Happy Mondays, Editors and Echo & the Bunnymen are all on the line-up for a new festival launching in Wolverhampton next summer.

West Park will host the Creation Day Festival, external next May.

It will be curated by the founder of Creation Records, Alan McGee.

Due to coronavirus, a limited number of tickets will be on offer initially - but it's hoped as restrictions are lifted, capacity can be increased.

The Birmingham-based events company says a £160m annual turnover has fallen to almost zero.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Here are three of the stories covered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service in Worcestershire:

• Air conditioning units at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital are being recommended for retrospective planning permission, despite complaints about the noise from neighbours.
• An appeal over plans for a two-storey "minimalist" home in Worcester has been rejected by a government planning inspector.
• The number of people in hospital in Worcestershire with coronavirus has started to rise again.

The daily schedule for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, external in 2022 has been launched with 14 different sports on the opening day.

Image source, Birmingham 2022

Competitors in the 3x3 basketball, artistic gymnastics, hockey and squash will be among the first in action.

It's hoped more than a million spectators will attend the games which also feature two full weekends of sport in the 11 days.

World record-breaking, Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has called for sports facilities to remain open across the country.

Gyms in parts of England on the "very high" tier have shut their doors.

The 25-year-old from Uttoxeter, said "at whatever cost we've got to keep the leisure centres open, but keep it safe."

"I don't want to be another voice pretending to be an expert," he told BBC Breakfast.

"I just know how much sport can help people."

Deena Evans was one of two paramedics stabbed during a call-out in Wolverhampton in July.

Saturday 3 October was the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891, Met Office researchers have said.

The downpour followed in the wake of Storm Alex and saw an average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) of rain across the entire UK.

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More than 20 counties across the country have already received at least 100% of the rain they would expect on average for October, including Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.

Storms across the UK saw February become the wettest on record, resulting in widespread flooding.

Public toilets at Bowring Park in Wellington have been twinned with a toilet in Honduras.

Wellington Rotary Club said the idea is to help fund projects in communities over there.

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The club aims to help families to build a basic toilet and have access to clean water.

A 92-year-old woman has been attacked in her home in Coventry by three burglars who tried to prise off an engagement ring from her finger.

The men crow-barred open the pensioner's front door in Hockett Street in Cheylesmore on Wednesday afternoon.

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West Midlands Police said they got away with more than £1,000 that she'd been saving to buy a new three-piece suite.

BBC Weather

It will be a cloudy day with occasional bright or sunny intervals but also scattered showers. Highs of 11°C (52°F).

This was the scene earlier in Telford as taken by BBC Weather Watcher Raj's Range.

Image source, Raj's Range

As universities adapt to the coronavirus pandemic is enough support being given to disabled students?

West Brom sign 23-year-old Huddersfield striker Karlan Grant for £15m.

Keagan Crimes, 27, was fatally injured after a "disturbance" in the street, police say.

Amjad Khan died in hospital five days after police found him in a property in Oldbury in June 2019.

A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed in Kings Norton this afternoon.

West Midlands Police officers were called to Chapel Walk at 13:50 and cordoned off an area of the road.

BBC Weather

This dry weather is forecast to continue into the evening and through the rest of the week too.

Temperatures tomorrow could be a little lower, perhaps up to 11C (52F).

Image source, Jess and Julie

League One side Fleetwood Town sign right-back Tom Edwards on a season-long loan from Stoke City.

The organisers of Telford's Christmas market have decided to call off this year's event, because of coronavirus safety concerns.

Tudor Markets said it had looked at a number of contingency plans, but in the end decided it was safer not to go ahead with it.

Image source, Telford and Wrekin Council

The Christmas market, which features food and gifts from a number of European countries, has been running since 2016.

Officers are seeking a car they believe to have been at the scene of a 20-year-old man's death.

A man and two teenage girls died when their car hit a tree in Kingswinford, Dudley, on Tuesday.