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Boris Johnson has insisted the Government will investigate ways of extending HS2 to Leeds amid anger over an expected scrapping of part of the high speed railway plans for the North.

The Met Office has issued a weather warning with a large band of fog forecast to descend on parts of the region.

A dad who travelled from the Midlands to Manchester to help a pimp regain control of a sex worker has been jailed for trafficking.

Tahith Chong is currently undergoing the first stages of his recovery at Manchester United after suffering a groin injury in training while on loan with Championship side Birmingham City.

Pa Salieu has said that “authorities” have cancelled his forthcoming headline show in Coventry, set for next month.The rapper was due to play a hometown show at the Kasbah venue in the Midlands city on November 27 as part of a UK tour in support of his EP ‘Afrikan Rebel’.In a new statement posted to Twitter today (October 21), Salieu said that the show has now been cancelled “due to reasons beyond my control”.He wrote: “Sadly due to reasons beyond my control, the authorities have decided that I

Former striker Dwight Yorke has called on Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to "find a solution" in order to turn the club's fortunes around.

Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson has criticised Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's tactical decisions following Manchester United's 4-2 defeat to Leicester City at the King Power Stadium on Saturday afternoon, highlighting their midfield set-up as being a major problem.

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A graduating high school student from Midland, Ont. has won a $5,000 university scholarship through the “Your Voice is Power” music remix competition.

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Filming is underway in Ireland on Netflix’s psychological thriller The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh.

Love Island star Liberty Poole has already turned heads as she made her entrance in the villa and coupled up with water engineer Jake Cornish. The Birmingham-born waitress, who has described how she is looking for a “tall, alpha male”, lives in a very glamorous home in the Midlands when she is not hitting the town for a night with her friends.

cancer diagnosis as she was told she wasn't old enough to receive a biopsy. Amy Sheward discovered a lump spreading from her left breast into her armpit and visited her GP at Kingshurst Medical Practice in Solihull, in the West Midlands in February 2019.

Easy Rider is being sold at auction.Auctioneers for the Dan Kruse Classics sale in Midland, Texas on June 5 have put up a guide price of $300,000 (£213,643) to $500,000 (£356,072) despite there being no reserve bid set.However, as This Is Money reports, the authenticity of the available vehicle has been called in to question in a debate stretching back more than seven years.Another Captain America Harley-Davidson motorbike, the owner of which had claimed it was an Easy Rider original, sold at a

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Florence Pugh is set to star in Sebastian Lelio's adaptation of Emma Donoghue'spsychological thrillerThe Wonder, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The novel by the Irish-Canadian writer is set in the Irish Midlands in 1859 as an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months.

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Will we ever forget the day Kimye turned up at the cinema in Portlaoise and then Tullamore? On the same day. On their honeymoon. Entertainment.ie called it ‘a cultural landmark for cinemas in the Midlands’.

Kate Middleton had a video call with nurses to hear about how they have been doing during the pandemic.

Christmas.But when pandemic travel restrictions made this year’s pilgrimage to the Midlands impossible, Jason took to social media to seek help.The 30-year-old from Dumfries was inundated with offers - including from a woman who lives just five minutes away from his dad’s resting place.Coincidentally the woman faces a similar problem as she lives in the Midlands but her mum is buried in Moffat, just 30 minutes away from Jason's home.So the pair have agreed to visit the plots of their respective

Holly Humberstone has released her new short music film, On The Run — you can watch it in full below.The Lincolnshire musician stars in the Raja Virdi and Josh Sanger-directed clip, which was written by the duo in collaboration with Humberstone and filmed in a paper mill in the Midlands close to the artist’s hometown of Grantham.Released as a visual accompaniment to her acclaimed debut EP ‘Falling Asleep At The Wheel’, a synopsis for On The Run reads: “Since bonfire night Holly Humberstone has

After a month-long trial, a gay couple in the United Kingdom have been found guilty of murder after a brutal act which saw a lesbian cut into 11 pieces and disposed of in a nearby waste site.The victim, Julia Rawson had allegedly met Nathan Maynard-Ellis (30) and his partner, David Leesley (25) by chance during a night out in May 2019 at a local pub. Rawson was then lured back to the couples “flat of horrors” in Tipton, West Midlands.

hereA breath test showed a reading of 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – more than twice the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.Gill, of Beardwood Brow, Blackburn, had been working as a delivery driver, picking his van up in Preston before making deliveries in the Midlands, and was driving back north on the M6 near Knutsford in Cheshire when he crashed on the evening of August 21, 2018.He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to causing death by careless driving while under the

Earlier today, McDonald's confirmed the full list of restaurants which will be reopening for delivery on 13 May.

Birmingham's NHS Nightingale hospital has yet to treat any patients 10 days after opening.

An 11 year-old has become one of the youngest victims of COVID-19 in the UK.

Liam Payne has announced he has donated the equivalent of 360,000 meals to foodbanks to help those in need during the coronavirus pandemic.

Liam Payne has partnered with a U.K. charity to provide meal donations that will aid food banks located in the Midlands, England.