BBC CWR Sport

The Coventry City manager Mark Robins, has found it hard to predict who will be lining up for their opponents, Sheffield Wednesday, tonight.

The game at St Andrew's was originally scheduled for earlier in the month, but was postponed due to a number of positive coronavirus tests at Wednesday.

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Robins isn't sure if they'll play the same team that faced Everton in the FA Cup or use some of the players who were rested for that game.

He also said Wednesday have "some good young players" and he added: "Their manager at the moment is keeping everybody guessing in terms of the fitness and availability of some other individuals."

A couple share their experience of grieving for their son after he died with Covid aged 32.

Coventry Live

Here are three stories from the Coventry Live website today:

• Covid-19 myth busters being recruited in Coventry, external
• Coventry couple who won £1m help feed homeless, external
• Archaeologists discover Warwickshire’s answer to Hampton Court, external

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Last year there were nine babies over the age of one month who died unexpectedly in Walsall.

A report to Walsall’s Health and Wellbeing Board said there were 32 baby deaths in total in 2019-20, but the majority had been expected, due to babies being born prematurely and having health issues.

Esther Higdon, senior programme development and commissioning manager, Children and Young People at Walsall, said: “The majority of these deaths have been due to safe sleeping issues."

"Whether it is co-sleeping, sofa sleeping, parents drinking alcohol whilst caring for the child or bumpers and pillows in the cot."

And she said efforts were being made to educate parents about safe sleeping for babies.

Police want to speak to these three men after a woman was attacked in her own home after arranging to meet a man through a dating app.

West Midlands Police said the 44-year-old met him in the foyer of her apartment in Tipton at 01:30 on 8 December and two other men turned up a short time later.

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They forced their way in and she was punched in the stomach and face by all three before having two iPhones and a set of keys taken.

Although she wasn't badly injured, the force said "the psychological impact of such an attack cannot be underestimated".

Four Bosley Mill employees were killed in an explosion at the factory in Cheshire in 2017.

BBC Radio Stoke Sport

Michael O'Neill believes Tom Edwards's loan-move to New York Red Bulls is "something he'll be excited about".

The 22-year-old defender will stay with the MLS side until the end of the season, after spending the first half of the season at League One Fleetwood.

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O'Neill said it was "important for him to get his career going again".

After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat. Interviews with some of the world’s leading climate scientists explore recent extreme weather conditions such as unprecedented storms and catastrophic wildfires. They also reveal what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for both human populations and the natural world in the future.

A man has been arrested in Telford on suspicion of human trafficking, modern slavery and growing drugs.

West Mercia Police said the 37-year-old from the Arleston area is now being held in custody and it follows raids at five properties earlier today.

The force said the raids were carried out after information uncovered during raids last November

A number of mobile phones and other items linked with drug offences were seized during the raids.

Community Covid-19 testing is continuing in Staffordshire today for local people who don't have symptoms.

The community testing regime was expanded earlier this month to cover all 317 local authorities.

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The Health Secretary has previously described the tests as a "vital additional tool" in finding asymptomatic cases and slow the spread of coronavirus.

Staffordshire County Council is urging anyone in a hotspot to get tested, external.

They include Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford and Tamworth.

South Staffordshire District Council said tests were available, external today at Wombourne Library and the scout and guide hut on Walsall Road, Great Wyrley.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

It could take weeks or even months for some flood-affected properties in Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire to be useable again.

But now the water-levels have fallen, the clean-up operation is well under way and here you can see council workers jet washing streets in Worcester.

A post-mortem examination found Artura Busma had suffered blunt force trauma to his head and body.

The digger manufacturer says after a "tumultuous year" demand is starting to pick up.

After floods and snow closed Covid-19 testing sites across the West Midlands at the weekend and the start of the week, they have started to reopen in recent days.

Worcestershire County Council said a site at the University of Worcester had now reopened.

Warwickshire make a £281,000 profit for the financial year to September 2020 despite a season badly disrupted by Covid-19.

Birmingham Live

Here are three of the stories from Birmingham Live today:

• Teacher dies from Covid after complaining of tiredness, external
• Fire causes residents to 'jump for their lives', external
• HS2 archaeologists unearth one of UK's best preserved 16th Century gardens, external

BBC Hereford and Worcester

Worcestershire County Cricket has announced its first female president

Margaret Thatcher's former personal assistant Cynthia Crawford will succeed the late Cecil Duckworth for a two-year term, subject to the approval of members.

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Mrs Crawford served Baroness Thatcher for 35 years, including her 11 and a half years at Downing Street, and has been president of the Worcestershire Supporters’ Association for the past eight years.

She said: "It is a post I am delighted to accept at a club and wonderful ground which means so much to me and can never be replaced in my heart."

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A tougher lockdown might still be needed, leader of Solihull Council has warned.

Councillor Ian Courts said said while infection rates were falling, they're not falling fast enough.

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Mr Courts said: “I would describe it as a plateauing of the numbers rather than the sort of decline that’s needed."

Between January 16-22, the infection rate for Solihull was 441 new infections per 100,00 people.

Further restrictions could include the closure of non-essential “click and collect”, shutting the likes of garden centres or a ban on house sales and tradesmen entering homes.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Business owners affected by floods in Shropshire who were issued with parking tickets in the last week have been told they'll have to go through the normal appeals process, if they feel it was unfair.

The owner of a bridal shop in Shrewsbury said she got a ticket on Friday while trying to pump nine feet of water out of its basement.

Stephanie Garrington, who is also 39-weeks pregnant, said “We were in such a fluster when we saw our basement was flooded that we didn’t even think about parking."

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Ms Garrington said the council should be supporting traders dealing with the floods rather than adding to their misery.

And she and complained the parking attendant she spoke to was "generally really unsympathetic on a really tough day".

Frances Darling, Shropshire Council's trading standards and licensing operations manager, said she had sympathy with business owners, who were also dealing with the impact of coronavirus restrictions.

But she added: "There remains a need to ensure motorists do not park in an unsafe manner that would add to the seriousness of the flooding situation."

And the local authority said it could not make a "blanket decision" to cancel tickets issued during the floods.

A man from Newcastle-under-Lyme has been released on bail after chaining himself to the gates of Walleys Quarry landfill site yesterday.

He and other campaigners are unhappy about a smell they claim is coming from the site, but operators Red Industries said it complies with regulations.

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The 31-year-old was arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass and Staffordshire Police said it was continuing to patrol the Silverdale area.