Updates on Friday 30 October 2015
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Monday
BBC Midlands Today
This lunchtime workers at factories owned by the Caparo engineering group are finding out if their jobs have been saved.
The company, which went into administration two weeks ago has 13 firms in the West Midlands.
More this lunchtime on Midlands Today on BBC One from 13:30.
West Midlands Police said Soho Hill in Hockley would be sealed off "for some time" while it investigated a double shooting in the early hours of this morning.
BBC Sport
West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Pulis has several injury doubts ahead of Saturday's game against Leicester but is unwilling to identify them.
One of those players could be James Morrison, who has missed the last two games with an ankle problem.
Image source, Getty ImagesHere are some of the stories we're looking at this afternoon:
- Birmingham MP Jess Phillips says she's received threats of rape on Twitter from internet trolls
- Police are investigating after two men were shot in Hockley in the early hours of this morning
An inquest has been told how the death of a 15-year-old who was hit by a police car in Erdington was "unavoidable" and that he died from a road traffic collision.
Harry-James Kirkham's injuries were consistent with being hit at approximately 30mph by the vehicle, but the hearing was also told that it was seen doing approximately 50mph on CCTV a short distance before the accident.
Image source, IPCCThe teenager was struck last March after leaving a church service. One witness suggested he had been free-running but Harry-James's uncle, Richard Loach, disputed that.
A Birmingham MP has been targeted by sick internet trolls who discussed raping her because they disagreed, external with something she said.
Caroline Gall
BBC News Online
Police have sealed off Soho Road for forensic examination after adouble shooting at the A41 at Soho Hill.
Image source, GoogleWalsall winger Milan Lalkovic says he is impressed by how far the League One club has come since he was last at The Banks's Stadium two seasons ago.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Slovakian, 22, rejoined the Saddlers after he was released by Barnsley in July and has helped the club to second in the table.
Patrick Burns
Political editor, Midlands
Just under a year since that "historic agreement" between Birmingham and the four Black Country councils, we now have a clear timetable for the formation of the Midlands "Economic Engine", our answer to that much-hyped "Northern Powerhouse".
Image source, PABBC Sport
Wolves have signed centre-back Mike Williamson on a one-month loan deal from Premier League side Newcastle.
Image source, Getty ImagesHere are the latest stories in the BBC WM newsroom:
- The family of a 15-year-old boy say they are still trying to come to terms with his death after an inquest found it was "unavoidable"
- Two men are being treated in hospital after being shot in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning
- An elderly man is being treated in hospital after a police chase led to a crash in Solihull
Bethan Bell
BBC News Online
Ten years ago rumours of the rape of an Afro-Caribbean teenager by a group of Asian men surfaced in a radio broadcast, bringing to a head weeks of racial tension in the Lozells area of Birmingham.
Those caught up in the ensuing rioting recall what happened when the two communities at the centre of the allegations clashed.
Image source, Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesHundreds of homes across parts of the Cannock Chase District have this morning been left without power following a fault with the supply, external.
The man who was found shot in Hockley was described as "in a critical condition" when he arrived at hospital in an ambulance on blue lights.
A spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service also said he was found with "multiple injuries" beforehand and needed advanced trauma care and to be sedated at the scene.
The service said it was informed later of a second patient who presented himself at hospital with gunshot wounds.
A Tamworth man is to appear on Channel 4's Countdown quiz show, external to raise money for the town's Literary Festival.
Image source, Tamworth Herald
Alex Homer
BBC Local Live
Here are the latest stories in the BBC WM newsroom:
- Police are investigating a double shooting in Hockley, external in the early hours of the morning
- An inquest has been told the death of 15-year-old Harry-James Kirkham, who was hit by a police car in Erdington, was "unavoidable"
- The first Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands is being honoured today as a community centre is renamed in his memory
BBC Travel
Earlier on our information was that Soho Hill in Hockley was closed because of a crash but we've since been told it has been closed for police to carry out a forensic investigation.
Two men were shot in the early hours of the morning as trouble flared in Hockley involving a large group of men, police have said, external.
West Midlands Police said officers were called to Soho Hill at around 04:30 after a 999 call from a member of the public reporting seeing a large group of men in the road and hearing the sound of a firearm being discharged.
One man was found injured in the road, while another man later presented himself at hospital - both have suffered gunshot wounds.
A wet, windy start to the day but the occasionally heavy rain and gusty winds will clear leaving a mainly dry afternoon. Highs of 15C (59F).
Find out more about the weekend ahead.
BBC Travel
The A41 Soho Hill in Birmingham is closed and there are delays in both directions at the junction with Park Avenue because of a crash, drivers are warned.
