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Rob Halford, lead singer of Walsall-based metal band Judas Priest, has been revealed as a headline act for Wolverhampton's Literature Festival line-up.

It returns as an online event next month and he will be discussing his memoir ‘Confess’.

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Comedian Robin Ince and author Will Self have also been announced.

Coventry Live

Here are three stories from the Coventry Live website today:

• Windows blown out as fierce blaze guts house, external
• School closed as ice warning in place, external
• Woman suffers 'potentially serious injuries' in crash, external

A man has died following a house fire in Bloxwich yesterday evening.

The fire broke out at a property on Chase Road on Monday evening.

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The fire service had got the man out of the property but West Midlands Ambulance Service said he was confirmed dead at the scene.

Five new Covid-19 vaccinations centres have opened in the West Midlands today.

Image source, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The NHS said, external the new sites, part of more than 30 across England, would be part of an acceleration in the vaccine programme.

The five in the region are:

• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
• Hall 1, Stoneleigh Park Agricultural Centre, Warwickshire
• Artix Centre, Bromsgrove
• Telford International Centre
• Daniel Platt Centre, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Ian Turner, from Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is running the Stoke-on-Trent site, said up to 1,000 people could be vaccinated there each day.

"This week we will be focusing on health and social care staff and then people will start to receive invitation letters to come through the centre to recieve their coronavirus vaccine," he said.

Image source, Telford and Wrekin Council

At the Artrix Centre, organisers said they can deliver 1,200 doses a day but operations manager Tracey Walker wants to quickly scale that up

"The supply will build and our capacity will build. We will and can vaccinate at 2,600 vaccinations every single day."

People are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.

BBC Weather

Temperatures will remain just above freezing for most of the day and are expected to reach no higher than 5C (41F).

So that means the icy conditions will remain for another day, and we could have some light rain later this morning.

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Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.

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Some of those at event in Alton were not wearing masks and became "extremely defensive", police say.

A trial has begun over the deaths of four people in the 2015 explosion in Cheshire.

Each flood has meant new plumbing, white goods, kitchen replacements, plastering and redecoration.

Thank you for joining us today, we will return with the latest for the West Midlands from 08:00 on Tuesday.

A woman who died in a crash involving a car and a lorry on the M6 has been named by police.

Image source, Staffordshire Police

Beth Malpass, from Dudley, was driving her red MG when it was in collision with a white HGV near J11A on the southbound side on Saturday morning, Staffordshire Police said., external

BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester

A primary school building has been badly damaged in a fire.

More than 30 firefighters tackled the blaze at St Joseph’s Primary School in Droitwich, Worcestershire, at about 01:45 on Monday.

The fire service described, external it as a "significant fire" and said an investigation was underway into what caused it.

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The authorities are facing questions over why defences failed again in an area of Bewdley.

Siobhan Connor says she had just finished redecorating her home in Shrewsbury when floods struck once again.

The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.

With more freezing temperatures forecast tonight, gritters will be back out in Birmingham.

The council said, external it would be gritting from 19:00 and treating key footpaths from 04:00 on Tuesday.

Image source, Birmingham City Council

BBC Weather Watchers

With time on their hands, people across the West Midlands appear to have tried their hand at some snow sculpting.

Given he is a sculptor by trade, Ed Elliot did have a head start with producing his effort in Great Malvern:

Image source, Ed Elliot

While BBC Weather Watchers Jonny, in Codsall, Staffordshire and Postman Pete in Weston on Avon, Warwickshire, snapped more traditional efforts:

Image source, Jonny

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Several play areas in Shrewsbury are still closed today after last week's floods and the icy conditions today.

The town council said, external six remained shut:

• County Ground
• Kynaston Rec (Infants)
• Quarry
• Springfield
• Sydney Avenue
• White Hart

With temperatures forecast to drop again tonight below freezing point, Wyre Forest District Council said it was moving to help rough sleepers.

The local authority said, external its housing advice team was making emergency measures to get them all off the streets tonight.

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