A drive-in music festival, external in Shrewsbury has got the go-ahead, with the relaxation of lockdown restrictions.

There will be three live bands on stage and people will park at the West Mid Showground, tune in to a radio station playing the music and party in their cars.

Tickets have to be bought in advance and alcohol won't be allowed at the event, but people will be allowed to get out their cars to go to the toilet.

The organisers are billing it as "the safe way to party in 2020".

Neville Staple was "astounded" when his profile vanished after being wrongly associated with racism.

Coventry City boss Mark Robins says his players and staff have been "magnificent" in helping the homeless Sky Blues win promotion.

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Coventry City have revealed their plans, external for a live streamed promotion party on Saturday 20 June.

Promotion means they're back in the Championship for the first time since 2012 and the club said: "This will be a very different event to what we may have done in different circumstances."

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The party will begin at 19:00 and while fans are being asked not to gather in groups of more than six, the club said it hoped it would be "a memorable event".

The night will include the end of season awards, plus a set by Coventry-born Ministry of Sound DJ Paul Morrell.

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The effectiveness of the government's new test and trace system is being called into question by Birmingham councillors and local MPs.

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BBC Radio WM has seen a letter from them claiming five days after it was rolled out only half of positive coronavirus cases were tracked down by tracers employed by the government.

The letter also claims on average those people who had Covid-19 could only provide fewer than one contact each for the tracers to call.

Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Hodge Hill, is among the signatures to the letter and described the current system as "hit and miss".

"Only 40% of people who reported were actually contacted and the number of people that everyone reported looked weirdly low so the system isn't robust enough to keep the city safe," he said.

The Department of Health says the service is helping save lives and there are more than 25,000 contact tracers in place, who have all been trained and are fully supported.

BBC Weather

Cloudy for most of tonight with some scattered showers around, although plenty of places will stay dry. Low: 9C (48F).

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Sharp showers will spread west tomorrow followed by a second band of showers in the afternoon which could be heavy or even thundery at times. High: 17C (63F).

Keep up-to-date with the BBC Weather website.

Forwards Ashley Johnson and Charlie Matthews leave Wasps - with Matthews joining Japanese side Kamaishi Seawaves.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

These headlines are from the Stoke-on-Trent Live website today:

• Mum feared son had been killed after he was stabbed and slashed in street attack, external
• Family's terror at catching youth in hoodie rifling through drawers at home after cat spooked, external
• Driver taken to hospital after three-vehicle crash on Stoke-on-Trent street, external

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BBC News

As lockdown eases for many of us it's heartwarming to still see patients who have recovered from coronavirus being clapped out as they leave hospitals, particularly those who had stints in critical care units.

Here's the moment Mariusz was cheered by staff at Leighton Hospital in Cheshire.

Mariusz, who spent a month at the hospital, described the moment he was discharged home as "beautiful".

West Midland Safari Park has said it will reopen the drive-through part of its site on Monday.

It's made the decision ahead of the expected government announcement that zoos can reopen, as long as they have social distancing measures in place.

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The safari park said the rest of the site would remain closed for now, but it will make another announcement tomorrow, when tickets go on sale.

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The director of Dudley Zoo said it had been frustrating not knowing when it could reopen.

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This afternoon, Boris Johnson is expected to announce zoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas can reopen from Monday.

Earlier this week, the Dudley site said it was losing about £100,000 a week.

The zoo's director, Derek Grove, told BBC Radio WM it would have been nice to get an announcement sooner.

"The risk up to yesterday was we had a situation were we were told it was indefinite which wasn't sustainable for animal attractions."

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He added they would have a pre-booking system for visitors when they reopened and the animals had been missing the visitors.

"People have been part of their lives since they were born. It's actually quite odd for them not to have thousands of people around."

Shane Mayer was stabbed in the leg during a fight in Darlaston in July last year.

Shrewsbury Town have had a complaint about Liverpool's refusal to play their first team in the fourth round of the FA Cup rejected by the Football Association.

Shrewsbury had argued the decision had ruined "what should have been not just financially but for the players and fans a wonderful achievement and a very special occasion".

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The club had also argued that Jurgen Klopps announcement of his intention to play a youth team had affected the decision not to televise the game, which was played at Anfield.

It said as a result Shrewsbury did not get "anywhere near the financial rewards that were to be expected".

But in a statement to fans today, external, the club said: "Unfortunately and quite unexpectedly we were informed that this was dismissed last week."

Worcester News

Here are three stories from the Worcester News today:

• Drug driver stopped after chase, external
• 'Hero' police officer rescued woman from bridge, external
• MP hits out at BLM protesters, external

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Repairs to an "absolutely huge" sinkhole could be finished ahead of schedule, Severn Trent Water has said.

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The firm's been working on the hole, which is four metres (13ft) wide and about three metres (10ft) deep, on Stafford Street, Walsall, since 21 May.

Engineers said it was caused by a collapsed sewer and reckoned initially it would take at least four weeks to repair.

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But after just under three weeks, Severn Trent said repairs had gone "very smoothly" with a new pipe in place and it's hopeful of an earlier than expected reopening.

Chief Inspector John Owen of Staffordshire Police was accused of misconduct last year.

The last of Worcestershire's temporary coronavirus intensive care units are being closed down today.

The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said all affected patients are now being cared for at the main units at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital.

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The trust also said junior doctors were being taken off their emergency rota.

In a tweet, external, the Worcestershire Acute NHS said "It's not the end of the Covid19 journey, but it's a big milestone."

Parking in Warwick, Kenilworth and Leamington is going to remain free, external until August, the district council has announced.

Some local authorities have decided to reintroduce the charges, after lifting them during lockdown, but Richard Hales, responsible for business at Warwick District Council, said it wanted to support struggling traders.

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Mr Hales said independent stores had been hit especially hard by the coronavirus closures.

The short stay car parking spaces nearest the town centre will be set aside for those people with limited mobility and while there will be no charge to use the council's 27 car parks, maximum stay restrictions will be enforced.

The council said it also wanted to encourage cycling, after seeing a boom during lockdown.

BBC Weather Watchers

We may be seeing a lot of cloudy skies today but that hasn't stopped our local BBC Weather Watchers snapping more great photos of the area.

These three are from users Ella Mentry in Hereford, Z70 in Ranton, Staffordshire and Melanie in Wolston, Warwickshire:

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Calls to remove the statue of Clive of India in Shrewsbury will be discussed at the next Shropshire Council meeting, the leader of the local authority has promised.

More than 5,000 people have signed two petitions, saying they want it to go, after a statue of the slave trader, Edward Colston, was pulled down in Bristol.

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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey was a key figure in the East India Company, which controlled the Bengal region if India.

And changes the company made to taxes and agricultural policies are said to have led to the Bengal Famine of 1770, where, in certain areas, up to a third of the population died.

But historian Dr Manu Sehgal told the BBC, "you don't explain things better by destroying them."