Troy Deeney scores one goal and creates another as Birmingham City beat Swansea City 2-1 to end their seven-game winless streak.

John-Paul Kesseler was walking home hand-in-hand with a man after a night out when he was attacked.

Exeter entertain London Irish, Harlequins host Bath and Gloucester face Newcastle Falcons in the Gallagher English Premiership - listen to BBC radio commentary.

Arsenal cruise to a thoroughly deserved victory over Aston Villa to move into the top half of the Premier League table.

The NHS trust is apologising for the delay in opening its centres to children.

It is not the first Pa Salieu performance to have been cancelled in Coventry in recent months.

Macclesfield Town employee Anna Ledgar, 28, is remembered by the club as "incredibly talented".

That's all for our live coverage on Friday.

We'll be back with more news, sport, travel and weather updates from 08:00 on Monday.

Public Health England is working with schools in Dudley where a sharp rise in coronavirus cases has been recorded.

Dudley Borough Council said there had been a number of outbreaks in schools and it had recoded 1,043 positive cases per 100,000 children in primary settings and 1,249 cases per 100,000 in secondary schools.

This compares to an average of 463 cases per 100,000 of people in the borough overall.

The local authority said it was working with health officials to look at ways of reducing transmission and urged parents and children to take precautions over the half term break.

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A petition signed by more than 500 people has been handed to Walsall Council calling for more road safety measures after a 19-year-old was killed in a crash.

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Arjun Singh Gandham died after the car he was in hit a parked car on Pelsall Lane in Rushall on 26 March.

“It is very bad and even worse at night," resident Shirley Venables said. "Because there isn’t a great deal of traffic on the road, they come up so fast. You’re just waiting for the crash.”

Fed-up locals are now calling on councillors to implement better safety measures on the road, but have been told limited funding may mean other streets are given priority.

Mischievous monsters have been popping up all over Coventry city centre as part of a public art trail to mark Halloween.

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Families are being asked to become detectives to track down and name them.

A trail map is available to download , externalor you can pick up a printed version from the Council House.

Lane Head have their chips as Old Wulfrunians win 19-18 on penalties in a new English shootout record of 44 spot-kicks.

Jack Marsh scores the winning penalty in Old Wulfrunians' epic English record 19-18 shootout JW Hunt Cup first round win over Lane Head.

The Staffordshire Moorlands continues to have the highest rate of Covid-19 in the West Midlands, according to the latest figures.

The area saw its rate rise by almost 25% week-on-week in the seven days up to 18 October - to 770 new infections per 100,000 people.

It has never been higher since the pandemic started.

However, since March 2020, the link between infections and hospitalisations has been considerably weakened across the country.

While the number of cases has increased significantly in Staffordshire in recent weeks, the number of hospital admissions has only climbed slightly.

Part of the reason for this is that Covid-19 is currently more prevalent in schoolchildren than any other age group. And this group is less likely to develop serious illness.

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While the overall rate in the Staffordshire Moorlands was 752 per 100,000 people in the week up to 16 October, among 10 to 14-year-olds it stood at over 3,500.

Other primary and secondary age pupils were the next most likely to be affected.

Unsurprisingly perhaps, given the age of their parents, it is those in their early 40s in the area who were more likely to catch Covid-19 than any other adult group, with more than 1,040 new infections per 100,000 in the week up to 16 October

The Staffordshire Moorlands is not the only area to be experiencing its highest case numbers since the pandemic started .

Nearby Chase Cannock currently has a rate of 665 per 100,000 people in the week up to 18 october, which just a few weeks ago would have seen it among the very worst in England, although other areas have since risen by more.

At the peak of the first lockdown, its seven-day rolling rate officially never reached 50.

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One in six children aged between five and 16 in Herefordshire and Worcestershire are believed to be struggling with mental health problems - with concerns the pandemic has made things worse.

Increasing numbers of schools are trying to do something about it by calling in specialists to talk to children about their wellbeing.

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Laura Bolon from Heads Up, a charity which offers support sessions in Worcestershire, said: "Over the last 18 months, Covid has had a huge impact, but even pre-Covid it was pretty prominent.

"A lot of people are struggling with the day-to-day, they have a lot more factors to deal with in their day-to-day life, they've got social media, they've got the stresses and strains of exams at school and the pressures... and you know what it's expected of them is a lot more."

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Aston Villa travel to the Emirates tonight to take on Mikel Arteta's Arsenal.

BBC Sport's Mark Lawrenson has given his prediction:

"Both these teams are in mid-table for a reason - there are some positives about the way they have started the season, but there are ways to get at them too.

"Aston Villa suffered a late collapse against Wolves last time out, while Arsenal scraped a draw with Crystal Palace on Monday in a game that said more about where they are at the moment than their recent run of three straight wins did.

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"The Gunners probably thought they had turned the corner after their poor start to the season but I don't think that is the case.

"I'm going with them to win this one, but that is mainly down to them having home advantage - it is going to be another close one."

Prediction: 2-1

The community-run Moseley Road Baths in Birmingham is awarded £100,000.

Around one in 55 people in England are estimated to have had Covid in the week ending 16 October, according to the Office for National Statistics, external, but figures for the West Midlands show a levelling off.

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That's an increase on the week before, when the figure was one in 60.

The percentage of people testing positive is estimated to have increased in all regions except the West Midlands and the South East.

The percentage of people testing positive for Covid increased in all age groups except those aged 25 to 34.

Brenda Morris's hearse is flanked by stormtroopers in accordance with her wishes.

A police officer has raised more than £4,000 in memory of her brother, former world Judo champion Craig Fallon.

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Tina Fallon-Hancock, an officer with West Midlands Police, raised the money to donate to mental health charity Mind by running the London Marathon on 3 October.

Mr Fallon, from Telford, took his own life in July 2019, and his sister said stigma around mental health meant he "kept everything to himself".

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“The only way I could really rationalise what had happened was by helping others and raising awareness,” Ms Fallon-Hancock said, which inspired her to run the marathon.

"Although he couldn’t help himself, my brother would’ve wanted me to help others," she said. “And every pound we raise is doing something to help others.”