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The latest news and updates from across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.

Areema Nasreen was one of the youngest NHS workers to die of Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic.

The chimes of the 118-year-old Jewellery Quarter clock are to ring out for the first time in 30 years.

Watford maintain their Championship top-two bid with a convincing win over Birmingham City.

League One leaders Hull have to settle for a point as midfielder Greg Docherty earns a draw at Shrewsbury.

Eoin Doyle's 79th-minute penalty completes a 2-1 League Two comeback win for in-form Bolton against 10-man Walsall.

Coventry miss the chance to ease relegation fears as they fight out a scoreless draw against bottom side Wycombe.

Operators in northern England and the Midlands get grant as they continue with low passenger numbers.

Photographer Andrew Fusek Peters says perfect weather was also needed for the dramatic shots.

Trevor Johnson, a porter at New Cross Hospital, died at the hospital he worked at in October.

Wasps come from 18-6 behind at half-time to beat Newcastle and move level on points with the Falcons.

Oliver Banfield's victim says she thought he was "fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy".

Steelworks have nearly been completed at the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham City Council says.

The stadium in Perry Barr, will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as athletics events at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

The steelworks will be finished by next week, the council said, with work to add fixtures and fittings underway.

Image source, Birmingham City Council

Councillor Ian Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, said: "This is an exciting milestone and it's testament to the hard work and efforts of all involved that we have made such progress despite the challenges of delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We can now clearly see what the new stadium will look like when complete."

The stadium is due to be finished by Spring next year.

New Birmingham boss Lee Bowyer is back at Blues - 10 years on from being part of their biggest day - and already a winner again.

Some patients at a Shropshire hospital will be allowed visitors under new rules.

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) had to restrict all visiting for patients in November in line with national guidance in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

But, from Monday, limited visiting will resume for long stay patients on the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries (MCSI) and Sheldon Ward, the general medicine and rehabilitation ward

Image source, Google

Patients will be allowed one named visitor who must book their visits with the ward.

Visitors will need to wear face masks at all times and will be provided with a surgical face mask by the trust on arrival.

Stacey Keegan, chief nurse at RJAH, said: "We have been monitoring the situation very closely and feel that now is the right time to allow some visitors back on site.

"It's the right thing to do, especially for our most vulnerable patients who will really benefit from contact with their families."

Sir Lenny Henry wrote to Sonny, eight, thanking him for his "brilliant idea".

Reece was bullied at school, leaving him with depression and anxiety, but now he's helping others.

Shropshire Star

Here are some of the stories on the Shropshire Star website:

• No Covid patients in intensive care at Shropshire's two main hospitals for 'first time in over a year', external
• Some visitors allowed at Shropshire hospital as rules ease next week, external
• Row over rotting windows on Telford housing estate, external

An off-duty firefighter has been praised after helping to save a child who was trapped inside a house.

Russ Jones rushed to a blaze at a house on Farren Road in Northfield, Birmingham on Thursday.

There, he discovered the occupant's son was missing inside.

After spotting a curtain moving in the front room, he found the boy lying on the floor by a front room window, and smashed the glass with a rock to enable him to lean in and pull the boy to safety.

Image source, West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service

The boy was treated for minor injuries by West Midlands Ambulance colleagues and then transferred to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

The fire has since been found to have started accidentally

Mr Jones, who has been a firefighter for 24 years, said: "As soon as I saw the fire and was told a young child missing in the property, I had to do something.

"Without my firefighting kit there it was too dangerous for me to enter the property, so I had to find a way of trying to locate the boy and rescue him. I’m just so grateful I did and that he is OK."