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A Covid-19 memorial in Stoke-on-Trent has been damaged days after being unveiled.

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The memorial garden at Fenton Park paid tribute to the 703 residents who lost their lives due to coronavirus.

Flowers have been ripped out of a wreath and a plaque with a quote from Captain Sir Tom Moore was damaged by vandals.

Capt Sir Tom was determined to walk 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, raising millions for the NHS.

The memorial was unveiled by Stoke-on-Trent's Lord Mayor Ross Irving to mark 12 months since the first coronavirus lockdown.

It's been a rainy start to the day for many of us and that's reflected in the photos from the BBC Weather Watchers this morning.

These pictures were taken in Leek and Ellesmere.

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Dull with outbreaks of rain or drizzle this morning and there will continue to be little sunshine through the rest of the day with outbreaks of rain around. High: 8C/46F.

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Skies will turn quite clear tonight which will mean temperatures dropping away and it will turn very cold with a widespread frost likely. Low: -1C/30F.

You can get a latest forecast for your area at any time by going to the BBC Weather website.

Yeovil Town captain Lee Collins was found dead in his hotel room, an inquest has heard.

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The 32-year-old footballer, who was born in Telford and began his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, did not turn up for training on 31 March prompting concerns for his welfare.

He was found dead in the room he was staying in at Lanes Hotel, West Coker, Somerset that day, the inquest heard.

Senior coroner for Somerset Tony Williams adjourned the hearing ahead of another that will take place in Taunton on or before 7 July.

Mr Collins, who lived in Newport, also spent time at Port Vale and other clubs and joined Yeovil in 2019.

Today will begin dry and bright but it will feel cold. The cloud will build through the afternoon and it will turn overcast, but should remain dry. Gentle winds. Highs of 4C to 7C (39F to 45F).

This evening and tonight will be largely cloudy, but there should be a few clear spells. It will continue to stay dry. Winds will be lighter and it will not be as cold as the past couple of nights. Lows of 1C to 4C (34F to 39F).

A new podcast of intimate and hilarious conversations about race, love and the grey spaces in between has launched on Tuesday on BBC Radio Stoke and BBC Sounds.

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Each episode features married couple Matt Hodson, 39, born and bred in Solihull and a commercial manager for a railway company, and Bongi Msimanga, 34, born in southern Africa, now living in Shropshire and a journalist with the BBC for seven years.

The questions are demanding, sometimes brutal, and the answers always raw and often comical.

Like many interracial couples during the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, they found themselves talking about race in a different way.

They'd never really talked about racism as an institution or what it meant for their marriage. They'd fallen in love with each other's differences. But those differences were now creating fault lines through their relationship and between friends and family.

New episodes of It's Not Always Black and White will be updated weekly on all podcast platforms.