Follow the latest developments on the pandemic from across the region.

Sir Cliff Richard was among the stars who supported the singer's three-hour fundraising live stream.

The money will help fund computer technology so isolated patients can hear from loved ones.

A Coventry artist produces humorous paintings of everyday life in her 'Corona Chronicles'.

The unnamed worker, who was married with children, died in hospital, North West Ambulance Service said.

Bimla Devi, 87, was a regular at the gym before having to isolate but still finds ways to keep fit.

"Important moments" from the past two decades will be broadcast over the course of three weeks.

Grooming, rape and trafficking are just some of the ways children in the UK are being sexually exploited.

A woman and two children escaped from the fire, which happened on Easter Monday.

Officers say they discovered "a disturbing scene with a large amount of blood" on a driveway.

About £400,000 is raised for the Severn Valley Railway which says visitor absence poses a long-term risk.

Although the latest National Police Chiefs' Council's guidance on exercising outside appears to indicate you can drive an hour to a beauty spot for a walk would not be contravening the rules, police covering areas that sort of distance from the North West are saying to stay away.

The 20-year-old told officers he wanted to save his friend the cost of a taxi to Heathrow Airport.

St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham is live streaming its mass services during lockdown.

They encourage people to watch if their parish does not offer the provision.

A student has been fined for breaching coronavirus lockdown rules after driving to Coventry from Sheffield to give a friend a lift, police say.

The 20-year-old admitted driving down the M1 and had been planning on taking the passenger to Heathrow airport to save him taxi money.

Officers were on patrol in Coventry city centre at 10:15 today when they pulled over a car being driven erratically.

The car was stopped in Corporation Street and the driver was handed an on-the-spot fine, advised about his behaviour during the health crisis, and told to return to his Yorkshire home, West Midlands Police said.

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A Birmingham pub has been turned into a temporary food bank.

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People who would like to donate provisions are asked to contact The Station on High Street, Kings Heath, through its Facebook page, the Kings Heath Business Improvement District says.

The group adds the pub will be donating all items to local hostels, food kitchens and individuals in need of a helping hand.

Birmingham City Council is to hold an emergency meeting of its health and wellbeing board next week to examine the impact of deprivation on cases of Covid-19.

Thursday's meeting will also consider concerns the virus is impacting ethnic minority groups disproportionately, Labour councillor Paulette Hamilton says.

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At a meeting of the West Midlands Combined Authority, external earlier, Dr Sue Ibbotson of Public Health England , externalsaid the organisation was carrying out "very detailed work" nationally to "ensure ethnic minorities are confident on how they can stay safe".

Ms Hamilton said: "There’s lots of fear, people don’t understand why they’re dying more than those in other communities.

“Deprivation is a major issue and people need to understand how poverty accounts for some of what is going on."

Local authorities need reassurance from central government that money spent on PPE will be reimbursed, a Birmingham councillor says.

Labour member Paulette Hamilton, of Holyhead ward, told attendees of the West Midlands Combined Authority, external (WMCA) weekly coronavirus meeting that council trust in what the government could deliver was "beginning to break down".

She said: "At the moment, Birmingham is spending what it needs to spend on PPE but the problem is we can’t continue to spend aimlessly if we can’t get assurances from government that that funding can be replaced."

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WMCA mayor Andy Street said there had been "significant shortfalls" and issues of reliability in the supply chain.

In a separate meeting, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs earlier that issues around PPE supply needed resolving.

The leader of Birmingham City Council warned on Thursday that local front-line care workers had a fortnight before PPE supplies ran out.

In response this morning, the government said it was looking to introduce a "smarter supply" system, adding it had delivered more than 38m items of PPE in England, including the West Midlands.