Summary

  • Bomb disposal team sent to Birmingham after 'terror' arrests

  • 'Nonsense' claim A&E will close at hospital yet to open

  • Man had cocaine worth £185k with him on 'day out'

  • Two stabbed in Wednesbury

  • Custody death protesters occupy CPS offices

  • 'Lack of proper' records checks cancels kids' activities

  • 'Unsafe' A&E services' knock-on effect in Black Country

  • Updates from Friday 26 August 2016

  1. West Bromwich Albion 0-0 Middlesbroughpublished at 15:59 British Summer Time 28 August 2016

    Middlesbrough maintain their unbeaten start to the Premier League season in a dull goalless draw at West Brom.

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  2. Huddersfield Town 1-0 Wolvespublished at 17:45 British Summer Time 27 August 2016

    Rajiv van La Parra scores his first goal for Championship leaders Huddersfield as they beat his former club Wolves.

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  3. Birmingham City 3-0 Norwich Citypublished at 17:21 British Summer Time 27 August 2016

    Birmingham secure their first home win since March with a determined display against a toothless Norwich side.

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  4. Bristol City 3-1 Aston Villapublished at 17:18 British Summer Time 27 August 2016

    Bristol City score three second-half goals as they come from behind to beat Aston Villa at Ashton Gate.

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  5. Five arrested by anti-terror policepublished at 19:32 British Summer Time 26 August 2016
    Breaking

    Five men are arrested by West Midlands anti-terrorism police and an army bomb disposal team is sent to the Lee Bank area of Birmingham as a "precaution".

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  6. Good evening from Local Live for Birmingham and the Black Countrypublished at 19:24 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    That's it from us here at Local Live. Join us again from 08:00 on Tuesday for more news, sport, travel and weather, but keep checking here this evening for further updates, including the latest on today's arrests by anti-terror police.

  7. Picture: 'Terror' arrests - police presence remains as bomb disposal team calledpublished at 19:16 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Rebecca Woods
    BBC News Online, Journalist

    This was the scene on Holloway Head in central Birmingham just a few minutes ago. Police cordon is still in place.

    Police cordon
  8. Road disruption following arrests by anti-terror policepublished at 19:07 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    BBC Travel

    Here's the knock-on effect on the roads following the arrests by anti-terror police today that earlier this evening sent an army bomb disposal team to central Birmingham in Florence Street.

    BBC Travel website screen grab
  9. Trott hits ton as Bears & Yorks qualifypublished at 18:43 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Jonathan Trott's ton helps Warwickshire beat Yorkshire, as both teams go through to the One-Day Cup quarter-finals.

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  10. Video: Police cordon as 'precautionary' bomb disposal team called inpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Here's the scene on Holloway Head in Birmingham city centre.

    There's a street presence from West Midlands Police who this evening confirms an army bomb disposal team has been called - "as a precautionary measure" - to a nearby location in the Lee Bank area of the city.

    It follows arrests in Birmingham and Stoke of five men on suspicion of terrorism offences.

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  11. Trott hundred sets up Warwickshire winpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Jonathan Trott hits 101 as Warwickshire defeat Essex by 70 runs in their One-Day Cup quarter-final at Edgbaston.

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  12. Man critical after road rage punchpublished at 18:35 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    A man is in a critical condition after being punched in a road rage attack in Birmingham.

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  13. Protest at CPS over man's deathpublished at 18:27 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    About 30 protesters occupy the lobby of Crown Prosecution Service offices over the death of a man detained under the Mental Health Act.

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  14. Army bomb disposal team called to central Birmingham amid 'terror' arrestspublished at 18:06 British Summer Time 26 August 2016
    Breaking

    West Midlands Police has confirmed, external an army bomb disposal team has been called to central Birmingham and three men arrested in the city on suspicion of terrorism offences.

    Two men, aged 18 and 24, were arrested from their home addresses in Birmingham and another, aged 28, was arrested at a further location in the city. 

    Two other men, aged 32 and 37, were arrested in the Stoke area of Staffordshire. 

    As a result of one of the arrests, police say, an Army bomb disposal team has been called in as a precautionary measure to the Lee Bank area of Birmingham.  

    Searches at a number of properties in Birmingham and Stoke are continuing.

  15. Pub bombing families to meet ministerpublished at 18:06 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Relatives of the Birmingham pub bombing victims will meet the government next month as part of their campaign to get legal aid for imminent inquest hearings into the deaths.

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  16. Coming up on TVpublished at 17:52 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Elizabeth Glinka
    BBC Midlands Today

    Claims that the A&E department at a new West Midlands hospital is to be scrapped before it has even opened have been dismissed as "complete nonsense"  

    We look at the great Bank Holiday getaway and the situation on the roads.

    And we hear the latest in the Birmingham pub bombings families' battle for answers 

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

  17. Borthwick & Stoneman earn Durham drawpublished at 17:45 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman share a 151-run second-wicket stand to earn Durham a draw against Warwickshire.

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  18. Long-running roadworks finish before Bank Holiday getawaypublished at 17:43 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Sarah Falkland
    BBC Midlands Today

    Record numbers of people are due to be flying out of Birmingham Airport this weekend for a bank holiday break. 

    Back home, there's also good news on the roads - with long-running roadworks on the A38(M) in Birmingham ending earlier than expected.  

    Aston ExpresswayImage source, Google
  19. Wolves sign Dutch striker Gladonpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Wolves sign Dutch striker Paul Gladon from Eredivisie side Heracles Almelo for an undisclosed fee.

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  20. Travel: 'Police incident' blocks city centre roadspublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 26 August 2016

    Bath Row in Birmingham is closed between the A4540 Islington Row junction and Holloway Circus because of what has been described as a police incident, drivers are warned.

    We will bring you more information as we have it.

    the cordon
    The cordon