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Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
Fresh concerns have been raised over "inadequate" health care provision at Rye Hill Prison near Rugby.
The annual Independent Monitoring Board report , externalsays it's worrying that required improvements are taking too long.
The prison, which holds about 620 sex offenders, failed a Care Quality Commission audit last year.
A re-inspection in April found that, despite some improvements, it still failed to meet legal requirements regarding inmate care plans and suitably trained health care staff.
The report does highlight that Rye Hill is now a "more settled" prison.
A Neolithic monument and a Bronze Age cemetery are some of the remains spotted from the skies by archaeologists.
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Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Some wet weather is in store this afternoon.
The weather for the West Midlands.
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
Some of our headlining stories are:
- Rye Hill prison healthcare still 'inadequate' says report
- Woman becomes only second person to complete historic swim between Irish points
- Two hurt in Coventry bus station crash
Expecting to take between eight and 10 hours, Heather Clatworthy completed the swim between Stroove beach and Portstewart in four hours, 15 minutes.
The only other recorded time the feat was achieved was in 1929 by channel swimmer Mercedes Gleitze, who took on the challenge to help promote tourism on the scenic coastline.
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Quote Message"I just wanted to do it for so long and whenever I was nine or 10 I was in my grandparents' house when I was bored on a Sunday and was reading through some of their local history books and I read about this girl Mercedes Gleitze that had done the swim, and I said 'oh my goodness, someone has actually done it', so that planted the seed in my head
Heather Clatworthy, Swimmer
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
For the first time in almost 90 years, an amateur swimmer has successfully crossed a 13-mile stretch of sea between two points off Ireland's north coast.
Heather Clatworthy, a charity worker from Leamington Spa, is only the second person to swim from Stroove beach on Co Donegal’s Inishowen peninsula and the resort of Portstewart in Co Derry, Northern Ireland.
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BBC Travel
An accident is partially blocking the A46 Warwick Bypass in Hatton southbound at the A425 Birmingham Road junction.
Mark Mouland is the leader after the first round of the British Par 3 Golf Championship at Nailcote Hall.
The Kenilworth player is a former winner on the European Tour and shot a new course record of 10-under par 44.
He is set to tee-off at 15:30 today in the pro-am tournament.
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A hike in taxi fares across Nuneaton and Bedworth, external is set to hit passengers in the height of this summer.
Paul Marriott
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
In Whitnash, you may see your council tax going up to help balance the books at the parish council.
There's concern the grant currently paid to parish councils to maintain things such as parks and open spaces is being halved over the next financial year and stopped completely after that.
Judy Falp, a Whitnash parish and town councillor, has serious concerns and says: "Our rates will have to go up.
"Projects we have would hoped to have done next year, such as a play scheme, now won't take place."
The money is currently paid by Warwick District Council.
On our front page this week: Police seized cannabis plants from a home, external during a drugs raid.
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BBC Local Live
Some of our main stories today are:
- Two hurt after bus and car crash in Coventry city centre
- Figures show car manufacturing at its highest level for 16 years
- Aerial photo reveals traces of WW2 air raid shelter
BBC Midlands Today
The Midlands has more than a hundred fewer pubs than it did six months ago, according to the Campaign for Real Ale, external (CAMRA).
While 129 have opened across the region, 241 have closed and CAMRA say it's rural and suburban pubs that are the worst hit.
It adds that those not serving food are also struggling but the expansion of places serving food and the increase in demand for craft beer is seen as a positive.
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
Two people have been treated for minor injuries after a crash involving a car and a bus in the centre of Coventry, says the ambulance service.
A woman was cut from her car and the driver of the bus was also hurt in the collision.
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BBC Local Live
A woman's been cut free from her vehicle after a crash involving a bus and a car on Hales Street in Coventry.
It happened at 08:23 near Pool Meadow bus station, say police.
Part of the street near the Fairfax Street junction is currently closed.
BBC Sport
Warwickshire's four-wicket defeat to Durham in the Royal London One-Day Cup leaves them needing a win in their final group game at Yorkshire to stand any chance of reaching the quarter finals.
It's the same in the T20 Blast format - as the Bears have to beat Lancashire at Old Trafford tomorrow night to reach the last eight in that competition.
Director of Cricket Dougie Brown says the two matches will prove if they have the character to cope under pressure.
Car manufacturing in the West Midlands has surged and is at its highest level since the year 2000, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Across the country, almost 900,000 cars have rolled off production lines so far this year - a 13% increase on last year.
Image source, PAA series of aerial photographs, released by government heritage agency Historic England to mark the Festival of Archaeology, external, show some of the top finds made in recent years.
One reveals traces of a World War Two air raid shelter in Coventry's Radford Road recreation ground, still showing up in dark rectangles of grass despite being partly demolished after the war.
Image source, Historic EnglandGolfer Andy Sullivan, from Nuneaton, is taking part in the final major of the year, the US PGA Championship in New Jersey.
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