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Wearing a face covering on public transport in England will be compulsory from 15 June, the transport secretary has announced.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has tested negative for coronavirus after appearing visibly unwell in parliament.

German public prosecutors have said they believe Madeleine McCann is dead and police are treating her disappearance as a murder investigation.

The new suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation allegedly confessed his part in her disappearance to a man in a bar.

Chernobyl is leading the field in this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations (BAFTA), with double the nods of any other show.

Lee Rigby's mother has urged people to stop sharing "divisive" social media posts that use her son's image to fuel arguments against the Black Lives Matter protests.

The Duchess of Sussex has spoken out about racism after the death of George Floyd, apologising to students of her former high school that they are having to "grow up in a world where it is still present".

Premier League teams will be allowed to make five substitutions in the remaining games of the 2019-20 season, the league has said.

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, will host the latest of his ‘Call Keir’ virtual public meetings in Wolverhampton this afternoon.

Two people in West Bromwich are celebrating after winning £1,000 each thanks to their lucky postcode.

Labour's public health spokesperson has called for 'tough action' after a Dudley Conservative Club allegedly breached lockdown regulations.

In a further blow to the theatre industry, bosses at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre have confirmed that all performances at the venue have been suspended until Sunday 2 August.

Dudley Council has confirmed that additional mourners are able to attend crematorium services and burials in the borough from this week.

Parking charges are to be reinstated for visitors to Himley Hall and Park next week, it was revealed today.

With more shops expected to open later this month, Dudley Council has been preparing to put plans in place to allow people to visit the town centres safely.

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Stourbridge MP, Suzanne Webb, has backed calls for Russells Hall Hospital to extend on its current site during questions to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

Chernobyl is leading the field in this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations (BAFTA), with double the nods of any other show.

BAFTA have announced their nominations for the best of British TV 2019.

Singer and TV presenter Jamelia has told Sky News white people must put in the work to help dismantle systemic racism, saying black people "have metaphorical knees on their necks every single day".

Caitlin Moran is getting ready to watch this year's televsion BAFTA Awards virtually, at home - which means she can do so comfortably on the sofa, with crisps, in her pants.

Chelsea are now favourites to sign RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner with a final decision expected early next week.

Five substitutions will be allowed in games when the Premier League restarts on June 17, it has been decided at the latest league meeting.

Drew Brees has issued an apology for saying he will "never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America".

Tottenham have confirmed they have received the only positive test for coronavirus from the fifth round of Premier League testing results.

Airlines, transport and travel companies and car manufacturers are among the largest recipients of emergency funding under a Bank of England scheme that reveals the scale of the financial damage caused by coronavirus in the UK.

British Airways (BA) has told staff its parent firm is burning through £178m of cash a week and the airline does not have "an absolute right to exist" as a row with unions intensifies.

The owner of the ASK Italian and Zizzi restaurant chains is exploring a sale of the company as Britain’s hospitality industry battles to survive the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The cost of the government's coronavirus policies has risen to £132.5bn, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has expanded its coronavirus bond-buying programme by €600bn to €1.35trn (£1.2trn) as the single currency area faces the worst recession in its history.

Wearing a face covering on public transport in England will be compulsory from 15 June, the transport secretary has announced.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has tested negative for coronavirus after appearing visibly unwell in parliament.

Jacob Rees-Mogg faced calls to resign as he fielded questions from MPs angry at the government bringing them back to Westminster during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Labour MP has been criticised by a member of his own party for his "dangerous" decision to ignore social distancing guidelines at a Black Lives Matter protest.

Some of the UK's top scientists have cast doubt over the government's quarantine proposals, as Priti Patel is facing calls to publish the science behind the plans.

In Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon rainforest, people are dying in their beds. 

The new suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation allegedly confessed his part in her disappearance to a man in a bar.

Police have fired pepper spray at Hong Kong protesters who were defying a ban to stage candlelit rallies in memory of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown.

Last year protesters in Hong Kong burned universities, threw petrol bombs at police and were arrested in their thousands.

A US Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been freed, his family and American officials have said.

At least 39 people have been injured in a knife attack on a nursery in southern China, state media has said.

Spain has announced it is considering plans to reopen its land borders with France and Portugal from 22 June.

Nearly two million people have signed petitions calling for action over the death of a pregnant elephant who reportedly ate a pineapple filled with firecrackers in India.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel spilled into a river within the Arctic Circle from a power plant.

Four of the five men currently in prison for gang-raping a teenager in Spain four years ago have been handed additional sentences for a separate sexual assault case.

In the early hours of Sunday 31 May, senior officers aboard the oil tanker Willowy were called to the bridge to be told that their ship and four others in its vicinity were mysteriously sailing in circles, unable to steer, and on course to converge.

Two men snuck into a bedroom with machetes after being hired to carry out a stranger's sexual fantasy of being tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom, only to discover they had got the wrong address.

A pigeon suspected of being trained to "spy" by Pakistan has been captured in India along one of the world's most contested borders, Indian officials said.

Scientists have reported getting so high on the nitrous oxide emitted by penguin poo that it actually made them ill.

Footage has been released of what is thought to be the last images of the extinct Tasmanian tiger.