Good evening from Local Live for Birmingham and the Black Countrypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 9 May 2016
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Updates for Monday 9 May 2016
More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 Tuesday
Alex Homer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Walsall captain Adam Chambers signs a new one-year deal, regardless of which division the Saddlers are in next season.
Read MoreAlex 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
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.
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.
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.
People living in Rugeley have been warned to try to keep all of their doors locked at all times – especially when they leave their home – after a house was broken into over the Bank Holiday weekend, external.
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.
A 101-year-old has appeared before Birmingham magistrates accused of historic child sex offences - becoming the oldest defendant brought before a UK court, external.
Wolves boss Kenny Jackett is to sit down with Kevin McDonald this week to discuss the midfielder's Molineux future.
Read MoreA 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.
The weather is changing this afternoon. There are more showers on the way.
Lows of 13C (55F) overnight.
Mike Taylor
BBC WM
Varun Chopra has notched his half century but Warwickshire have lost six wickets before lunch on day two against Somerset.
Follow ball-by-ball commentary.
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.
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.
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.