A disabled man says he plans to sue after a High Court judge gave medics permission to take him from home to hospital and authorised using force.

We're back at 08:00 on Thursday with more news, sport, travel and weather, but keep an eye out here for updates through the evening and into the morning.

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Police have arrested two people, external on suspicion of attempted child abduction in Walsall.

Pupils' work at a Birmingham school has been destroyed following flash flooding.

Lea Forest Primary Academy, in Kitts Green, was forced to close on Wednesday because of the effects of Tuesday's downpours. 

Lynsey Hedley, deputy head teacher, said: "It's really upsetting and heartbreaking because everybody loves our school so much". 

Members of the rock band Led Zeppelin have appeared in court to deny borrowing from another song for their 1971 hit Stairway To Heaven.

Guitarist Jimmy Page and Black Country-born singer Robert Plant are expected to give evidence at the civil case in Los Angeles.

They are accused of lifting the song's opening notes from Taurus, a 1967 track by the band Spirit.

Page, 72, and Plant, 67, are being sued by a trust acting for a founding member of Spirit who died in 1997.

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Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

It's only going to get worse unfortunately.

We've got more showers to come today and tomorrow, with the chance of thundery downpours and flash flooding.

Lows of 13C (55F). Find out more.

A nuisance passenger who delayed a train into Birmingham by 11 minutes, costing the rail network almost £10,000, has been jailed for 10 months, British Transport Police says.

Aaron Reid, 28, boarded a service at Aston on 10 February and deliberately held open the doors to stop the train leaving - so someone he knew could get on, officers said.

He was confronted by the senior conductor and Reid was asked to leave the service but he refused, further holding up the train at Duddeston. Police met the train at Birmingham New Street, where he was arrested. 

According to British Transport Police, his actions caused knock-on delays to 42 other trains, with one service at Barnt Green being cancelled altogether.

Handsworth man Reid was jailed for 16 weeks for two counts of obstruction - one for holding open the doors and the other for refusing to leave the train. He was found in contempt of court when he argued with the judge, as well as being made subject to a restraining order not to approach the conductor.

A flood alert is in place for the River Stour and Smestow Brook in the Black Country and South Staffordshire, the Environment Agency says., external

It says over the past 24 hours there has been 20mm of rain and more is expected.

Aston Villa head coach Roberto Di Matteo says new chairman Tony Xia is "ambitious" after setting immediate promotion target.  

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here are the top weather stories on Wednesday afternoon:

- Road workers in Birmingham handle more than 100 callouts after flooding

- Warwickshire's One Day match against Derbyshire has been washed out without a ball being bowled

- A yellow weather warning remains in place for heavy rain

A school in Walsall has set up a skiffle group. Watch Big Centre TV's report.

Heavy rain sees Warwickshire's One-Day Cup game against Derbyshire at Edgbaston called off without a ball being bowled.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

The company contracted to look after Birmingham’s roads, Amey, says it has been called out  to problems 102 times since downpours hit the city.

The call-outs included displaced manhole covers or “overwhelmed” drains.

A spokeswoman said its teams also responded to reports of electrical equipment, including traffic lights, being damaged by lightning and flood water.

Amey’s drainage manager in Birmingham, John Hastilow, said highway gullies were routinely cleaned and maintained to prevent blockages, but some disruption during storms was “unavoidable”.

Rob Gurney
BBC WM Sport

Next season's Premier League fixtures have been announced.

On the face of it, not a bad start at all for The Baggies, with the campaign beginning at Tony Pulis's old club, Palace, on 13 August.

It's followed by home games with Everton and newly-promoted Middlesbrough, then a trip to Bournemouth.

With Villa relegated, Stoke - another of Pulis's old clubs - is the nearest Albion get to a derby next season. The trip to the Potteries is on 24 September, with the return at The Hawthorns on 4 February.

The toughest spell of the campaign could be a run in October and November of Spurs at home, Liverpool away, Manchester City at home and champions Leicester away.

Express and Star

Severe weather warnings and flood alerts are in place across the country as another day of rain is expected, external, including the West Midlands where up to an inch of rain was expected in an hour. 

Play under way...

Eight new speed cameras are to put up in the West Midlands three years after fixed speed cameras were turned off across Birmingham and the Black Country. 

The new digital cameras will be up for five years and replace the old cameras that used film. 

West Midlands Police says there has been an average of 471 deaths every year since 2010 in Birmingham and Solihull and the cameras will help reduce the number of people killed.

Walsall Advertiser

The torrential rain and flooding is causing havoc in Walsall, external.

The Met Office is warning drivers to be mindful of the impact of showers that are expected later today.

BBC News England

A murder investigation is under way after a six-month old baby boy died following a cardiac arrest.

A 24-year-old man and woman, 23, have been arrested on suspicion of murder, West Midlands Police said.

Officers were called to Walnut Close, in Bilston, shortly before 14:00 on Sunday, following reports of a child in cardiac arrest.

The boy was taken to hospital but died a short time later.