Grand National-winning jockey Liam Treadwell died aged 34 after taking a cocktail of drugs, an inquest heard.

Defender Natalie Haigh says Aston Villa are out "to get revenge" for their previous WSL derby defeat by rivals Birmingham City on Wednesday.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A sculpture will be erected in Telford Town Park to commemorate the area's mining history.

It will depict a man and his son standing beside a pit wheel and will be placed in the north east corner of Spout Pool.

Image source, Telford And Wrekin Council

An information plaque will be included and the volunteer group behind the project hope, Granville Boys, plan to use the sculpture to help with educational visits.

The Granville Colliery, Shropshire’s last active coal mine, closed in 1979.

Shropshire Star

Here are three of the stories from the Shropshire Star website today:

• Government urged to help build permanent Ironbridge flood defences, external
• Shropshire Council agrees £150m spending plan, external
• Difficult driving conditions and sub zero temperatures, external

Birmingham Airport says it welcomes support after passenger numbers fall by 91% due to Covid.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A family in Walsall who were mistakenly given used Covid test swabs have been given a personal apology by the councillor responsible for health.

Stephen Craddock visited Tracy Patel and Andy Witton yesterday.

Walsall Council has also said practices have changed, to ensure mistakes won't happen again.

Image source, Tracy Patel

The error occurred when a resident put the sealed used tests back in the grey bags they arrived in, instead of the box and handed them to a distributor, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

Residents are now being urged to put used swabs in the boxes provided and seal them up before waiting to be collected, instead of leaving their homes to hand them to distributors.

The teenager is in a critical condition in hospital after emergency surgery, police say.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Birmingham Airport will receive a loan of up to £18.5m from the city council and might need more in the future.

Passenger numbers between April and December last year were down 91% because of coronavirus and members of the authority's cabinet agreed to the loan at a meeting yesterday.

The meeting heard all seven local authorities in the West Midlands were asked for help and four are contributing to the loan along with a shareholder, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

But Conservative councillor Meirion Jenkins said: "Right now, looking at the prospects for air travel, I really don’t know what the future holds.

"My question is – if we put this money in… how confident are we that more won't be required?"

Council leader Ian Ward said he is "reasonably confident this is a number that we will not have to revisit."

But added: "We don’t know with any certainty what will happen with the pandemic so there is always a possibility that this sum of money will not be sufficient."

At Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime the Birmingham Northfield MP has told the House of Commons thousands of people in his constituency have been having tests because of the emergence of the South African Covid-variant.

Gary Sambrook asked if Boris Johnson would thank the staff who have worked to ramp up testing.

Mr Johnson thanked staff and agreed with Mr Sambrook in urging those in Birmingham Northfield to get tested as soon as possible.

The 15-year-old was attacked in the Handsworth area of Birmingham and died in hospital.

The job cuts announced by Heineken are unlikely to have a big impact on jobs at Herefordshire Bulmer's factory.

The company, which owns Bulmers, said it is cutting 10% of its global workforce, meaning 8,000 people will lose their jobs at its sites around the world.

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But after cutting fewer than 100 jobs in the UK at the end of last year, it said the process was complete in this country, with most of those jobs going at Heineken's London head office.

The company said its yearly profits had gone down by almost 50% to £1bn during the pandemic.

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The 12m (39ft) high dive tower had been completed at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Smethwick.

It will be used for the diving competition at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and took five weeks to build.

Image source, Birmingham 2022

The centre, which is due to be completed in spring 2022, will include a 50m Olympic-sized swimming pool, as well as a 25m diving pool, community swimming pool and permanent seating for 1,000 people.

Image source, Birmingham 2022

Wasps sign scrum-half Alex Schwarz on a short-term loan deal from Championship side Cornish Pirates.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested after a fire at a Salvation Army building in Stoke-on-Trent .

Firefighters were called to Vale Street at 01:20 and put out a fire in a single room.

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Staffordshire Police said the man is from the local area and was arrested on suspicion of arson shortly afterwards.

He remains in police custody.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

Here are some of the stories from Stoke-on-Trent Live:

• Tributes to 'inspirational' man who brought the Potters 'Arf to Stoke-on-Trent , external
• Teen 'rugby tackled' knifeman who tried to get back inside pub in terrifying rampage, external
• 'Failure of care' at Royal Stoke as gran died from sepsis after being given wrong antibiotics, external

Boss Steve Cotterill continues to put his "body on the line" to help Shrewsbury despite remaining in hospital with Covid.

The cost of making changes to English maternity units in the wake of the Shropshire baby deaths scandal could cost up to £400m a year.

That figure has been put forward by NHS Providers, an organisation representing NHS trusts, and it said at least £250m would be needed annually to achieve the required increase in workforce numbers.

The Ockenden Review into baby deaths at the Shewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust said maternity staff had caused distress to patients by using "inappropriate language" and blaming grieving mothers for their loss.

It identified seven "immediate and essential actions" needed to improve maternity services in England.

Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers told The Independent: "Trust chief executives feel strongly that this is a really important agenda but they can't implement the recommendations from the Ockenden Review in full unless there is more funding made available."

MPs make recommendations to help women in work, including law changes to ease flexible working requests.

Two out of five tests at the Walsall house appeared to have been used, it is claimed.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a song as a tribute to Jackie Weaver, but says his friends in the US think he is "mad".

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Ms Weaver, the chief officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils who lives in Whitchurch, Shropshire shot to fame, after a video was posted online, showing her battling to stay in control of a parish council meeting.

And Lord Lloyd-Webber isn't the only person to write a song about Jackie Weaver...

Comedy duo Flo and Joan tweeted this song, external.