HERE are a few stories featured on our websites this morning.

Optician giants Specsavers have announced it is to invest £12million in a new Kidderminster manufacturing and distribution facility.

More than 200 jobs are to be created when the new base is opened on Stourport Road, on the site previously occupied by Romwire.

Read the full story on the Shuttle website here.

A young woman from Redditch celebrated a decade in remission by raising more than £3,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Phoebe Prudden,aged 22, who was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma brain tumour when she was 11-years-old, took part in a range of activities including a skydive at Langar Air Field in Nottingham on March 22, alongside her younger sister Elise, aged 17.

Read the full story on the Redditch Advertiser website here.

Two Dudley men are in police custody after a woman was forced from her car, run over and left at the side of a Kingswinford road in the early hours of this morning (Monday).

The wreckage of the 26-year-old’s Ford Mondeo was found a short time later, crashed into parked cars on Dibdale Road.

Read more on the Dudley News website here.

A Brierley Hill grandfather caught with thousands of sickening indecent photographs of children - some aged as young as one or two - has avoided a spell behind bars.

Recorder David Mason QC told Adrian Hall it was in the interests of the public for him to receive treatment for his “problem” rather than spend a short time in custody.

Read more on the Stourbridge News website here.