BBC Sport

The appeal against a red card given to Wolves' player Carl Ikeme at the Norwich game on Saturday has been rejected, but the length of his suspension has been reduced. 

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Ikeme was sent off for pushing Norwich player Wes Hoolahan after a penalty had been given against him. 

The dismissal has been upheld, but the panel agreed that the punishment was excessive so Ikeme's ban has been reduced from three games to two.

 He'll now miss the FA Cup tie at Liverpool and the League game at Barnsley.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

Transport companies First Group and Trenitalia are to jointly bid to run services on the HS2 high-speed rail network.

The firms have formed joint ventures to bid for the East Midlands and the West Coast partnership franchise, which includes HS2 trains between London and the West Midlands from 2026.

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FirstGroup currently operates Great Western Railway, TransPennine Express and Hull Trains.

The West Coast franchise is currently run by Virgin Trains as a joint venture between Stagecoach and Virgin.  

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Work has begun on demolishing the Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre in Kidderminster to make way for new development. 

The interior of The Glades, which closed last July after 30 years, has already been dismantled. 

It was replaced by Wyre Forest Leisure Centre at Silverwoods.

Almost 200 train services in and out of Birmingham New Street were disrupted when signalling cables were set alight.

Passengers were delayed by more than 6,000 minutes in total with 46 trains being cancelled and a further 40 services cut short, British Transport Police said.

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Officers are searching for the arsonist, who started the fire 18:45 on Friday, on the line between Garrison Lane and Garrison Street bridges in Bordesley, Birmingham.

Det Insp Gareth Davies said: “This is not a victimless crime; thousands of people were affected by this mindless act of vandalism and we will never know the true cost of the delays caused by this incident." 

Leroy Sterling has today been found guilty of the murder of his ex-partner Wendy Mann in West Bromwich in 2015 and an attempt to murder her new lover Trevor Tyndale.

The 63-year-old Sterling, of Guns Lane, West Bromwich, was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years.

Ms Mann's family issued a statement outside Wolverhampton Crown Court: "We are happy with the verdict here today. Although it won't bring Wendy back it will bring a sense of closure to our lives.

"The verdict will not bring Wendy back but it will bring us some comfort that someone has faced justice for this terrible act and her memory will remain honoured."

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Two men suffered serious injuries after a collision in Water Orton last night.

A car hit a tree and a motorcyclist came off his bike at the junction of Minworth Road and Water Orton Lane, at 10:00 PM.

The car driver, in his 20s, sustained multiple serious injuries and was taken to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.

The motorcyclist, in his 30s, suffered a serious leg injury and was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Express and Star

A man has been left fuming after his car was damaged when an Asda delivery driver drove into it – then, he claims, it took the company nearly a month to sort the matter out.  

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Liverpool's awful January ends in FA Cup defeat - watch Final Score plus reaction as Wolves claim a memorable 2-1 win at Anfield in Saturday's opening tie.

A £3.5m project is under way to restore a historic World War Two bomber to its former glory.

The Lancaster, known as Just Jane, was built by Austin Motors in Longbridge in April 1945 and is considered one of the most well-known aircraft Britain has ever produced.  

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During the restoration process, the aircraft will have to be taken to pieces, with every component being checked before being put back together again.

The East Kirkby Aviation Centre, in Lincolnshire, is behind the restoration project and hopes to see the Lancaster flying again by 2020.   

Police hunting for knife attacker after a man in his 30s is killed on a bus in Birmingham.

Championship side Birmingham City have signed defender Dan Scarr from non-league neighbours Stourbridge.

Scarr, 22, who starred in Stourbridge's run to this season's FA Cup third round, has signed on a two-and-a-half year contract, for an undisclosed fee.

Here Scarr is in action training with new Blues teammates.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here is a recap of our headlines from this morning:

- A man has been stabbed to death on a bus in Handsworth, sparking a murder inquiry

- A row has broken out over claims a Catholic school banned a four-year-old Muslim girl from wearing a headscarf

- New cameras are expected to be brought in on three main commuter routes in Birmingham

More details about a stabbing on a bus in Handsworth, Birmingham, last night have been released.

"It would appear he (the victim) was stabbed in the abdomen and back area, several times, but it's really too early to speculate on where those blows landed and the amount of times, at this stage," a police spokesman said.

The weapon thought to have been used in the attack - a folding pocket knife - has not yet been recovered.

Police are appealing for four passengers to come forward who immediately disembarked from the bus after the attack to come forward.

A mother who posted a video of her 15-week-old baby undergoing physiotherapy for cystic fibrosis says she was accused of being a "child beater".

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

A man stabbed to death on a Birmingham bus was knifed "several times" in front of other passengers on the top deck.

The victim and the suspected attacker were sat alongside each other, on opposite sides of the aisle on the 11A bus, when an argument started leading to blows being exchanged, police said.

It's not thought the two men knew each other.

"It very quickly became physical and clearly the one male has over-powered the other one and there's a number of blows been exchanged," a police spokesman added..

The stabbing took place as the bus travelled along Rookery Road, Handsworth, last night.

Nicola Beckford
Reporter, BBC Midlands Today

Police have opened a murder inquiry after a man was stabbed to death on a bus in Birmingham.

And it's claimed Warwickshire company Vivarail's plans to run former London Underground trains on the Midlands rail network are still on course, despite a fire during testing last month. 

More on these stories and others on the Midlands Today on BBC One at 13:30.

A campaign is underway to repair the memorial of one of the pioneers of the British motorcycle industry who was from Birmingham.   

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James Lansdowne Norton was a designer, inventor and manufacturer of the Norton motorcycles who died in 1925 and is buried at Lodge Hill Cemetery in Selly Oak. 

Wolverhampton-born Colin Kelly travelled over from his home in Canada to pay his respects at Norton's grave and described the memorial as "covered in weeds, with blowing garbage all over the place."

The Norton Owners Club in Shenstone are trying to track down his family so work can be carried out to fix the memorial.  

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Some areas of dense fog will cause difficult driving conditions into the evening and overnight.

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BBC Midlands Today

A spurned man has been found guilty of murdering a mother-of-three children and attempting to murder her new lover.

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Wendy Mann's body was found on her kitchen floor in West Bromwich in August 2015.

Leroy Sterling, 63, of Guns Lane, was found guilty of murder and the earlier attempted murder of her lover, Trevor Tyndale, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

Pathologists found multiple fractures in her neck, a pattern "commonly found in people strangled," the jury heard earlier in the trial.