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

DETECTIVES have charged a man with murder following the death of a man in Kidderminster at the weekend.

Mark Beresford, of Offmore Road, Kidderminster, died on Saturday (25 March) after an incident at his home.

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AN unconscious elderly man was found with serious head injuries in Brierley Hill this morning (Tuesday).

Paramedics were called to Delph Road at 6.46am and took the 70-year-old man to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.

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AN animal rights group is calling on residents to avoid Circus Mondao, which opens in Bromsgrove tomorrow (March 29), claiming its animals are poorly cared for.

Circus Mondao, which prides itself on being a ‘traditional family circus’, will be running in Upton Warren – its first ever visit to Bromsgrove – until April 2, bringing with it a host of acrobats, a clown, showgirls, jugglers and performing animals.

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A COMMEMORATIVE plaque honouring a brave Stourbridge-born war hero is to be unveiled at a ceremony in Mary Stevens Park next month.

Lye-born Lance Corporal Thomas Bryan, who experienced combat in the First World War, will be remembered at the unveiling which is due to take place at 2pm on Sunday April 9 - 100 years to the day since his extraordinary courage earned him the Victoria Cross.

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