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Stories to make you smile from across the West Midlands

Claire Howard/BBC/Eva Gaut Three images side by side - left, Claire Howard smiling at the camera wearing a necklace and a white vest top, with a background of trees and houses in the background behind her; middle - Callum Smith - a young black man with short curly black hair, a short beard and dark brown eyes sits in the bucket seat of a racing car. He has a Team BRIT shirt on; and right - A selfie of a woman with dark hair next to a black-and-white kitten standing in front of a plant pot. Claire Howard/BBC/Eva Gaut
From a woman hooked on extreme day-tripping to a driver born with no arms aiming for motor sport history - and how cat lover Eve Gaut adopted stray ones on holiday

As arrests and medical stresses have dominated the headlines in recent weeks, some positive success stories have still been happening across the West Midlands - and we want to highlight them.

This week, we have a woman who admitted she got hooked on extreme day-tripping and how a driver born with no arms says he is determined to make motorsport history.

Here is a look at some of those news stories from across the region:

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