Lottery win brings better routes

A bridge over the Severn will be built at Diglis Basin, Worcester

Bridges for cyclists and pedestrians will be built and riverside paths improved across the West Midlands thanks to a £50m lottery grant.

The Sustrans: Connect2 project, which will improve travel across the UK, beat three other groups in a public vote.

Six projects in Worcestershire, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire will get a share of the region's £3m share.

A pedestrian and cyclists bridge over the Severn will be built in Worcester.

A better passage for walkers will be built under the mainline railway at Castle Foregate, next to the Severn in Shrewsbury.

A new pedestrian bridge will be created from an old sewer treatment works bridge over the Wye, near Rotherwas, in Herefordshire.

Students at Warwick University will benefit from cycleways created from Kenilworth to Berkeswell Green, while bridges will be built over Leicester Road and the West Coast Mainline Railway - which separates northern areas of Rugby away from the rest of the town.

Better access will also be created to the Plants Brook Valley at Sutton Coldfield.