Lee Bottomley

Sep 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Lee Bottomley

Lee Bottomley - BBC News, West MidlandsSeptember 8, 2024 at 10:38 AM·1 min readHeavy rainfall described as "biblical" by residents caused flash flooding in parts of Shropshire and halted events elsewhere in the Midlands. The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for parts of England and Wales on Saturday night and into Sunday evening, stressing that heavy, possibly thundery rain could cause flooding and disruption.

Aug 16, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Lee Bottomley

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Aug 16, 2024 | aol.com | Lee Bottomley

John Rudge managed Port Vale between 1983 and 1999 [Pete Stonier]Permission has been granted for a statue of former long-serving Port Vale manager John Rudge to be erected outside the football club. Money has been raised for more than two years for a bronze cast statue of Mr Rudge, who managed the club between 1983 and 1999. It will be more than five metres high, and will stand outside a pedestrian access to the ground on Hamil Road, Burslem.

Aug 12, 2024 | aol.com | Perisha Kudhail |Lee Bottomley

A property in Sheldon was badly damaged and five people in the area were treated for injuries [BBC]Five people have been treated by paramedics and two homes have been damaged following lightning strikes in Birmingham and the Black Country. The roof of a property in the Sheldon area of the city and another in Lower Gornal, Dudley, caught fire on Tuesday morning. Of the five patients checked over elsewhere in Sheldon, four had minor injuries and one was taken to hospital.

Aug 12, 2024 | aol.com | Lee Bottomley

The boy was rescued by police officers from a stretch of canal in Ettingshall on Sunday, the ambulance service said [BBC]A boy has died after being pulled from a canal in Wolverhampton. Paramedics were called to the waterway off Hendon Avenue, Ettingshall, at about 18:00 BST on Sunday. The child had been rescued from the canal by police officers and was in a critical condition, said West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS). Despite everyone's efforts he could not be saved, they added.