Mike Taylor
BBC WM Sport

One year from today – 1 March 2018 – the World Indoor Athletics Championships will begin at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.

The event will return to the Arena 15 years after it was last successfully staged there, and was hailed at the time by the athletics world governing body IAAF as the best World Indoors ever staged.

Marlon Devonish, the Coventry sprinter who was one of two British gold medallists at the 2003 event , was present in Birmingham this morning to mark one year to go.

The NIA has a long history of staging sport, and in particular athletics, which has featured regularly since the venue was officially opened – by Olympic sprint champion Linford Christie – in 1991.  

The event’s official website is now open to register interest in tickets , external , with updates on Twitter at @WICBham2018.

Tim Page
News Editor, BBC Shropshire

About 100 Shropshire people have had their say so far on proposed changes to parliamentary constituencies which could see the county having to share one of its seats with Herefordshire.

The Boundary Commission for England has published all the submissions so far on its website this morning and you have until the end of March to take part in the consultation.

The proposals would create a new "Ludlow and Leominster" seat and move Bridgnorth in with the Wrekin constituency.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Two restaurants robberies by masked men armed with knives and machetes in Tamworth are being linked by police. 

Staffordshire Police says the first, on Saturday, saw staff at The Pretty Pigs threatened with knives by two men who demanded keys to the safe and money from the till. 

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Officers say the pair made off with cash and the victims were left shaken but unhurt. 

The force says the second, on Sunday, happened at the Tam O'Shanter and three men threatened a member of staff with machetes and crowbars before getting away with cash, a wallet and a mobile phone. 

They say in both cases the men involved had Irish accents, kept their faces covered and detectives believe both robberies are linked.

Express and Star

A father died after doctors failed to tell him he had a cancerous tumour, external and needed urgent care.

Peter Wilson
BBC Midlands Today Special Correspondent

A young woman who took an overdose and nearly died because of cyber bullying is taking her message about online safety into schools.

The government has just announced relationships education will become compulsory in all of England's classrooms. For Terri-Anne, sexting and cyber bullying began aged just twelve. 

I have been investigating this case. More with me on the Midlands Today on BBC One from 13:30.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Ian Paterson's trial heard one of the charges against him related to Rachel Butler, who was operated on in 2005 aged 30. 

She returned to see Mr Paterson six years later because a lump beside her left nipple had returned and was painful. 

The surgeon told her she "had to have" an operation to cut all the ducts off around the nipple "because she was at a high risk of contracting cancer if the lump kept returning", the prosecution said. 

The operation in January 2011 had complications, including the wound bleeding for several weeks, it is alleged. The prosecution said the operation was totally unnecessary. 

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Mr Paterson was interviewed by arrangement in January 2013, when he read a prepared statement saying all surgical procedures he had undertaken were "appropriate and necessary". 

"He denied any allegations of inappropriate or unnecessary surgery or bad faith for the purposes of financial gain or for any other purpose, and he said that he found any suggestion that he would propose unnecessary procedures for financial gain as abhorrent," Mr Julian Christopher said. 

Mr Paterson was again interviewed in September 2014 where he refused to answer questions.He denies all charges. 

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

A breast surgeon advised a woman to have a double mastectomy or risk "full-blown cancer", despite tests not showing any sign of malignancy, a court heard. 

Ian Paterson is on trial after denying 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man relating to procedures he carried out between 1997 and 2011 while working for Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare in Solihull and Sutton Coldfield.

Jurors have previously heard claims he carried out completely unnecessary operations for "obscure motives" that may have included a desire to "earn extra money". 

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After carrying out the mastectomy on Frances Perks, Mr Paterson, 59, then wrote to her insurers with a false diagnosis in order to justify an operation carried out for "no good reason whatsoever", prosecutors claim. 

Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC told Nottingham Crown Court Ms Perks was referred to Paterson in 1994 aged 35 after finding a lump in her breast after her mother and sister had died from cancer. 

Paterson, of Castle Mill Lane, Ashley, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, denies all counts.

Residents in Willenhall are being advised to keep their windows and doors closed due to a fire at a recycling depot in the area.

