Coronavirus death nurse 'helped everyone'
Coventry to shut its parks to vehicles
Hospitals ready as Covid-19 deaths rise
Showground identified as potential mortuary
School mentor dies after contracting Covid-19.
Ambulance sets alight as crew treats patient
Public transport services cut back further
Injured police officer returns to work
Updates from Monday 6 April
Matthew Murray is delivering pizzas and donating his wages to his church's food bank.
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Rob England
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As the country comes together to give thanks to emergency service workers on the frontline, it's important to remember the essential role of other key workers across the country, such a bin crews.
That's exactly what residents in Birmingham have been doing as waste crews have been greeted on their rounds with messages of support attached to bins.
On social media, the city council thanked people for the kind words around Quinton and Harborne.
Last week, similar messages appeared, external around the city, saying things like:
“Thank you for carrying on and doing this. We appreciate it. Take care and stay safe."
“Thank you for helping keep us safe. I have cleaned handles. We are currently symptom-free. Much appreciated chaps."
"Thank you to our binmen – you are appreciated.”
Cllr John O’Shea, from Birmingham City Council, said the positive words were having "a great effect on morale" among workers.
The government has agreed to postpone the introduction of the zone until January 2021.
Read MoreStaffordshire County Showground could become a temporary mortuary site "if required", the council says.
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Volunteer officers have put in more than 2,000 hours of frontline policing over the past two weeks, a force has said., external
West Midlands Police said 19-year-old Special Constable Harry Sarkar was one of those to step up during the coronavirus crisis.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceThe student, whose lectures have been suspended because of coronavirus, said: "It’s a difficult time; helping and protecting people is what I love doing so the more I can do the more I enjoy it. It always feels like it's my first day every day I put the uniform on – and I’m helping take some strain off my colleagues."
Specials constables are normally required to dedicate 16 hours a month to policing duties, but this has been relaxed due to many being employed in key worker roles, the force said.
West Midlands Police has said it was "making more use of special constables" and working with the government to "pay those that are now unable to work during the coronavirus crisis" to make "even more use of them".
A police officer struck by a car breaking her leg and knee-cap has returned to work.
PC Claire Bond was on duty when she was deliberately pinned against a fence by the driver during the Stafford 10k in September 2018.
She can no longer work as a a frontline officer - but is instead training new cadets.
Gurajdeep Malhi was jailed for 12 years and nine months, having admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
A landlady has admitted breaking restrictions on food and drink sales at her Shropshire pub.
Heather Teale from the Sun Inn in Clun said she made a mistake letting customers putting their own beers in glasses as they were waiting for takeaway food.
She told BBC Radio Shropshire "lessons had been learned".
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Quote MessageWe had turned everything off in the kitchen but because they were regulars and locals we didn't like to turn them away so we said we would do them. Rather than having them sit outside waiting at half past nine we told them they could come in - and because they'd bought takeaway drinks we stupidly let them put it in glasses and it was classed as a lock-in then wasn't it. We hold our hands up, we were in the wrong, we shouldn't have done it and we learn from our mistakes - we won't do it again.
Heather Teale, Landlady, Sun Inn
Mother-of-three Areema Nasreen was an "amazing person" who "put herself last", her sister says.
Read MorePublic transport services have been scaled back across the West Midlands as demand has fallen.
The number of trains running around the region has been cut again from today because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Birmingham-based National Express has also suspended all of it's coach services as the number of passengers using public transport continues to fall.
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The biggest agricultural showground in Staffordshire has been identified as a site for a temporary mortuary as part of measures to deal with an expected surge in deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.
Image source, GoogleA Staffordshire County Council committee has backed the plan for the temporary use of the 60-acre County Showground, on Weston Road, Stafford.
A "reserve site" has been identified at Alrewas Hayes Grain Store, near Burton, Cheshire.
Council leader Philip Atkins said local authorities across the country were required to put emergency planning measures into place but added he hoped the contingency measures would not be needed.
Motor industry records the worst March for two decades as the Covid-19 outbreak keeps buyers at home.
Read MoreTributes have been paid to a "fun-loving and kind" school mentor who has died after testing positive for Covid-19.
Image source, Family handoutA spokesperson for Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School in Coventry, part of the Romero Catholic Academy, said everyone was."deeply saddened" by Carole Flynn's death.
She had been at the "heart and soul" of the school for 16 years, the spokesperson said.
“The children of Corpus Christi, past and present, were at the forefront of all that she did in her role as a learning mentor, and she carried a special place in her heart for each and every one of them."
She leaves behind her two sons, her daughter and her newly arrived grandson, the spokesman said.
With top-flight football under fire for its response to coronavirus, BBC Sport highlights EFL managers and players doing their bit for the NHS.
Read MoreThieves targeted NHS staff cars at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
In a tweet the Worcester Safer Neighbourhood Team said nurses coming off shift on Saturday returned to their vehicles to find catalytic converters had been stolen.
"The depths some people sink to never cease to amaze us," it added.
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Further restrictions on social distancing rules would be "hard to police," West Midlands Police said.
Image source, PA MediaHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the government was "not planning any changes imminently" to social distancing policies but he "could not rule out further steps".
Image source, PA MediaAssistant Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, Jayne Meir, said it was up to the government to put restrictions in place "in terms of the scientific advice that they're given."
"But it would be really difficult to police individuals on a daily basis and everybody has to take personal responsibility for this.
"It is a collective responsibility to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives."
"In the West Midlands the vast majority of people are being really sensible and adhering to the government's restrictions and they're maintaining social distances when they do go outside."
A group of 24 photographers record one hour each of life under restrictions imposed because of coronavirus.
Read MoreA man is due in court later over the death of Pavandeep Daudher.
Image source, Family handoutThe 19-year-old was fatally stabbed at a BP garage in Lockhurst Lane, Coventry, on Tuesday evening.
A post-mortem examination found he died from a stab wound to his left thigh.
Ethan Lilley, 22, of Queen Isabels Avenue, Cheylesmore, has been charged with murder.
The charity which runs the National Domestic Abuse helpline says it's seen a 25% increase in calls and online requests for help since the lockdown began.
Refuge says there's also been a daily rise in people accessing the helpline's website, and last week that figure was up by 150%.
The West Midlands Deputy Chief Constable, Louisa Rolfe, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for domestic abuse, encouraged women and men facing abuse at home during lockdown to seek help.
Quote MessageWe would always seek to remove the perpetrator because often victims in their home where family, friends and neighbours can look out for the victim are much safer than if we remove them. However we do know in certain circumstances sometimes victims need to flee their home and we will be working with refuge providers to ensure that they have access to safe accommodation."
Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, West Midlands Police
Work on the new Nightingale hospital at the NEC near Birmingham is to be "accelerated" as the death toll for the region rises.
Latest figures from hospital trusts show the region recorded a higher coronavirus death toll than London at the end of last week,
Image source, PA MediaWest Midlands Mayor Andy Street said while there was a "huge challenge" ahead, the region was ready.
"All of our hospitals have prepared well, have capacity, so the reassuring thing for citizens is that at least there is available and appropriate medical care should they need it," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Vanessa Pearce
BBC News
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We'll be bringing you all the latest news on coronavirus for the West Midlands.
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