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The new National Storytelling Laureate says she wants to help other children who have had "issues with language".

A health trust in the West Midlands reveals it will have to save £125m over the next five years, prompting fears of more than 800 job cuts.

A 28-year-old man is charged with the murder of Jagjit Singh Villkhu in Willenhall.

Walsall sign Belgium youth international Florent Cuvelier on loan from Stoke City.

The families of injured soldiers being treated in a Birmingham hospital are to get free accommodation at a pioneering new facility

Defender Shane Lowry joins Millwall for an undisclosed fee after impressing during a loan spell from Aston Villa.

Lawyers say they will fight a ban that limits students' ability to protest against tuition fee rises

The former England and Aston Villa footballer Lee Hendrie is declared bankrupt by the High Court.

Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust rejects criticism of a payment-by-results pilot due to start next year.

Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Sheffield Utd and Birmingham in the FA Cup.

Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between West Brom and Norwich in the FA Cup.

Claude Gnakpa joins Inverness Caledonian Thistle after his contract with Walsall is terminated.

Shrewsbury Town sign West Brom striker Romaine Sawyers on a month's loan.

Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Cambridge and Tamworth in the Conference Premier.

Tamworth extend the loan spell of Watford midfielder Chez Isaac for another month.

The US concept for charity-funded homes for ill or wounded soldiers is being adopted in Birmingham

A Crimewatch appeal for information about the whereabouts of escaped prisoner John Anslow, from Tipton, has prompted several calls, say police.

Two stone sphinx statues are to return to Soho House Museum in Birmingham

Explore our map to find out where the London 2012 Olympic torch is going on each stage of its 70-day route.

BBC WM presenter Ed Doolan wins an Outstanding Contribution award for his work in broadcasting.

 

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Illegal tyre dumping 'nightmare' - A warning is issued of the dangers of illegal tyre dumps as officials start to clear 7,000 left on farmland. [Front Page News]

Ship sinking costs Carnival $95m - The sinking of the Costa Concordia could cost parent firm Carnival up to $95m (£62m; 75m euro), the firm says. [Front Page News]

Sherlock Holmes WILL return for a third series next year, BBC confirms - Audiences were left unsure if the cantankerous detective would return after he appeared to 'die' with his reputation in tatters in Sunday night’s show. [Show Biz]

Luton airport planning expansion - Plans to increase annual passenger capacity to 18 million at London Luton Airport and create 6,000 new jobs are revealed. [Business]

Yummy mummies take to the catwalk as New York Fashion Week set to star a mothers-only runway show - Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show will give women inspiration when it comes to wearing outfits that can be easily transformed to take a mom from homes to evenings out. [Femail]

British surgeons pioneer surgery with robotic arm to fix blood vessel - Doctors at St Mary's Hospital in London have saved a man's life by performing a world-first heart operation using robotic technology. [Health]

Nationwide launches market-leading 18 month 0% purchase credit card - but there¿s a catch - Nationwide Building Society is launching an 18 month 0 per cent interest purchase credit card tomorrow – but you must be a current account customer to get it. [Money Mail]

Sainsbury's lands latest blow in supermarket petrol price war with '10p off a litre' promotion - The promotion will last from tomorrow until Sunday, and also applies to online shopping. Morrisons are also slashing prices at the forecourt from Monday. [Money Mail]

Games legacy boost for graduates - Glasgow City Council is unveiling a £10m scheme that aims to provide 1,000 jobs for graduates as a 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy. [Front Page News]

Nasa announces 2014 test flight of its Orion deep space capsule - The Orion capsule, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin Corp, would fly aboard a Delta 4 or Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [Sciencw]

Colombia fashion week 2011: Butt implants and 'mountains of cocaine' - A behind-the-scenes look at Colombia fashion week makes up the latest installment in the Fashion Week Internationale series - and reveals the Colombian obsession with plastic surgery. [Femail]

Thousands join remembrance events - Thousands of people of Wales across are joining remembrance events as a weekend of tributes begins to war victims. [Front Page News]

High fibre diets CAN reduce the risk of bowel cancer - By compiling existing research involving data from almost two million people, scientists found that a high-fibre diet offers significant protection against the disease, the third most common form of cancer in Britain. [Health]

UK could face double-dip recession, warns EU as Britain prepares for economic 'Armageddon' - David Cameron and Vince Cable put on a united front as a report was published that laid bare the toll of the turmoil in the eurozone on our economy. [Money Mail]

Jilly Cooper silenced by a Woman's Hour question about her husband's love affair - When Jilly, pictured with husband Leo Cooper, wrote a book of advice for married women, one tip was that a wife should sometimes turn a blind eye to her spouse’s affairs because they can blow over. [Femail]

Red-rumped Parrot feeding on the grassy area in front of the Modern Records Centre this morning, 8:15am (Warwick University) if you know anyone who's lost one.

