Warwickshire will become the first county to adopt the Rooney Rule in their search for a new first-team coach.

Doctors are trying to tackle anti-vaccine messages and misinformation being spread online.

Andy Giddings
BBC News

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

BBC Hereford and Worcester

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Worcester is calling on the government to give students a £5,000 credit on their student loans.

Professor David Green said they deserved it because of the difficulties they've faced during the pandemic.

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Professor Green said: "Right now students across the country are at home, they are having to study, sometimes in extremely difficult circumstances and they're isolated.

"People aren't paying enough attention to their welfare at national level."

BBC Weather

We're going to see more rain overnight, some of it heavy, and that will continue in to tomorrow.

Temperatures will be around 8C (46F), but temperatures will drop to just above freezing again tomorrow.

Image source, TillyJo

Worcester News

Here are three stories from the Worcester News:

• University of Worcester calls for tuition fees to be refunded, external
• 29 new deaths in Worcestershire's hospitals, external
• 'Disgraceful' thieves target elderly man, external

Joshua Sanna was killed in a crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent in April 2018.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A petition calling on a council to find ways to reopen Whitchurch Swimming Centre has been handed in.

The centre shut at the start of the pandemic last March and has not reopened as the council said it could not be adapted to meet social distancing guidelines.

The petition, signed by 441 people, asks for solutions to be found and for the council to "engage with the community on the obstacles to opening the pool”.

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Lezley Picton, portfolio holder for leisure at Shropshire Council, has previously said ways to make the centre Covid-safe had been explored, assuring users that the council was not keeping it shut “unnecessarily or to be awkward”.

New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton is increasing its ICU capacity by 200% to cope with more cases.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A Wolverhampton secondary school has been given permission for four extra classrooms.

Edmund’s Catholic Academy, in Compton Park, has also been given planning permission for a new changing room and an extension to its dining room.

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Total pupil numbers are estimated to reach 1,170 by 2025 and it already has 995 pupils - 100 more than the building was designed for.

The school said it would take on 16 extra staff as a result of the expansion.

BBC Weather Watchers

We've seen a bit of light rain today and it's been cloudy too, but we've had some lovely photos from the BBC Weather Watchers.

These ones were taken near Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire and Lydbury North in Shropshire.

Image source, Charlie Foxtrot

Image source, Ken M

An investigation has found police officers were not to blame for a fatal crash following a chase in on the A50 Stoke-on-Trent in 2018.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found a vehicle belonging to Staffordshire Police had attempted to stop a Toyota Aygo on 15 April.

It escaped by driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway and hit two oncoming vehicles head-on, causing the death of the 19-year-old driver of the occupants and serious injuries to the 18-year-old woman with him.

Image source, Lyz Sweetland Stubbs

The IOPC found: "All officers and police staff acted appropriately and in accordance with policy and procedure".

Staffordshire Police said its "sympathies remain with all of those affected by this tragic event."

But it also repeated the findings of an inquest, which concluded: "He made this decision in order to evade capture by the police.”

The BBC is launching a temporary local radio station in Wolverhampton on Friday.

BBC Radio Wolverhampton will be broadcast on DAB radio and online between 06:00 and 14:00 with presenters Elise Evans and Letitia George.

Another local station will be launched in Sunderland and the plan is for them to broadcast until March.

Both stations will provide local news and sport.

Chris Burns, head of BBC Local Radio, said: “Listeners will get more localised news and information from the BBC.

"They will get a better sense of what is happening in their area and will feel more in touch with their community even as they stay at home.”

Richard Hall's body was found near the summit of Brown Clee hill in Shropshire in August.

Cheshire council leaders warn lockdown guidance leaves too many areas of "uncertainty" for police.

Shropshire Star

Here are three stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Plea to follow rules as ambulances queue up outside A&E, external
• Off-duty firefighter saves two canoeists, external
• New Covid guidance will put 'increased strain' on fire service, external

Customers raised a glass of milk as a milkman who died suddenly made a final round aboard his float.

The store is thought to be the first supermarket in the country to offer the vaccination.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A Sikh community centre in Wednesfield which was supposed to open as a coronavirus testing centre this week has been declared unsuitable by the Department for Health.

Ward councillor Bhupinder Gakhal said he was "really surprised" and said "the Guru Nanak Gurdwara had kindly donated the community centre free of charge and it was all set up and ready to go."

Image source, LDRS

Mr Gakhal said the process of recruiting volunteers for the centre had had already begun and he hoped they would be willing to work at an alternative venue, when one is found.

He said he hadn't been told why the community centre on Rookery Street was unsuitable.

BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester

More people have been sharing photos of food parcels sent to feed their children for the week, after the issue came to light yesterday.

A single mum from Worcester, who didn't want to be named, sent us this picture of the pack she was sent for three of her children for a week.

She said one of her children is autistic and is "very, very fussy" so they've struggled to get him to eat it.

And she complained families had not been asked about their dietary requirements.

For contrast, this photo was shared by an independent supplier, JP Catering, based in Weobley, Herefordshire and shows the parcel it provides for just one child for a week.

And it said: "I'm open for suggestions if anyone would like to it's pretty tough pleasing easy individual child so I do try but I'm more than happy for parents to give me ideas."