Lindsey Burrow has said it was a "great honour" to run the London Marathon in memory of her late husband, rugby league legend Rob Burrow CBE.

Burrow died in June 2024 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2019.

Mrs Burrow, 42, said: "Rob was so brave and so courageous throughout his battle, and he showed me how to never give up. He was in my ear saying, 'come on, pick up the pace, you can do this'."

She will also run the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon on 11 May, fundraising again for the Rob Burrow MND Centre at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and the Leeds Rhinos Foundation.

"It was nice to be able to give back something to those charities which are so close to our hearts," she said.

"Thank you, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported me along the way."

Burrow was diagnosed with MND two years after his retirement, following a 17-year career at Leeds Rhinos.

Burrow and Kevin Sinfield, his former teammate and close friend, raised more than £15m for various MND charities.

Mrs Burrow previously told the BBC it was a "privilege" to care for her husband.

"It's so important we keep raising awareness," she said.

"We still don't have a cure. Five people in the UK will be diagnosed with MND today and [I want] to tell other people, other families, that there is hope."

She said she was "nervous" about taking on the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon so soon after Sunday's challenge.

"I'll be sore, but my muscles will heal – patients with MND don't have that luxury," she said.

"I will be running for Rob again. He will be with me all the way."

An NHS trust has improved from a rating of "inadequate" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to "good".

The Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust had been told to improve after an inspection in 2023.

It provides physical and mental health, adult social care and learning disability services in Shropshire and Staffordshire.

The CQC said the trust was "now providing a safe service that met people's individual needs, which was driven by strong leadership".

The CQC had previously raised concerns that staff shortages affected quality of care.

A report highlighting the new rating followed an inspection in January.

The trust operates units at The Redwoods Centre in Shrewsbury and St George's Hospital in Stafford.

Andy Brand, CQC deputy director of operations in the Midlands, said: "We were really pleased to find the trust had used our previous report and taken on board our feedback to make improvements."

He added that "people told us that they felt safe, listened to and supported by staff" and that "it was encouraging to see how different wards and teams worked together to support each other and share resources when needed".

He said staff and the leadership team at the trust should "be proud of the findings of our report".

The CQC report also found care plans were up to date, that staff were polite and treated people with kindness and respect, and that leaders were approachable, open and visible.

It said there were also enough staff to keep people safe and meet their needs.

Three men have been jailed for at least 29 years each after they murdered a man in a drive-by shooting.

Connor Brookes, 20, and a friend were in a parked car on Well Lane, in Walsall, on 8 July when a gunman in a black Ford Focus fired at them once with a shotgun.

Mr Brookes, who was in the driver's seat, was killed, while his friend in the passenger seat was hit in the left shoulder and survived.

Jake Sanbrook, 23, Byron Sellick, 20, and Julian Falconer, 20, were all jailed for life on Friday at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

Sanbrook, of Fischer Road, Walsall, Sellick, of Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton, and Falconer, of Wyrley Close, Willenhall, had been found guilty of murder, attempted murder and possessing a firearm in April.

Samuel Danks-Petty, 21, of Buildwas Close, Walsall, was previously found guilty of perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to three years in a young offender institution.

West Midlands Police said the killing was an act of revenge after Mr Brookes's brother Patrick was convicted of murdering Bailey Atkinson, who was stabbed to death in Walsall in 2023

The three killers were friends of Mr Atkinson, the force said, and they had images of him on their phones along with material related to his murder.

The Ford Focus, which was reported stolen, was driven by Sanbrook, with Sellick and Falconer as passengers.

Shots had been fired from the car towards another vehicle less than 15 minutes before Mr Brookes's killing, a police spokesperson said.

CCTV footage showed the fatal shooting happened just metres away from parents and young children.

Following the murder, the Focus sped off at nearly 50mph and was driven to Wyrley Lane, where the murder weapon, a sawn-off shotgun, was dumped in a bin bag.

The car was found abandoned four days later with gunshot residue inside and DNA from Sanbrook and Danks-Petty, who had helped the killers get home.

'Heartbreaking journey'

In a statement read out in court, Mr Brookes's sister Megan Brookes said her brother's loss had taken a "huge toll" on the family.

"No-one will ever be able to fix the pain that my parents, siblings and the wider community have endured," she said.

"I hope everyone sitting in this courtroom today can put yourselves in our shoes and imagine how it feels.

"Connor was an incredibly kind and caring person – someone who was always there for us. His loss at such a young age was devastating for all of us who loved him."

She described the months since Mr Brookes's death as a "heartbreaking journey" for the family and said they would carry the loss with them forever.

"This violence has to end before more lives are ruined," she added.

Det Insp Michelle Cordell, of West Midlands Police, said Mr Brookes's murder had a "devastating impact" on everyone who knew him.

"The brutal and cold-hearted actions of this group in broad daylight were intentional, cruel, cowardly and unjustified," she said.

Judge Michael Chambers KC described it as an "appalling act" that was the epitome of a "tit-for-tat gang shooting".

Addressing the three killers, he said: "Each of you are equally culpable whether your role was as shooter, the driver who slowed down or the passenger who clearly encouraged and assisted.

"Each of you knew what was going to happen, each played their part and this was planned for some weeks."

Mr Chambers said the killing was "clearly a revenge shooting for the murder of Bailey Atkinson".