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Updates from Friday 9 September 2016
The world famous Flying Scotsman steam train will arrive in Tyseley today as part of Birmingham Heritage Week, external.
It's the first time it's been to the West Midlands since its multi-million pound regeneration.
The Scotsman, which was once the fastest steam locomotive in the world, won't be moving, but people will be allowed inside to see inside the engine room over the weekend.
Welcome to the Birmingham and Black Country live page. We're here until 18:00 with the latest local news, sport, travel and weather where you live.
A man accused of conspiring with his wife to kill a shop owner admits loading the victim's body into the boot of his car - but denies murder.
Read MoreA man who lost part of his leg due to diabetes is standing on a limb made from Lego
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Rob Gurney
BBC WM Sport
West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Pulis expects his future to be clarified in the next few days when the ownership of the club finally changes hands.
The Financial Conduct Authority is expected to follow the Premier League in approving Chinese businessman Guochuan Lai's takeover of The Baggies from Jeremy Peace.
Pulis was subject to more criticism from the travelling fans at the end of Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth.
Steve Hermon
Journalist, BBC WM
Police investigating the death of a man who was stabbed in Birmingham at the weekend have released a man without charge.
A 25-year-old had been arrested on suspicion of murder after reports of a fight involving several men in Highgate Road, Washwood Heath.
A man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene.
Image source, GoogleFollow live text and listen to BBC Radio London coverage from The Hawthorns as West Brom host West Ham in the Premier League.
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BBC Midlands Today
It's one of the most historic centres of car manufacturing in the Midlands and now Jaguar Land Rover is set to invest £100m in its Castle Bromwich plant.
Hundreds of new jobs will be created, it says, as production of the Jaguar XE moves there from Solihull.
We'll have a report on this and more from BBC1 at 18:30 tonight.
Manager and player reaction, plus analysis, after Premier League wins for Manchester City, Arsenal, Leicester and West Brom.
Read MoreA former stone-lifting world champion has received a British Empire Medal for using his sport to inspire young people in his community.
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An actor in The Archers has praised the programme for bringing the issue of domestic abuse into public focus.
In an hour-long special of the Radio 4 soap opera which is recorded in Birmingham, a jury returned not guilty verdicts on Helen Titchener; a character on trial accused of attempted murder and wounding with intent.
Image source, Julia QuenzlerListeners heard her character suffer increasing abuse at the hands of her husband Rob, who's played by Timothy Watson.
The actor said it was good that the programme had taken on the issue.
Quote MessageThis kind of abuse can take place anywhere and the fact that it can happen in a sleepy, rural environment like Ambridge, I think that's been a fantastic thing and I think that Women's Aid and Refuge are quite rightly pleased that the programme has highlighted that fact.
Timothy Watson, Actor
A man arrested on suspicion of murder after another man died when he was stabbed in a fight in Birmingham, is released without charge.
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Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather
Cloud will thin through the evening allowing a dry and warm night with lows of 16C (61F).
Sara Blizzard has your forecast
Daz Hale
BBC WM
An Oldbury man waiting for a new prosthetic leg on the NHS has built his own replacement - out of Lego.
Complications from Marc Cronin's diabetes led to the amputation of his limb earlier this year.
The 32-year-old told us his daughter came up with the idea of the Lego alternative.
Ayo Akinwolere
Presenter, BBC Inside Out
A West Midlands paramedic is helping to set up a trekking business in Nepal - as people there rebuild their lives eighteen months after a devastating earthquake.
More than 8,000 people died in the Himalayan country after the earthquake in April last year.
Phil Llewellyn has raised thousands of pounds for the community and is trying to give local people jobs too.
There's more on Phil's story on tonight's Inside Out on BBC1 at 19:30.
BBC Sport
Aldridge's Ellie Simmonds is going for gold at the Rio Paralympics later.
The heats in her 200m Individual Medley class are taking place this afternoon at 15:20.
The 21-year-old won four swimming medals including two golds at London 2012, but finished sixth in the 50m freestyle on Saturday.
Keep up to date with all the Paralympics action here.
An emaciated dog abandoned in a wood, tied to a tree, with a bucket of water left next to him is at the centre of an RSPCA, external information appeal.
The male brindle Staffordshire bull terrier-type was found by a dog-walker in Warley Woods, Smethwick, on Thursday 8 September.
He has been named Abe, thought to be aged about three, and is now in the RSPCA's care.
Image source, RSPCAWorkers at a Jaguar plant have welcomed news that the company's XE sports car will be built at the site.
Read MoreA woman who was told she would not live past her seventh birthday is enjoying a new lease of life, external aged 46.
Image source, Walsall AdvertiserWorkers at a Jaguar plant have welcomed news that the company's XE sports car will be built at the site. The announcement is part of a £100m investment and means the return of all Jaguar sports and saloon car manufacturing to the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham.
