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Linda Hoey used an exaggerated disability to avoid £15,690 in M6 Toll fees.
Some businesses and residents along the route complain as thousands of cyclists enjoy the day.
Some 15,000 riders travelled through Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Birmingham.
We look at who has taken the top global spot and which British women are the wealthiest.
Her phone "melts" with messages when a photo of her son without his prosthetic eye is taken down.
Port Vale are yet to decide who will succeed Michael Brown as the League Two club's new manager.
Preview followed by live coverage of Tuesday's Championship game between Burton Albion and Aston Villa.
A brilliant hat-trick from Alvaro Morata helps Premier League champions Chelsea to a dominant win at Stoke City.
Port Vale draw at Yeovil to climb off the bottom of League Two but their winless run is extended to eight games.
Defender Danny Grainger scores twice as Carlisle win for the first time in six games with an emphatic 5-0 victory at Crewe.
Jamie Mackie and Luke Freeman both go close for QPR as they are held to a 0-0 draw by Burton Albion at Loftus Road.
Olympic double scull champion Anna Watkins is considering trying to become Britain's first single scull gold medallist in Rio.
The former Dundee United and Partick Thistle footballer Charlie Adam dies suddenly at the age of 50.
Everton's Marouane Fellaini apologises for headbutting Stoke City defender Ryan Shawcross in Saturday's 1-1 draw.
Kenwyne Jones scores his first goal in 28 Premier League games as Stoke draw with Everton at the Britannia Stadium.
On-loan Bradden Inman scores an 88th-minute winner for Crewe to extend Bury's winless streak to five matches.
Promotion challengers Cheltenham and Port Vale settle for a point as well as both retaining their top-three places.
Marc Richards' equaliser rescues a point for in-form Chesterfield at home to Burton Albion in League Two.
Previously undisputed king of darts Phil "The Power" Taylor faces a real battle to win a 16th world title
Zameer Ghumra "brainwashed" two children, telling them not to have non-Muslim friends, a court hears.
Oxford medical student Lavinia Woodward admitted stabbing a man but a judge said jail could harm her career.
A man has been jailed for 10 months for attacking a teacher with his car in Woking.
Eddie Jowett regularly handled asbestos while working for British Rail in the 1950s and 1960s.
The 28-year-old man is due to appear before magistrates on Tuesday.
The boy won damages from a council after the authority admitted it knew his attacker was a risk to the child.
But a World Rugby spokesman says there is no new evidence to challenge the current position.
The mother and son preyed on vulnerable people and charged vastly inflated prices for the work.
Celia Hollingworth was reported missing on Thursday after visiting an archaeological site.
One of the killers handed staff a note saying they decided to "free" their victim from "darkness".
Linda Hoey used an exaggerated disability to avoid £15,690 in M6 Toll fees.
Bobby Knutt had roles in the ITV comedy Benidorm as well as Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
