BBC Weather

After a misty start in places, today will have a mixture of sunny intervals and areas of cloud with highs of 9°C (48°F).

A major exhibition looking at the musical scene and its influences is planned in Coventry this summer.

It means a £15m investment in Cadbury's Birmingham plant by owners Mondelez International.

Elizabeth Webb found out in January, nearly four years after Paterson was jailed for 20 years.

Snow and ice are set to affect the whole of the West Midlands at the weekend, with yellow warnings issued by the Met Office., external

The West Midlands is one of the areas most likely to see disruptive snow accumulating from later on Saturday until the middle of Sunday.

Some parts could see 5 to 10 cm, possibly 15 cm of snow, it said.

Andy Street says he has "joined so many others in our region who have lost a loved one" to the virus.

Essential workers from two parts of Birmingham are encouraged to get tested on Thursday.

BBC Weather

It will be a cloudy day with patches of fog or mist.

Showers will push in from the south through the day, turning heavy for some, with highs of 6°C (48°F).

People in parts of the city are being urged to get tested even if they have no symptoms.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Ring and Ride operators, unable to carry out usual transport duties, have instead been offering free trips to NHS staff.

West Midlands Ring and Ride shuttle buses have been used to make 10,313 journeys to and from New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton and another 9,472 to Walsall Manor Hospital.

Another 7,641 staff used the service to and from Russell’s Hall Hospital in Dudley and and 7,005 trips have been made to the Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield.

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A maximum of two staff are carried on each bus trip to allow social distancing.

The service was formerly used to transport older people but demand fell due to the pandemic so bosses used the buses to take NHS staff to and from work.

Staffing pressures are causing problems at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, a report finds.

BBC Weather

It's going to be cloudy and we could have some rain by the afternoon.

Temperatures could reach 8C (46F).

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Mohammed Haroon Zeb's death is described as "simply tragic" by West Midlands Police.

Lillian Greenway turns 100 next week and her care home appealed for help celebrating.

People in the WS2 area of Walsall are being targeted following detection of the South African version.

Treat hampers have been delivered to more than 20,000 health and social care staff in the West Midlands since the beginning of the pandemic.

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Hampers for Heroes, external was set up during the first England lockdown of 2020 by Victoria Hanson, 44, a management consultant from Solihull.

A further £7,000 has been raised in the scheme's latest appeal since January to support ICU staff.

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"We can all see on TV the strain on ICU staff, and having to deal with death at that kind of level every day is just horrendous, frankly," Mrs Hanson said.

"We want to keep supporting NHS and key workers with the mental health toll, which we all know is going to be significant."

Abdulahi Shire is sentenced after being tracked to Norway following Zakir Nawaz's crash row death.

Part of a ward at a Wolverhampton hospital is partitioned to treat pregnant patients.

West Midlands mayor Andy Street said he hoped hotel quarantine would be brought in "as soon as possible", after a case of the South African variant of Covid-19 was found in Walsall.

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He told BBC Breakfast: "We haven't got a go-live date yet. I would like it to be as soon as possible but [Birmingham] airport's been very thorough in its preparations."

Asked if there are hotels ready and waiting, he said: "There are plenty of hotels on the Birmingham Airport campus that could be put to this use very swiftly."

Universities minister Michelle Donelan said Health Secretary Matt Hancock would be updating Parliament "within the week" on plans around hotel quarantine.

BBC Weather

After a cloudy start it should be a dry day with some bright spells and the chance of showers later, with highs of 12°C (54°F).