You have been using Your Questions to ask about the West Midlands. Here are some of our answers.

A partially-sighted man says he was left feeling disappointed and humiliated.

BBC Midlands Today

An IT worker from Birmingham says taxi drivers regularly refuse to pick him up because he's blind and travels with a guide dog.

Saleh Ahmed, who lives in Balsall Heath, says drivers working for the online service Uber have refused him and his dog a ride 14 times in the past two years.

Minicabs and taxis are obliged to carry passengers with service dogs unless there's a medical reason not to. 

Uber says it has barred two drivers while they investigate Saleh's complaint.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

Council leaders in the West Midlands will be asked to agree a salary of £79,000 a year for the region's first elected mayor.

Image source, Coventry City Council

Voters in Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Solihull will elect a Metro Mayor on 4 May. 

An independent panel has suggested the winner should be paid around £4,000 more than an MP. 

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

Rain moving in this morning means it will be a thoroughly wet day with lots of showers and highs of 9C (48F).

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

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Why are West Bromwich Albion's players pretending to be Phil Collins and Oasis?

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

That's it from us on Thursday. We're back from 08:00 on Friday with more news, sport, travel and weather updates.

Any breaking news will be posted here overnight.

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.

Stourbridge News

A paranormal investigator hopes to unearth new leads, external , possibly of an otherworldly nature, in an unsolved Hagley murder mystery.  

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.

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".