Updates on Thursday 28 January 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Friday
Schools in Staffordshire are bucking a national trend in education , externalat a time when more than 250,000 young people across the country are attending failing schools.
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
It will be cold this morning with some early frost, but also plenty of sunshine.
Cloud will spread from the north-west this afternoon with a little rain possible and strengthening winds. Feeling colder than yesterday with highs of 8C (46F).
West Midlands Police has the lowest arrest to burglary ratio in the country, with just seven arrests for every 100 crimes.
Image source, ThinkstockQuote MessageWe continue to see year-on year-reductions in the number of burglaries, a trend that continued in 2015 when there were 474 fewer house break-ins across the West Midlands compared to 2014 - that's a fall of 4%.
Ch Insp Anthony Tagg, WMP's lead for burglary
BBC Travel
One lane is closed on the M6 southbound between J10, A454 (Wolverhampton) and J9, A461 (Wednesbury) because of an accident.
Stephanie Barnard
BBC Local Live
I'm in the BBC WM newsroom today bringing you the latest news, sport, travel and weather updates for Birmingham and the Black Country.
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