Summary

  • Wedding dress funded brother's 'IS' mission

  • Trial of three accused of murdering music shop owner

  • West Bromwich Albion sold

  • WBA joins Wolves and Villa in Chinese ownership

  • WBA's new owner is Guochuan Lai, 42

  • Updates from Friday 5 August 2016

  1. Bess stars as wickets tumble at Tauntonpublished at 18:22 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Somerset spinner Dom Bess takes 6-28 on his Championship debut as 21 wickets fall in the day against Warwickshire.

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  2. Weather: A hot and dry night lies aheadpublished at 17:54 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Charlie Slater
    BBC Weather presenter

    Tonight is set to be dry, cloudy and feeling quite muggy with lows of 17C (63F).

    Media caption,

    Charlie Slater has your forecast

  3. County Championship: Warwickshire lead Somerset by 28published at 17:41 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

    Warwickshire are all out for 123 in their first innings against Somerset - a lead of just 28.

    Somerset's 19-year-old spinner, Dom Bess took 6-28 on his Championship debut.

    There's been lots of interest in the Taunton wicket with 15 batsmen falling before tea.

    You can relive the action here.

    Taunton wicket
  4. Find out where £100m is being spent on railway infrastructurepublished at 17:35 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Residents in Bromsgrove can find out what plans there are to improve train services in the area, after the opening of the town's new £24m railway station.

    Bromsgrove station

    Network Rail is holding a drop-in event to explain where a further £100m is to be invested on the railway in the area.

    The next phase of the scheme will be to electrify the line between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green and increase the number of trains per hour from Bromsgrove station from December 2017.

    The line will be closed for 12 days between Tuesday, 25 October to  Sunday, 6 November.

    The drop-in event is being held tomorrow between 16:30 and 19:00 at Bromsgrove railway station.  

  5. Chocolate taste buds insured for £1mpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    A chocolate scientist in Birmingham has had her taste buds insured for £1m.

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  6. Future of Stafford Shire Hall set for reviewpublished at 16:06 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Matt Lee
    News Editor, BBC Radio Stoke

    New ways to make use of Stafford's Shire Hall are being considered by Staffordshire County Council. 

    The authority says the number of visits to the venue is falling and later this month it is going to look , externalat ways to keep it in use.

    Shire Hall in Stafford

    It'll be discussed at a council meeting which will also talk about taking the county's arts service "into the community" with "pop-up" exhibitions and events in new and existing venues. 

    Part of the Shire Hall's been used by the University of Wolverhampton since 2014 and the council says its review coincides with the university looking for another base in the county town.  

  7. Travel: B4117 accidentpublished at 15:06 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    BBC Travel

    The B4117 High Street in Coleshill is partially blocked at the Summer Road junction because of an accident.

    More details on BBC Travel. 

  8. Children's minor injuries unit plan for Staffordpublished at 14:45 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Allen Cook
    BBC Local Live

    Health bosses are going to visit another NHS Trust in England to see if they can get a children's minor injuries unit, external (MIU) running alongside adult A&E in Stafford. 

    The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has today announced children's A&E at the County Hospital will stay shut for at least 10 more weeks.

    Entrance to children's A&E in Stafford

    It follows UHNM suspending those services last month due to a shortage of staff with the right specialist training. 

    To try to get some children's services back at the hospital, it says staff will visit "as soon as possible" an NHS Trust in the South West which runs an MIU alongside adult A&E, to see if they can do the same in Stafford.

    In the meantime, sick children could either be transferred to the Royal Stoke University Hospital, Wolverhampton's New Cross or Walsall Manor hospitals.

  9. Cricket: Warwickshire bowl Somerset out for 95published at 13:25 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Richard Wilford
    BBC WM

    At lunch Somerset have posted the team's ninth-lowest ever total against Warwickshire - all out for 95.

    Jeetan Patel finished off Somerset's innings, taking the wicket of Jack Leach. 

    Leach was one of only four batsman to have made it into double figures.

    You can follow the Bears' response here.

    Pitch
  10. Fewer politicians plan in ward shake-uppublished at 12:46 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Final recommendations are published for a shake-up of boundaries in Birmingham which would lead to more wards but fewer politicians.

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  11. Stafford hospital children's A&E to stay shut for 10 more weekspublished at 12:41 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Allen Cook
    BBC Local Live

    Suspended children's accident and emergency services at Stafford's County Hospital are going to stay shut for at least another 10 weeks. 

    The decision over the A&E was made almost a fortnight ago because of a shortage of staff with the right specialist training, the trust said.

    County Hospital's A&E entrance

    Now the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust says it's getting the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to carry out a review, external of the service which will take about 10 weeks. 

    In the meantime, UHNM says it's going to try to bring back some services to the County Hospital, including broken bones and sprains.

  12. Cold Feet response 'overwhelms' writerpublished at 12:21 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    The writer of popular ITV drama Cold Feet says he's 'overwhelmed' by the response to the show's return after 13 years.

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  13. Robson-Kanu rejected big foreign offerspublished at 09:44 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    Wales striker Hal Robson-Kanu says he turned down "significant" offers from Asian clubs to sign for West Bromwich Albion.

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  14. Scrapbook shines light on Jackie Vernonpublished at 07:15 British Summer Time 6 September 2016

    A family scrapbook dating from the 1940s puts the spotlight on a forgotten Belfast footballer.

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  15. Pub bomb legal aid decision 'this month'published at 20:54 British Summer Time 5 September 2016

    Relatives of the Birmingham pub bombings are told they will find out if they are to get legal later this month.

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  16. Policeman admits sexual assaultspublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 5 September 2016

    A police officer who "targeted vulnerable victims of crime for sexual purposes" admits sexually assaulting two women while on duty.

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  17. Ballet dancer helps get brother to Riopublished at 17:04 British Summer Time 5 September 2016

    A British Paralympic fencer might not have made it to Rio without the support of his brother.

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  18. Woman, 88, in back of stolen getaway carpublished at 16:58 British Summer Time 5 September 2016

    Armed raiders raiders steal a family car with an 88-year-old woman in the rear passenger seat.

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  19. MP makes body camera callpublished at 16:57 British Summer Time 5 September 2016

    Police officers carrying any kind of weapons should be required to wear body cameras, Telford MP Lucy Allan has told parliament. 

    She referred to the case of former Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson who died after he was tasered by police in the town last month.

    Lucy Allan

    The MP said cameras would be in the interests of both the police and the public.

    Home Office Minister Brandon Lewis replied that it was a matter for the police to decide and that it would be wrong for him to comment while an IPCC investigation was ongoing.

  20. Boy 'trapped' on airport baggage beltpublished at 16:28 British Summer Time 5 September 2016

    A boy is injured when he becomes trapped on a baggage belt at Birmingham Airport.

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