HERE are some of the top stories which you might have missed yesterday from across our sister papers in the Black Country and North Worcestershire.

A MAN and a teenager were both taken to the region’s major trauma centres after suffering injuries in a crash in Hagley yesterday morning.

The crash – which involved a van and a car hitting a tree – took place near to the Badgers Sett pub between Hagley and Halesowen, shortly before 8am.

Emergency services were called to the scene shortly before 8am, with West Mercia Police closing the A456 westbound for a considerable amount of time.

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A FORMER Stourbridge headteacher has pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children.

Ross Workman admitted six counts of making an indecent photograph or pseudo photograph (image made by computer graphics which appears to be a photograph) of a child, when he appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court yesterday.

Workman, formerly of Norton, was arrested by detectives from West Midlands Police’s Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team on November 3, 2014, and was immediately suspended from his role as headteacher at Oldswinford CE Primary School.

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THE trial of a man charged with manslaughter after a woman died from injuries sustained in a Kidderminster flat fire was due to start yesterday.

Mark Moat, 42, will go before Worcester Crown Court after denying the manslaughter of Sandra Nowocinska, who died on December 1, 2014, in hospital after a fire at her flat in the Horsefair shortly before 10pm on November 27, of the same year.

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AN "oversight" led to a Brierley Hill man being convicted of motoring offences five weeks after his death.

Karl Christopher Green, of High Street, was one of the two men who died when the car they were in crashed into a wall on Brettell Lane, Brierley Hill, on Christmas Eve.

But on January 29, Dudley Magistrates Court found the 34-year-old guilty in absence of driving without a licence or insurance in Brierley Hill on December 13, 2015.

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A POPULAR Redditch restaurant has suddenly closed this week- just over a year after it first opened.

American style diner and milkshake bar Tinseltown opened its doors in the Kingfisher Shopping Centre’s the Hub in November 2014.

A spokesperson for Tinseltown confirmed the recent closure.

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PARENTS of children at a Halesowen primary school are furious at plans by Windsor High School to delete their privileged status from its admissions policy.

The secondary school wants to remove a stipulation that where demand for places exceeds supply, pupils from Lutley Primary School will be given preference.

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Special needs and looked-after children, siblings of Windsor pupils and proximity to home are the other criteria used for admitting pupils in the event of over subscription.