Mike Blackham lost his job in the beauty industry during the pandemic and felt inspired by nursing.

Wolves sign Portugal Under-21 midfielder Vitinha on a season-long loan from Porto.

Bath keep up the pressure on the Premiership's top four with a bonus-point victory over Worcester Warriors.

Coventry City winger Jodi Jones is to undergo surgery after suffering a third anterior cruciate knee ligament injury in as many years.

Police release images of two men they wish to trace over the assault on Wednesday morning.

Glamorgan hold on for a draw at 265-9 against Warwickshire in Cardiff as the game goes to the final ball.

Teenager Alfie Barbeary scores a hat-trick as Wasps thrash Leicester 54-7 to keep their Premiership play-off bid on track.

Players are accused of failing to quarantine after going to Prague, but they deny breaking rules.

Historic England says the discovery on a building site will 'excite great interest'.

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A petition opposing development of Coventry’s former green belt and a review of the Local Plan have been submitted to the city council.

The local authority's guidelines includes the principle of about 3,000 homes in Keresley and nearly 3,500 at Eastern Green. Almost 7,000 people are currently opposing this.

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The council believes it must accommodate more than 42,000 new homes by 2031, but the campaigners say population figures from the Office for National Statistics are "flawed".

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After some stubborn Glamorgan resistance, Warwickshire are now just two wickets away from victory at Cardiff.

Ryan Sidebottom and Oliver Hannon-Dalby have each taken three wickets as Glamorgan slipped from 179-4 to 243-8.

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The game is Ian Bell's final red-ball match and his 90 in Warwickshire's second innings helped them set Glamorgan a target of 331 to win.

The former health minister Philip Dunne has apologised for the overcrowding at the Ironbridge testing centre yesterday.

Mr Dunne, who represents the neighbouring Ludlow constituency, said it "seems to have been a computer error" and that it was "something that should not have happened".

The police had to step in to close the centre down because of what Telford and Wrekin Council called "chaotic scenes", but Mr Dunne said "what we've got to recognise is that we're in a dynamic situation".

Mr Dunne said testing capacity is "going up very significantly" and is hopeful that easier saliva-based tests will soon become available to make the process quicker.

He also said there has been "a particular spike or surge in demand this week", possibly connected to children going back to school and more people going to work from this Monday".

And Mr Dunne warned there are likely to be more restrictions as case-numbers go up, but the aim was to avoid another national lockdown.

Organisers say such events are a place for "cosy closeness", which could not be offered.

A man drove for two hours to Telford's test site said there was "utter confusion" at the centre.

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More school years or classes will almost certainly have to self isolate over the coming weeks, Worcestershire's head of education has warned.

Yesterday, we heard a class at Woodrush High School in Wythall had been sent home for 14 days because of a positive test and councillor Marcus Hart said it was a case of "not if but when" there are further similar instances.

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Mr Hart also said he was very keen "to get all of our children back into school" if the appropriate safety measures are there.

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A project to improve the ring road around Coventry will start in November, after getting £5m from the Department for Transport.

The work on the carriageway will be carried out on the Swanswell Viaduct section, between junctions three and four and should be complete before Coventry becomes the UK City of Culture next year.

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The work will involve strengthening the bridges and resurfacing the roads and the city council is contributing £250,000 of its own money.

Premises in Aberdeen, Glasgow, England and Romania were raided as part of the Police Scotland-led operation.

People in Telford are being urged to only make an appointment to be tested if they have coronavirus symptoms.

The appeal has come from Telford and Wrekin Council, after what it described as "chaotic scenes" outside the Ironbridge testing centre, which led to it being closed by the police.

The council said the problems at local testing centres were being caused by limited lab testing capacities.

It warned "people may be turned away from the Ironbridge Park and Ride is they turn up without an appointment or do not have coronavirus symptoms”.

For the first time since the peak of the pandemic hospital trusts in the West Midlands have recorded zero coronavirus deaths for seven consecutive days.

The death toll for the region remains at 3,883, with the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust recording the biggest number, with 975.