The Bishop of Birmingham tells the House of Lords about importance social media for young people.

A man and woman found dead at a house in Pant, Oswestry, last month have been named as 53-year-old Andrew Owen and Margaret Owen, 72.

West Mercia Police said the pair had been found dead at an address in Ferndale on 21 April.

An inquest has been opened into the death of Andrew Owen while the death of Margaret Owen is currently unexplained and the investigation continues, the force said.

Detectives believe the deaths were an "isolated incident" and are not looking for anyone else in connection with them.

One is held on suspicion of murder after police were called to Exhall, Warwickshire.

PC Benjamin Monk said he "thought we had had it" when he discharged a Taser at Dalian Atkinson.

A Desi pub in West Bromwich will be missing its outdoor hanging for now while it's displayed at a celebrated arts festival in Venice.

The sign for the Red Lion is being exhibited at the Venice Biennale after a collaborative project with Creative Black Country known as Desi Pubs.

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The project celebrates six Black Country landlords who fused familiar elements of the pub with Punjabi culture and food.

The theme at the Biennale is "unrealised opportunities in private spaces" which Creative Black Country's creative director Parminder Dosanj said was "perfect" for the Desi pubs project.

"The Desi pub story is the perfect example of how declining pubs have been reinvented by diaspora communities to turn the traditional British pub into thriving community spaces,” she said.

A man has died following a disturbance in Exhall, Warwickshire, police said.

The Warwickshire force said officers had been called to Treviscoe Close at 08:45 BST.

Police said investigations were "in the very early stages" adding there was currently a large police presence in the area.

The 15-year-old took the car when the boys' dad stopped to drop food off at a friend's house.

BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester

A fair thought to be one of Britain's oldest is being celebrated with an exhibition to mark its 900th birthday.

The Hereford May Fair has been held annually since 1121 and Herefordshire Museum Service is marking the date with exhibitions and tours.

The event itself will return to the city's streets in August, due to the pandemic.

Lyn Ellis says she and husband Trevor just got out in time before the roof collapsed.

A man has been taken to hospital with potentially serious injuries after a crash in Birmingham on Wednesday night.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said it had been called to Alcester Road in Kings Heath after reports a car had rolled over.

Paramedics arrived at the scene shortly after 18:00 BST and found two vehicles had been involved and one had been left on its roof as a result.

“A second man was treated for minor injuries at the scene and was conveyed to Heartlands Hospital for further treatment," a spokesperson said.

A third person was also treated for minor injuries and discharged at the scene.

Despite the rain, play is under way in the County Championship matches involving Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

And the Warwickshire and England opener Dom Sibley has returned to the Bears side today to face Essex after more than a month out with a broken finger.

He's in the middle at Chelmsford with captain Will Rhodes after the visitors chose to bat first.

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Worcestershire also won the toss and they decided to field against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

The Stoke-on-Trent Live website has these headlines today:

• Teen gang threaten to beat up girl and break her skateboard in Stoke-on-Trent park attack, external
• Laughing mum started fire in ex's flat, external
• Push for 500 Home Office jobs to go into £75m development, external

BBC Radio Stoke

On Wednesday we brought you news M&S had announced plans to close its branch in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

The high street giant said the store would be closed from August, costing 63 jobs.

Marks & Spencer said changing shopping habits were behind the closure.

It's the second big store in recent times the city centre faces losing, after Debenhams shuts its doors at the weekend.

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Lots of you got in touch with us on Facebook to share your thoughts.

"So sad to hear this news," Dianne Melpass commented. "Very rare for me to travel to Hanley these days as there's nothing to go there for anymore especially since Debenhams closed too."

Shelle Michele said she was "devastated". "What a mess Hanley is," she wrote. "It used to be a busy vibrant city - now it has lost all its character and is a slum."

Maria Lawton said: "Hanley is a complete ghost town. When are the council going to get a grip and sort Hanley out? How many more shops need to close?"

BBC Radio CWR

Extra Covid vaccines have been requested by health bosses in Nuneaton as they try to contain cases of the Indian variant.

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Nine cases have been found in the Abbey Ward area and door-to-door testing has begun, external.

Warwickshire's director of public health Dr Shade Agboola said staff had asked NHS England for more vaccines to be sent to the town.

She added their surge testing in the area would be crucial in finding people with Covid who did not show any symptoms.

"The purpose of surge testing is to pick up any of those people that might be incubating Covid and not know it," she said.

Express and Star

From the Express and Star today:

• Pubs pulling up to 170 pints per minute on bumper reopening day, external
• Staff and pupils to be tested after Indian Covid variant found at West Bromwich school, external
• Sam Allardyce to step down as West Brom boss, external

BBC Midlands Today

Grandparents living in a bungalow in Worcestershire were forced to flee their home after a lightning strike caused a huge fire.

Lyn and Trevor Ellis had only moved into the property in Sculthorpe Road, Kidderminster, 18 months ago.

The roof collapsed as a result of the blaze on Sunday evening and the couple have lost all of their possessions.

Haseebah Abdullah has enabled strict dress code rules to change and allow more female participants.

Coventry City of Culture has announced six well-known residents to represent the city's "energies" for its signature event on 5 June.

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Organisers say the six energies - resilience, social justice, youthfulness, sustainability, people power and innovation - will be explored throughout the year-long programme.

They will be represented by Paralympian Kare Adenegan, charity chief executive Sue Bent, poet and rapper John Bernard, singer and 2Tone icon Pauline Black, singer-songwriter Navin Kundra, and artist Daniel Lismore.

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“In creating our event, we wanted to tangibly represent and celebrate the unique spirit of our city," Justine Themen, director of Coventry Moves, said.

"We are delighted to also be working with an extraordinary range of Coventry talent through the people playing these energies," she said, "people making waves in our world through activism, sport, words, creativity, and music - who capture the city’s spirit in their day-to-day.”

Two cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 have been found at a West Bromwich school.

The individuals at Ryders Green Primary are said to have no recent foreign travel history, Sandwell Council said, adding they tested positive "several weeks ago" and "all appropriate infection prevention and control measures were taken at the time".

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The council's public health team said it was now working with Public Health England to test 120 children in two year groups and about 10 staff.

The B.1.617.2 variant, first discovered in India, is believed to spread more easily. However, there is little evidence to show it is capable of overcoming the vaccine.

“Our work with the pupils, families and staff attending Ryders Green School will help us to identify and contain the variant," said Dr Lisa McNally, Sandwell's director of public health.

"We cannot be complacent, we all need to do everything we can to stop the spread of Covid-19 and to keep ourselves and others safe."

The government has announced plans to bring rail services back under state control in the biggest shake-up in the UK's railways since privatisation in the mid-1990s.

Private operators will still be contracted to run most trains. However, a new state-owned body, Great British Railways (GBR), which will set timetables and prices, will sell tickets in England and manage rail infrastructure.

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Plans also include flexible season tickets, expected to be launched next month, for people who commute two or three times per week.

The Department for Transport said these tickets would save commuters hundreds of pounds.

For instance, it said commuters from Stafford to Birmingham could expect to save more than £160 a year, and people travelling from Bromsgrove to the city more than £120.