The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme is going to have a refurbishment for the first time since it was built, 34-years ago.

Work will start this week to transform its auditorium.

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The theatre will install a brand new stage, replace its 597 seats, add two-person seats and redesign its balcony.

Customer toilets will also be upgraded.

Shropshire Star

Here are three stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Burglars claim to be police officers, external
• Golf club set to halve in size, external
• People urged to get involved in re-shaping towns, external

Saima Mumtaz wants those responsible for her mother and daughter's deaths in a fire to come forward.

Hundreds of workers have tested positive for coronavirus at meat processing plants and abattoirs, including workers at a plant in Tipton.

BBC News has been looking at why there have been so many.

You can read more on this story here.

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BBC Weather Watchers

The temperature is creeping up again and there are blue skies everywhere.

These photos were taken today by BBC Weather Watchers in Gornal Wood, Allensmore and Ironbridge.

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Image source, Ella Mentry

Image source, Liam Ball

Birmingham Live

Some of the Birmingham Live headlines today include:

• Police swoop after 'armed teens attempt to rob children of phones', external
• Great Barr murder: Police granted more time to question 24-year-old, external
• University investigating student after 'racist' group chat emerges, external

Police investigating the death of 40-year-old Jesse Richards from Evesham in 2009 are continuing to search a property in Warwickshire.

Officers from West Mercia Police have cordoned off a property on Smorral Lane, Corley.

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Five men were jailed over Mr Richards' death in 2012, but his remains were never found.

Staff at Tulip Ltd are tested after 10 cases of coronavirus are confirmed.

The Ironbridge Gorge Museums are planning to reopen, external a number of their attractions on 4 July and have put tickets on sale today.

Blists Hill Victorian Town, the Museum of Iron, Museum of the Gorge and the Ironbridge Tollhouse were chosen because they were either big enough to allow social distancing or could have a one-way system.

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There will be limits on numbers and people will have to pre-book an arrival time, but the opening hours have been extended.

BBC Radio Shropshire Sport

Wolverhampton Wanderers have decided to stop playing their under-23 matches at Telford.

The Premier League side has been using the Bucks Head for 16 years.

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AFC Telford United said it would look to continue their relationship in other ways and explore other ways of bringing in money.

Louise Castrey's death is being treated as unexplained, Staffordshire Police say.

Nathan Ferguson rejects a new deal with Championship promotion hopefuls West Bromwich Albion and will leave on 30 June.

BBC Weather Watchers

The BBC Weather Watchers have been out capturing images of today's sunshine.

These were taken in Birmingham by Timbo, in Wolston, Warwickshire by Melanie and Ironbridge by Liam Ball.

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Thieves posing as police officers have stolen jewellery and other valuables from a house in Gobowen.

West Mercia Police said they struck at 21:15 on Sunday and searched the house, before driving away in a dark-coloured BMW.

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BBC News

A Worcestershire boy is preparing to return home after undergoing successful treatment for a rare aggressive form of leukaemia, after hundreds of thousands of pounds were raised for him to undergo the treatment.

Six-year-old Oscar Saxelby-Lee has now been cancer free for six months - after travelling to Singapore last year for Car-T therapy to treat his acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

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The treatment is specifically developed for individual patients and involves reprogramming their immune system cells, which are used to target the cancer.

And it looks like Oscar can't wait to get back!

His family have shared a video of him cheering at the news that their flights have been booked.

Two men are being questioned after an elderly man was robbed at knifepoint in Stoke-on-Trent.

Staffordshire Police it happened in Central Forest Park yesterday afternoon.

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Two men from the city have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and remain in custody.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

The Local Democracy Reporting Service in Shropshire's been covering these stories in the past few days:

• One single fire control centre could be created to serve three counties after the fire and rescue services agreed to an alliance. The move was signed off by the governing bodies of Shropshire and Hereford and Worcester fire services in October and this week Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority will hear four options have been worked out for how they run their control centres.

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• A report into the mental health assessment of a man the day before he murdered his partner is still waiting to be signed off by the government, more than two years after the killing. Lynn McNally, 46, was stabbed to death in Telford in February 2018 and a draft report into the murder is with the Home Office, according to an update for the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's board.
• The number of holes at a golf club could be halved to nine under plans to allow a 120-pitch static caravan park to be built on half the site. The proposals would see the complex built at Henlle Park Golf Club, Gobowen, and will be decided at a future date by Shropshire Council.

BBC Radio WM Sport

Wolves forward Pedro Neto said the break in the season due to coronavirus made it difficult for the players to be fit enough to play at their best when it restarted.

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However, he reckoned the team are in good shape with eight Premier League games to go after their first game back after lockdown saw them beat West Ham.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

Former chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the UK economy struggles with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.

In a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, external, the Bromsgrove MP has also called for low taxes on business to aid the country's recovery.

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Mr Javid said "some long-term damage to the economy" has become "unavoidable" and made 63 recommendations.

He also said National Insurance should be cut to make it easier and cheaper for employers to take on new staff and that infrastructure-building should be brought forward to boost the economy.

An electric fuse box has caught fire in Birmingham, causing flames to appear out of the pavement.

Three firefighters are at the site at the corner of Northfield Road and Selly Oak Road in Kings Norton, after being called shortly after 08:30.

Western Power Distribution is also at the site isolating power to local substations, the fire service said.

Image source, Dave Harte

Dave Harte tweeted a picture saying a neighbour reported hearing a kind of "bang".