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Drivers of high-polluting cars will pay £8 from 1 June in Birmingham city centre.

If you want the latest news, sport, travel and weather updates take a look at our live page for Thursday 21 June.

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There will be some sunny spells today with patchy cloudy and feeling breezy with top temperatures of 18C (64F).

Dippy the diplodocus is proving a huge draw on its UK-wide tour. Why are some people so fascinated with dinosaurs?

Daniel Quinn, from Wolverhampton, is set to appear before magistrates on Thursday.

The collection is one of the "biggest" photographic collections consultant Tim Goldsmith has seen.

Footage of a police raid at Ms Roberts' and Mr Rebelo's Harrow flat showed capsules being picked up.

Kent's Joe Denly and Warwickshire's Jonathan Trott both make fifties as 20 wickets fall in the day at Tunbridge Wells.

Lancashire falter to 86-5 in response to a Worcestershire innings dominated by Daryl Mitchell's 118 at New Road.

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We'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 tomorrow, but keep an eye out here for more updates this evening and into the morning.

The blue gas had burst from a valve in a compressor unit hitting David Chandler, an inquest hears.

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A football club , after suffering thefts and rubbish dumped on its pitch.

Nantwich Town FC had thousands of pounds worth of grass-cutting equipment stolen earlier this month, the second such break-in in two years.

They say they're also "plagued" by trespassers on their 3G pitch and have numerous cases of finding broken bottles, empty Prosecco bottles "and worse" on the site.

The club's started a crowdfunding webpage to raise money and says, without improved CCTV and more security measures, the future of the stadium could be at risk.

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A report published today found more than 450 patients died after being given powerful painkillers inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Nick Triggle says the scandal joins other NHS ones including the needless suffering of patients at Stafford Hospital in being etched on the public consciousness.

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He says, while all the scandals are different - Stafford was an institutional failing on a mass scale - they all have similarities and he's been examining those.

You can read his full analysis here on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website.

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A stranded boat is going to be removed later this week from a section of the Shropshire Union Canal which collapsed in March.

Image source, Tony Dunmore

The incident caused water to drain into the River Wheelock and the canal and towpath were closed for repair work.

Now, the Canal and River Trust says the boat at the breach is going to be lifted out on Friday so repair work can then begin on the breach.

Firefighters are investigating a fire which broke out in the fifth floor of an industrial unit in Staffordshire this afternoon.

The building at Waterhouses is used to store machinery and around 35 firefighters were needed to bring it under control.

Image source, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service

The Severn Valley Railway has opened the doors to its Highley Engine House today, to allow a big reshuffle of the locomotives it has on display.

Among the engines taking pride of place at the museum now is the very last locomotive to run on a British railway.

Two "floating islands" .

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The Environment Agency says anglers were concerned cormorants and goosanders were eating the fish at Wedgwood pools, Barlaston.

So it's introduced the two islands which it says come with cages underneath which fish can swim into but not the birds.

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Coventry Blaze have signed the Canadian defenceman Trey Lewis for their 2018-19 Elite League season.

The 25-year-old joins the club following an extremely successful junior and university career.

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Lewis has previously played for the Halifax Mooseheads, captaining the club to their first ever Memorial Cup victory.

A grant of almost £120,000 has been awarded to organisations in Nuneaton and Coventry to help celebrate the work of George Elliot.

It has been won by a partnership made up of the Nuneaton Library, the Nuneaton Museum and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, who made a bid to the Museums Association.

Image source, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

The money will pay for an 18-month project and will enable a specialist to be appointed to research the collections and arrange a series of activities.

Together the library and two museums hold the largest collection of publicly-held items originally belonging to George Elliot and her family.

The family of Mark Jackson, who died on 13 June, say he will be "greatly missed" by the community.