Updates from Monday 20 January to Sunday 26 January
The mist hasn't shifted in parts of the West Midlands today and here are a couple of photos from our BBC Weather Watchers showing it lingering.
They're from users Snow Crystals in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and STFC Goose in Longnor, Shropshire:
Image source, Snow Crystals
Image source, STFC GooseThe Duchess of Cambridge meets children in Birmingham to mark the launch of her "five big questions".
Read MorePrivate hire taxi drivers will be able to drive through the bus gate in Coventry City Centre from 10 March.
Until recently only black cabs, buses and cyclists could go through the Whittle Arch bus gate on the junction of Trinity Street and Fairfax Street.
Image source, GoogleThe arch was unveiled in 2003 as a memorial to the jet engine pioneer Sir Frank Whittle.
A road maintenance worker has suffered multiple injuries after being hit by a car on the A458 between Much Wenlock and Bridgnorth this morning.
West Mercia Police said it happened at around 11:00 and the 56-year-old is being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for a broken leg, broken arm and facial injuries.
Police said the road was very foggy at the time the collision took place.
The new woman in charge of the Severn Valley Railway says it will have to look at its carbon footprint in the future and conceded "we're using a lot of coal".
Helen Smith has taken over as the heritage railway's general manager and said part of her role was to prepare it for the future and said the board was "very active" on issues like this.
Image source, Getty ImagesMs Smith, who was previously deputy director of the Tank Museum in Dorset, said there had to be a balance, and at the same time, "we want to carry on operating steam engines as they were always operated".
The line, which runs roughly 16 miles between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth, operates a mix of steam and diesel locomotives, carrying some 250,000 passengers a year.
Quote MessageThose kind of challenges are going to have to be faced in the future. We're going to have to really kind of look at what we're doing and how we're doing it to make sure that we are acceptable in another 20, 30 years' time and are we going to be able to operate the same way?"
Helen Smith, Severn Valley Railway general manager
Hereford's MP has accused the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership of "absolutely diabolical" behaviour over the city's new university.
Speaking in a debate in Westminster Hall, Jesse Norman said the LEP "has done nothing but prevaricate and delay" the NMITE project, including demanding a £5m indemnity on government investment.
Mr Norman said "the government's made it clear as early of January of last year that no such indemnity was required".
The Marches LEP said it had approved all £8m of government funding and had consistently supported the project since its inception.
Quote MessageI'm sorry to tell the chamber and indeed colleagues, that the Marches LEP, and I say this having had a year of wrestling with them on this topic at least, have been absolutely diabolical in the way they've treated this very innovative project."
Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire
The Dudley News is covering these stories today:
Allen Cook
BBC News
A teenager's been charged after a 15-year-old boy was "seriously injured" in a stabbing in Birmingham.
West Midlands Police said officers were called to Grantham Road in the Sparkbrook area of the city on Monday afternoon.
The victim was found with serious stab wounds and is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
Officers said another 15-year-old boy had been charged with wounding and will appear before magistrates today., external
Vaseli Baicu carried out sex assaults on five victims and was jailed for six years and three months.
Read MoreA Warwickshire boss says she wants to see more "support, flexibility and open conversations" for workers who are feeling the effects of stress or other mental health problems.
Sarah Windrum from the Emerald Group was responding to a study by consultants at Deloitte which says employees' mental health issues cost businesses more than £40bn a year.
She has suffered from depression and anxiety herself and also says she encourages her staff to take the day off if they're feeling unwell, rather than drag themselves in to the office.
Warwickshire CEO wants more support for stressed workers
West Brom's Matheus Pereira is suspended for three games after accepting a charge of violent conduct for a clash with Stoke's Joe Allen.
Read MoreAllen Cook
BBC News
The closure of a Staffordshire community hospital and the scrapping of beds at three others will see them replaced with four care hubs at a cost of £30m.
Image source, GoogleHaywood Hospital
The two clinical commissioning groups in the north of the county, who buy and monitor healthcare, made the decision yesterday., external
Cheadle Hospital will close while only Haywood Hospital, in Stoke-on-Trent, will continue to have community beds, 77 of them, with another 55 at local care homes.
At the other hospitals, in Longton, Leek and Bradwell as well as at Haywood, the beds will be replaced by "integrated care hubs" with the Longton one based in a building which will be purpose-built.
The hubs will host specialist teams such as physiotherapy and palliative care but won't have beds.
Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM
Birmingham MP Jess Phillips says dropping out of the Labour leadership contest won't stop her campaigning.
Image source, PA MediaIn a video message to supporters, the Birmingham Yardley MP said the next leader had to be able to unite the whole Labour movement.
Ms Phillips said she had to "be honest" with herself - "that person is not me".
Four candidates are still in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn - Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry and Lisa Nandy.
Quote MessageI'm now going to go out into the country and join the fight back because the Labour Party is not about what job description you have, we are the strength of our common endeavour and everybody who has joined in, now we go out into the country in the local elections, the mayoral elections and we fight back."
Jess Phillips, Birmingham Yardley MP
Here are three of the stories to be found on the Hereford Times website today:
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Coventry City Council is taking legal action against a local takeaway, over a "alleged cockroach infestation".
The decision to start proceedings against Fried Chicken Express at 180 Lythalls Lane, Holbrooks, was agreed in private by councillors at a meeting of the council’s licensing and regulatory committee on 10 December, but has now appeared in council minutes.
Image source, LDRSThe minutes do not provide dates of when the allegation was discovered, or any further detail.
No court date has been set.
Worcestershire opener Daryl Mitchell agrees a contract extension until the end of the 2021 county season.
Read MoreA BMW failed to stop for police and collided with two parked cars and two police vehicles.
Read MoreThe Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands says he's had 1,000 responses to a survey, external he's set up to gauge people's experiences of West Midlands Trains.
David Jamieson has previously said the franchise is putting public safety at risk over continual delays and cancellations.
West Midlands Trains has acknowledged issues with delays and cancellations to services and overcrowded trains, but said commuters will start to see the benefits of a £1bn investment programme this year.
It will includes new trains and increased compensation for delays and cancellation.
The government's been urged by a Stoke-on-Trent MP to move civil service jobs to his city.
Stoke South's Jack Brereton told the House of Commons this lunchtime it would be the "perfect place" with office costs being cheaper than London and being only 90 minutes away on the train.
The Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly replied by saying they wanted to make the civil service "less London-centric".
He added a programme had been started to relocate roles out of the capital to "all parts of the UK".
Allen Cook
BBC News
A "truck-load" of rubbish has been dumped in front of a church in Staffordshire.
Image source, St Bertelin's ChurchElaine Evans, vicar of St Bertelin's Church, Stafford, told the BBC a dog walker knocked on her door this morning to alert her.
She found the rubbish on the church's car park , externaland said it wasn't there when she left last night at 20:30.
Ms Evans said she'd been told she had to contact the Environment Agency for it to investigate, due to the size of the fly-tipping.
Image source, St Bertelin's Church
