Surrey's Vikram Solanki is surprised it has taken so long for a British-Asian to be given his chance as a head coach.

Yousef Makki's family said they hope the inquest will give them "some desperately needed answers".

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More than 400 people attended the Black Lives Matter protest in Birmingham, police have estimated.

Crowds heard from various speakers, including Bishop Dr Desmond Jaddoo who acknowledged the apology to black communities this week from the chief constable of West Midlands Police for "things the force got wrong".

But he told protesters it was time for action from officers, not just words.

PPE was offered with stewards there to enforce social distancing before the rally ended after 18:00.

One of the hundreds of people to attend the rally in Birmingham today said she wanted to come to support black voices being heard.

"We don't want violence, we just want our voice to be heard and for the numbers to be seen [and] that it affects us and we feel strongly about it."

A group of friends from Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield said they wanted to be part of the rally to help stop racism.

"I think George Floyd set it all off, but before that racism's been around, like way too long.

"We just want to make [people] more aware of it.

"The message isn't still being taken seriously enough and obviously, as everyone says, all lives matter."

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England's Lucy Staniforth and Scotland's Chloe Arthur are to leave Women's Super League side Birmingham City.

Birmingham City Council is appealing for donations of computers and other IT equipment to help pupils in the city whose education has been affected by the coronavirus lockdown.

The city's Digital Education Partnership has helped distribute more than 100 refurbished machines to pupils who need electronic devices to be able to study, but there are still more than 250 requests for help.

The council said it estimated about 5,000 children in the city were suffering from "digital poverty", and had been excluded from education during lockdown as they had no access to online learning.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Birmingham city centre to protest in the wake of the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in the US.

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Michael Jones says the investigation was a "politically motivated attack" by his Cheshire East opponents.

Two people have been taken to hospital after a van and a car were involved in a crash in Birmingham earlier.

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Paramedics were sent to the scene on Bristol Road in Selly Oak shortly before 15:30.

The male driver of the van and female driver of the car were both taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with injuries not thought to be serious, said the ambulance service.

Two men have been arrested after an 18-year-old was stabbed and robbed in Birmingham.

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The incident happened on a path in Kingfisher Park, Hodge Hill, at 01:30, said West Midlands Police.

The injured man was taken to hospital and is being assessed and treated for slash and stab injuries, the force added.

The two men, aged 25 and 26 were arrested from the Shard End area shortly afterwards, and remain in police custody.

The 15-year-old who cannot be named is accused in connection with the death of Abdul Wahid Xasan.

Organisers of the latest Black Lives Matter protest in Birmingham said the rally was "to start to address the inequality that we face".

They also highlighted several police watchdog investigations into the use of excessive force against black men in Birmingham.

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“The purpose of this rally is to seek the levelling of the playing field once and for all. It's known as equality - that we have a right too." says Bishop Dr Desmond Jaddoo.

Organisers said PPE would be available and social distancing would be encouraged by stewards.

Police officers have knelt with a demonstrator during the Black Lives Matter protest in Birmingham.

Crowds have gathered to protest following the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in the US.

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Anti-racism posters have been put up around the town ahead of the protest.

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Political Reporter, BBC WM

The Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham, England's biggest hospital trust, has said there are now no Covid cases in any of the trust’s intensive care units.

Throughout much of the pandemic, more coronavirus patients died at its hospitals than any other hospital trust in the UK. It was the first to reach 300 Covid-19 deaths early on.

Speaking at the weekly regional coronavirus briefing this afternoon, Dr David Rosser confirmed this was the first day ICUs have been free of coronavirus patients since the start of the pandemic.

There are now only 43 patients across the whole trust who have tested positive in the last two weeks, although there are a further 137 still receiving treatment for the effects of the virus.

He said it appeared current patients "don’t seem to be as sick".

Dr Rosser also said that despite that milestone, getting other services back up and running was proving to be "extremely difficult" - as hospitals have lost 30% of other capacity due to changes they’re making to keep staff and patients safe.

"Allowing waiting times to drift up across the board is not the answer... but the upshot is that there are going to be certain procedures we classify as low clinical value that we’re not going to be able to do. But if you’re waiting for that particular procedure it doesn’t feel like low clinical value to you," he said.

A former church minister and BBC Wales presenter has been charged with sexual offences against children and adults spanning 30 years.

Ben Thomas, 44, from Flintshire, has been charged with 40 offences, including indecent assaults against children and adults, and voyeurism.

The offences are said to have happened in Shropshire, north Wales, London, and Romania.

He will appear before Llandudno Magistrates' Court on Friday.

The offences allegedly took place between 1990 and last year.

Mr Thomas worked for BBC Wales as a reporter and a presenter on Ffeil, the Welsh language news programme for young people, and on Wales Today.

He left the BBC in 2005 to preach on the streets of London, before returning to Wales in 2008 as pastor of the Criccieth Family Church in Gwynedd. He left his post last year.

Crewe forward Charlie Kirk signs a new two-year contract after helping them to promotion from League Two.

A trial date has been set for a 38-year-old Shropshire woman accused of killing her missing mother.

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Lucy Fox was charged with murder and arson with intent to endanger life by police investigating concerns for the welfare of 65-year-old Judith Fox.

West Mercia Police said the charges brought against her daughter were connected to a fire outside a house in Apley Park, near Bridgnorth, in the early hours of Sunday.

The body of Judith Fox has not yet been found.

A trial is set to take place at the end of November.

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