Teemu Pukki nets twice as Norwich go 10 points clear at the top of the Championship with a 10th away win of the season at Birmingham.

His family say they are surprised the vulnerable stem cell transplant recipient received open-ward care.

Warwickshire chief executive Stuart Cain asks whether County Championship fixtures in April could be staged as crowd pilot games.

Moses Christensen armed himself with combat knives before attacking Richard Hall, a court hears.

Birmingham Phoenix have bolstered their batting line-up for the first ever "The Hundred" competition, by securing Somerset red ball captain Tom Abell.

He has represented England Lions, as well as averaging over 30 in domestic Twenty20 competitions.

The Phoenix also signed Kent opening batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond and Gloucestershire opener Miles Hammond.

The women's ranks were boosted with the signing of Georgia Elwiss.

You can find all of today's signings on the BBC Sport website.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
David Lawrence

A potential merger between Stratford and Warwick district councils remains on track following one of two key votes this week.

Councillors at Monday's full council meeting in Stratford-upon-Avon voted overwhelmingly in favour of further discussions taking place.

A similar vote will be taken at Warwick District Council’s meeting tomorrow.

During a lengthy debate there were calls to delay any decision for six months, but this was rejected.

A worker at a mill where four died in a blast tells a trial he thought part of the site was unsafe.

Coventry Live

Some of the Coventry Live headlines today include:

• Derelict former dental surgery in Coventry to become flats, external
• Lockdown rule-breakers caught in secret cabin in the woods, external
• Appeal over Irish-language gravestone to be heard, external

Ian Webber was convicted for assaulting the four-year-old boy at a Sutton Coldfield school in 2018.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Tom Davis

Plans are to be drawn up for a gigafactory at Coventry Airport to manufacture electric car batteries, after the councillors approved the scheme.

Image source, Coventry City Council

Securing the factory could create thousands of jobs and attract up to £2bn of investment to the region, the city council said.

Plans will now be developed to submit an outline application in 2021 and, if approved, the facility could be up and running for 2025, the meeting heard.

It is hoped the project will attract funding from the government, which is actively pursuing investment in a gigafactory and has made up to £500m available.

Hereford Times

These are some of the Hereford Times headlines today:

• Empty restaurants at Hereford's Old Market look set to reopen, external
• How pavilion will harness the power of the river Wye, external
• Drug-drive cannabis smoker was caught on his way to buy food, external

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Tom Davis

Coventry could boast one of the largest arts museums in the world if plans to turn the former Ikea building into a national collections centre are approved.

Image source, Coventry City Council

Image source, Coventry City Council

Councillors are meeting to discuss plans to transform the building into a joint arts and culture facility.

They will be asked to approve the acquisition of the leasehold of the site, alongside design fees of £1.31m to develop later-stage plans for the new arts hub.

The Ikea building contains 53,904 square metres of floor space, meaning in terms of size it would be placed only behind the Louvre in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, the National Museum of China in Beijing, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

However, the exact layouts for the collections centre and proportion of storage/gallery space has yet to be determined.

Image source, Coventry City Council

If approved, the multimillion-pound project would become home to some of the country’s greatest works of art and could open during the summer of 2023.

Ashley Pace is sentenced to six years in prison for the manslaughter of Jagdev Lally.

Three men and a woman, arrested on suspicion of murder, have been released, police say.

Birmingham Live

Some of the Birmingham Live headlines today include:

• Man's throat slit in horrific city attack, external
• Fears for safety of Rotunda as walkway below sealed off, external
• Appeal after van driver left with serious face injuries in random attack in Quinton, external

Darryl Moffatt's crimes against children are not related to his work, authorities say.

BBC News Travel

A fallen tree is disrupting rail services in the West Midlands.

Services between Northway in Birmingham and Eckington in Worcestershire are being delayed.

Two people have died following a crash involving six vehicles in Worcestershire.

The man and woman died at the scene at about 16:40 GMT at the junction of the A435 and Hill Lane in Wythall, said the ambulance service.

Two men were taken to hospital, one suffering serious injuries.

The road was closed for a time but has since reopened.

There are some roads that remain closed due to flooding around Herefordshire.

Flood alerts remain in place , externalon the Wye in the county as well as the Severn in Worcestershire, the river Lugg south of Leominster and the Upper Teme.

Plans to transform a vacant Ikea store into an arts centre are to be discussed by councillors today.

Image source, Coventry City Council

Ikea closed its Coventry branch in March 2020, but new proposals could see it become home to national and local artworks and collections.

The centre could be created through a partnership between Arts Council England, Culture Coventry Trust and Coventry University, said the city council.

Coventry is the UK's 2021 City of Culture and the council said transforming the Ikea store would deliver a "lasting legacy".