Jeremy Corbyn said he was happy to be in Coventry - Britain's industrial heartland - and was looking forward to joining in the City of Culture celebrations.

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He said he'd been presented with a book from the university featuring photographs of the city's Asian community which he would "treasure".

He thanked Coventry MP Geoffrey Robinson for the "incredible work" he did on the organ donors bill in Parliament on Friday.

"It made an incredible difference to the lives of many, many people," Mr Corbyn said.

BBC Business News

Another 230 former Carillion workers have been made redundant following the construction giant's collapse, taking the total to 1,371.

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An update from the official receiver said: "Work is continuing to find new suppliers to take on Carillion's public and private sector contracts with ongoing employment now secured for a further 456 employees.

“Unfortunately as the liquidation proceeds some roles supporting contracts that have transferred are no longer required. As a result 230 employees have been declared redundant and will leave the business later this week."

BBC Hereford and Worcester

A man's been jailed for more than two years for stalking using fake social media accounts.

Callum Blake-O'Brien, 25, of Nicholson Court, Hereford, pleaded guilty to seven counts of stalking involving fear of violence and three counts of sending grossly offensive messages.

He's been jailed for 30 months and given a 10-year restraining order.

Trystan Jones
BBC News Online

The Labour party tells me Coventry was chosen as a platform to set out its Brexit plans because of the region's strong backing for Leave at the referendum.

In fact the West Midlands had the highest vote share for Leave in the UK - 59.3% of voters.

Some critics claim the party's plan to remain in a customs union with the EU could tie the UK's hands on trade deals with other countries.

Labour says the Coventry announcement however will reaffirm the party's pledge to leave the EU.

Another reason for choosing Coventry, a Labour spokesperson says, is because of the challenge the UK faces in transforming the economy post-Brexit. A challenge Coventry is facing as it embraces new technologies with the decline of some traditional industries.

Simon Gilbert
Political Reporter, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Jeremy Corbyn will be speaking at the National Transport Design Centre, at Coventry University Technology Park today.

He's expected to back the UK being in a permanent customs union with the EU in a speech setting out his approach to Brexit.

Three Coventry Labour MPs are in attendance, along with council leader George Duggins.

Birmingham Live

Some of the main stories on the Birmingham Live website today include:

• Lifeline Erdington food bank could close as developers earmark site for apartments, external
• Banned driver crashed in Queensway tunnels after 90mph police pursuit, external
• Rail services suspended after 'man dies after being hit by train', external

Matt Lee
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

The M6 has reopened J14-J13 after a crash closed the southbound carriageway last night.

Three cars, a van and a pedestrian were involved in the accident at about 23:30. One man was treated at the scene and is in a critical condition at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

This morning the traffic was gridlocked on the M6 but now looks to be easing on the southbound carriageway. The inside lane is crawling along, but now moving in the other two lanes.

Barrier repair work has been carried out, which has affected both sides of the M6.

Traffic was being diverted through Stafford which meant the town was also left gridlocked.

There were problems earlier on the northbound between junctions 13-14 after a vehicle broke down but that has now been cleared.

The crash on M6 at junction 16 southbound involving two lorries at about 06:00 continues to cause delays but that has now also eased.

Simon Gilbert
Political Reporter, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Seventeen jobs are set to be lost in a restructure of staff at the trust responsible for looking after some of Coventry's visitor attractions.

That is despite the city preparing to be the UK City of Culture in 2021.

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The city council agreed a grant, external of up to £370,000 to help Culture Coventry, which manages the Transport Museum, Herbert Art Gallery and the Lunt Roman Fort.

The grant is in addition to taxpayer loans made last year, of which £600,000 still hasn't been repaid.

The city council said the additional funding was "not ideal in the context of the the wider financial challenges the council faces".

The new Chief Executive Paul Breed said no decision had been made as to introduce charges at the attractions, which are currently free.

Pupils and teachers at a school attended by Corey Platt-May, who was killed alongside his brother on Thursday, will be experiencing a "difficult day" the head teacher said.

