Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Aston Villa recorded a loss of £81.3m for the past financial year, the club says, external .

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The deficit more than trebled from £26.6m before Villa were relegated from the Premier League, a club statement ahead of the publication of accounts said.

Included in that, the club lost £34.8m on the value of its players' registrations by the end of the year - called "intangible assets" in the accounts.

Its turnover also dipped to £108.8m due to a reduction in its share of the broadcasting money from the Premier League as the club was rooted to the foot of the table when it was relegated compared to its turnover of £115.7m when the club finished 17th in the previous year.

The impact of Dr Tony Xia's takeover of the club will not show in this set of accounts as that will be revealed when the 2016/17 accounts are published.

West Midlands Police said it had helped evict the group after the city council served an immediate eviction demand.

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London Midland , external say travellers to and from Kidderminster are being affected by a faulty train. 

The 16:23 Kidderminster to Stratford-Upon-Avon will be started from Birmingham Snow Hill instead, and the 15:09 Dorridge to Kidderminster was terminated at Birmingham Snow Hill.  

Elizabeth Glinka
BBC Midlands Today

A pony has been abandoned by travellers who were evicted from Shenley Academy in Weoley Castle earlier on Monday.

The school is currently taking care of it and will call the RSPCA if the owner does not come back.  

Meanwhile the group that were evicted have been spotted in Dee Grove, Forth Grove and Ithon Grove in Kings Norton.

A resident there tells me the same group were only evicted from there two weeks earlier.

Follow Final Score, BBC Radio London coverage, text, images and analysis of the Premier League game between West Bromwich Albion v Crystal Palace at The Hawthorns.

Record-breaking item goes for 450 times its estimate.

Wolves striker Nouha Dicko says he has faith in himself and his team-mates to turn around their collapse in form.

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Wolves are close to the relegation zone after a fourth successive Championship defeat on Friday night. 

Dicko scored his first goal of the season in the match against Blues. He was left "sad" by the result but says he is "convinced" the players can put it right.

The head teacher of a Birmingham school has said hundreds of pupils can return to school now an illegal encampment of travellers has been evicted.

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The 60-strong group left Shenley Academy on Monday morning after Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 pupils were initially told not to go to school.

Margaret, from the group of travellers, told the BBC more traveller sites were needed. "If there were more sites this wouldn't happen," she said. 

"There's no uproar about these children [from travelling community] not going to school or not having a home for themselves to live in," she added. 

However, local police sergeant Dave Cotter said the travellers' behaviour was "totally unacceptable" and had caused huge disruption. 

The Birmingham school was forced to shut to most pupils after travellers camped in the grounds.

More than 600 homes are without power in the Cannock area this afternoon., external

Western Power Distribution says they're aiming to get them back on within a couple of hours.

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West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Pulis wants his players to "keep their feet on the ground" for the remaining 12 games of the season.

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The 2-1 win against Bournemouth took the Baggies to 40 points, the mark which typically guarantees Premier League safety for another season.

The club's record Premier League points tally stands at 49 when the Baggies finished eighth at the end of the 2012-13 campaign under Steve Clarke, and they now have the 12 games remaining to try and surpass that.

Pulis told us his squad need to make sure they keep "their eye on the ball".

Elizabeth Glinka
BBC Midlands Today

Around 900 pupils missed school today after travellers illegally occupied their school car park over the weekend. 

Police were called to Shenley Academy in Birmingham this morning to start eviction proceedings. 

I will bring you the latest on this for the Midlands Today on BBC One from 13:30.

A Chinese vase has sold for 450 times what it was estimated to fetch at an auction house in Birmingham.

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It was estimated the intricately-painted porcelain wucai fish vase might be sold for up to £1,800, but instead it went for £810,000. 

The auctioneers, Fellows in the city's Jewellery Quarter, said the sum broke their house records.  

The firm said they had two competing bidders in the room, including one bidder who had flown in especially from Japan, as well as a "multitude" of telephone bids and people competing online from outside the UK, including from China and Japan. The original guide price came from the vendor, the auction house said.

It was initially believed the vase was a 20th Century copy of a vase fashioned during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Chinese Ming dynasty who ruled from 1521 to 1567 hence the initial estimate of its price.

The man, in his 80s, died from injuries he sustained when a tree crushed a car during Storm Doris.

BBC Midlands Today

Hundreds of people are taking part in a sit down protest in Birmingham later today against proposed cuts to housing support and services for vulnerable people. 

It's the latest in a series of demonstrations against potential funding cuts by the council. 

Campaigners claim the proposals could stop more than 2,000 people from receiving essential support to keep them housed. 

The city council says it needs to save £170m over the next four years and blames the Government for the shortfall in funding.

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Armed police took over intu Merry Hill to train for the possibility of an attack by terrorist gunmen , external on a major West Midlands landmark.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Difficult driving conditions are being forecast by the Met Office for most of the West Midlands due to ice. 

They've issued a yellow weather warning, running from 18:00 this evening until 10:00 tomorrow. 

The Met Office says temperatures will fall below zero tonight on the back of showers today and into the night.

Travellers have left a Birmingham school which had earlier been forced to close to hundreds of students after police and council officers turned up to evict them. 

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The 60-strong group, which included adults, children, dogs and a horse, ignored a 24-hour eviction notice served on them by council bailiffs on Saturday, police said.

The council served an immediate demand on the group today and was supported by more than 20 officers to make sure they left from 08:00.

Sgt Dave Cotter said: "The group ignored a notice to leave, which gave them 24 hours to move on, and in the end we were left with no option but to force them to leave the school grounds."

Officers also said they seized an Audi from the illegal camp on Saturday for having no tax or insurance and said it was suspected the car was involved in a non-stop collision in Northfield High Street earlier that day.

Radically different approaches to bird flu lead to confusion at the English Welsh border.

Holidaymakers are being warned to leave extra time to arrive for flights as Birmingham Airport is today beginning weeks of work on roads around its site.

Work will be carried out on passenger drop-off facilities to prepare the airport for its "peak summer season" until 19 May,  the airport said, external .

Lane 1 of Airport Way will be closed, between the Bird Island Roundabout and the Hermes Roundabout. From Monday 13 March until Saturday 29 April, lane 1 will be closed on Concorde Road between the Hermes Roundabout and the drop and go exit.

The footway/cycleway along Airport Way will also be closed as part of the improvements and users will be directed through Car Park 5 for the duration.