The Velar will be pitched at a market between its Evoque and Sport models and be built in Solihull.

Stephanie Barnard
BBC Local Live

Police officers in Warwickshire had a near miss overnight after a tree landed on top of their car.

Image source, @wmasnickyrainey / West Midlands Ambulance Service

The ambulance service received a call last night and took these photos on the A452 Banbury Road at Bishops Tachbrook, outside Leamington Spa.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service tell me they were called to the scene after a car hit a tree - one woman was uninjured before another tree hit the police car later on.

Image source, @wmasnickyrainey / West Midlands Ambulance Service

Area support officer Nicky Rainey tweeted, external : "Fortunately there were no injuries at this incident but it was a definite near miss for @SWarksCops, external when the tree came down on their vehicle." 

Fellow paramedic support officer tweeted this witty response...

BBC WM

A new TV series showing life behind the scenes at Birmingham Central Mosque starts tonight on Channel 4.

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A year of filming has gone in to Extremely British Muslims. 

It looks at the lives of newly-arrived refugees from Syria and the impact of the Paris terror attacks 

The three-part documentary also examines the launch of the government's Prevent strategy to tackle radicalisation in schools. 

Birmingham Mail

A millionaire businessman convicted of illegally evicting tenants has seen three charges dropped on appeal at court - where he had parked his £200,000 Ferrari on the pavement, external .  

Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

Birmingham is leading the way when it comes to treating ovarian cancer.

Image source, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

There are 7,300 cases each year, but late detection makes treatment more difficult.

Five years from diagnosis, survival rates are still just 46% and often symptoms are mistaken for something else. 

Janos Balega, an ovarian cancer specialist based in Birmingham, said it was not entirely clear why outcomes were better in Birmingham.

Express and Star

Motorists are facing eight weeks of delays while one of Wolverhampton's main access routes is closed at night, external for major improvement work.

BBC News England

About nine out of every 10 families in the West Midlands are unable to afford newly built homes in their local area , a report by housing charity Shelter says. 

Its research shows rising house prices are hitting all parts of England, not just London and the South East. 

In the West Midlands, 93% of privately renting working families could not afford to buy a newly built home, even if they used the government's Help to Buy scheme, the charity says.

In the region, the average price of a new home was £206,950.

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The charity wants to see a new style of building, modelled on that of Victorian philanthropists, where short-term profits are replaced by "long-term community gains".

Ministers agree the system is broken and want to make housing affordable.

Inspectors say West Midlands Police needs to improve the way it investigates offences involving vulnerable victims and working with other public service organisations.

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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary says overall the force is good and has praised it for tackling serious and organised crime. 

Nationally,  the report says a third of the 43 forces  in England and Wales need improvement.

Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

Tesco's decision to drop plans for a supermarket in Birmingham 19 years after it was first proposed is a "blow to the community", according to one of the city's MPs.

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The supermarket giant says it has made the "difficult decision" not to go ahead after a "detailed review".

Traders close to the Stirchley site had  previously criticised the wait  and said some businesses had moved to make way for it, leading to a decline in trade.

In December,  Lidl was granted planning permission to open a new branch in nearby Pershore Road , external .

Labour's Steve McCabe says there was a "heavy price" paid by the community which has been left with a big derelict site after the loss of a bowling alley and a community centre there.

Daniel Wainwright
Data unit - English regions

Almost 4,000 motorists a day are fined for driving in bus lanes , with the most lucrative camera making £6,000 every 24 hours.

Wolverhampton and Birmingham came in the top five councils with the most lucrative single camera - Wolverhampton's Victoria Square (where there's two cameras) made an average of £4,750 a day between November 2015 and last April.

Motoring organisation the RAC said the cameras had become a "cash bonanza" for local authorities.

Councils say cameras are clearly signed and they expect income to fall as drivers learn to stay out of the lanes.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

Windy at first with some early morning sunshine likely in the south. 

There will be a little rain perhaps in the north for a time, this will clear to allow plenty of sunshine across the region by the afternoon. 

Winds will ease through the day with highs of 8C (46F).  

'I've got the move now and I am happy' - Wales defender Neil Taylor on his move from Swansea City to Aston Villa.

Some bus lanes are making from £1,000 to £6,000 a day each as drivers are caught on camera.

'I've got the move now and I am happy' - Wales defender Neil Taylor admits it was tough to leave Swansea City, but is delighted to have joined Aston Villa.

Plans were first proposed for the site 19 years ago.

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

It will turn windy with showers through the evening, giving some heavy bursts at times. The rain will linger through the early hours, mainly in northern parts, turning to snow over higher ground and perhaps settling in a few places - lows of 2C (36F).

Tomorrow, any rain will linger for some at first on Thursday. However, it will clear through the morning.

A Sedgley family has received a six-figure payout after their GP surgery failed to share test results with a patient that showed an abnormal growth on his bowel.

Image source, Family handout

The results were filed away at Ridgeway surgery, and only came to light three years later when they discovered he had an inoperable tumour. 

Wayne Evans, who was a father of two, died in May 2013. The surgery says it has made changes to its system to prevent anything similar happening again.

A pet owner has been disqualified from keeping animals for life after he beat his dog with a belt because he had destroyed a cushion and urinated at the house when he was left alone, the RSPCA said.

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Joshua Higgins was also ordered to pay £585 in costs and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work for attacking five-month-old Tyson in January last year. 

The RSPCA were called by someone who could hear the dog crying. 

Higgins, 21, of Bescot Street, had only had Tyson for two weeks at the time, the charity said. The dog has now been rehomed.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

A police investigation has been ruled out into  the death of a Stafford woman hit by falling debris  during Storm Doris in Wolverhampton.  

Tahnie Martin, a 29-year-old university worker, was passing Starbucks in Dudley Street in the city when the large piece of wooden roofing hit her.  

Image source, Facebook

Ms Martin suffered "very serious head injuries" and died at the scene.

West Midlands Police said it was "no longer pursuing a criminal investigation" but City of Wolverhampton Council would instead take on the probe "supported by West Midlands Police and the Health & Safety Executive in a bid to establish the full circumstances”.

The council said: “These are extremely early days in the process and it will inevitably take time to establish the facts.”

Wayne Evans died after an inoperable tumour was found, three years after tests had first taken place.