Harvey Blount died on the M42 motorway as he travelled back to an RAF base after seeing his family.

A minute's silence has been observed across the West Midlands in remembrance of those in the country who died as a result of coronavirus.

A day of reflection is being held as the UK marks the anniversary of the first lockdown.

This was the scene at the West Midlands Ambulance Service academy in Brierley Hill.

Across the region there has been 14,623 deaths with 419,635 people testing positive for Covid-19.

The 14 men, including actor Ricky Tomlinson, were among 24 charged following pickets in Shrewsbury.

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Dozens of you have been sharing photographs showing your last 'normal' event before a national lockdown was announced 12 months ago.

Image source, Kerry Morgon-Shaw

On the BBC Midlands Facebook page, Kerry Morgon-Shaw shared her memory of going to see Stereophonics in Birmingham on 29 February.

"Awesome gig, miss live music," she said.

Image source, Louise Rotheram

Louise Rotheram posts: "Myself & my partner went to our local church to hear our Banns read.

"A few days after this photo was taken, we ended up postponing our wedding. We’ve now postponed it twice and still not yet married."

Image source, Tina Mendolia

Tina Mendolia writes of a trip to a Stoke-on-Trent attraction: "On 23rd March we knew lockdown was going to be announced that evening so we took one last look at Trentham Gardens that afternoon as we guessed it could be weeks before we could go again.

"Little did we know that these would be the last spring photos."

Image source, Janice Andrews

And Janice Andrews shared this picture of herself and colleagues from Handsworth Wood U3A on their trip to the Mailbox in Birmingham on 14 March 2020.

Keep sharing the photographs via email, Twitter, external and Facebook , externaland we'll highlight as many as we can.

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From Dracula fans making a detour for a glimpse of a ruined abbey, to bird watchers chasing a rare sighting, thousands of Covid fines have been issued since the pandemic began.

BBC News has been taking a look at some of them.

Among those fined in the West Midlands were 15 people after a call-out to a makeshift club in Birmingham, complete with DJ, bar and VIP area.

The same night, the force raided a workshop transformed into a bar nicknamed "The Covid Arms".

Pro dancer Abbie Quinnen had seven weeks of "continuous hospital treatment" after copying a video.

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BBC local radio stations across the West Midlands will today mark the anniversary of the Make a Difference campaign.

The scheme was launched to offer help and support to listeners during the coronavirus lockdown.

In the past 12 months more than four million people have either called or messaged their local BBC radio station.

It looks like the viruses that cause colds wins in the battle to infect our cells.

The organising committee says because of the size of the event, a decision could not be delayed.

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It will be a dry but overcast day with the odd brighter spell and highs of 12C (54F).

People share photos of life before lockdown to mark one year since restrictions were imposed.

Jessica has been able to watch her younger sister Sophie's milestones during the pandemic.

Dracula fans, takeaway lovers and thwarted drinkers are all counting the cost of flouting the rules.

BBC Midlands Today

A critical care nurse who qualified a few months before the coronavirus pandemic began said the past year has been "absolutely exhausting".

Holly Minshall, 26, from Market Drayton, graduated from Keele University and went on to work at the Royal Stoke University Hospital throughout the pandemic.

"I never ever thought that six months later after qualifying we would be thrown into a global pandemic with a virus that we knew nothing about and just expected to crack on and deal with it," she said.

The garden has been created in a walkway for people to visit and leave tributes.

Thousands of disabled leaseholders warn they are financially and physically trapped by the crisis.

In a new BBC three-part programme, Football's Darkest Secret, survivors of child sexual abuse in football talk about the impact on their lives and about speaking out.

West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph agrees a deal to play for Worcestershire in their first seven County Championship matches.

More than £11m is to be spent on developing and manufacturing energy-saving technology for cars and vans at a site in Warwickshire.

Shield Manufacturing Technologies, in Southam, will combine "lightweight energy recovery technology from motorsport with a new motor and inverter for cars and vans" to cut energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

The money is part of three "green" projects around the UK costing £54m which will see hydrogen fuel cells for buses and lightweight structures for electric heavy goods vehicles, the government said.

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Motorway police said they pulled this van over on the M6 earlier as it looked a "bit low" at the back.

Weighing it revealed just how overweight the vehicle was, leading to the driver being served with a court summons.