Hobby at Priory Fields 1pm today Sent from my iPhone

Cuckoo calling this morning at Priory Fields

Saw the Night Heron fly over Earlswood Lakes from the northeast (probably from the canal), over the Malthouse Lane causeway then fly down to Terry's Pool at

Night Heron found at Earlswood Lakes c. 9:00 am briefly from Malthouse Lane causeway, when last seen flying towards Terry's Pool. The bird reappeared this

The Reserve is now open with free carparking. John Harris

1 x black tern and 1 x common tern at Edgbaston reservoir this afternoon at c. 4pm. Cheers laurence

02.05.11 - 2 summer plumaged Black Terns on Engine Pool between 19.20 and 20.00. Martin Lindop [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I wonder if anyone knows whether Paul Anthony has an email address as I'd like to contact him. Thanks. Matt [Non-text portions of this message have been

1 Sandwich Tern still on Windmill Pool buoy at c. 5:15 pm, with 3 found around 10 am this morning. 1 Lesser Whitethroat in scrubland to south of Windmill Pool.

Hi All There was a single Swift at the Reservoir this morning. First for me of the year. Also six House Martins and a lone Swallow which flew straight through

See attached a `distant` image of the Wheatear` taken in the mid Wales hills, 21.04.11. trev4275 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I have attached an image in the Thrushes and Chats folder that I took yesterday, 21.04.11. of a Wheatear up in the mid Wales hills. trev4275

Hi All There was a flock of about 15 Waxwings at Claremont Road, Hockley this morning. The birds appeared to be feeding on the flowers of mature Sycamore trees

19.04.2011 @ 06.45 3 Little Terns over Engine Pool, Earlswood. They flew towards Terry's Pool and were not seen again. Martin Lindop [Non-text portions of

Australia wrap up a 4-0 series whitewash over India, who suffer their eighth consecutive Test defeat, with a 298-run win in the final Test in Adelaide.

Australia wrap up a 4-0 series whitewash over India, who suffer their eighth consecutive Test defeat, with a 298-run win in the final Test in Adelaide.

Stuart Broad is confident England can prove his taxi driver wrong by wrapping up a series-levelling victory over Pakistan in the second Test.

Pakistan will begin day four of the second Test on 125-4, a lead of 55 over England, in Abu Dhabi.

Pakistan will begin day four of the second Test on 125-4, a lead of 55 over England, in Abu Dhabi.

"People can see how hard Panesar is busting a gut for the cause and that he is desperate to succeed"

Andre Villas-Boas will start John Terry against Queens Park Rangers this afternoon, and could yet partner him with new signing Gary Cahill in the centre of defence.

With a big FA Cup tie to be played and the impact a late goal can have in knockout football, Petr Cech has been talking about attempts to alter the course of a game at the opposite end of the pitch....

Andre Villas-Boas admits he does not expect too much more activity during the January transfer window.

Marouane Fellaini scores a second-half header as Everton come from behind to beat Fulham and earn their spot in the fifth round.

 
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New evidence emerges that supporters of the former Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, are being tortured in detention.

A prisoner who escaped when two guards taking him to a Suffolk hospital were threatened at gunpoint is found.

Pakistan will begin day four of the second Test on 125-4, a lead of 55 over England, in Abu Dhabi.

Closed sections of an Elizabethan town house in Kent featured in the work of Charles Dickens are opened to the public for one day only.

More than 50 GPs involved in new clinical commissioning groups have warned the NHS may be "in peril" if government reforms are derailed.

Violence breaks out in Senegal after the country's top court rules that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third term in office.

Snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures have hit parts of south-eastern Europe, leaving at least one person dead and thousands more without power.

The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is in Britain to meet David Cameron following France's decision to speed up the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan.

South Sudan says it will complete its threatened shutdown of oil production on Saturday after no deal was reached with Sudan over pipeline use.

Where have the garden birds gone?

The mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence says the government is not doing enough to tackle racism.

The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, amid an upsurge in violence.

The notorious 20-year-old former fugitive known as the Barefoot Bandit has been sentenced by a federal judge to six-and-a-half years in prison.

Communities could be encouraged to make their own assessments of the direct benefits they get from nature.

