That's it from Local Live for Birmingham and Black Country for Thursday. Join us from 08:00 on Friday for more news, sport, travel and weather.

A few showers will continue into the evening, but these will die out before midnight. The rest of the night will then be dry with some clear spells with lows of 4C (39F).  

BBC Travel

Two lanes are blocked and there is very slow traffic on the M6 southbound between J6 for the Aston Expressway and J5 for Castle Bromwich because of a breakdown, drivers are warned.

Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

She was a bright sight, on a grey day. Thousands of people turned out to welcome the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh as they visited Birmingham.

The four contenders for the leadership of Birmingham City Council are facing questions at a hustings event which is just getting underway.

And we will be looking at the dilemma that faced England before selectors decided not to pick Ian Bell for the upcoming tour to South Africa.

Join us for the Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30.

Birmingham Mail

Aman’s body has been found close to shops, externaland homes in a busy district of Birmingham.  

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here is a recap of the top stories we have been reporting in the BBC WM newsroom:

- The Duke of Edinburgh joked train announcers should not speak in Brummie accents but "in English" as he and The Queen visited the reopened New Street Station

- A Walsall store selling nursery and childcare products has stopped trading and plans to go into liquidation, according to an insolvency firm

- Ian Bell has been dropped by England for the upcoming tour to South Africa

Birmingham Brummies will still have skipper Tom Perry to lead the defence of their National League crown next season.

Image source, Empics

Perry, 22, has been given permission by his parent club Cradley Heathens, to sign up with the Brummies for a second successive season.

Youngsters Jack Parkinson-Blackburn and Jack Smith have already been confirmed as members of the Brummies' seven-man team for the 2016 season at Perry Barr.

Royal Sutton Coldfield Observer

A child was taken to hospital after colliding with a car outside a Sutton Coldfield school, external.

Andrew Dawkins
BBC News Online

A Walsall store selling nursery and childcare products has stopped trading and plans to go into liquidation, an insolvency firm said.  

Customers of Kiddisave said they had paid hundreds of pounds for prams and buggies which had not been delivered.

Kay Possard, of WP Mayfield insolvency practitioners, said she expected to be formally appointed as liquidator at a directors meeting on 3 December. The firm has been unavailable for comment.

Lichfield Mercury

 A prison officer from Burntwood who plotted with an inmate to smuggle in steroids, external has himself been jailed by a judge.

The Royal train pulled into Birmingham today, before The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened the revamped New Street Station and visited Grand Central and the school of dentistry in Edgbaston.

Former South African wicketkeeper, Mark Boucher, has derided England's decision to drop Ian Bell for the tour against the Proteas.

Police arrested two people when they swooped on a suspected brothel in Tamworth, external - here's the frontpage of today's Tamworth Herald.

Image source, Tamworth Herald

Chris Blakemore
BBC WM

A Walsall nursery and childcare store has ceased trading and is set to go into liquidation. 

The closure of Kiddisave has led to anger among customers who say they have already paid hundreds of pounds for prams and buggies which have not been delivered.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

If you are just catching up on Thursday's news, here are the top stories we are reporting:

- The Queen has visited the new Birmingham New Street Station, the tram system and the new dental hospital in Edgbaston

- A Walsall nursery and childcare store has ceased trading leaving customers out of pocket

- Warwickshire's Ian Bell has been dropped by England for the tour to South Africa, weeks after coach Trevor Bayliss said the team needed his experience

Paul Franks
Presenter, BBC WM

West Brom boss Tony Pulis says he would no longer be in football management if he had not learned to adapt in the way he handles players.

The 57-year-old Baggies head coach has been a manager for over 23 years - or fast approaching 1,000 football matches - at eight different clubs.

Image source, PA

"It's become a lot different to what it used to be," he told BBC WM.

"But, unless you're prepared to change, if I had not adapted, then Tony Pulis wouldn't be in football."

Elizabeth Glinka
BBC Midlands Today

The Queen and Prince Philip have been taking a tour of the new state-of-the-art school of dentistry in Edgbaston and are now having lunch.

I'm told pudding will include an option of Black Country cheeses and Staffordshire oatcakes.

Rob Mayor
Black Country Political Reporter, BBC WM

Plans to put a supermarket on a Sandwell pub's car park have been refused for a second time. 

Image source, Google

The Co-op's plans for the Haden Cross Inn in Cradley Heath were first knocked back in January, but they then submitted a slightly altered design to the borough council. 

During the battle regulars managed to make the pub an asset of community value - meaning they would have six months to try and buy it, if it came up for sale. 

Jennifer Meierhans
BBC News Online

Edith Pamplin, from Manchester, and Margaret Kittle, from Canada, brought gifts in case they were able to meet the Queen in Birmingham earlier.

Margaret said: "It's the Queen's 68th wedding anniversary tomorrow, so I brought her this plate from when her mother and father came to Canada in 1939."

Edith said: "I had these flowers made specially. I'm sorry I didn't get to give them to her, but it was wonderful to see her."  

Qasa Alom
BBC Midlands Today

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have been in Birmingham for the official opening of the city's revamped New Street Station. 

Our reporter, Elizabeth Glinka, joins us from Birmingham's new Dental Hospital, where the Queen has been carrying out another engagement this lunchtime. 

And our political editor, Patrick Burns, will explain the backdrop to a hustings event for the four contenders for the leadership of Birmingham City Council, which is taking place tonight.

Join us for the Midlands Today on BBC One now.