Summary

  • Boy charged with bus stabbing

  • Great Britain to face Japan in Birmingham in 2016

  • Deal struck to buy one of the 16 Caparo businesses, securing 76 West Midlands jobs

  • Call for better pub bombings memorial

  • Services to be held in the West Midlands to remember those killed in Paris

  • Woman in a serious condition after being hit by a car in Birmingham

  • More than 600 people are waiting for an organ transplant in the West Midlands

  • Updates for Friday 20 November 2015

  1. Good morning from the BBC WM newsroompublished at 08:00

    Stephanie Barnard
    BBC Local Live

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