Former footballer Dalian Atkinson died after he was Tasered by police in Telford in 2016.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

A six-year-old boy has rang a bell at his Worcestershire home to mark the end of his cancer treatment after months in Singapore.

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Last month, Oscar Saxelby-Lee, from Worcester, returned home after getting CAR-T therapy overseas for his aggressive form of leukaemia.

He was filmed yesterday ringing a bell for the end of treatment at his home, something which would normally take place in a hospital.

His parents put the video on their Facebook page and wrote: "Thank you to all of our close family and friends (neighbours too) for popping down to cheer our superstar on!"

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM

The Conservatives have announced they will hold three more party conferences in Birmingham.

The events are scheduled for 2022, 2024 and 2026 at the city’s International Convention Centre, where conferences took place in 2016 and 2018.

This year’s event, which was booked for early October, has been mostly cancelled and will be held virtually instead - although Party Co-Chair and Cannock Chase MP Amanda Milling has said they will "look to hold some elements of the traditional conference nearer the time".

Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street said the news was a "clear vote of confidence in the city and the wider region’s future".

“These events will help ensure the West Midlands continues to be centre-stage in national political life, while also supporting jobs and bringing millions of pounds into the local economy," he added.

The national memorial would be dedicated to men, women and children who worked in the industry.

Dealing with a local outbreak of Covid-19 without better data is like being "blindfolded" a health official has said.

A "sharp" rise in cases has been recorded in Sandwell in the West Midlands, including a third of employees being affected at a West Bromwich factory.

Sandwell's Director of Public Health Dr Lisa McNally said she was notified of the outbreak at CBS Packaging "very late."

"Because the data we receive doesn't include place of work all we were seeing was a random group of cases on the map."

"It was only until we got to 22 cases in that place of work that we received information to say that somebody thought there might be an outbreak there."

She called on the government to include place of work on testing information "because otherwise we're blindfolded and we can't make the link."

David Jones, a farmer on the Long Mynd, spends £1 shearing a sheep and makes just 30p per fleece.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Carmelo Garcia

More than 70 workers who tested positive for coronavirus on a Herefordshire farm which went into lockdown have now recovered, the county council has said.

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Crop pickers at AS Green and Co in Mathon were told to self-isolate earlier this month after 74 tested positive for the virus.

Herefordshire Council said on Friday the number of positive cases had increased to 93 but the vast majority were no longer infected.

It added it expected to see more positive cases in the coming days but there was "no indication" the virus had spread to the wider community.

Birmingham Live

Some of Birmingham Live's headlines today include:

• Couple 'almost killed' as deadly crossbow fired into Selly Oak street, external
• West Bromwich factory sees a third of workforce hit by Covid-19, external
• Man, 20, stabbed in stomach in Wolverhampton, external

A motorbiker's been seriously hurt in a collision with a car in Staffordshire.

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He was thrown some distance from his bike in the crash on Sunday afternoon on Leek Road, Kingsley Moor, near Cheadle, the ambulance service said. , external

The rider, a middle-aged man, suffered several serious injuries and was rushed to hospital.

The ambulance service added a man and a woman who were in the car were checked over for minor injuries at the scene.

BBC Shropshire

Locations where nearly 31,000 homes could be built in Shropshire over the next 18 years are expected to be signed off today and put out to public consultation.

Shropshire Council has identified areas for the homes which include the former Ironbridge Power Station, Tern Hill barracks, near Market Drayton and Bridgnorth.

However, proposals for 3,000 homes near Tong and a garden village near Bridgnorth have been scrapped after opposition from residents and campaign groups.

The local authority's cabinet is being asked to approve, external sending the plan out for an eight-week consultation after which the government will examine it early next year.

A Suffolk Punch foal is the first in the UK to have been born using technology to determine its sex.

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The filly, born in Whitchurch in Shropshire, was conceived using sex-sorted sperm.

There are fewer than 72 female Suffolk Punches remaining in the UK and fewer than 300 in the world.

The new method could be used to save the breed, which has been described as "rarer than the panda", from extinction.

You can read more on this story here.

All workers at a factory in West Bromwich are to be tested for Covid-19 after a third of employees have already been affected.

Sandwell Council’s public health team said it was working with Public Health England (PHE) Midlands to support CBS Packaging.

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The company has workers based in Smethwick, where there has been 40 coronavirus cases overall in data reported in the the last seven days.

Dr Lisa McNally, Director of Public Health for Sandwell said it would not be reasonable to connect the factory directly to all of the new cases seen in Smethwick.

She said: “We know the virus does not respect geographical boundaries and people do travel all over the Black Country and Birmingham for work."

A medieval silver coin in Stoke-on-Trent and prehistoric tools in Shropshire are some of the archaeological finds made in back gardens during lockdown, the Press Association has found.

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With metal detecting banned out and about for several weeks, people turned to "digging up their flowerbeds", according to one expert.

Peter Reavill, a finds liaison officer for Shropshire, told PA he'd seen tobacco pipes, pieces of pottery and prehistoric flint tools from people's gardens.

While they may not be valuable treasure, they often say something "very interesting about the local history", he said.

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As well as the coin, tools, pipes and pottery, other finds included a rock with script in Coventry, thought to be from the 4th Century, and a post-Medieval snake-form belt hook in Herefordshire.

The British Museum said people should get in touch with their Portable Antiquities Scheme about objects they find.

"Lethal steel-tipped" crossbow bolts were fired into a Birmingham street, narrowly missing an elderly couple, police say.

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They were fired from an address in Gibbins Road, Selly Oak at about 17:20 on Sunday.

Three men aged 20, 24 and 49, and a 21-year-old woman, were arrested and a crossbow and further arrows seized.

All four people remain in police custody on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon, said West Midlands Police.

“It’s unclear at this stage whether these arrows were deliberately or accidentally fired into the street and our enquiries continue." the force added.

Lucy Fox is charged with murdering her mother, Judith, whose body had been missing since June.

Hereford Times

The Hereford Times is covering these stories today:

• Red kites make triumphant return to Herefordshire's skies, external
• Two more test positive for coronavirus in Herefordshire, external
• Bikers clocked at 127 miles per hour on road, external

A man is set to appear in court later charged with murder after a father of one died in a machete attack.

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Paulius Petrasiunas, 24, died at the scene in Chervil Rise, Heath Town, Wolverhampton, last Monday.

Sean Bulle, 20, from Clover Ley, Heath Town, is due to appear before Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court later West Midlands Police said.

A 47-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released under investigation.

Teenager Jude Bellingham is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jadon Sancho after joining Borussia Dortmund from Championship club Birmingham City.

Experts fear it may take up to four years for youth unemployment to recover from the pandemic.

A woman arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a three-year-old girl died in Leamington Spa, has been released under investigation, police say.

The girl suffered serious head injuries when she was hit by a Skoda Citigo in Brunswick Street, Leamington Spa, on Friday evening. She died on Saturday.

A woman, 32, from the town was arrested at the scene, Warwickshire police said.

Officers are appealing for the driver of a silver or blue Mazda and urged any witnesses to the crash at about 17:45 to contact them.