Stacy Banner took more than £100,000 from the bank account of Susanna Wilson in 2013.

West Brom recreate album covers for the clubs programmes

Alice Rosenthal
BBC WM

Bus lane fines are putting people off coming to the city, the Wolverhampton Business Forum has told us.   

Figures obtained by the BBC show the bus lane cameras on Victoria Square were the second-highest earning in the country last year. 

About 200 drivers were caught out each day, generating just over £4,000 from that lane alone.

A Birmingham man has been jailed for 13 years for stabbing an old friend to death outside an off-licence in the city last summer, according to police.

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Alex Habte, 20, from Conybere Street, Highgate, was traced by police because of his distinctive bun hairstyle,  the West Midlands force said, external .

He stabbed 26-year-old year Samuel Simret outside an off-licence in Summer Lane in Newtown last August, according to officers.

BBC One

A Staffordshire man is set to receive a share of an estate worth around £325,000 after being tracked down by the BBC One show, Heir Hunters. 

Percival Overbury from Gloucester died in a nursing home aged 96 with no will and no next-of-kin. 

Robert Meek, from Rugeley, was one of 46 heirs discovered and featured on the BBC programme. 

The show also revealed a family link to the legendary 1960s record producer, Joe Meek, who was Robert's uncle.

A woman talks of her devastation at not being able to breastfeed after two "unnecessary operations".

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

Apart from a little showery rain, it should be dry this evening and for much of the night with clear spells.

However, it will turn cloudier towards dawn with some rain reaching southwestern parts, with lows of 4C (39F).

Tomorrow, after a dry start in the north, the rain in the south will spread to all parts through the morning.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

For the past few months we've been inviting our readers to pass on questions they wanted answering by our journalists.

Paul Longhurst asked us: "Why is Rowley Regis so named? I always thought that places containing Regis as part of the name had some royal connection."

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Frank Caldwell, Sandwell Council's heritage and museums manager, told us: "It was a royal manor, that is land that was held directly by the Crown and as such rented out, rather than given in return for feudal service. So tenure was always contractual rather than feudal. 

"The Regis appears first in the records about 1140, to determine it from Rowley Somery, which was held, feudally, by the de Somery family - the Earls of Dudley. 

"The Rowley is derived from a pre-Saxon word which suggests Iron Age settlement, but no direct evidence has been found. 

"It doesn’t appear in the Domesday book, but this is the case for most land held directly as Royal estates owned by King Edward the Confessor – post conquest William I took over these royal lands himself."

BBC WM

Peter Walker, chairman of the Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum, has told us he was "gobsmacked" when he found out Tesco was pulling out of plans to build a superstore in the area.

The project - which had been in the pipeline for 19 years since it was first mooted - was due to create 300 jobs and Tesco says the decision to pull out was not taken lightly. 

Some homes and businesses, including a bowling alley and community centre, had already been demolished to make way for the store.

Boy band The Vamps travel to West Brom to meet the players recreating famous album covers for the club's programme.

Dan Pallett
BBC Midlands Today Sport

The future of Lichfield Ladies rugby club is uncertain after they were left out of the first season of England's new women's domestic rugby union competition . 

The Rugby Football Union did not include Lichfield among the 10 teams, external who will be part of Women's Super Rugby from this September.

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The club says they are, external "extremely disappointed" and the decision means some of its top players, including England internationals, might have to leave the team.

The chair of Women's Premiership Group, Mark Francis, said in a statement , external the collective view of clubs was "total dismay" that Lichfield would not be part of the league.

Jennifer Harby
BBC News Online

A man suspected of carrying out a grenade attack in Sweden which killed a Birmingham schoolboy has died, according to police . 

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Eight-year-old Yuusuf Warsame was killed while visiting relatives in August when a grenade was thrown into a flat in Gothenburg. 

Swedish police said the male suspect, "has now died".

Yuusuf's mother Deega Bibi  told the Birmingham Mail, external  her family has been left "psychologically scarred".

Former bank vaults, once some of the most secure in Birmingham, have been smashed open as part of an ongoing redevelopment project, the Business Desk reports, external .

A piece of timber which hit university worker Tahnie Martin showed 'signs of neglect', an inquest hears.

Is it Jonas Olsson or David Bowie? West Brom recreate album covers

The man suspected of killing an eight-year-old boy from Birmingham with a grenade has died, police say.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

"Signs of decay and neglect" have been found on the wooden water tank cover which struck and killed a pedestrian during Storm Doris in Wolverhampton, an inquest has heard.

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An investigation is looking into what maintenance had been undertaken on the cover before it hit and killed Tahnie Martin, a 29-year-old University of Wolverhampton worker, near Starbucks on Dudley Street, the coroner was told.

Ms Martin, from Stafford, was pronounced dead near Wolverhampton's Mander Centre on Thursday last week after being hit by a two-metre-long piece of timber amid high winds.

Det Sgt John Garbett, of West Midlands Police, told the court officers had recovered CCTV footage showing the moment the object fell from a roof and hit Ms Martin.

"The debris that struck Miss Martin shows signs of decay and neglect," he said. "There are certain inquiries being made by the environmental heath department [of the council] in relation to the maintenance schedule."

The officer confirmed formal contact had not yet been made with the owner of the building. The inquest will not resume until April.

Tesco has dropped plans for a supermarket in Strichley, Birmingham, 19 years after it was first mooted.

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

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

Lidl won planning permission to open a new branch in nearby Pershore Road in December.

Birmingham Eastside

A Chinese vase has sold for £810,000 at a Birmingham auction house – more than 450 times its estimate, external .