HERE are some of the stories that have featured on our websites today.

THE crisis-hit trust running Redditch's Alexandra Hospital has been told it must make urgent improvements following a backlog of 36,000 x-rays has been revealed.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has been warned that it could face further action from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following a surprise inspection earlier this year.

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MORE than 500 people have signed an online petition urging Dudley Council to keep three leisure centres open in the borough.

The council has confirmed plans are afoot to close all three authority-run borough centres – located in Dudley, Halesowen and Stourbridge – and build two new ones.

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BROMSGROVE councillors have voted to stand united against CrossCountry Trains' controversial proposals to axe four long distance trains servicing the town’s new £24m Station.

CrossCountry, which currently provide daily services from Bromsgrove to Cardiff, Nottingham and Stansted, revealed the plans in a recently published document titled 'Cross Country Trains Future Timetable Consultation'.

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FRIENDS of a courageous Sedgley man are rallying round to help raise funds for his alternative cancer treatment in Mexico.

Latham Grant was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, which affects the throat, nasal passages and lymph nodes, in June this year.

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