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A bottled water firm on the Shropshire border has been told to think again on plans for a lorry park and warehouse expansion, after it was deemed a potential risk to sensitive groundwater supplies.

Heavy rain could fall across the Black Country and Staffordshire with a chance of flooding as an almost 30-hour yellow weather warning has been issued.

Hassan Yahya was shot dead by a City of London Police officer on March 8 2020 in Westminster.

A spokesman for Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, where the flight was diverted to, said the 73-year-old suffered a suspected heart attack.

Ukraine’s depleted troops are trying to hold off a fierce Russian offensive along the eastern border.

A total of 62 new houses will be built near a Shropshire cricket club after fears of balls crashing over the boundary into houses were resolved.

Dylan Cope, from Newport, died on December 14 2022 of sepsis from a perforated appendix.

The British-born Syrian first lady is a powerful and divisive figure.

Asylum Aid says it is concerned the policy could lead to the department unlawfully denying people seeking asylum from entering the UK asylum system.

The first full compensation payments to victims of the infected blood scandal will be made before the end of the year, ministers have confirmed.

Storms with lightning and hail are set to give way to heavy rains for large parts of the country.

Albie Speakman suffered fatal injuries after he was run over by a small tractor in the summer of 2022.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was threatened with a knife following a crash between a car and a dirt bike in Telford.

France, Belgium and Slovenia each backed the move by International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday.

The deputy Labour leader said the party wanted to start creating ‘towns of the future’ within their first term.

Mr Justice Fancourt said new allegations made by several individuals against Mr Murdoch added ‘nothing material’ to the case against the publisher.

Staffordshire Police has come out of special measures after making significant improvements in its operations, bosses have announced today.

All the children at the school in Dunstable Road, Luton, are safe, Bedfordshire Police said.

The Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER jet was diverted to Bangkok.

It was standing room only at a passionate public meeting to 'save' a Shrewsbury arts venue after talks to put it in the hands of the community stalled.

However, the global financial agency stressed that ambitious structural reforms to improve living standards ‘are urgently needed’.

Changes can be made to a weapons testing facility near Presteigne after a scheme that allows a bigger building to be built there was agreed by Powys planners.

The Prime Minister suggested the move will not help move aid into Gaza or broker a lasting peace agreement.

Civil liberties group Liberty brought legal action against the Home Office over protest regulations passed by statutory instrument last year.

A woman in her 50s was mauled to death by the animals at her home in east London on Monday.

The decision comes after the Government was warned not to use the surplus by independent statutory advisers, the Climate Change Committee.

The Iranian government-led series of ceremonies is aimed at both honouring the dead and projecting strength.

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has said terminally ill people of sound mind should have a right to an assisted death, after his brother died “in a terrible physical condition” with motor neurone disease.

Planning laws coming into effect today aim to make it easier for farmers to convert unused buildings into new homes and shops.

Ebrahim Raisi was seen as a prime candidate to succeed 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.