Birmingham defender Ruby Mace struck in the 94th minute to seal a dramatic late point against West Ham.

Brighton make it four wins in a row with victory at lowly Aston Villa to move into the top half of the Women's Super League.

The suspect is released on bail after being questioned about the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001.

Families met with the Home Secretary as part of their campaign for a full account into the blasts.

A watchdog looking into Anthony Grainger's death says forces must not use out-of-date intelligence.

All pupils at Henley-in-Arden School will return to home learning until 29 March.

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A £5.7m support package to help ease Birmingham airport through the coronavirus has been agreed by councillors in Coventry.

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Coventry City Council is one of seven local authorities in the West Midlands who are shareholders of the airport holding company BAH.

Four of those, including Coventry, are providing loans totalling £32.8m. Birmingham City Council has confirmed a loan of up to £18.5m, £3.7m is being loaned from Solihull Council and up to £4.9m from Walsall Council.

Coventry cabinet member for finance Richard Brown said the authority was "putting an arm around a key asset".

The loan would be made available as and when needed by the airport to ensure it can have the maximum impact on recovery.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan - 48.25% shareholders - will also provide a loan.

A rapids ride at Drayton Manor had a history of failings before a child's death, a court is told.

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More than £700,000 is to be spent on creating a green corridor between the centre of Birmingham and a rural park in Warwickshire - and that will include investment in Coleshill.

North Warwickshire Borough Council has worked with the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust to secure the £705,000 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund to help transform the Cole Valley.

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A report considered by this week’s community and environment board of the council said: "The valley itself is a haven for wildlife and the proposed works will involve tree planting, wildflower meadows and wetland habitat creation, as well as improvements to access paths and trails."

It added the funding would "support local green jobs".

Money will be spent on various locations along the route in Birmingham, Solihull and Cole End Park in Coleshill.

Former Shrewsbury, Sheffield United, Accrington and Telford midfielder Steve Jagielka, elder brother of Phil, dies at 43.

Listen to local BBC radio commentary as Newcastle Falcons host Wasps in the Premiership following a 55-19 victory for Ealing Trailfinders at Coventry in the Championship.

Six-year-old conservationist Aneeshwar Kunchala is hoping his videos will help make a difference.

Phoebe Dynevor will play Clarice Cliff, "a female pioneer who quite literally broke the mould".

Two men are in hospital after being shot in their car in the Kitts Green area of Birmingham on Wednesday.

West Midlands Police said they were attacked at around 00:40 on Hurstcroft Road.

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The men, who are aged 43 and 29 were taken to hospital in a stable condition with injuries which aren’t thought to be life-threatening.

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The number of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent residents receiving the Covid-19 vaccine is set to pass 500,000 this week, and a target to offer all adults their first dose by the end of July could be met several weeks early.

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The area has topped a national "league table" for vaccine administration, health bosses told a Staffordshire County Council meeting on Tuesday.

And there is capacity to give more than 150,000 jabs a week locally, through a combination of larger vaccination centres, hospital hubs, GP-led sites and venues run by pharmacies.

"What we’ve done literally is set up a medium-sized supermarket chain within a matter of four or five weeks to jab people," said Marcus Warnes, from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups.

"We have got the lowest stock levels of pretty much any system in the country – when we get it, we jab people with it."

Mr Warnes said he was "absolutely confident" the 15 April deadline to do priority groups one to nine would be delivered and it would "probably" be done by the end of March.

"We’re expecting around 80,000 doses of the vaccine this week – the highest week to date is 53,000."

Birmingham's Joe Lycett was the winner in the presenter category at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for BBC One's The Great British Sewing Bee.

The judges said: "This presenter showed all the qualities the audience loves to see right now: warm, approachable and kind, with tremendous enthusiasm for the subject matter."

He also achieved success in another category, as Channel 4's Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back won the formatted popular factual section.

Judges described the series as "distinctive in style yet broad in appeal, all wrapped in a highly original format".

Plans have been approved for Wolverhampton's former Beatties department store to be turned into new homes.

The store was sold to a private investor for £3m last year.

The city council says planning approval has been given to build 300 new homes on the site and its car park.

This season's Premiership Rugby Cup is scrapped because of continuing concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wasps sign scrum-half Francois Hougaard from Premiership rivals Worcester Warriors on a deal which begins next season.

Thirty more bleed kits will be installed across the West Midlands after funding was granted to The Daniel Baird Foundation.

Lynne Baird, whose son Daniel, 26, was killed in a dispute outside a pub in the city in 2017, set up for the foundation to provide kits to people involved in stabbings.

The bleed control cabinet is designed to prevent a catastrophic bleed while paramedics travel to the scene of a stabbing.

It contains a tourniquet, bandages, scissors and gloves which can be used by members of the public, accessed through a code provided by the ambulance service.