Carl Harris is the last resident on a Birmingham street that is earmarked for redevelopment.

Coventry Live

Here are some of the headlines from the Coventry Live website:

• Trio fined more than £2,700 for fly-tipping in Coventry, external
• Pensioner tried to hit neighbour with his car - but ran over his own wife, external
• Huge rail disruption after bridge damage between Nuneaton and Coleshill, external

A 16-year-old boy is being treated for knife injuries after police were called to Broadwaters Park in Kidderminster on Monday night.

West Mercia Police said officers had been called at 21:40 BST and a knife had been found but no arrests were made.

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David Irwin

New designs have been unveiled for canalside flats and houses planned for a derelict scrap of land next to a Solihull waterway.

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A formal planning application has now been submitted for the new development earmarked for Lincoln Road wharf, in Olton.

The complex would consist of 15 two-bed apartments, a couple of semi-detached houses and 19 car parking spaces.

The latest proposals will be considered by Solihull Council.

Shropshire Star

Here are some of the headlines from the Shropshire Star's website today:

• Fire service takeover among re-elected police and crime commissioner's top priorities, external
• Shropshire maternity scandal: Review asks for staff experiences of service, external
• Staff 'devastated' as 30 set to lose jobs due to Calor Gas closure of Telford site, external

Xuandong Ren resigns as chief executive of Championship club Birmingham City after almost five years in the role.

Police say the convictions for using the post and dark web to distribute class A drugs are the first of the kind in Scotland.

A trial is due in September following the death of father-of-one Nathan Burton.

A fourth man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in Birmingham.

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Bashir Mohamed, from Erdington, died after being found critically injured with a stab wound to his arm in Shyltons Croft, Ladywood, on 22 April.

West Midlands Police charged 32-year-old Ibrahim Raza, of Oldfield Road, with murder on Monday.

He appeared before magistrates in Birmingham earlier.

Three other men, aged between 24 and 30, are in custody and are due to appear at Birmingham Crown Court charged with murder later this month.

Poet and playwright Kay Rufai will work with young people and West Midlands Police.

BBC Weather Watchers

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Two trainee police dogs have been named by an officer who "nearly died" with coronavirus last year.

Ch Supt Phil Dolby, of West Midlands Police, was admitted to Worcester Royal Hospital on 29 March and later placed on a ventilator for 13 days before returning home in April 2020.

The dogs have been named PD Prayer "because of how many ppl [sic] prayed for me," the officer tweeted., external

And PD Royal has been named after the hospital where he was looked after.

"I honestly cannot tell you how very much this means to me & my family," he added.

Maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust are under review after babies died.

Birmingham Live

Some of the Birmingham Mail headlines today include:

• Birmingham postcodes dominate Britain's worst 'crash for cash' scam blackspots, external
• Train company sparks fury by offering staff 'cynical' fake bonus in security test, external
• Hundreds demand mechanic jailed over citizen's arrest gone wrong is freed, external

Jack Sumner suffered a fractured skull in an attack in Newcastle-under-Lyme in June 2020.

BBC Radio Stoke

An inflatable hot tub has been stolen from a garden in Stoke-on-Trent.

It was taken from Hamil Road in Burslem over the weekend.

Staffordshire Police said the theft would have taken some time, as the perpetrators had to take out a garden fence panel, drain and deflate the tub.

Heather Brown and Paul Dowler both lost their spouses to dementia but are now set to marry.

BBC Business News

An estimated 170,000 car insurance claims in 15 months are suspected to have been linked to "crash for cash" gangs, investigations suggest.

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The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), which shares intelligence within the sector, said parts of Birmingham were the centre of these cases.

The IFB said there were 2.7 million motor insurance claims across the UK from October 2019 to the end of last year, of which 170,000 could be linked to suspected crash for cash networks.

It said the main hotspots were the B25, B34 and B8 postcode areas of Birmingham, and the BD7 and BD3 areas of Bradford.

You can read more on the story here.

The National Sea Life Centre and Legoland Discovery Centre, both in Birmingham, will reopen on Monday after a further lifting of lockdown rules in England has been confirmed by the government.

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Covid safety precautions will remain at all of its sites, said operator Merlin, including pre-booking, temperature checks and social distancing.

The company is also backing a review of social distancing measures and is calling for the 1m+ rule to be scrapped after 21 June.

BBC Midlands Today

Conservative councillors who won seats and control of councils in Staffordshire in this month's elections need to deliver on their promises, the leader of county council said.

The Tories took control of Cannock Chase District Council for the first time and increased their majorities on Tamworth Borough Council and the county council.

Alan White, leader of the county council, said the results had taken them by surprise but they now had to work on their pledges.

"The state of the roads is something we need to be addressing, we need to be making sure our social services are being run efficiently, our children's services are being run efficiently," he said.

Alan Pearson, a former Labour councillor, was one of those swept away by the Tory success, losing his Hednesford North seat.

He said his party had to be clearer on their policies: "If you put 'vote Tory' and a blue badge on anybody who walks by, they would have got in."