Summary

  • Updates on Friday 12 November

  1. 'We were brave, but I'm still looking for more'published at 23:01 GMT 25 February

    Stoke manager Mark Robins spoke to BBC Radio Stoke after their 2-1 Championship win over Oxford United.

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  2. 'Well below the competitiveness required' - Daviespublished at 22:38 GMT 25 February

    Birmingham City manager Chris Davies says his team's defeat at Millwall is a reminder of the levels required to win games in the Championship.

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  3. 'So much still to play for' says Lampardpublished at 22:21 GMT 25 February

    Coventry manager Frank Lampard is not getting carried away after the fine comeback win at Sheffield United.

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  4. Two more arrested after teenager's fatal stabbingpublished at 18:00 GMT 25 February

    Michael Ababio was stabbed outside Foleshill Library on Sunday.

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  5. Plans 'will reinvent' former House of Fraser storepublished at 17:48 GMT 25 February

    The former House of Fraser department store, on High Street, closed for the last time, in 2019.

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  6. Mum's tribute to 'kind and beautiful' daughterpublished at 15:58 GMT 25 February

    Katie Fox was stabbed in the neck just outside the Bullring shopping centre in November.

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  7. MP urges open files on nurse's unsolved 1959 murderpublished at 15:55 GMT 25 February

    Martha Giles, a nurse, was murdered on 12 February 1959 near Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital.

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  8. Up to £3m for electric vehicle industry in regionpublished at 15:32 GMT 25 February

    Companies will be given the funding to invest in new equipment, skills and production capacity.

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  9. 'When there's fight, there's hope' - Vale's Bradypublished at 15:22 GMT 25 February

    Port Vale's 1-0 win at relegation rivals Northampton should give them belief they can still stay up, says boss Jon Brady.

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  10. Two arrested after city street stabbing published at 14:44 GMT 25 February

    The victim, aged in his 20s, suffered serious knife wounds in Clay Lane in Coventry on Tuesday night.

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  11. B&Q hot tub thief jailed for targeting store againpublished at 14:07 GMT 25 February

    Carl Proctor is caught stealing two days after being convicted for a theft from the same store.

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  12. On the bins: Spending the day with refuse teampublished at 13:59 GMT 25 February

    The BBC joins bin crews in Lichfield as councils prepare for big changes to food waste collections.

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  13. 'I fear impact of Bafta Tourette's row on others'published at 13:54 GMT 25 February

    Greg Storey is concerned some people with the disorder might be worried about leaving their houses.

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  14. 'There's only so much we can take'published at 13:50 GMT 25 February

    A man has very short white hair and is wearing a dark green zip jumper. He is leaning on a metal fence into a barn. Beyond the fence there are some curious black and brown cows near him, one is sniffing his hand. There is hay on the ground of the barn and a window in the back corner showing greenery and a farm building.

    Richard Yates, a livestock farmer in Shropshire, says he has seen repeated cases of fly-tipping on his land that seem to be getting worse.

    He has found everything from general rubbish to builders’ waste, garden waste, tyres, and chemicals dumped on his farm in Bridgnorth.

    "Often it's off the back roads and they pull in, get away pretty quickly, dump their stuff," he says.

    "It's pretty annoying because it's my responsibility now to tidy it up."

    He adds that farmers were implementing their own measures to try and deter people by doing things like putting large tree trunks in front of gates, and the threat of the issue made farmers hyper-vigilant.

    "We note numbers, I made one citizen’s arrest. I wouldn't advocate that as a line of action, but I felt I needed to do it at the time, there's only so much we can take."

  15. Grant scheme launched for high street businessespublished at 13:23 GMT 25 February

    The funding is designed to help high street businesses with improvements and opens on 6 March.

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  16. Fly-tipping reports up in Birminghampublished at 12:40 GMT 25 February

    Jonathan Fagg
    BBC England Data Unit

    A Birmingham City Council report published last year found the city saw a rise in fly-tipping reports in the early months of the strike.

    "The overall numbers of cases of fly-tipping have increased significantly as an impact of the industrial action in waste management," a report for the city council's licensing and public protection committee agenda said in June.

    "This work is currently taking nearly all the available resource of the Waste Enforcement Unit.”

    The report shows the number of fly-tipping cases recorded by the city council in eight months in 2024 was 53.

    From the start of the strikes in January, the report shows an average 96 per month from January to March - with 118 cases in March alone.

  17. Teacher banned for sexual relationship with pupilpublished at 12:28 GMT 25 February

    Lee Butler has been banned from teaching indefinitely at any schools in England.

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  18. Fourth Tory councillor defects to Reformpublished at 12:22 GMT 25 February

    Carl Edwards says he has watched "promise after promise broken" by his former party.

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  19. Staff clap as little Ollie leaves US hospitalpublished at 12:06 GMT 25 February

    A one-year-old who had heart surgery in California has been discharged from hospital.

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  20. Teenage boy seriously injured in hit-and-runpublished at 12:03 GMT 25 February

    West Midlands Ambulance Service says the collision occurred on Trysull Road in Wolverhampton.

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