HERE'S your evening news round-up for the Black Country and north Worcestershire.

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after a crash in Pensnett this morning (Monday January 24).

Emergency services were called to High Street at 9.40am to reports a lorry, car and motorbike had collided near to St Mark's C Of E Primary School.

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The RSPCA is appealing for information after a puppy was abandoned inside a phone box in Quinton.

The one-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier was found chained up inside the phone box in Quinton Road West, in Quinton, Birmingham.

The puppy has since been named Clark, after Superman alias Clark Kent, who famously emerged from phone boxes as the legendary superhero.

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Bus passengers in Blackheath, Oldbury and Sandwell are being consulted about proposed wide-ranging changes to services.

National Express wants to change the 48, 80, 83, 89 and 120 routes in April and have launched a consultation with passengers.

The new changes are being made to include routes to the new Midlands Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick, changes in passenger behaviour and counter upcoming roadworks.

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It's the end of an era as work to demolish the former Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre has begun.

Reader Glyn Lloyd captured the footage as AR Demolition began demolishing the vacant leisure centre building, in Bromsgrove Street.

To see video and pictures and read more click here.

Ambulances are having to be diverted from Worcester's crisis-hit emergency department to Redditch.

With the Worcestershire Royal still struggling ambulances are currently being told to instead go to the Alexandra Hospital A&E - just weeks after a public consultation was launched into the future of hospital services in the county which could see the Redditch A&E downgraded.

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A driver crashed a sports car at high speed into a tree in Lickey End, killing his friend and seriously injuring his brother-in-law, Worcester Crown Court heard.

The Audi RS6 was travelling over 100mph, more than two and a half times the speed limit, when the driver lost control and the car struck a tree in Rose Hill, near Bromsgrove.

Driver Brynley Morris, of Brandon Grove, Birmingham, was seriously injured, and passenger Andrew Harding was killed.

A third passenger, Andrew Hartley, suffered life-changing injuries as the car smashed into the tree and erupted into flames after midnight on January 8, 2015.

To read the full court story click here.