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Updates from Friday 18 November 2016
A Birmingham charity that helps more than 300 people beat their addiction with drink and drugs every year has announced high-profile backing for its activity. , external
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Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today
The showers may turn to snow on hills, which could lead to icy patches by the morning with lows of 0C (32F).
Latest weather for the West Midlands
Leaves, rain and gale-force winds combined to make for difficult driving conditions, external as storms swirled through Staffordshire and towards the West Midlands shortly after lunchtime.
Chris Blakemore
BBC WM
BBC WM's Children in Need Auction started at 07:00 this morning and continues until 19:00 tonight.
John at TC cars in Chelmsley Wood and Steve from CP Barbers in Balsall Common have paid £10,000 between them for the Danny Kelly show to come live from both businesses on separate days.
Meanwhile, BBC WM presenter Richie Anderson is still on his 250-mile tandem bike ride for Pudsey. He reached Stratford-Upon-Avon today and heads back to Brum tomorrow.
Police release dashcam footage of their 12 mile (19km) pursuit of a stolen bus.
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A father is arrested on suspicion of murdering his two children who died after a house fire in Birmingham.
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Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Online
The government says disabled people should be able to access all platforms at a key Staffordshire railway station "within a year".
The Conservative MP for Lichfield, Michael Fabricant, questioned the government in the Commons about when the delayed work would start.
The rail minister, Paul Maynard, said disabled passengers shouldn't have too much longer to wait.
Image source, GoogleQuote MessageThey intend to start work as soon as possible and it should take around a year to complete. I'm glad to see he (Michael Fabricant) shares my passion for this."
Paul Maynard, Rail minister
Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Online
The Conservative MP for Lichfield has questioned the government over the delayed work for disabled access at a key Staffordshire railway station.
Work was due to start at Lichfield Trent Valley in the summer, but it's been delayed.
Michael Fabricant told the Commons two out of three platforms are "completely inaccessible" to users with disabilities.
Image source, GoogleQuote MessageTwo out of the three platforms are completely inaccessible to anyone who is disabled or anyone who has baggage with them. We were meant to get access in October this year, so when is it going to happen?"
Michael Fabricant, Conservative MP for Lichfield
BBC Sport
You can also find out how much you might spend this year going to matches.
An uninsured drink-driver who blundered on to a tram track in his new Mercedes is given a 17-month motoring ban.
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BBC News Magazine
In 1979 West Bromwich Albion were looking for an idea for a benefit match for one of their longest serving players, Len Cantello.
Somebody came up with the idea of a match pitting black players against white players. Yes, really: blacks v whites.
Image source, Laurie RamplingWest Brom players Cyrille Regis and Len Cantello
Eight victims of a teacher who was jailed for sexually assaulting schoolboys are awarded £80,000 compensation.
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BBC WM
What a bid - Steve in Halesowen won a West Bromwich Albion behind-the-scenes experience for £2,100.
It's been a really exciting morning - here's some of what's been won and how much the bids raised for Children in Need:
A 33-year-old Telford man who got his Mercedes stuck on a tram line in Birmingham earlier this month made a "foolish" decision, his lawyer told Birmingham magistrates today.
Maurice Cooney admitted drink-driving, having no insurance, and causing a danger or inconvenience by obstructing the tracks.
His lawyer told the court he had been for a night out with friends in Birmingham and decided to drive home.
Image source, PA WireHis solicitor Harjit Rashoda told magistrates: "Once you are following the Metro line at the back of Snow Hill there is no way of turning back and he had to carry on. The line then rises and that's where he became stuck."
And he added it's going to cost £6,000 to repair the car.
A man arrested on suspicion of murdering a brother and sister who died following a house fire is their father, Oldbury Coroner's Court has heard at the opening of the siblings' inquest.
The children - Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor, six - did not die of smoke inhalation or burns, it was revealed. Further tests are needed to establish the full cause of death.
Their father, Mohammed Endris, 46, was arrested today.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceThe siblings were discovered last month at a property in Hamstead where firefighters tackled a small blaze in a hallway. Attempts were made in front of the home to resuscitate the pair but they could not be saved.
An inquest into the deaths of siblings Saros and Leanor Endris following a house fire has been opened this morning.
Further tests are required to establish cause of death.
A 46-year-old man has been arrested today on suspicion of their murder.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering siblings who died following a house fire last month, police say.
He is 46.
Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor Endris, six, were found at a property in Hamstead on October 28.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceFirefighters had been called to the home in the early hours and tackled a fire in a hallway.
Despite attempts by crews to resuscitate the children - said by residents to have been carried out of the Holland Road home by a neighbour and laid on the lawn - they could not not be saved.
Stephanie Barnard
BBC Local Live
Bad news if you're travelling on the London Midland service which runs through Birmingham and Staffordshire.
Due to poor weather conditions, its services are delayed.
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Children in Need
Richie Anderson's set-off from Worcester this morning on day four of his Tandem Tour challenge.
The BBC WM presenter is cycling 250 miles across the West Midlands in just five days for Children in Need.
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BBC Midlands Today sports reporter Dan Pallett, Blind Dave Heeley and Pauline Black will be joining Richie today on his bicycle made for two.
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