Stoke City Council leader Abi Brown says residents are "really struggling" to book limited tests.

New coronavirus restriction measures introduced in Wolverhampton from today will mean mean "a lot of isolation," one resident said.

Carole Spencer said she will not be able to see her sons or have her grandchildren at her home.

“It’s just boredom because we had three months of it before where we couldn’t go over the doorstep because of health issues and now it’s come and bounced back again," she said.

“It doesn’t feel very nice,” she added.

Wolverhampton residents are now banned from socialising with people outside their households in private homes and gardens.

Sandwell, Solihull and Birmingham saw identical rules introduced last week.

Coventry Live

Here are three of the stories from the Coventry Telegraph's website:

• Killer jailed for Radford attack, external
• Former student homes bought by Coventry council, external
• Lorry driver suffers life-changing injury, external

A man has died after a house fire in Sutton Coldfield last night.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said he was rescued from the property on Jockey Road at 22:28 in a critical condition and died at the scene.

Herefordshire's household waste and recycling centres will have reduced opening hours from next month.

The council said this is because there's less demand for the tips when it gets dark and from 1 October they will close at 16:00.

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People will still have to book slots but the council hopes the reduced hours will allow it to move staff around and open the Ross-on-Wye centre for an extra day each week.

The restrictions, affecting 4.7m people, ban separate households from meeting in homes and gardens.

BBC News Travel

A fault with the signalling system , external between Langley Green and Lye is causing disruption to trains between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stourbridge Junction, the National Rail website reports.

Trains may be cancelled or delayed by up to 45 minutes.

There is no firm estimate yet of how long disruption will last but it is likely to continue until at least the end of the day.

A revised timetable of two trains per hour will run between Birmingham Snow Hill and Worcester Shrub Hill.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A 200-mile area of Shropshire was covered by just one PCSO for several days and for three of those days she did not have a car.

Deputy Chief Constable Julian Moss has apologised for the officer shortage and said new recruits would soon become available to fill gaps in the rota.

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He was responding to a question from Police and Crime Panel member and Shropshire councillor Dave Tremellen, who said the local inspector and police constable had both been away and one of the two community support officers was off sick, leaving the other one alone.

Worcester News

Here are three stories from the Worcester News:

• Three young girls approached by men in car, external
• New craft beer and organic wine bar opens, external
• Crash between motorcycle and cyclist, external

New rules to curb the spread of coronavirus would risk losing some "iconic and well-loved" pubs and restaurants, a Birmingham business manager has said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to say that all pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues in England must have a 22:00 closing time from Thursday.

Julia Robinson, Southside Business Improvement District manager described the government as "scapegoating the hospitality sector," and called on them to provide "urgently needed support."

“Having faced devastating closures at the start of the pandemic, and despite many being unable to access financial support, our businesses have collectively invested thousands of pounds to ensure that they are Covid-secure," she said.

“There is no question that we collectively have to do everything we can to protect lives and safeguard the NHS, but UK Hospitality has already highlighted government data which suggests just 5% of infections are linked to hospitality venues," she added.

A motorcyclist has been seriously injured after a crash on the A500 in Staffordshire.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called at 09:24 to a stretch of the road near the A5271 junction. close to Newcastle-under-Lyme.

It described the man's injuries as "potentially life-changing".

Lee Tatton, who was in a series about officers responding to emergencies, admitted five offences.

Wolverhampton could face more restrictions if the measures introduced today fail to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Public health consultant Dr Ankush Mittall said "great efforts" have been made to control it up until now, but they haven't been enough and said "you can't take anything off the table."

But he added: "At the moment the evidence doesn't suggest that we are seeing many outbreaks in workplace settings or leisure settings or entertainment venues."

Investigations are under way into two crashes involving lorries on the M40 in Warwickshire.

The first, at 23:00 yesterday, involved four lorries and a car and happened between the junctions for Gaydon and Warwick.

The driver of one of the lorries suffered what were thought to be "life-changing" leg injuries.

The second crash involved three lorries and a car and happened nearby, just an hour later.

A northbound stretch of the motorway between junctions 12 and 13 remains closed.

Twenty-nine people failed to turn up for coronavirus tests which they'd booked at Stoke-on-Trent's Fenton Manor centre yesterday.

The city council said it was "so disappointing" and that while it had been able to fill some of the slots, some were left unused.

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Last week 70 of the first 500 booking slots in Stoke-on-Trent were no-shows.

A man is set to appear in court later charged with attempted murder over a stabbing in Oldbury.

A 31-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the incident at a property on Kempsey Close at about 20:20 on Sunday.

West Midlands Police says the accused, a 26-year-old Tipton man, is due to appear at Dudley Magistrates' Court later.

West Brom manager Slaven Bilic is charged with "improper conduct" during Saturday's defeat against Everton by the Football Association.

Some 93 of its properties have such connections, a new report commissioned by the charity shows.

Shropshire Star

Here are three stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Medic's plea as coronavirus hospital admissions start to rise, external
• Men in court over knifepoint robbery, external
• Building contractor set to create jobs, external

A temporary drive-through coronavirus testing site, exclusively for essential frontline workers, is set to open in Worcestershire.

Those eligible to use the service include GPs, healthcare and social care workers, police, firefighters, school staff and those working directly with children.

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Worcestershire County Council said problems with capacity meant many frontline workers had struggled to get tested.