Security for the 2012 Olympics will be tested at a Scottish football match at Hampden Park stadium this weekend.

'The operation that saved me from enduring pain'

Photographer John Cantlie's conflict pictures re-imagined in the virtual landscape.

David Cameron would be acting like a "dictator" if he allowed same-sex unions to be called marriages, says the Archbishop of York.

Betrayal and escape in the French Resistance

Three people are arrested after protesters from the economic justice movement, Occupy London, take over a new building in London's financial district.

DETECTIVES are investigating a burglary in Kingswinford where a unique locket was stolen.

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Wolverhampton Police are leading the search for an 80-year-old dementia sufferer who's believed to have wandered from his home...

POLICE have been granted extra time to question a 28 year-old man arrested in connection with the death of Jagjit Singh ...

POLICE in Birmingham have released CCTV images of ...

POLICE in Walsall are appealing for information after a pensioner ...

An appeal to trace escaped prisoner John Anslow, from Tipton, is set to feature on Crimewatch tonight, Thursday 26 ...

DETECTIVES in Sandwell are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was robbed of his Blackberry mobile phone on a bus leaving West ...

A "HARD working family man" was stripped of his treasured Rolex watch during a Coventry street robbery.

The...

POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision involving two motorbikes in Coventry.

The incident ...

DETECTIVES searching for robbers who held up two Birmingham DVD rental stores on the same evening are appealing for help from the ...

DETECTIVES investigating the large scale disorder in the West Midlands in August last year have released a final set of wanted images ...

Andy Murray insists last year's straight-sets Australian Open final defeat to Novak Djokovic will not be on his mind when they meet in the semi-finals on Friday.

Security staff were forced to release Andrew Farndon, pictured, as he arrived at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmonds, where staff said they saw a man with a gun.

Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester is to receive a bonus of almost £1m for his work at the bank, which is 83% owned by the taxpayer.

Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester is to receive a bonus of almost £1m for his work at the bank, which is 83% owned by the taxpayer.

Amir Khan still does not have a deal with Lamont Peterson over a rematch with the US boxer waiting until his appeal has been heard.

Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner condemns PM David Cameron for accusing her government of "colonialism" in the Falklands.

Paul O'Connell warns Wales that Ireland are desperate to erase the memory of their World Cup quarter-final defeat in next weekend's Six Nations opener.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard says the chance to play for his hometown club at Wembley is a "superb" feeling.

Rights campaigners have criticised plans to ask search engines to demote illegal sites in order to fight piracy.

A study of DNA revealed that indigenous people in North America actually came from Altai in southern Siberia - walking across the Bering strait around 13,000 years ago.

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Identifying the best evidence for therapy questions.

Overcoming the difficulties of conflicting guidance.

Systematic review looking at the benefits of reporting.

Observation study to analyse usage of PubMed.

Review of guideline implementation practice.

Guidance on improving the production of research on quality and safety of health care.

New publication from the National Nursing Research Unit.

Librarian literature searches saved clinicians time.

Debate about whether the sample size of clinical trials can affect the quality of the research.

Are randomized controlled trials the best evidence for service improvement?

Making sure the research applies to the individual patient.

Specialists accessed different journals to those viewed by primary care physicians.

Guide to critical appraisal.

Guide to applying qualitative research.

I have no idea why people love time-lapse videos. Our eyes are certainly attracted to things that move quickly, and for some reason it’s fun to see people in hardhats and machines building a solar project from nothing, condensing days or weeks into minutes. Below are two recent time-lapse solar videos that I saw on Twitter. Both are large

System-level monitoring, continued adoption of string inverters for large PV installs, and improvements by Chinese suppliers are among the trends gleaned from a survey of inverter buyers & sellers.

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UNITED STATES: Pressure is escalating in Washington DC because Congress may extend the all-important federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) as soon as February.

UK: RWE is beginning construction of its 576MW Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm off the North Wales coast.

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DENMARK: Tests have been carried out in Aarhus in Denmark to reduce noise from offshore turbine foundation piling which can cause harm to sea mammals such as porpoise, dolphins and seals.

L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has delivered a research simulator to the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER) in the New London Business and Technology Center in Bedford, Va. The Advanced Configurable Main Control Room Simulator (ACMCRS) will be used for human-machine interface (HMI) and human factors (HF) studies, investigation of digital instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants, and cybersecurity issues.

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IRELAND: A vessel whose development has been part-funded by Enterprise Ireland’s research and development fund has been built and launched specifically for servicing offshore wind farms around Britain.

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