HERE'S a round-up of today's news that you may have missed.

Millionaire businessman John Broadhurst has been jailed for three years and eight months at Birmingham Crown Court for the gross negligence manslaughter of Natalie Connolly.

Broadhurst, aged 40, left 26-year-old mum-of-one Natalie in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs at their £600,000 Kinver home and went to bed, Birmingham Crown Court was told.

When he woke up hours later he called emergency services and told the operator his partner was “dead as a doughnut”.

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Following the sentencing the family of Natalie Connolly paid tribute to their "beautiful girl".

Grieving relatives said in a statement that their "lives changed forever" when they heard Natalie had died.

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A Black Country thug who savagely kicked a young man in the face badly breaking his jaw has been jailed for two-and-a-half-years.

Jack Griffin, aged 20, who left Lewis John needing major surgery to attach three plates to his shattered jaw, also joined Jardel Faure, from Cradley Heath in a brutal attack on a teenager with learning difficulties.

The two men punched the "terrified" 18-year-old as he waited on Cradley Heath railway station before Faure chased him towards his home where he punched, kicked and stamped on his victim after telling him he would be murdered.

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Representatives from Worcestershire Country Council will be travelling to London to lobby the government over finding a long-term solution to adult social care.

They will also be handing over a birthday card celebrating 70 years of adult social care in the county.

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Residents in Bromsgrove have taken the growing issue of litter on our streets into their own hands and have set up their own community scheme to combat it.

Keep Bromsgrove Beautiful (KBB) was set up by Bromsgrove resident Sarah Milburn, who got the idea after working with school children who expressed their worries about plastic waste.

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