Nightingales Care Home in Kidderminster appealed for caravans so staff could live on site during lockdown.

Expectant parents said they "felt anxious" about going to hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.

A firefighter has completed 281 laps of a fire station in place of the London Marathon to raise money for the NHS.

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

Chris Oliver raised more than £1,500 to support the NHS by running 26.2 miles around Stourbridge fire station's yard.

He completed the feat in four-and- a-half hours.

Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to a paediatric consultant who died after contracting coronavirus, labelling his death a "terrible loss".

Image source, Birmingham Women and Children's NHS Trust

Dr Vishna Rasiah, 48, was a neonatologist at Birmingham Women's and Children's trust, caring for newborn babies.

He died at Worcestershire Royal Hospital about a month after contracting the virus.

"Looking after babies was his life," Dr Fiona Reynolds, a colleague at the trust, said. "There are hundreds and thousands of people who are grateful to Vish for looking after their babies when they were first born."

The number of attacks on 5G masts amid conspiracy theories linking the technology to the spread of coronavirus has risen to 53, the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner said.

David Jamieson said 20 of the attacks had happened in the West Midlands, including a suspected arson attack at the mast serving Birmingham's new Nightingale Hospital over the Easter weekend.

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The Labour commissioner said "ludicrous myths" suggesting 5G masts were "radiating out Covid-19 are...truly ridiculous and false".

"A number of people, particularly in the West Midlands, have taken it upon themselves to 'cleanse' us of this 'ill' by attacking the masts," he said at a meeting of the West Midlands Combined Authority on Friday.

Scientists say the idea of a connection between Covid-19 and 5G is "complete rubbish" and biologically impossible.

Baabzi Miah is making hundreds of meals for staff at Warwick Hospital as a "thank you".

Self-isolating "urban sketcher" Ed Isaacs is drawing his garden, greenhouse and bins.

Ravers and partygoers tune into live streams to recreate the shared experience of clubbing at home.

Eternal Taal swap the Glastonbury stage for kerbside sessions as they join the clap for key workers.

The number of cases related to patients visited by West Midlands Ambulance Service in early April.

Staff at the Kidderminster care home will use the caravans to stay on site in a bid to keep it free of Covid-19.

Ben Sidwell
BBC Midlands Today

An actor says he's singing from his Worcestershire home during the weekly "clap for carers" in tribute to his NHS therapist sister.

Lockdown means triplets Jack and Lilly Montgomery have been unable to see each other and brother William.

Jack and Lilly had a virtual reunion so she could tell him what she makes of his musical efforts.

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BBC News

The owner of a sewing school has made 67 sets of scrubs for staff at Burton's Queen's Hospital.

Suzette Slattery, who lives near Rugeley, operates her school from Sutton Coldfield and was asked if she'd like to help make pairs of scrubs for those on the front line.

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Her supplier was able to get her some fabric for free. In 2011 the same material was sent to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as a wedding gift.

"I traced lots of different sizes and made some samples. I made some step by step instructions for how to make them and I got in touch with my students who said they'd love to help and my partner dropped the material off at their door.

"Within 11 days we'd produced 67 sets of scrubs and used all the fabric, which was beautiful," she said.

"All the staff are thrilled to bits".

Ben Godfrey
BBC Midlands Today

A new Muslim radio station says it's been inundated with requests for advice on how to observe Ramadan under lockdown.

Ramadan Radio Wolverhampton launched in the city earlier this month and broadcasts online and on FM.

The station said as well as helping listeners with the holy month, it's also translated the government's advice into Urdu, Arabic and Kurdish.

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BBC Midlands Today

Public response to an appeal for caravans and campervans to help care home staff during the pandemic has been overwhelming, managers said.

Nightingales care home in Wolverley Court, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, put out the call earlier this month and said a number of private owners came to their aid.

Staff will use the caravans to stay on site as they try to keep it free of Covid-19.

Manager Emily Lote said: "It was so overwhelming to know that everybody wants to help as a community. It was everyone pulling together."

BBC Midlands Today

A district nurse who saw a Facepost post of her singing go viral said she was "very flattered" so many people liked it.

Sara Morrell, from Madeley, Staffordshire recorded herself singing the Bill Withers classic Lean on Me after what she called a difficult night shift.

"I thought I would do something to lift people's spirits a little bit," she added.

Thousands have now seen and shared it on Facebook, external.

Officers in Sandwell have raised more than £2,000 for the NHS by shaving their heads.

Image source, West Midlands Police

The team of nine, who work in the Oldbury neighbourhood team, smashed their target of £1,000 in 24 hours.

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Organiser PC John Batsford said: “These key workers are putting their life on the line every day and compared to that, our concerns about how we were going to look are nothing."

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Mark Cardwell

Plans for Birmingham’s second tallest skyscraper have been approved despite concerns about “lamentable” levels of affordable housing.

Image source, Glancy Nicholls

The 51-storey One Eastside project was approved at Birmingham City Council planning committee’s first virtual meeting on Thursday.

The £160m development, on the former college and university campus site at Jennens Road and James Watt Queensway, is also set to include a 15 or 16-storey tower and separate pavilion building.

The “luxury” skyscraper designed by Glancy Nicholls Architects will be taller than the BT Tower.

A total of 20 of the scheme’s 667 apartments are planned to be affordable housing, which has previously been described as “appalling” by committee member Councillor Lou Robson.

Department for Transport funding will support "essential services" across England, a spokesman says.

The retailer has revealed four further locations are to shut permanently.