The New Bucks Head football ground, in Wellington, is the latest venue in Shropshire to start vaccinating people against the coronavirus.

Dozens of people were waiting for the doors to open at the AFC Telford United ground earlier.

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Malkiat Singh, 76, was among the first patients to receive the vaccination.

Club chairman Andy Pryce said the decision to get involved in the programme was an easy one.

"We are a community club, everything we do is community-based," he said, "it's great to see it in operation this morning."

A centre has also opened at Ludlow racecourse.

West Midlands mayor Andy Street said he hoped hotel quarantine would be brought in "as soon as possible", after a case of the South African variant of Covid-19 was found in Walsall.

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He told BBC Breakfast: "We haven't got a go-live date yet. I would like it to be as soon as possible but [Birmingham] airport's been very thorough in its preparations."

Asked if there are hotels ready and waiting, he said: "There are plenty of hotels on the Birmingham Airport campus that could be put to this use very swiftly."

Universities minister Michelle Donelan said Health Secretary Matt Hancock would be updating Parliament "within the week" on plans around hotel quarantine.

Birmingham's Villa Park football stadium is to be used as a Covid vaccination hub, Aston Villa has announced.

The Holte End area of the stadium will be used to administer vaccines with a "large number of staff" working as volunteers, the club said.

The centre will be capable of administering thousands of jabs each week, depending on supply and demand, it added.

The centre at B6 will be open seven days a week including match days while fixtures are still being played behind closed doors.

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A yellow warning for snow and ice is in force until the end of the day.

Some areas towards the north of the county could be affected by a more-severe amber warning, in place until 13:00 GMT.

As well as snow, some freezing rain is possible, the Met Office said.

Stoke City sign D'Margio Wright-Phillips, the son of Shaun Wright-Phillips and grandson of Arsenal legend Ian Wright.

Those who want to put some space between the home and the office are taking the garden path.

A four-year-old child was hit by a bus in Crewe on Monday, police say.

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The boy sustained life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to hospital after the incident shortly after 13:00 GMT close to the junction of West Street and Ford Lane, Cheshire Police said.

The boy remains in Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital in a stable condition, the force added.

The bus driver was unhurt and officers are asking for any witnesses to come forward.

A suspect from Rugby has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and money laundering after a man was conned out of almost £10,000.

Warwickshire Police said the victim, a man in his 60s from Nottinghamshire, had responded to a text proclaiming to be from HSBC containing a link leading him to a site where he was told he needed to transfer funds to another account.

He went on to transfer £9,350 into an account set up by a scammer, police said, after being told his account was in danger.

The suspect has since been released under investigation, police said.

The identification of the South African variant of coronavirus found in Walsall was "one isolated case", according to the mayor of the West Midlands.

The individual acted "incredibly responsibly", Andy Street said, "so let's hope that the chain has been broken".

About 10,000 people living in the immediate area are to be offered coronavirus tests either at a mobile testing area or by door-to-door service, he told BBC Breakfast.

“We can’t be certain where they got it [the variant] from.

"We do know that the person was incredibly responsible, followed all of the advice impeccably actually, so we hope that it has not been passed on."

David Gregory-Kumar
Science correspondent, BBC Midlands Today

All viruses mutate and there are thousands of slightly different versions of the coronavirus out there.

What worries scientists is when a variant starts to spread and becomes dominant, because that usually means it's more infectious. On top of this, vaccines can also be less effective against them.

That's the case with the South African variant. Just as we are making progress with vaccination, along comes a new version of the virus that could potentially knock those gains back a bit.

We need to understand what's happened with the South African variant in Walsall.

That's why everyone in WS2 who is over 16 needs to get tested. That will allow us to find anyone with the new variant and get them to isolate.

If we can break the chain of infection and stop this outbreak in its tracks we pull ahead again in the ongoing race between infection and injection.

A coronavirus testing programme is getting under way in Walsall after a case of the South African variant was found.

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People living in parts of the WS2 postcode area are being told to stay at home and get tested after a case with no link to overseas travel was confirmed there.

On-the-spot doorstep tests, home testing kits and mobile testing units will be deployed to try to reach about 10,000 people in the area.

Stephen Gunther, director of public health in Walsall, said there was currently no evidence the variant caused more severe illness or that vaccines would not protect against it, but research showed it was transmitted more easily.

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After a cloudy start it should be a dry day with some bright spells and the chance of showers later, with highs of 12°C (54°F).

A police officer sustained a head injury when a brick was thrown through the window of a patrol car she was sitting in.

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West Midlands Police said two of its officers had parked in Maytree Close, Chemsley Wood, at 23:15 GMT on Sunday, while waiting for recovery as they had a flat tyre.

As the officers were doing some paperwork, a brick was thrown through a rear window, hitting one of the officers on the head.

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She was not seriously injured, the force said, but required medical treatment from paramedics and has been left "shaken and upset".

The suspect was riding a bike and was dressed in black clothing, police said, and the force is appealing for witnesses.

Ch Supt Ian Green, from the force, branded the attack: "Absolutely mindless violence that could have been so much worse.

"No-one comes to work and deserves this."

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

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