SEARCH and rescue teams are today looking for the occupant of a house following a fire at the property near Cleobury Mortimer.

Emergency services were called out to Cramer Gutter Lane in Oreton at 11.36pm last night (January 22) and remain at the address currently.

A cordon has been erected as police are concerned about the structure of the building following the fire.

One person, believed to be the occupant, remains unaccounted for and officers along with specialist search and rescue teams have been deployed to the area to assist in the search for the missing man.

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A 44-YEAR-old Quinton man has been arrested for assaulting three police officers after a domestic incident yesterday morning (Monday, January 22).

Officers were sent to Hollybush Grove following reports of a man assaulting a woman and smashing up a property on the road.

They arrived at the scene just after 10am to find the man had left the location, but he soon returned and attacked the three officers.

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “The officers sustained minor injuries to their arms and hands and one officer was hit in the head."

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CONCERNED residents gathered at the Victoria Ground on Monday night to protest plans to open a McDonald's drive-thru restaurant near Bromsgrove town centre.

The meeting was organised by residents after the fast food giant submitted an official planning application to build a new branch off the junction between Birmingham Road and Stourbridge Road last month.

The proposal was met by enthusiasm on social media, but nearly 100 neighbours of the site, which is currently used as a council-run car park, have voiced concerns over traffic congestion, pollution, litter, and childhood obesity levels - with three schools less than a six-minute walk away.

Representatives from Bromsgrove Sporting Football Club joined objectors at Monday's meeting, and criticised the loss of parking spaces, as well as the restaurant's effect on local businesses.

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SAINSBURY’S has announced a management shake-up at its supermarkets, putting thousands of jobs at risk.

The retailer is consulting with staff over plans that will see the number of senior in-store posts slimmed down and replaced with fewer management roles.

Affected staff, thought to run into the thousands, will be given the choice of applying for the new roles, accepting a more junior position or facing redundancy consultation.

The firm said changes will be made at supermarkets and convenience stores.

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COUNCIL chiefs have promised to repair toilets in Wollescote Park after they were wrecked by vandals but if they are damaged further they could wind up being closed at weekends.

The toilets were ripped off the walls in the ladies' toilet block sometime overnight between Saturday January 13 and Sunday January 14 and the facility has remained boarded up since the vandalism attack.

Craig Lees, chairman of the Friends of Wollescote Park, said he found the toilets "completely destroyed" when he opened them up on Sunday morning and he told the News it’s not the first time they have been targeted by vandals.

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VISITORS to Rowley Regis Crematorium are urged to be vigilant after a pensioner had her bag snatched as she tended a relative’s grave.

Retired nurse Anne Nickson, from Lower Gornal, was visiting the grave of her father which also features a memorial plaque for her tragic two-year-old son who died in 1986, when her handbag was taken.

She says she placed the bag down as she tended to the grave in the grounds of the crematorium in Powke Lane - having spotted a man kneeling at a nearby tombstone out of the corner of her eye.

The next thing she knew - her bag had gone.

She said: "I saw a shadow come and I just knew he was going to snatch my bag. I'm usually so careful."

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