City's clean air zone divides opinionpublished at 06:44 British Summer Time 28 May 2021
Birmingham residents and business owners react to the launch of the zone on 1 June.
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Birmingham residents and business owners react to the launch of the zone on 1 June.
Read MoreJason Young, who got a second job when the industry was decimated by Covid-19, urges MPs to help.
Read MoreRiver joins brothers Beau and Leo at home after they were born in January at 29 weeks.
Read MoreJack Haynes hits a career-best 97, backed by Brett D'Oliveira's 71, to help Worcestershire close on 336-7 against Derbyshire.
Read MoreGroup One leaders Nottinghamshire claim some late wickets to keep Warwickshire under control at Edgbaston.
Read MoreTristan Price was working at a bar in Birmingham on Saturday when a woman allegedly abused him.
Read MoreWe'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow.
They may not have been packing out stands but cricket fans of both Warwickshire and Worcestershire look to have enjoyed attending their first matches in several months.
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The police watchdog says the case followed an incident at a Wolverhampton hospital.
Read More"Poor management" of the ex-footballer while unconscious contributed to his death, a court hears.
Read MoreWe started off today with pretty much blue skies all round but some cloud has crept in this afternoon.
However, that has not stopped our local BBC Weather Watchers snapping photos including Snaphappy in Birmingham, Nathan H in Kington, Herefordshire and SteveC in Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
It is hoped the vehicles, which carry up to 10 people, will transform public transport.
Read MoreThe bouncer at the centre of a viral video which shows him being racially abused by a woman outside a Birmingham pub says it left him feeling "small" and "helpless".
The video has been seen and shared tens of thousands of times, receiving more than 42,000 comments on Instagram alone.
Tristan Price, 26, has been supported by Rio Ferdinand, Alison Hammond and many UK celebrities.
Since he published the incident, a 24-year-old woman from Worcester has been arrested and released on police bail.
A man has been charged with child abduction and assault after an incident involving a boy, police said.
The child was allegedly taken into a property in Bartley Green, Birmingham on Tuesday, West Midlands Police said.
The 54-year-old from Halesowen was remanded in custody at Birmingham Magistrates' Court earlier, and is next set to appear on 10 June, the force added.
Police say the newborn was "probably not alive" when he went into the canal.
Read MoreMachetes, a crossbow and a sword have been seized by police who arrested 19 people in a crackdown on county lines drug dealing gangs in Staffordshire.
Forces across the UK boosted activity against county lines gangs in the week from 17 to 23 May.
Staffordshire Police said, external they seized drugs and cash along with the weapons and those arrested were all held on suspicion of drugs offences.
The drug seizures included a 20-year-old man as he got off the train from Walsall to Cannock who the force said had 50 deals of heroin and crack in his socks.
Two vulnerable people were also found by officers as they searched 20 suspected "cuckooed" homes, places where gangs have taken over the place for criminal activity.
The charges follow the death of Fidel Glasgow, grandson of The Specials singer Neville Staple.
Read MoreAllegations that a man punched a dog, before throwing it in the air by its hind legs, are being investigated by police.
A 41-year-old man from Warwick has been arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after the incident on Wednesday evening, Warwickshire Police said.
He has been released under investigation while inquires continue, the force said.
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People not wanting to "bother" doctors during the pandemic are part of the reason GPs are facing a "tsunami of patients" as the country emerges from lockdown, according to one Herefordshire GP.
Doctors and patient groups are warning rising numbers of patients needing care, restrictions on access and a shortage of GPs is threatening to overwhelm the system.
The Department of Health says extra funding is available for family doctors.
Dr Crispin Fisher, a GP at the Marches Surgery, Leominster, says one major issue has been people putting off seeing their doctor during the pandemic.
"The number of people who have said to me 'I did not want to bother you because you were so busy' and we really would have liked to see them earlier than we are seeing them," he said.