IN case you missed them, here are some of yesterday’s top stories from across the Black Country and North Worcestershire.

A YOUNG woman who was being beaten up by her Kinver boyfriend recorded her ordeal on her mobile phone.

The audio of the attack by Daniel Cooper, of Stone Lane, was described as “chilling” by the judge when it was played at Worcester Crown Court on Friday (May 19).

Complainant Sophie Bates could be heard screaming and begging the 20-year-old to stop during the attack outside her home in Bromsgrove at around 2.30am on March 31.

Click here for the full story.

A GROUP of travellers have set up camp on a football pitch in Dudley.

Caravans arrived at the Lister Road site on Saturday.

Alan Lunt, Dudley Council's strategic director for place, said: “We have visited the site, along with the police, to speak with them and received assurances they will be moving on by the weekend."

Click here for the full story.

MOMENTS after performing in front of the Queen during the Royal Windsor Horse Show, a Kidderminster soldier proposed to his teenage sweetheart in a spectacular way.

A video shows 18-year-old Josh Bayliss, from the Household Cavalry, dismount his horse in full state uniform and go down on one knee to the accompaniment of lowered lances and a trumpet fanfare by his comrades of the Household Cavalry Musical Ride.

Josh knew he was going to propose to his school sweetheart, Demi Scotto-Rosato, also 18, but he didn't know how. He mentioned this to his friends and they suggested the solution.

Click here for the full story.

A WOMAN was assaulted and stabbed during an attempted robbery in Alvechurch.

The victim, a woman in her 30s, was driving a red Renault Kadjar along Lea End Lane at around 3.20pm on May 17 when she stopped to assist a man lying in the road.

Whilst getting out of the car she was assaulted by a second man but managed to drive away.

Click here for the full story.

DRAMATIC pictures show a bus on fire near Bewdley yesterday afternoon.

The picture captured by Shuttle reader Christian Hoare shows the bus up in flames on the A456, near Callow Hill, on Tuesday afternoon.

Click here for the full story.

IN the wake of the Manchester bombing a top cop is calling on the public to be alert during this weekend’s huge Pride event in Birmingham.

Assistant chief constable Alex Murray, from West Midlands Police, says there are no known links between the Manchester incident and our region but he stressed the national threat level remains severe.

Click here for the full story.

ACC Murray added the explosion at Manchester Arena, which left 22 people dead, is a reminder attacks can occur at any time or place without warning.