BBC Weather

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

Shrewsbury Flower Show has been cancelled for the second year running because of uncertainty over coronavirus.

Amanda Jones, from the organising committee, said of the Shropshire event: "There's so many people involved, there's so many aspects of it, it's not just something we can just decide in June."

Shropshire Horticultural Society said it hoped to hold "something smaller" over the weekend in mid-August and that could involve virtual events, like last year.

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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.

That's the end of our coverage today.

We'll bring you more news and sport updates tomorrow from 08:00 GMT.

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.

Police investigating the assault of a woman by a cyclist after she asked him to slow down, have released an image of a man they wish to trace.

The woman was pushed to the ground and punched by after requesting he cycle with more consideration in Ironbridge on 16 January, West Mercia Police said.

The cyclist is described as a white male, approximately 60 years old with grey hair and a grey beard.

He was wearing a black, cycle suit and riding a black bike with lime green brake cables.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the force.

A councillor has died after being seriously ill with Covid-19.

Image source, Sandwell Council

Sandwell Council said Sandra Hevican, 55, had been in hospital for several weeks before her death.

She was first elected in 2014 and represented the Tividale ward.

The council said, external she was "a hardworking councillor, and a very good friend and a dear colleague to many people".

The MP for West Bromwich East, Nicola Richards, said in a tweet , externalit was "really sad news" and her deepest condolences were with her friends and family.

Worcester News

Here's some of the stories on the Worcester News website today:

• Blackburn Rovers' midfielder banned from driving after speeding in Worcester, external
• Worcester ear bite attack at McDonald's, external
• Plan to open new food hall and wine shop in historic Worcester fire station, external

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.

New train services linking the south-east of Birmingham to the city centre have moved a step closer, after the region's combined authority agreed to allocate funding.

Train stations at Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell on the Camp Hill line will reopen for passengers on a line currently only being used by freight or through services.

The project is being funded with £36m from the West Midlands Combined Authority, £20m from the Department for Transport and £5m from Birmingham City Council's Clean Air Zone.

Image source, WMCA

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

BBC Weather Watchers

Here are some of the wildlife photos our local BBC Weather Watchers have been taking today.

These are from users Jon, in Barlaston, Staffordshire; Di Pics, in Clee Hill, Shropshire; and Carol, in Wolston, Warwickshire:

Image source, Jon

Image source, Di Pics

Image source, Carol

BBC Radio WM

The owner of Cadbury has agreed a deal to buy a protein bar maker.

Mondelez International's move for Solihull-based Grenade comes after the company's chairman said the firm would target growth in health snacks.

The terms of the deal have not been revealed but the Press Association said it understood it valued Grenade at about £200m.

The firm was founded by Alan and Juliet Barratt in 2010 who will keep a minority stake.

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.

Image source, APC

Areema Nasreen was one of the youngest NHS workers to die of Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic.

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.