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Corey, six, and Casper Platt-May, two, were on a family trip to a park in Coventry when they were hit by a car.

Rob Matthews, head teacher at Ravensdale Primary School said: "They were lovely boys and Corey lit up the room he was in with his energy".

We will do everything we can to support the family at this most difficult time, and also support all of the children, families and staff at Ravensdale too.

BBC Shropshire

The leader of Shropshire Council has ordered an investigation into an £80,000 grant given to the Park Hall based football Club The New Saints FC, also know as TNS.

The club says it's made good use of the cash, awarded in 2012, and the closure of the Oswestry Joint Economic board - set up to recoup and use the money - meant there was no way to pay it back.

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Peter Nutting's asked the local authority's chief executive to refer the issue to their internal auditors, which has since been carried out.

The investigation will now look at the council's process for awarding the legacy grant.

BBC Business News

Britain's biggest shopping centre owner Hammerson said profits climbed 6.8% to £246.3m last year.

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The owner of Birmingham's Bullring and Grand Central is positive about the future and tells the Today Programme that talk of the death of the mall is wrong.

"Around 85% of all retail sales do still touch a physical store, so we’re very firmly of the view that the physical store has a genuine place to play," he says.

Occupancy at the company's properties is at a 17-year high at 98.3%.

You can find live coverage of today's business news here.

Shrewsbury boss Paul Hurst says the prospect of Wembley should motivate both Tuesday's EFL Trophy semi-finalists.

Coventry Telegraph

Some of the headlining stories on the Coventry Telegraph website today are:

• More than £20,000 raised for funerals of young brothers killed in Coventry crash, external
• Coventry chemist tells how he tried to help save young brothers, external
• This is when the snow is likely to hit Coventry and Warwickshire, external

One man was taken to hospital suffering serious injuries after a crash on the M6 in Staffordshire last night.

The ambulance service said, external it was called to the collision just south of junction 13 between junctions 13 and 14 shortly before 23:30.

"The exact circumstances of what had happened were not clear," a spokesperson for the ambulance service said.

Part of the southbound carriageway remains closed. Traffic that is caught in the closure is being released but long delays continue.

Manchester City's win at Wembley was not the only football cup event taking place over the weekend.

The 2018 FA People's Cup - the biggest five-a-side tournament in the country - kicked off with more than 50,000 players taking part across 278 venues.

Here's just a flavour of the action.

Read more about the first-round action here - and you can catch up with more of the action and stories from the matches around the country from our live text commentaries on Saturday and Sunday.

You'll also be able to watch a highlights programme of the FA People's Cup on the Red Button and Online on Saturday, 3 March (12:55-14:00 and 22:00-23:00)

A private team, due to resume their search for missing Coventry woman Nicola Payne, have had to postpone due to the snow and frozen conditions forecast for this week.

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The team of ex-military specialists has been using sonar and ground radar equipment around Coombe Country park in Warwickshire.

The 18-year-old mother-of-one, went missing while walking across wasteland near her parents' house in Coventry on 14 December 1991.

BBC News Travel

A lorry has struck a railway bridge at Tarrington in Herefordshire, police say.

West Midlands rail services between Ledbury and Hereford are being delayed or cancelled, the train operator says.

Bitterly cold temperatures and snow could cause travel delays and disruption across the West Midlands, the Met Office is warning., external

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A yellow warning is in place from 14:00 today, with an amber warning in place from 04:00 tomorrow.

BBC Weather is warning of possibly hazardous conditions in southern England later in the week as a low pressure weather system moves up from the Bay of Biscay and hits the already "exceptionally cold air".

A firefighter has returned to the UK, after coordinating the rescue of a woman who fell 40 metres (131ft) into the crater of an active volcano in Bali.

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John Conway, 33, from Birmingham leapt to the woman's aid when she fell from a viewing platform during a trek to the top of Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia.

The firefighter spent more than six hours caring for the woman and helped carry her 1.7km (5,600ft) down the volcano.

A third crash on the M6 near Stafford has closed a lane of the motorway on the northbound carriageway, directly opposite the scene of an earlier crash between Junctions 13 and 14.