Worcestershire sign Nepal leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane for this season's T20 Blast.

BBC Weather

We might get a few showers first thing this morning, but the rest of the day should be dry with some sunshine and a light breeze.

Temperatures are forecast to rise to about 12C (54F) and we should have a dry night.

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Lilly Hanrahan, 21 months, suffered a "catastrophic" brain injury at the hands of Sean Sadler.

Detectives say the woman was assaulted hours earlier and the case has been referred to the police watchdog.

A Herefordshire vet has set off on a 3000-mile (4,828 km) row across the Atlantic.

Simon Lyddon, 44, who runs Vine Tree Vets in Ross-on-Wye, will spend more than five weeks among a team of 12 completing the challenge from the Canary Isles to Antigua to raise money for charity.

He took on the challenge after losing his dad, Peter, to prostate cancer before learning his wife, Mel, had breast cancer.

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Mrs Lyddon was treated at the Macmillan Renton Unit at Hereford County Hospital and Mr Lyddon is undertaking the challenge to raise funds for Macmillan.

The crew set off from Las Galletas marina on Monday.

“I look forward to sharing our journey with everyone but most of all I’ll be looking forward to a nice rum punch in Falmouth harbour in Antigua,” Mr Lyddon added.

Jurors hear cannabis farmer Brian Waters was beaten, bound and held upside down in a four-hour attack.

Lilly Hanrahan, 21 months, suffered a "catastrophic" brain injury at the hands of Sean Sadler.

Express and Star

These are from the Express and Star's website today:

• Third wave warning as coronavirus cases creep back up in Black Country, external
• Burglary gang jailed after 100mph police chase through Black Country, external
• Colleagues pay tribute to kind councillor after Covid death, external

More than 2,000 intensive-care patients were moved between hospitals in search of beds from September to March.

The teenager was taken to hospital and died shortly after arrival, West Midlands Police says.

Twenty six people died when the IRA blew up pubs in Birmingham and Guildford more than 45 years ago.

Azam Mangori, 24, says he did not sleep for four days after Lorraine Cox died in his flat.

BBC Weather Watchers

Plenty of signs of spring around from the look of the photos we have been getting from our local BBC Weather Watchers.

Here are three from users Les at Large in Wolverhampton, Colanda in Atcham, Shropshire and Angus and Me in Hednesford, Staffordshire:

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A BBC investigation into one suspect discovers he may also have worked for British secret services.

Shropshire Star

Here are three stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Burglar who stole widow's treasured ring, external is jailed
• Shifnal roads project to be 'largely completed' by 2022, external
• 85-year-old attacked at Shrewsbury cashpoint for £40, external

A consultant says Simon Foley had one of the "most horrific critical illnesses" he has seen.

BBC Midlands Today

Losing hospital staff to Covid-19 over the past year has been "incredibly sorrowful and harrowing", a matron said.

Since the pandemic started, more than 600 health and social care workers have caught Covid-19 and died across England, Scotland and Wales.

Matron Colette Iles, at University Hospitals Birmingham, said it had been an incredibly tough 12 months for NHS workers.

"We have lost some truly amazing individual staff. There is not one person who has not been harmed or bruised by the events of the last year," she said.

The moped the teenager was on is believed to have been involved in a collision with a car.

Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson, who was jailed for his union activism, says he has no regrets.

Azam Mangori tells the court Lorraine Cox died after taking drugs and he tried to revive her.