Callum May
BBC News

The NHS in England is hiring 10,000 school leavers given training by the Prince's Trust charity, external.

The new staff will go some way towards solving the shortage caused by rising demands on the service and falling EU migration.

In Birmingham, where the NHS is the city's biggest employer, training of the new staff is well under way, with some already in post.

Roisin Brown, 24, has a new job as a health-care assistant on a cancer ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham's biggest.

She was referred to the Prince's Trust after struggling to find work once she had retaken her English GCSE at a further education college.

You can read more on this story here.

The key moments in the long-running investigation into the 1991 disappearance of the young mother.

Police are appealing for information after a two-year-old girl was injured in a shooting in Birmingham.

The toddler was hit by flying glass as a car window was hit on Clifton Road, Balsall Heath, last night.

West Midlands Police said four people, including the girl got out before the car was stolen. It was later found abandoned.

The girl was treated in hospital for minor cuts, while another passenger was treated for shock.

Det Sgt Simon Hanlon described it as a "truly appalling incident" that had "traumatised" the family, and that it was fortunate no-one was more seriously injured.

Officers are going through CCTV footage and appealing for witnesses to come forward.

Jason Webb was left in a coma after being repeatedly kicked in the head by Adam Taylor.

Researchers at Aston University have been awarded 3.6 million euros (£3m) to lead research into new techniques to treat brain conditions including Alzheimer''s and Huntington's disease.

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The EU funding, external, awarded just before last Friday's Brexit deadline, will find studies into non-invasive means of using lasers to modulate neural pathways.

The project is a collaboration between Aston University and colleagues in Barcelona, France and Germany.

Bookings at a chain of Chinese restaurants have seen a 50% drop since the coronavirus outbreak, it has said.

Jinli operates restaurants in Birmingham, Uxbridge and two in London.

Martin Ma, the general manager of one of its London Chinatown branches, said the first cases of the new coronavirus in the UK on Friday brought "immediate cancellations".

The said the flagship restaurant alone had lost £15,000 across the weekend.

Shropshire Star

These are some of the Shropshire Star headlines:

• Council hires £1,000-a-day highways consultant for six months in war on potholes, external
• West Midlands Trains to keep railway franchise for now, external
• Two-car crash causes rush hour delays on A458 near Shrewsbury, external

One person has been taken to hospital after a car and lorry were involved in a crash in Walsall this morning.

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

Ambulance and fire crews were sent to Broadway West shortly before 09:20.

The driver of the car was treated for injuries at the scene before being taken to hospital for further assessment, said the ambulance service.

A stretch of canal between Coventry and Rugby is being searched by police in the hunt for a woman who went missing almost 30 years ago.

Image source, West Midlands Police

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

Officers working with a specialist underwater search team are acting on "new information" said West Midlands Police.

“We recently received new information which has led to this search that will last a few days. Nicola’s family has been kept fully informed.

A private search team carried out searches around Coombe Country Park in Warwickshire in 2018.

BBC News Travel

A police incident is blocking rail lines between Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street.

Trains are subject to delay and cancellation until about 14:00 said National Rail Enquiries.

Buses have been requested to run between Crewe and Liverpool South parkway.

A man who has died after taking the drug MDMA at a Leamington Spa nightclub was a student, Coventry University has confirmed.

The 19-year-old fell ill at the drum and bass night at The Assembly in the town on Friday and later died in hospital.

The university said its thoughts were with his family and friends "at this awful time".

A 22-year-old woman, also a student, remains seriously ill in hospital and police say others were also admitted after taking "Red Bull" pills.

Joanne Gallacher
Political reporter, BBC Shropshire

Shropshire Council has defended its decision to pay a consultant £1,000 a day to "get a grip" on road maintenance.

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There are 35,000 complaints in the system and the council's contractor Kier is being scrutinised over its working practices.

Councillors have raised concerns over the company's work.

Steve Davenport, the councillor in charge of roads, said the new role would cost about £130,000 for six months, but it would be money well spent.

"It's all down to doing more for less - we know there are better ways of doing it and we've just got to get there," he said.

An independent inquiry is expected to call for major changes in the way private hospitals supervise doctors, after hundreds of women were put through unnecessary operations by a rogue breast surgeon.

In 2017, Ian Paterson was jailed for 20 years for carrying out unnecessary cancer operations at private and NHS hospitals.

One victim said she still bore psychological scars.

Cheryl Iommi said: "Hate's a big word, but I dislike him.

"I'm sad for what he's done for me, I'm sad for what he's done for my mind. I still have no peace of mind."

An inquiry into his malpractice will be published tomorrow.

Coventry Live

A few of the stories appearing on Coventry Live:

• Catalytic converters stolen from cars on garage forecourt, external
• Fuel thieves fill car then make off from petrol station, external
• Plea to help autistic teen trapped in her own home, external

BBC News Travel

There's six miles of queuing traffic on the M6 northbound in Staffordshire.

Lane three remains closed after a van hit the central reservation.

An oil spillage is also being cleared.

A man remains in hospital with serious stab injuries after being attacked near the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham.

Officers were called to Edgbaston Street in the city centre at about 23:00 on Saturday and the victim, in his 20s, was taken to hospital.

Two men and a 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder have been bailed pending further inquiries, said West Midlands Police.

The man's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, it added.

Motorists in Birmingham have been confronted by a BBC reporter who secretly filmed them buying red diesel to use in their own cars.

Red diesel is intended for use in tractors and diggers by farmers and construction workers. It's illegal for regular drivers to use the fuel, which is about 50p cheaper than a litre of normal diesel.

See this story in full on BBC Inside Out West Midlands at 19:30, or via iPlayer for 30 days afterwards.

A university lecturer who has returned from Wuhan in China, has said spending two weeks in quarantine is a "sensible measure".

The UK government has evacuated the Britons from Wuhan and the Hubei province after an outbreak of coronavirus.

Ninety four British passengers must stay at the NHS staff accommodation block for 14 days, where they will be in "supported isolation" with "all necessary medical attention".

Lecturer Yvonne Griffiths, 71, from Birmingham City University said she had been put in a shared flat with four separate rooms, a kitchen and a lobby area, where food and drinks were delivered.

Speaking on her third day in quarantine, she said she had "some interaction" with the others in her flat.

"People go [to the lobby] to collect things and also pick up food and some people will stand having their food together, but all wearing masks," she said.

Express and Star

A few of the early headlines from the Express and Star:

• Man sank teeth into teenage girl's face, external during 'ferocious' cocaine-fuelled attack
• Action call after Hednesford Hills meet leads to road chaos, external
• Top award for kind-hearted takeaway driver who helped customer in labour, external

BBC Sport

Aston Villa manager Dean Smith says his side didn't work as hard as they should have done as they lost 2-1 to fellow strugglers Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.

Villa were 16th in the table before heading to the south coast and on a high after cup success but only a very late Brighton equaliser at West Ham prevented them finishing the day back in the drop zone.