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Woman who killed sleeping daughter in West Midlands given hospital order

Jaskirat Kaur stabbed 10-year-old Shay Kang because she believed they were being targeted by ‘tech and lasers’

The Guardian - UK

An e-biking tour of England’s newest forest

Over nine million trees have been planted in the east Midlands’ National Forest, where mines once churned up the land, offering great cycling routes that explore villages and industrial heritage

The Guardian - UK

Aston Villa triumph in midlands derby with superb comeback win against Wolves

Aston Villa 3-1 Wolves: Unai Emery’s men played in the Champions League during the week

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BTCC Silverstone: Taylor-Smith excluded from qualifying, Ingram inherits pole

British Touring Car Championship title contender Tom Ingram has inherited pole position for the Silverstone round after qualifying topper Aron Taylor-Smith was excluded. Taylor-Smith, his third-fastest team-mate Mikey Doble plus sixth-placed Dan Zelos all fell foul of the ride-height test, and will start race one from the back of the grid. Aron…

Autosport

RFU looked at abandoning Twickenham and hosting England in Birmingham

The Rugby Football Union considered a Midlands site with ‘better access for whole of the country’ before opting to stay at a renamed Twickenham

The Guardian - UK

Chelsea’s Noni Madueke apologises for insulting Wolverhampton after scoring hat-trick against them

Madueke scored a hat-trick in Chelsea’s 6-2 victory hours after deleting a social media post about the state of the midlands city

The Independent UK

UK weather: hottest day of the year so far as temperature of 31.9C recorded

St James’s Park in central London records highest reading, with health alerts in place across the Midlands, eastern and southern England

The Guardian - UK

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Labour expects surge of ‘shy Reform’ voters in some northern and Midlands seats

Activists forecast margins of fewer than 2,000 votes separating them from Farage’s party – or even a shock defeat

The Guardian - UK

Sunak in last-ditch attempt to rally Conservative voters with threat of a Labour ‘supermajority’

Rishi Sunak insists he has not given up, with final 48-hour push for votes to ‘stop a Labour supermajority’ – as leading pollster argues polls have been wrong

The Independent UK

Labour is fixated on winning back the ‘red wall’. The only problem? It doesn’t exist

The party’s electoral strategy is based on an outdated stereotype of the northern voter – and it will come back to haunt Starmer, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University

The Guardian - UK

Key routes closed on West Coast Main Line between London, West Midlands and Northwest

Passengers are able to use Avanti West Coast and London Northwestern Railway tickets on other train operators

The Independent UK

Labour urged to focus on Midlands in plan for new towns

Planning experts are considering areas near Nottingham, Stafford and Northampton for housebuilding drive

The Guardian - UK

Engineer Wood Group rejects £1.4bn bid from Dubai rival; TSB to shut 36 branches – as it happened

Train driver strikes in England bring more disruption; Sweden’s Riksbank cuts rates for first time in eight years

The Guardian - UK

‘We end up with nothing’: east Midlands mayoral candidates say role could transform region

Those vying for job say it will put region on more equal footing with areas such as West Midlands and Greater Manchester

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Woman & Home

Is This Town a true story? This is what inspired the new drama from the creator of Peaky Blinders

This Town depicts the emerging music scene in the Midlands in the 1980s, against a backdrop of social unrest

Evening Standard

London leavers: 'astronomical rents drove me out of the capital and now I pay just £350 a month'

Alice Hargreaves used to pay £1,500 a month in rent on an Ealing one-bed. Now her share of the mortgage in Birmingham is just £350.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Forget Red-Wallers, one political tribe has been ignored for too long: meet the non-posh Londoner

Stereotypes can linger even when long debunked. The “Red Wall” is still — to some tired parts of Westminster — a synonym for depleted industrial towns and a working class “left behind” by politics. But that is only half the story. Those areas of the North and Midlands that flipped…

The Guardian - UK

Fund to hand out £4.7bn from axed HS2 northern section to smaller projects

Ministers say smaller towns and cities in north of England and Midlands to benefit from scrapping of Leeds and Manchester lines

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The Midlands Boxing Takeover Is Presented By GBM Sports As “ICE BREAKER.”

GBM Sports Promoter Izzy Asif is hoping to build on his incredible breakthrough year.

The Guardian - UK

West Midlands PCC applies for judicial review over scrapping of his role

Simon Foster will go to court over plan to transfer his powers as police and crime commissioner to region’s mayor

The Guardian - UK

Amazon accused of using ‘union-busting’ tactics at Midlands warehouses

Claim comes as GMB union prepares for three days of strike action at tech company’s Coventry warehouse

Evening Standard

Man dies of measles in Ireland after 'trip to Birmingham'

Health officials have raised concern over an outbreak in West Midlands

International Business Times UK

Manchester-Bound Flight Makes Emergency Landing At East Midlands Airport Due To Fuel Crisis

The incident happened on a Singapore Airlines flight.

The Guardian - UK

UK weather: England remains on flood alert as temperatures dip

Majority of flood warnings in south of England and Midlands, with some snow flurries overnight

FourFourTwo

The birth of the replica football shirt, 50 years on

It's been half a century since a small Midlands firm went from manufacturing nuns’ knickers to selling the world’s first replica football kits, just in time for Christmas

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