Tuesday evening news round up for the Black Country and North Worcestershire

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to a popular father and hospital nurse who died after a motorcycle crash in Brierley Hill.

Christian Davies, known to friends and family as Hugh, suffered fatal injuries when his Honda motorbike hit a white Ford Fiesta van at the junction of Pedmore Road and The Gateway at 7pm on June 30.

His heartbroken partner Julie Adams has thanked passersby who stopped to help and paramedics who battled to try to save Mr Davies's life - and she described the much-loved NHS nurse, who had been riding to work when the crash happened, as her "best friend and soul mate".

To read the full tribute click here.

A Wordsley Labour councillor has raised concerns about decisions made by his own party chiefs to move nearly 100 council staff into a village education centre.

Derrick Hemingsley fears the proposed move of 91 Dudley Council workers from Stourbridge’s Mary Stevens Park to the Mere Centre, in Lawnswood Road, could lead to parking problems in Wordsley.

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A thug from Oldbury whose armed gang pistol whipped a Black Country shopkeeper before escaping with around £2,700 has been warned he is facing a significant spell behind bars.

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The family of a Kidderminster woman murdered by her husband say "things are not getting any easier" as they prepare to mark the third anniversary of her death.

Louise Evans was killed by her childhood 'sweetheart' Alan Evans at their Stoney Lane home on July 9, 2012.

Determined to ensure her memory lives on, relatives and friends plan to gather at her grave for a balloon release on Thursday.

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Former Bromsgrove School pupil Matt Mullan is battling against two British & Irish Lions and the Harlequins captain for the honour of being England’s World Cup loosehead – but he insists mobility can be his trump card.

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The faces of two Redditch fugitives are currently touring areas of Spain popular with British ex-pats on a 13 foot digital screen attached to a van in a bid to hunt them down.

The appeal, dubbed Operation Captura, is an initiative between independent crime-fighting charitable organisation Crimestoppers and the National Crime Agency to find Britain’s most-wanted criminals thought to have fled to Spain.

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