A large fuel spillage on the M6 southbound will delay re-opening the motorway says Highways England.

A recovery operation is under way there after a crash involving at least three lorries.

The carriageway remains closed between J2 and the M1.

At least three lorries have been involved in a crash which has closed the M6 southbound, says the ambulance service.

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It has staff at the scene after being called to the site close to junction one at about 10:00.

Birmingham Mail

A man had to be cut free by firefighters after a collision involving four cars on the M42, external near Coleshill.

BBC News Travel

All traffic is being temporarily held on the M6 southbound between J1 A426 and M1 J19 after a two-vehicle crash.

People are reluctant to use mobile defibrillators to treat cardiac arrests, researchers at the University of Warwick have found., external

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Defibrillators can deliver an electric shock to the chest to restore a person's heart to a normal rhythm.

Many people worry they might harm a patient, despite the devices being suitable for use by untrained members of the public, the study found.

Coventry Telegraph

Reports have surfaced suggesting Coventry-based car giant Jaguar Land Rover is on the hunt for acquisitions, external in a bid to broaden its portfolio of products.

Coventry University is to open a new "mini-hospital" to train the next generation of paramedics and nurses.

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The £59m Science and Health building, due to open on Monday, includes an operating theatre, birthing suite and two terraced houses set up as patient homes.

More than 75% of all health professionals who graduated from Coventry University last year now work in the health service in the West Midlands.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

The University of Warwick has admitted there were "issues of process to be improved" after trainee doctors were told they will have to re-sit an exam paper.

Trainees alerted authorities that nine of the 18 questions in their graduate entry exam appeared in the 2015 paper.

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They have been told they will re-sit the exam in nine days, angering the students, some of whom fear they may fail it.

The students took the exam on 4 September as part of phase two of their four-year graduate entry MBChB course.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

Any mist or fog around this morning will clear leaving a brighter afternoon with some sunny spells and highs of 19C (66F).

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

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A public footbridge linking the Central Six shopping centre to Spencer Avenue in Coventry is to be closed from today for resurfacing work.

The council says the closure will be in place between the hours of 20:00 to 06:00 and last about a week.

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Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

After a day which started wet for parts of the West Midlands, here's how tonight and, importantly, tomorrow are looking.

You can also keep yourself up-to-date with the latest forecasts from the BBC Weather website.

Medical students discovered half the questions were on a 2015 paper that was circulated online.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

An investment worth about £7.5m has been secured for the redevelopment of Nuneaton town centre, the county council has announced.

The Local Enterprise Partnership is to spend the allocation on a scheme to revamp the town's shopping offer.

Local Conservative MP, Marcus Jones, said the town needed to offer more leisure facilities and increase the amount of people living in the town centre.

Coventry Telegraph

Fuming fire chiefs have slammed a drunk man, external who called the fire service – for a lift home.

BBC Weather Watchers

"Sloe drip, after the rain," reports BBC Weather Watcher Old Salt in Southam, Warwickshire, today.

Image source, Old Salt

Kingfisher Whisperer snapped this image of a sloe after the rain in Coventry too.

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Coventry Telegraph

Speed cameras could return to the city as early, external as next spring after an absence of four years.

The first day of Warwickshire's County Championship fixture with Hampshire is washed out at Edgbaston.