Learning to drive at the age of fivepublished at 17:47 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Children as young as five have been testing out an electric two-seater car which has been designed for primary school age children.
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Prisoners attack staff and start fires
Body found near missing teens' beach
Man due to stand trial over cold case murder
Eight men arrested after train brawl
Updates from Friday 12 August 2016
Learning to drive at the age of fivepublished at 17:47 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Grealish signs new contract with Villapublished at 17:31 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Aston Villa's England Under-21 midfielder Jack Grealish signs a new long-term contract with the Championship club.
Read MoreRare giraffes born at safari parkpublished at 15:53 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Two Rothschild's giraffes, one of the rarest sub-species in the world, have been born at a safari park in Worcestershire.
West Midlands Safari Park, near Bewdley, say the new arrivals are already six feet tall.
Image source, West Midlands Safari ParkThe species is native to Kenya and eastern Uganda, but there are only 670 left living in the wild, according to the Rothschild's giraffe project, external.
Birmingham's thinnest skyscraper?published at 15:39 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Birmingham city centre is to get a new skyscraper, a 26-storey hotel described by the architect as a "knitting needle of a building".
Read MoreVilla part company with legend Cowanspublished at 13:38 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Aston Villa part company with former midfielder Gordon Cowans, a member of their 1980s league title and European Cup-winning teams.
Read MoreChildren's ward move will provide 'best possible care' says trustpublished at 13:24 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
The closure of the children's ward at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch due to a lack of specialist doctors will not affect the care children will get, according to the chief medical officer for the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (WAHNHST).
The children's ward in Redditch closed today and the specialist doctors and nurses have moved to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.
Image source, PAQuote MessageWhat I can guarantee is that we are putting in services that will give the best care for children, particularly in an emergency when they need to go where the expertise is."
Dr Andrew Short, Chief medical officer WAHNHST trust
I'm tough, not a quitter - Lee Clarkpublished at 11:48 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark on his career experience, faith in youth, ambitions at Rugby Park and meeting Michael Jackson.
Read MoreFour HSBC bank branches to shut in Staffordshire and the Black Countrypublished at 11:01 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Banking giant HSBC will axe four of its high street branches in Staffordshire and the Black Country. , external
Image source, Express and Star'I wouldn't want to drive past one A&E department to go to another'published at 10:56 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
A Worcestershire paramedic says he isn't happy that he won't be able to take critically ill children to the A&E department in Redditch, but will have to make the journey to a hospital in Worcester instead.
Stuart Gardner, who is a union spokesman, believes that if a child has stopped breathing it cannot be right to pass an A&E department in Redditch and travel instead to Worcester.
Quote MessageIf I had a child in cardiac arrest I'd want to get to the nearest A&E department. I wouldn't want to drive past one A&E department to go to another because from Redditch to Worcester we're talking we're talking of a good 35 minutes."
Stuart Gardner, Paramedic and union spokesman
The trust running Worcestershire's hospitals says due to a lack of specialist doctors inpatient children's beds are being centralised at Worcestershire Royal Hospital from today.
A spokesman for the trust said it had "fully engaged" with West Midlands Ambulance Service over the closure, and would "not be making the move if we did not believe it was safe".
Man sought in suspected road rage attackpublished at 10:52 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Moira Rawlings
BBC Coventry & WarwickshirePolice investigating a suspected road rage attack in the West Midlands, external have today issued an image of a man they would like to speak to.
The assault took place on Coventry Road, Sheldon at around 16:20 on Sunday, 19 June.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceRelive Wednesday's Championship footballpublished at 10:33 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Relive Wednesday's Championship action, as Aston Villa are held at home and Nicklas Bendtner makes his Nottingham Forest debut.
Read MoreRelive Aston Villa's draw against Nottingham Forestpublished at 10:02 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Relive the action as Henri Lansbury scores late and Hildeberto Pereira is sent off as Nottingham Forest draw at Aston Villa.
Read MoreWatch: A parent's reaction to the closure of the children's ward in Redditchpublished at 09:30 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Zoe Price from Redditch regularly takes her two-year-old son Oscar to the Alexandra Hospital.
But from today the children's ward is closed and she faces a 40-minute drive to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.
Media caption, Mother's reaction to children's ward closure.
Elderly pair in 'lucky' escape after car ends up on its roofpublished at 09:17 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Allen Cook
BBC Local LiveAn elderly man and woman had a "lucky" escape, say paramedics, after their car hit a central reservation in Cannock and ended up on its roof., external
West Midlands Ambulance Service says it was on Stafford Road just before 12:00 yesterday and the woman had been rescued by the fire service by the time the crew arrived.
It says the crew worked with firefighters to help the elderly man out - he'd suffered cuts to his head.
Is the badger cull helping control TB?published at 08:55 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
We now have data examining the impact of the badger cull on the incidence of TB in cattle.
Read MoreChildren's ward in Redditch closespublished at 08:54 British Summer Time 7 September 2016
Matthew Bone
Political reporter, BBC Hereford & WorcesterThe children's ward at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch officially closes today.
Ambulances carrying under 16s will have to make the 35 to 40-minute trip to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.
The trust running the hospital says children who currently use the Alexandra Hospital for things such as blood tests, outpatient appointments and scans will continue to do so.
It is only those who are seriously ill and require an inpatient bed, who will receive their care at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, the trust says.
Bournemouth v West Brompublished at 22:19 British Summer Time 6 September 2016
Follow live text coverage as Bournemouth face West Brom in the Premier League at the Vitality Stadium.
Read MorePreacher 'abused woman over her jeans'published at 20:42 British Summer Time 6 September 2016
An Islamic street preacher threatened to blow up a Muslim woman's house and claimed she was Satan for wearing tight jeans, magistrates hear.
Read MoreRail bidders told they can remove seatspublished at 20:34 British Summer Time 6 September 2016
Bidders for the West Midlands rail franchise are being given permission to remove seats and create more standing room to fit more passengers in.
Read MoreMore arrests over stabbing deathpublished at 19:25 British Summer Time 6 September 2016
Two more men are arrested over the murder of Mircea Gheorghe Cozmiuc who was stabbed in Wolverhampton.
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