Summary

  • Updates from Monday 12 October to Sunday 18 October

  1. Driver, 21, and teenage passengers killed in crashpublished at 20:21 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    A man and two teenage girls died after their car hit a tree in Bromley Lane, Kingswinford, Dudley.

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  2. Cancer transplants halted after Covid-19 outbreakpublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Two nurses are thought to be the source as cancer patients are treated for coronavirus.

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  3. Doyle breaks own women's winners recordpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Jockey Hollie Doyle breaks her own British record for winners ridden in a year by a woman with victory on State Occasion at Kempton.

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  4. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:29 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Andy Giddings
    BBC News

    We'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow.

  5. Drama student convicted of manslaughterpublished at 18:28 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Rhys Reynolds, 20, offered to help 72-year-old Tony McCorry home after he mislaid his walking stick.

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  6. City plans big expansion of school placespublished at 18:19 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    Another 720 places will be created at secondary schools in Coventry between 2022 and 2024, the city council has said.

    It is planning to spend £11.9m on the expansion of places and 240 will be ready in time for September 2022.

    ClassroomImage source, Getty Images

    Ernesford Grange, Finham Park, Blue Coat, Bishop Ullathorne, Lyng Hall, Sidney Stringer, Westwood, plus a further school to be identified will be the schools to expand in the first wave, in 2022.

    The project is funded by £23.7m from the Education Skills Funding Agency in May and the majority of the new buildings will be temporary structures.

    Cabinet member for education Cllr Kevin Maton said: “There’s nothing worse than building expensive buildings that then are no longer required in five to 10 years time.”

  7. More than 200 coronavirus complaints about businessespublished at 17:58 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    More than 200 complaints have been made against companies in Coventry, over claims they broke coronavirus restrictions.

    The city council said half the 218 reports it had received since the middle of March related to pubs, restaurants, bars, takeaways, social clubs and nightclubs.

    Man pulling pintImage source, Getty Images

    And about half the complaints were about a lack of social distancing at venues. or about them opening during lockdown.

    The council said 10 were still being investigated, but the vast majority were sticking to the rules.

  8. Serial rapists 'should never be released'published at 17:35 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    The sentence of a 30-year minimum term is "unduly lenient", the Court of Appeal hears.

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  9. Your questions: Is it travelling still possible?published at 17:19 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    David Gregory-Kumar
    Science correspondent, BBC Midlands Today

    The latest update on the coronavirus rules has got a few of you wondering how this affects travel.

    Lesley Badger asked if it was OK to travel from her home in Warwickshire into the high-risk zone to do a bit of shopping and then go home again.

    The answer is that this is perfectly fine, as long as one member of your group leaves their details with NHS Test and Trace , externaland you don't meet with friends from outside your household indoors.

    Maureen Hubbard asked: "We are going to Berwick-on-Tweed on 7 November for one week. Can we still go?"

    Northumberland is currently a high-risk area and non-essential travel is discouraged under the new rules, but not banned outright.

    The government has issued this guidance on holidays, external, but people from parts of England with high rates of coronavirus will be banned from Friday.

    It is not currently clear which areas will be subject to the new Welsh restrictions.

  10. Basketball coach the first face of Commonwealth Gamespublished at 17:03 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    BBC Radio WM

    A Birmingham basketball coach has been revealed as the first face of a new promotional campaign for the Commonwealth Games.

    Ricardo D'Alva, external has coached hundreds of beginners and elite young players at the City of Birmingham Rockets club.

    Ricardo D'AlvaImage source, Birmingham 2022

    Organisers of the 2022 games are now looking for more community sporting volunteers to be part of the Hometown Heroes billboard campaign next year.

  11. Three boys arrested on suspicion of murderpublished at 16:49 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    The 16-year-olds are being held over the death of Keagan Crimes, 27, in a "disturbance", police say.

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  12. Seven test positive for Covid-19 at Waspspublished at 16:47 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Four Wasps players and three staff members who work in the playing department of the Premiership finalists test positive for Covid-19.

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  13. Virus leaves thousands waiting a year for operationspublished at 16:46 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Eddie Bisknell
    Local Democracy Reporter

    Nearly 3,000 people face waiting a year for NHS hospital treatment or operations in Chesterfield, Burton and Derby.

    The huge increase - from 45 in March - has been caused by operations being cancelled in lockdown, Derby City Council was told at a meeting.

    SurgeonImage source, Getty Images

    Zara Jones, planning lead for Joined-Up Care Derbyshire, which oversees all NHS services in the county and city, said such waits were rare before the pandemic.

    She said the main area affected was elective surgeries in orthopaedics - including hip and knee operations - but cancer treatments continue to be prioritised.

    Figures show 2,509 people waiting 52 weeks for treatment at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust as of the week ending 2 October.

    At the Chesterfield Royal Hospital the figure was 298 patients.

    Ms Jones also highlighted an "unidentified need" of people believed "not to have presented for health care" - avoiding NHS services due to Covid-19 concerns.

  14. Burnt-out vehicle linked to murderpublished at 16:30 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    A burnt-out vehicle has been recovered by detectives investigating a fatal shooting in Telford yesterday.

    West Mercia Police hasn't yet released the name of the 20-year-old victim and said it wouldn't be commenting on social media speculation about his identity.

    However, the force said his next of kin had been informed.

    Crime scene

    The vehicle, thought to be a Skoda Karoq, was found in the Wrekin car park in Wellington last night.

  15. Your questions: Does the bubble exemption apply to me?published at 15:32 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    David Gregory-Kumar
    Science correspondent, BBC Midlands Today

    Support bubbles are prompting a few questions from you today.

    Tim Spicer wrote: "I’m still confused about support bubbles and travel. I live in Birmingham on my own and my support bubble is family in Stratford-upon-Avon."

    The answer is that there is an exemption to the rules, allowing you to travel to meet people in your support bubble.

    Find out how support bubbles work.

    Pat Knight asked: "Can I as a grandmother from Solihull (tier 2) go to Rugby (tier 1), to babysit my grandchildren?"

    This is a bit different, as there is a special exemption that allows people, including friends and family to provide childcare. The government refers to a childcare bubble.

    But to qualify it needs to be the same two households matching up to provide regular childcare.

    If you aren't in a childcare bubble then you can't meet up indoors in a tier two location, unless one of the other exemptions apply.

    Read more about childcare rules, external.

  16. Used coronavirus tests handed out by mistakepublished at 15:31 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    One student who was given a used kit said some people had opened and used the testing kits.

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  17. Murderers who attacked Sarah Payne's killer jailedpublished at 15:25 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    Roy Whiting was stabbed with makeshift weapons in his cell at Wakefield jail in 2018.

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  18. Man in 70s attacked in his homepublished at 15:13 British Summer Time 14 October 2020

    A man in his 70s has been attacked in his home and had a silver cigarette case taken from him.

    Warwickshire Police said it happened at a house on Ivanhoe Avenue in Nuneaton shortly after midnight and the victim was left shaken but uninjured.