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  • Updates from across the week

  1. Driver escapes with minor injuries after M6 Toll collisionpublished at 17:19 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    A vehicle involved in a crash on the M6 Toll earlier struck an overhead sign gantry before ending up on the wrong wide of a crash barrier.

    Crash on M6 TollImage source, Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service

    Despite "significant damage" to the car, the ambulance service said the driver was able to get out of the car, and suffered only a number of small cuts.

    The 39-year-old woman was taken to hospital as a precaution after the collision just before junction T1 at Coleshill around 09:05.

    Vehicle involved inImage source, West Midlands Ambulance Service
  2. Speedway: Challenge match meeting confirmed for Beespublished at 17:10 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

    The Save Coventry Speedway campaign have confirmed a fifth challenge meeting for the Coventry Bees riders. 

    They'll race at Rye House on Saturday 6 May. 

    The Bees were thrown out of the Premiership for this season and owner Mick Horton has had his license frozen after being unable to secure Brandon as a home venue.  

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  3. Peeping Tom is stuckpublished at 16:27 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    The mechanism on the Lady Godiva clock in Coventry has malfunctioned, meaning Tom is stuck in a peeping position and the lady is no longer riding her horse. 

    Coventry council tells us it's investigating the fault.

    Media caption,

    Engineers are investigating

    The clock, which depicts the story of Peeping Tom spying on Lady Godiva’s naked ride on a horse through the city, is located in the grade II listed Broadgate House.  

    Artist Trevor Tennant carved the wooden figures for the clock, which was installed in the 1950s as part of the redevelopment of Broadgate.

  4. Your questions: Will the Honeybourne line's missing track be reinstated? published at 15:57 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    An update on the potential reopening the Honeybourne rail line in Warwickshire has been requested using our Your Questions tool .

    
          Existing branch line at Long Marston looking towards Honeybourne
        Image source, Fraser Pithie

    The six miles of missing track would link Stratford-upon-Avon with Long Marston which, campaigners say, could help ease congestion and improve links to London and Birmingham.

    Fraser Pithie, from the  Shakespeare Line Promotion Group, external  said  a consultation on Stratford's future transport needs, external , which ends today, ignores the potential benefits of reinstating the line.

    The councillor in charge of transport in Warwickshire, Peter Butlin, said the re-opening of the line would cost around £100m and isn't something they could consider without the support of central government and Network Rail.

  5. Flowers placed to mark London terror attackpublished at 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Flowers have been placed at the foot of a flag at half-mast outside Coventry Central police station, in Little Park Street.

    They were passed to officers by a member of the public in remembrance of PC Keith Palmer and others who lost their lives yesterday.

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  6. Police post details of 16 burglary suspectspublished at 14:35 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Police are appealing for help in their hunt for 16 men, external wanted in connection with dozens of burglaries across the West Midlands. 

    16 suspectsImage source, West Midlands Police

    Homes in Birmingham, the Black Country, Coventry and Solihull have all been targeted, with thousands of pounds worth of property stolen, police say.  

  7. Turtles abandoned at side of busy roadpublished at 14:09 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Five turtles found abandoned at the side of a busy road are now in the care of a specialist exotics centre after being collected by the RSPCA.

    Abandoned turtlesImage source, RSPCA

    The four common musk turtles and one map turtle were discovered last week in a plastic box on Daventry Road, Barby, near Rugby.

    The RSPCA said it was "extremely concerned" about the number of abandoned reptiles, with 1,700 similar animals being rescued by the organisation last year.

  8. Flags fly at half-mast in memory of killed policemanpublished at 13:43 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Flags across the region, including these at Stratford and Rugby police stations, are being flown at half-mast in memory of PC Keith Palmer, killed in yesterday's terror attack.

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  9. Flowers for police after London attackpublished at 13:16 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Well-wishers are taking flowers to police stations across England after the London terror attack.

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  10. A third egg for town hall falconspublished at 13:03 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    A pair of peregrine falcons nesting at the top of the Town Hall in Leamington Spa now have three eggs, says Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

    Nesting peregrine falconImage source, @LeamPeregrines

    A live camera stream has been installed, external  to watch the birds.

    @LeamPeregrines tweeted the birds usually lay three or four eggs, separated by two or three days, so there may even be another on the way.

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    The webcam shows the pair have eggs

  11. One arrested after drugs raidspublished at 12:36 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    One woman has been arrested, say police, after they carried out two drugs raids in Leamington Spa earlier

    The 31-year-old was at a property at Clapham Terrace and a barge on the Grand Union canal was also searched by officers.

    Officers searching bargeImage source, Warwickshire Police
  12. Cash and phone stolen during aggravated burglary in Nuneatonpublished at 11:50 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    A police investigation is underway, external into an aggravated burglary in Nuneaton in which cash and a mobile phone were stolen. 

    Police

    Two men, described as white men in their twenties, entered the property in Tyran Road on Tuesday. 

    An altercation followed, in which one of the occupants was struck with what's believed to be a hammer, before the offenders made off with a jar of money and a mobile phone. 

    Police are appealing for more information.    

  13. London attack: Terrorists 'cannot damage our democracy and the mother of parliaments' published at 11:26 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi said the fact parliamentary sessions would go ahead as planned today was a sign London would not give in to fear.

    MPs observing minute's silence

    Following a minute's silence this morning, MPs have resumed the usual business of the day.  

    "I would say the best way we defeat these evil-doers, these terrorists and their supporters is by demonstrating that life - as the prime minister said - will go on today, Parliament will sit, both houses will sit, there's one in the Commons and the Lords.

    "And the best way we can defeat them is to demonstrate that they cannot damage our democracy and the mother of parliaments."

  14. West Midlands Police reminds public national threat level remains 'severe' published at 10:45 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    Members of the public have been reminded by police the security threat level nationally remains unchanged at "severe", meaning an attack is "highly likely".

    police statement

    The West Midlands force has asked residents to "remain alert and not alarmed". 

    It said concerns should be reported to a confidential anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321.

  15. London attack: 'Panic of sirens and worried faces'published at 10:24 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    University of Warwick press officer Luke Walton was walking down Whitehall towards Westminster Bridge when the attack happened.

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    He said had been turned away from the bridge by an officer, moments after the incident

    "It was very scary. All the emergency services were there, there were helicopters, police and ambulance.

    "I moved away and crossed the river over another bridge where I could see the pandemonium that was happening there.

    "There were lots of scared faces as well. It only really started to quieten down when I was a good mile away on foot."

  16. Brexit, Elections, Revolts. And Labour?published at 10:02 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2017

    All the talk is of Brexit, an early election and Tory revolts. So what about Labour?

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