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Kenneth Andrew McDermid is due to be sentenced in April over Wendy Morse's death.

Drivers licensed in Wolverhampton but not living there cannot get a £2,000 payment, a union says.

Richard Avery appears in court over the deaths of Will Henry and Brian McIntosh.

A nurse at Queen's Hospital in Burton was one of a number of motorists to have their catalytic converters stolen in a spate of thefts last Thursday.

She told police she was briefly visiting the site at 18:00 when she saw three men she thought were acting suspiciously in the car park.

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There were also thefts and attempted thefts in Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Uttoxeter on the same evening.

Staffordshire Police warned people not to approach the thieves because they usually carried tools which could be used as weapons.

A man has been arrested for drug and driving offences after police saw the vehicle being driven in excess of 100mph.

were on patrol on Saturday at the A49 in Ludlow when they saw the car speeding towards the direction of Clee Hill.

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They followed the driver and stopped him where he was issued with a warning for careless driving.

A search of the car reealed cannabis, cocaine, further drug paraphernalia and cash.

The man, aged 20 and from Herefordshire, was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of Class A drugs.

He has since been released under investigation.

A picture showing Basil and Thelma Barnett holding hands is described as a "proper look of love".

More than a third of coronavirus related deaths in Herefordshire have been among residents of care homes, according to official figures.

Most county care homes had at least one outbreak of Covid-19 and a disproportionate number of deaths have been among their residents, according to a report by the county's acting director of public health Rebecca Howell-Jones.

The report says 36% of all coronavirus related deaths in the county have been among care home residents, all aged 69 or above.

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Nine out of ten died in care homes. Of all care home residents who have died of Covid-19 to date, two-thirds did so in April and May.

Ms Howell-Jones said most deaths in the first wave happened in care homes while there has been a shift towards more hospital deaths in the most recent wave.

The report says that while data on cases are distorted by testing policies throughout the pandemic, 70% of people with Covid-19 in Herefordshire hospitals have been aged over 65.

Eloise Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in 2015 after taking dinitrophenol (DNP) capsules.

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A family of otters - one of the UK's most elusive mammals - has been pictured in a Worcestershire river.

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Wildlife photographer Matthew Lissimore the pictures he took whilst out walking near the River Arrow.

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"[I] couldn't believe my luck", he said.

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More than £13,600 is raised through donations, a cake sale and yoga session to keep the club open.

Gareth Jones was principal at Ormiston Meridian Academy before retiring in 2019.

Marian Savu was attacked in the early hours and pronounced dead at the scene.

Oakley Hughes used his mum's thumb to unlock her phone when she passed out after a fall.

The home's provider has been told to improve by Ofsted after inspectors found "serious shortfalls".

The venture will expand to places including Birmingham, Coventry and Walsall in the next few months.

Team GB rugby player Heather Fisher says she "dreads" using public toilets as she is frequently mistaken for a man because of her alopecia.

Naga Munchetty travelled across the UK to understand what race and racism means today.

A railway line has reopened six months after a train derailed and burst into flames, spilling 330,000 litres of diesel.

The southern end of the Heart of Wales line was closed following the "major incident" in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, on 26 August.

Network Rail said it took 37,500 hours of work to protect the environment and repair the line which runs from Shrewsbury to Swansea.

On Monday passenger and freight services will resume.

The man, who was believed to have been in his late teens, died after being found with stab injuries.

West Midlands Police is to get a share of government money to target violence hotspots.

The £30m funding is being allocated in a bid to crack down on murders, knife crime and other serious offences.

The money is being made available to forces in parts of England and Wales "most affected by serious violence", according to the Home Office.

In the past two years £100m of such funding has resulted in more than 100,000 weapons being seized and has seen thousands of hours of police activity like increased patrols and searches, the Home Office said.