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Duckens Nazon scores a long-range winner as Coventry come from behind to beat 10-man Swindon at the County Ground.
Read MoreWarwickshire's bowlers fight back after Hampshire bowl out the Bears for 188, in which Dom Sibley carried his bat.
Read MoreThe Live team is back from 08:00 on Wednesday.
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A Coventry primary school has been praised in a government report as an example of excellent teaching and learning practice.
Frederick Bird Primary has been included in the annual Parliamentary Review , externalwhich notes "significant improvements" to the school.
Image source, GoogleQuote MessageIt just goes to show that the hard work of all of our staff, pupils and parents in making Frederick Bird a brilliant place to learn and teach has paid off... I hope that our feature is able to inspire other schools to try out new ways of working.”
Juliet Silverton, Headteacher
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Warwickshire all-rounder Jenny Gunn has been included in a 15-strong England squad for the Ashes tour of Australia.
Image source, Getty ImagesHeather Knight's team will look to regain the Ashes in the multi-format series that begins on 22 October.
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BBC Weather
We're forecasting a mixture of sunshine, rain and cloud over the next few days, but it should be a dry night for most of us - lows of 14C (57F).
Weather forecast for the West Midlands
The case for a "fairer funding" deal for Warwickshire Police has been raised with a government minister by the local Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Philip Seccombe.
At a meeting with Nick Hurd MP last night, Mr Seccombe was joined by Warwickshire's chief constable Martin Jellley.
Image source, Warwickshire Police and Crime CommissionerThe PCC said the minister "listened carefully" during the "positive and constructive" meeting in which the financial challenges faced by the force were explained.
"I pressed the case," Mr Seccombe, said for a fairer system of funding for policing, with less top-slicing of budgets and greater flexibility for police and crime commissioners to determine their budgets locally".
A driverless pod, designed and manufactured in Coventry, has been inspected by the Duke of Cambridge.
Prince William was on a trip to Milton Keynes to celebrate the town's 50th anniversary.
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The Lutz Pathfinder pods, made by RDM Automotive, are part of the government's Autodrive project and will be tested in Milton Keynes and Coventry.
Plans to build up to 250 homes on the site of Brandon Stadium have been unveiled by its owners. , external
More than half the UK's electricity came from low carbon sources this summer, according to the National Grid which said the UK had its "greenest" summer on record.
The Warwick company has launched software that combines its knowledge of the energy system with weather data from the Met Office to forecast the share of renewable and non-renewable energy on the grid over the next 48 hours and the resulting carbon emissions.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt is hoped that technology companies will then develop apps and software that could help people control when and what type of energy they use.
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Former MP Chris White has taken on a new voluntary role as president of the Warwickshire College Group. , external
A driver had to be cut from the cab of his lorry after a three-vehicle crash on the M6 earlier, the ambulance service says.
Fire crews worked on the vehicle before paramedics could treat him for leg and abdominal injuries.
Image source, West Midlands Ambulance ServiceThe man, believed to be in his 40s, was then taken to hospital in Coventry.
The southbound carriageway was closed for a time between junctions one and the A14/M1 interchange after three lorries crashed at about 10:00.
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A family has been left shaken after their car , externalwas targeted in an arson attack.
BBC Weather Watcher Football Wendy snapped this picture of a misty Warwick Castle this morning.
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David Hazell's victims "showed huge courage" in reporting their ordeal to officers, police say.
Read MoreThe rain did not deter the thousands of people who dusted off their leg warmers, external to raise more than £30,000 for Myton Hospice.
A young Coventry man put a gun to the head of a girl, external who had been involved in an argument with his girlfriend – and then fired at her as he drove away.
A child rapist who carried out an 18-year campaign of sexual abuse has been jailed for 20 years.
Image source, Warwickshire PoliceDavid Hazell, 62, of Bishop's Itchington, was sentenced at Coventry Crown Court yesterday after a jury found him guilty of multiple offences committed against a boy and a girl between 1994 and 2012.
He was convicted of indecent assault, rape, three counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and four counts of rape of a child under 13.
There are long delays on the M6 after a crash closed the southbound carriageway.
Congestion is back to junction three for Coventry, says Highways England.
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