The fire service says about 30 firefighters are dealing with a machinery blaze at Rose Hill Business Park.

West Bromwich Albion defender Gareth McAuley tries to explain how he has become the Baggies' joint top scorer.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Around 25 firefighters have been called to the scene of a suspected "fire in machinery" on a Willenhall business park.

There are five crews dealing with what West Midlands Fire Service called a "severe fire" at Rose Hill Business Park.

The first reports of the flames were at around 10:45 GMT. We will have more information on this for you as soon as we hear it.

The  Midlands Air Ambulance, external  charity has unveiled a 20ft (6m) high sculpture to mark its 25th anniversary.

The Air Pulse memorial will be on display near Norton Canes services on the M6 Toll in Staffordshire.

Since it was set up in 1991, Midlands Air Ambulance helicopters have responded to over 47,000 incidents.

Drivers caught using a phone within two years of passing their test will have their licence revoked under new rules in England, Scotland and Wales.

Penalties for using a phone at the wheel double from 1 March to six points and a £200 fine.

New drivers who get six points or more must retake their practical and theory. More experienced drivers can be banned if they get 12 points in three years.  

A doctor has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting five patients at a Dudley GP's surgery, including women who had complained of a sore throat and earache. 

Dr Amirul Haque, 32, is accused of five sexual assaults early last year.

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Haque, of Ladypool Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, did not indicate pleas to the charges against him at Walsall Magistrates Court earlier.

His solicitor told the court that his client would deny the offences at a further hearing. 

Magistrates gave Haque conditional bail to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 29 March.

BBC WM Sport

Walsall's fixture against Chesterfield has been postponed because of a waterlogged pitch at Bescot Stadium.

The fixture was due to start at 19:45 GMT on Tuesday but was called off after a pitch inspection at 18:00 GMT.

A new date for the League One game is yet to be confirmed.

Birmingham Mail

A plane travelling from Birmingham  sparked a full-scale emergency response, external as it developed a wheel problem as it came in to land.  

Rob Mayor
Black Country Political Reporter, BBC WM

Sandwell Council insists there was a competitive interview process to find its new interim director of children's services.

It's after the only opposition councillor in the borough, UKIP's Philip Garrett, told us he raised concerns about the track record of Jim Leivers from his previous roles in Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire.  

Mr Leivers was appointed after former director of children’s services Matthew Sampson, who was appointed as a troubleshooter for the department four years ago, and director for children and families Sharon Moore both stood down with immediate effect.

The council's children's services department has been rated inadequate twice by Ofsted in four years.

Follow Final Score, reaction, images and social media from Saturday's Premier League action.

Liverpool has offered to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after hosts Durban admitted it might not be able to afford it .

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South Africa's sports minister Fikile Mbalula said the government had been forced to have a rethink due to  financial restraints .

Liverpool,  which is bidding to host the 2026 games , has now offered to step in if Durban cannot host.

Birmingham has announced it would compete with Liverpool to host 2026 but as yet has not offered to stage the games in 2022. 

The Commonwealth Games Federation will make the final decision over Durban.

BBC Sport

Birmingham City club captain Paul Robinson has had his red card in Friday's Championship victory against Wolves at Molineux overturned .

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Robinson, 38, was sent off in the 53rd minute following a challenge involving Wolves striker Jon Dadi Bodvarsson and Robinson was sent off for violent conduct.

But an Independent Regulatory Commission has upheld Blues' appeal, which means Robinson is now clear to play and available for selection when Blues host his former club, promotion-chasing Leeds United, at St Andrew's on Friday.

Sean Coughlan
BBC News, education correspondent

Canada and Australia could be the unanticipated beneficiaries from Brexit in the competition for international students, entrepreneur and university leader Lord Bilimoria has said.

The Indian-born chancellor of the University of Birmingham said an "anti-immigrant" backlash from the Brexit referendum and disputes over student visas could see UK universities losing overseas students .

He said he had received racist abuse - expressing "absolutely rabid" views - for the first time since coming to the UK in the 1980s.

There has already been a downturn in applications from EU students and the crossbench peer said growing numbers of international students from India and China might take their tuition fees elsewhere.