Birmingham City midfielder David Davis leaves the Championship side after six-and-a-half years with the club.

Leanne McDonald benefits from a charitable scheme which refurbishes old laptops for children.

Parents lay bare the contents of free school meal parcels sent for their children.

The BBC's new radio service for Wolverhampton goes on air at 06:00 tomorrow and Elise Evans will be its first presenter.

She'll be familiar to listeners to BBC WM and said she was "thrilled to be given the opportunity to wake up my home city every morning".

Elise will be followed by Letitia George, who is currently a presenter on BBC CWR.

She said: "With such a fantastic local community who are passionate about their city, who wouldn't jump at the chance to be involved. I can't wait to take you through your weekday mornings and share your incredible stories.”

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has announced it's going to remain closed for the rest of the year, to allow "essential electrical work" to be carried out.

The whole of the Council House complex is being upgraded.

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The museum and art gallery aims to reopen in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and said while the electrical work won't start until June, 2,150 items from the collection will have to be moved to safety first.

A further 33,000 items will be moved while the work is going on.

The city council, which owns the building, said the electrical work was "needed to future-proof the building making it safe for staff and visitors".

Christmas recycling bags have gone uncollected in Coventry because of staff shortages caused by the coronavirus.

The city council apologised, but said staff were either off because they were isolating or shielding.

The local authority said crews had been sent out on Saturday and "were successful in clearing the majority of the outstanding collections from last week".

It said the outstanding bags would be collected this week.

A suspected drug dealer had a spot of toilet trouble when police raided a flat and found more than 500 wraps of suspicious powder in the loo.

West Midlands Police executed a warrant at the flat in Coventry, at 07:30.

Officers arrested a man and woman before discovering a stash of what’s believed to be crack cocaine and heroin in the toilet bowl.

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Police said it's suspected the pair made a dash to the bathroom as officers moved in but failed in their bid to flush away potentially vital evidence.

A man aged 23 and a 19-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply. They remain in police custody.

Det Sgt Tony Ashton said offices also seized £2,000 in cash.

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The force says it made 191 arrests, which accounted for almost 30% of the total over the period.

A number of flood warnings have been issued for the River Churnet in Staffordshire and one for the Marchington Brook.

The Environment Agency said it's come about because of heavy overnight rain, but has so far not given any estimation on when the river levels will peak

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Flood alerts are in place for a number of other rivers around the West Midlands and you can find a complete list here., external

More than 5,000 delays of longer than an hour are recorded across acute trusts in England.

Birmingham Live

These are three of the stories featured on the Birmingham Live website today:

• Met Office warn of snow and ice, external
• Banker sacked after confronting a 'racist passenger', external
• Police investigating McDonald's sex attack, external

Data from the NHS shows 447,329 doses of coronavirus vaccinations were administered across the whole of the Midlands between 8 and 10 January.

That puts the region top of this table, but it includes the East Midlands and the area as a whole has around 11 million people living in it - so it's a big area compared to some others.

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The NHS figures also show 35.7% of over 80s in the Midlands have received a dose now and 1.9% have had a second dose.

That proportion is lower than most other regions, with the North East and Yorkshire leading the way with 45.9%.

Bentley Motors lost a legal battle with a Manchester-based clothing company of the same name.

A man has been arrested after three women were sexually assaulted outside a McDonald's restaurant in Birmingham.

A man was seen by someone at the Bordesley Green branch on 20 November approaching and grabbing the women, West Midlands Police said.

A fourth woman reported she was sexually assaulted on the same day outside nearby Dixy Chicken.

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Detectives are now appealing for the three women to contact the force.

"We know that you might not be completely sure what happened or how to talk about it, but our trained officers and partner organisations are here to listen and work together to support you in any way we can," a spokesperson said.

The 39-year-old suspect was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and has been released pending further investigation, the force added.

Shropshire Star

Here are three of the stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Telford pharmacy becomes pilot vaccination site, external
• Injured road crash victim suing driver for £200,000, external
• Food bank sees 40 per cent increase in food poverty, external

Aston Villa's Premier League game at home to Everton on Sunday is postponed because of ongoing coronavirus issues at the club.

More staff will have to be found if the NEC Nightingale Hospital is to open, the chief executive of University Hospitals Coventry has said.

Andy Hardy said they could be used for recovering Covid patients, but added: "The NHS will have to try to find the staff somewhere to do that when many of us have actually got staffing challenges anyway."

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There are now 213 people in University Hospital with coronavirus and 42 of them are critical.

It's double the number of patients it was seeing on Christmas Eve and some non-urgent operations have been cancelled from this week.

Eighteen people were fined for not wearing face masks at Birmingham indoor market.

Police received several complaints some traders and customers were not adhering to Covid-19 regulations.

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Two people were told to leave the premises for not wearing masks, and another two were arrested for failing to appear at court after their details were taken for not wearing a face covering.

BBC Radio Shropshire

More than 800 people have applied to volunteer at Coronavirus vaccination and testing centres in Shropshire.

The application form was only launched last week and the charity coordinating the recruitment said it has been a fantastic response.

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Shropshire Rural Communities Charity is now following up references and the first volunteers could be working within a fortnight.

BBC Weather

Today we're going to see more rain, some of it heavy, and maybe sleet too.

And it's going to be colder than yesterday, with temperatures only just above freezing.

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