Summary

  • Updates for Monday 9 May 2016

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 Tuesday

  1. Good evening from Local Live for Birmingham and the Black Countrypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    That's it for our updates on Monday. Join us from 08:00 on Tuesday for more news, sport, travel and weather as it happens.

  2. BBC Radio 6 Music: Peaky Blinders star reveals his favourite tunespublished at 17:58 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Actor Cillian Murphy shares his favourite music, including musical references to his Birmingham-set TV show Peaky Blinders. The show includes tracks from Nick Cave, Led Zeppelin, Fionn Regan, PJ Harvey and an epic from Frank Zappa.  

  3. Special report: Farmer on why he wants to remain in the EUpublished at 17:57 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Patrick Burns
    Political editor, Midlands

    Farming accounts for about £1bn worth of business in our part of the country alone. We're often told nobody loves the EU, but farmer Adam Quinner does.

    All the lamb produced on his 350 acres at Sambourne in Warwickshire is exported to France. He reckons regulations so often derided as "red tape" are a fact of life, In or Out.

    Media caption,

    How will farmers vote in next month's EU referendum?

    There is, though, a vocal contingent of farmers who believe they would be better off outside the EU.

    I'll be speaking to one of them in the next of my special reports.

  4. Football: Wales boss Chris Coleman names 29-man Euro training squadpublished at 17:49 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Ged Scott
    BBC Sport

    Four West Midlands players have been named in the 29-man Wales training squad ahead of Euro 2016 in France this summer.

    West Bromwich Albion defender James Chester, Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards, Birmingham City winger David Cotterill and Walsall striker Tom Bradshaw will travel to Portugal for their pre-Euro 2016 training camp.

  5. Coming up on TVpublished at 17:41 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Mary Rhodes
    Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

    The BBC has learned that HS2 Ltd is moving its national headquarters from London to Birmingham. 

    Despite the prospect of hundreds of new jobs in the city, there are still major concerns about the impact on other parts of our region.

    We will have more on this story and on new powers to tackle fly-tipping which come into force today, as well as all the weekend's football action.

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

  6. Suspected illegal money lender arrested in Birminghampublished at 17:34 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Alex Homer
    BBC Local Live

    A 65-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of illegal money lending and money laundering in a joint sting between police and trading standards officers in Birmingham.

    Officers swooped on premises in Wood Lane, Bartley Green, at around 11:00 today, said a spokeswoman for West Midlands Police.

    The man, who is still being questioned in custody by detectives, was also arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm without a certificate.

  7. Chambers signs new Walsall contractpublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Walsall captain Adam Chambers signs a new one-year deal, regardless of which division the Saddlers are in next season.

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  8. Latest: Britain's 'oldest ever' defendant faces child sex charges; Birmingham man jailed over death crash; two convicted of shootingpublished at 17:23 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Alex Homer
    BBC Local Live

    If you are just catching up on Monday's headlines, here is a recap:

    - A 101-year-old man - thought to be the oldest defendant in British legal history - has appeared in court on historical child sex charges

    - A Birmingham man is jailed over a 160mph death crash

    - Two men have been found guilty of shooting dead a teenager in Birmingham in a row over a £50 bag of cannabis

  9. HS2 headquarters to move to Birminghampublished at 16:59 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Peter Plisner
    BBC Midlands Today

    Staff at the headquarters of the company overseeing the HS2 high-speed rail plans are being consulted as it prepares to move to Birmingham, the BBC has learned

    Currently HS2 Ltd has been run from an office in London's Canary Wharf. 

    The construction operation, which will lead to 1,500 jobs, is already based in the city. 

    The announcement comes on the same day work starts on the National College for High Speed Rail at Birmingham's Science Park, near Aston University.

    high speed trainsImage source, HS2
  10. Driver jailed for 160mph death crashpublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    A Birmingham man who killed a mother in a 160mph car crash has been jailed for eight years and eight months.

    Joetta Shumba, 25, died in January in a crash on the M62 in Greater Manchester.

    Martin GrantImage source, GMP

    The mother-of-one was a passenger in an Audi that hit a lorry which then overturned near the Eccles Interchange.

    The car's driver, 30-year-old Martin Grant, of Jacey Road, Birmingham, admitted causing death by dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Manchester Crown Court.

    The crash scene
  11. Travel: M6 crash warningpublished at 16:05 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    BBC Travel

    Two lanes are blocked and there is queuing traffic on the M6 northbound between J10 for Wolverhampton and J10a for the M54 because of a crash.

  12. Jackett to discuss McDonald's futurepublished at 15:22 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Wolves boss Kenny Jackett is to sit down with Kevin McDonald this week to discuss the midfielder's Molineux future.

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  13. Birmingham arrest over 1978 Aberdeen death of Kazi Ahmadpublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    A man has been arrested in Birmingham in connection with a death 38 years ago, the BBC Scotland news website has learned.

    The body of Kazi Ahmad was found in his flat in Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, in October 1978.

  14. Watch: Latest weather forecast for the West Midlandspublished at 14:37 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    The weather is changing this afternoon. There are more showers on the way.

    Lows of 13C (55F) overnight.

    Media caption,

    Weather update

  15. County Championship: Chopra fifty but Bears not out of the woodspublished at 14:21 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Mike Taylor
    BBC WM

    Varun Chopra has notched his half century but Warwickshire have lost six wickets before lunch on day two against Somerset. 

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    Varun ChopraImage source, Getty Images
  16. Man, aged 101, charged with 29 child sex offencespublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    A 101-year-old Birmingham man - thought to be the oldest defendant in British legal history - has appeared in court charged with a string of historical child sex offences.

    Ralph Clarke, who was born in March 1915, is accused of 29 offences alleged to have been committed against three children between 1974 and 1983.

    He is charged with 15 counts of indecent assault, two of inciting a girl to commit an act of gross indecency, 10 allegations of gross indecency and two of attempting to commit another sexual offence.

    He did not enter formal pleas and was ordered by magistrates to appear at Birmingham Crown Court for a plea hearing on June 6.

  17. Homeless Wolverhampton council tenants put up in B&Bs 196 times in one yearpublished at 13:43 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Express and Star

    Almost 200 people in Wolverhampton were forced to spend the night in a bed and breakfast as they waited for permanent accommodation to be sorted out by the council, new figures reveal, external.

  18. Coming up on TVpublished at 13:28 British Summer Time 9 May 2016

    Peter Plisner
    BBC Midlands Today

    The BBC has learned that HS2 Ltd, the company planning a high speed rail line between London and the Midlands, is moving its national headquarters to Birmingham. 

    I'll bring you more on this story on the Midlands Today on BBC One at 13:30.