wales, 42% of A-level results predicted by teachers were lowered by the exam watchdog.

The government has defended the approach it used to determine grades.

A Coventry MP says this year's A-level results were decided by a "rigged algorithm".

It comes after almost 40% of A-level grades awarded on Thursday in England were lower than teachers' predictions.

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Zarah Sultana, Labour MP for Coventry South, is calling on the government to use teachers' assessments for marks after protests by students in Coventry on Sunday.

The government has defended the approach it used to determine grades.

Wasps reach the top four for the first time this season as they return to action with a deserved 34-21 bonus-point win at Northampton.

Nicola Bray, 45, was found dead at her home in Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday.

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From the Coventry Live website today:

• Stadium safety fears as youths spotted on grandstand roof, external
• Man accused of spree of Coventry arson attacks appears in court, external
• Police smash their way in to home in drugs raid, external

From Saturday, beauty salons can resume facial treatments as lockdown restrictions ease.

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A fallen tree's caused about £80,000 worth of damage to a fun park in Warwickshire, its owner's said.

The tree came down on Tuesday night at St Nicholas Park, Warwick, and smashed through several pieces of equipment.

Jay Wheatley is company director of owner Green Space Leisure and says the company is hoping to reopen early next week.

"We're devastated, particularly with it being in the summer holidays and particularly this year after all we've suffered with Covid as many have."

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From the Coventry Live website today:

• Travellers facing a 'chronic' shortage of authorised pitches, external
• Covid-19 outbreak at Coventry distribution centre, external
• Action finally taken to stop residents being left stranded in flood-hit flats, external

Demand for food parcels from a food bank has nearly trebled in a year, its manager has revealed.

Staff at the Stratford-upon-Avon facility handed out 692 parcels in July which manager Marian Homer said was almost three times the number in July 2019.

She added demand for children's parcels had also risen from 76 in July 2019 to 378 last month.

“No parent wants to depend on charity to feed their children but it’s clear that our food bank is becoming the only option for a growing number of struggling families."

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As anger grows over the A-level grades awarded today, a Coventry head teacher has been highly critical of the way teachers' assessments have been altered.

Exam boards asked schools to predict the grades pupils would have achieved if they had sat exams.

While nationally, 40% of grades are lower than teachers' predictions, Clare Turpin from Sidney Stringer Academy says 60% of her pupils' grades have been marked down.

"They haven't really used the calculated grades that teachers have submitted." Clare's told BBC CWR this afternoon. "In maths alone, as an example, 28 out of the 29 calculated grades have been reduced."

She added: "Last year 88 of our pupils achieved A* to B [in maths]. We calculated this year it would be 86% and they awarded us 44%, so it just doesn't make any sense."

Wasps sign lock Levi Douglas on a deal until the end of the 2019-20 Premiership season.

An outbreak among 10 workers at Fyffes in Coventry leads to the whole workforce being tested.

With finances stretched by Covid-19 these young people are supporting each other to save money.

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"We're ready" - officials at the University of Warwick have reacted positively to news they will be hosting hundreds athletes for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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Organisers of the Games announced yesterday they were abandoning plans for an athletes' village and instead would use the NEC and student accommodation at the universities of Birmingham and Warwick.

The new proposals will see 1,900 athletes and officials stay at Warwick , externalwhich will also mean they are near to the venues for rugby sevens, lawn bowls, judo and wrestling.

The university's director of sport, Lisa Dodd-Mayne, said it was "fantastic news" and it was well prepared to host the competitors.

"We've got the fantastic conference facilities, our colleagues in conferencing understand the needs that athletes have, they can relax and focus on the competitions and we've got the sporting facilities set up and ready to go so we've got no problems at all, we're ready."