HERE are a few stories that have featured on our websites today.

POLICE have confirmed there will be no new investigation into the murder of Stourbridge newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater after calls were made to re-open the case following an explosive TV documentary.

There had been calls for Staffordshire Police to consider re-opening the investigation following the screening of Channel 4's Interview with a Murderer last June in which former suspect Bert Spencer spoke candidly to Birmingham City University criminologist Professor David Wilson in the programme about the 1978 shooting at Yew Tree Farm, Wordsley, which remains unsolved.

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TAX payers in Bromsgrove have been unable to pay their bills due to faulty bar codes on their most recent council tax statements.

The bills from Bromsgrove District Council have recently started arriving on door steps, but several residents have complained they were unable to make a payment at their local Post Office, due to the barcode being faulty.

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A TRAGIC young Oldbury woman who died when struck by a speeding car whilst waiting at a bus stop is to have a book of her poems published.

Rebecca McManus was 21 when a high-powered Mitsubishi Evolution drove into her as was on her way to a friend’s hen party.

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A UNIQUE ‘relaxed’ shopping lane that caters for people with dementia has been launched at a Kidderminster supermarket.

Tesco Superstore unveiled the first lane of its kind in the West Midlands at a ceremony on Monday (March 20) that was attended by 25 people affected with the disease, as well as campaigners and dignitaries.

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