A 47-year-old man is the third person to be accused over the killing of Mohammed Haroon Zeb.

Five-month-old Summer suffered a catastrophic brain injury at the hands of Philip Peace.

West Mercia Police says its probe into the death of 25-year-old Sarah Hopkins has ended.

Wasps' England prop Kieran Brookes and Leicester's South African pair Jasper Wiese and Hanro Liebenberg all receive bans.

The international runner has her backside grabbed while training for the Olympics.

BBC Midlands Today

Some Covid patients in Dudley are to receive bluetooth devices to use with a smartphone app, so they can report their condition remotely.

The app was developed by Birmingham-based medical software company Dignio and commissioned by NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The CCG said the app could reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and until now patients isolating at home would have received a call from a clinician to ask how they were feeling.

The app has previously been used for monitoring patients with long-term health conditions.

Authorities say the passenger aircraft "narrowly missed" the object in the middle of the landing strip.

A "dramatic" make-over is planned to "breathe vitality" into part of central Coventry ahead of the city's tenure as UK City of Culture.

Image source, Coventry City Council

Artist Morag Myerscough is set to transform Hertford Street, linking the city's Broadgate with Bull Yard.

The "bold" transformation - imagined in the computer-generated image above - will be installed over the spring months, the city council says.

“Community is at the heart of every project I do," said Ms Myerscough.

"Working with the food traders and surrounding shops, together we aim to make a new destination for everyone that brings joy to an area that needs some love.”

Warwickshire sign South Africa Test batsman Pieter Malan as their overseas red-ball player for the 2021 season.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

About 650 people have objected to proposals for a new cemetery on green space in Redditch.

The borough council wants to create room for 8,000 graves on Ipsley Meadow amid concerns existing cemeteries could be full by 2023.

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The authority said public consultation was due to run until 7 March.

Coventry take on Saracens at Butts Park Arena in a pre-season friendly - listen to live BBC local radio commentary.

BBC Radio Shropshire

Plans to turn Shrewsbury's Pride Hill shopping centre into a new council office and leisure venue are being debated by councillors on Thursday.

If the move goes ahead, Shropshire Council would move to the new site and sell its Shirehall headquarters in the town.

Councillors are being asked to approve work on the design and budget, with a final decision set for later this year.

Birmingham Live

Here are three stories from the Birmingham Live website today:

• College lecturer had 100,000 child abuse images, external
• KFC wants to open 57 new restaurants, external in West Midlands
• Jaguar Land Rover worker stole £82k-worth of parts, external

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Cemetery rules will not be changed to allow a memorial bench to be installed as a tribute to murdered Keeley Bunker.

Tamworth Borough Council's outgoing leader offered her family the chance to consider an alternative location.

Image source, Family handout

Thousands of people supported a campaign, external to allow Keeley's family to install a bench at her grave.

Wesley Streete was jailed in August for raping and murdering the 20-year-old. He dumped her body in a brook in Wigginton Park, Tamworth, in September 2019.

The local authority stopped allowing memorial benches and trees to be added to its cemeteries more than a decade ago amid concerns it would not be possible to accommodate all requests.

But the calls to allow Keeley's family to site a bench in Wigginton Cemetery prompted the authority to review its cemetery regulations.

Image source, Staffordshire Police

Outgoing council leader Danny Cook, said: "They were two very long meetings where all members of the committee from all sides of the chamber really put their heart and soul into looking at this correctly how the council approaches this matter."

He said the current policy is correct, but he's written to Keeley's family offering further discussion on placing the bench elsewhere in Tamworth and said he will work with the family "as best we can to try and come to some resolution".

He added: "But at this time it is not possible to site the bench in Wigginton Cemetery."

BBC Weather

It will be a cloudy start for many, but with sunny spells in the afternoon.

We're still seeing mild temperatures, but it will be cooler than yesterday with highs of 11C (52F).

You can find more forecasts at BBC Weather.

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Lower vaccine uptake coupled with higher infection rates could scar communities for years to come.

"City hosts" will help welcome visitors to Coventry during the year-long programme of events.

Gas holders at the Birmingham site were the world's largest in the 1800s, National Grid says.

Keane family says they're delighted to be able to put an Irish message on their mother's gravestone.