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Jonathan Kodjia scored against his former club as Aston Villa beat Bristol City to record back-to-back wins for only the third time this season.

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Kodjia, who joined Villa in August in a reported £11m deal, endured a torrid first half, blasting a penalty over the bar after Gary Gardner was fouled.

But the 27-year-old's superb header put the hosts ahead after the break.

A first for the club for Conor Hourihane moved the hosts to 15th in the Championship. 

Villa boss Steve Bruce was pleased with his team's effort, despite admitting the game "wasn't pretty".

Steve Hermon
Journalist, BBC WM

Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham School of Acting are to merge.

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It coincides with the opening of a new £57m home for the current conservatoire on Birmingham City University's city centre campus later this year.  

Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather

A bright start across the West Midlands this morning,with perhaps an isolated shower for some.

The skies will slowly cloud over through the morning, with patchy rain likely to arrive from the south west during the late afternoon, with highs of 8C (46F).

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

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Jonathan Kodjia scores against his former club as Aston Villa earn a comfortable win over Bristol City in the Championship.

Aston Villa have gone from a top-six Premier League team to toiling in the Championship. Why the malaise, and can they mount a revival?

Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man.

Tuesday's League One fixture between Walsall and Chesterfield is postponed because of a waterlogged pitch at Bescot Stadium.

Liverpool offers to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after hosts Durban admit funding concerns.

That's it for our updates on Tuesday. Join us from 08:00 on Wednesday for a similar mix of the latest news, sport, travel and weather updates.

And as ever, keep an eye out here in the meantime for any breaking news overnight.

Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

"The only protection they had was each other" - that's how Suzy Evans describes the last moments of the lives of her son Joel, brother Adrian and dad Patrick as they were gunned down in hotel in Tunisia. Her youngest son Owen survived the terror attack. 

Inmates at Featherstone prison near Wolverhampton are choosing to stay in their cells all day to avoid the violence of other prisoners, according to government inspectors.

And a breast surgeon who worked at hospitals around the Midlands, has gone on trial accused of causing grievous bodily harm to patients.

More on these stories and others on the Midlands Today on BBC One from 18:30.

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We've got full match coverage on DAB Digital Radio in the Black Country tonight as Walsall host Chesterfield with the Saddlers hoping to move closer to a play-off place in League One.

We will also have reports on Solihull Moors - who can take another massive step towards safety in the National League - if they beat Torquay.

A century-old tree has been cut down to pave the way for a redevelopment of Birmingham city centre including new stone benches to prevent a Berlin-style terror attack.

The London Plane, in Broad Street, was thought to be the city centre's oldest tree at up to 140 years old but it has been felled as part of a £10m revamp of Centenary Square.

Birmingham City Council and Transport for West Midlands issued a joint statement saying it has "sadly not been possible" to keep the tree "because the Metro extension and the Centenary Square development, with its in-built anti-terror measures, were designed as one integrated scheme.

They said they would be planting "59 semi-mature trees as part of the new square design".

Birmingham City club captain Paul Robinson has his red card during Friday's win over Wolves at Molineux overturned.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

A pigeon which spent five days trapped in a chimney has been rescued by the RSPCA.

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Firefighters helped chisel a hole out of a wall to free the caged bird who was stuck in a house in Milton Street, Walsall. 

The resident had heard the bird flapping its wings but there was only a small air vent between the the chimney flute and an upstairs room so firefighters were called.

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RSPCA officer Catherine Strawford said: “The crew removed the vent and chiseled a hole into the wall so I could retrieve the bird, who was very lucky to be alive after five days trapped in the chimney.

“Luckily, the pigeon was not injured, and after offering food and water, I was able to release it. The pigeon shot off so was obviously pleased to be free.”

A British Museum expert says the Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs are of international importance.

Andrew Dawkins
BBC News Online

Parents have criticised a school following reports 75 girls were stopped at the entrance because their trousers were "too tight" or skirts too short.

Parents reacted to the action at Smith's Wood Sports College, Solihull, on Monday, the Birmingham Mail said, external .

One mother told the BBC her 13-year-old daughter had previously been told her trousers were "fine" She said the school's action was "just pathetic".

The school has not commented to the BBC.

Birmingham Airport has announced it will start running a new route to the Eastern Europe's Republic of Moldova from June.

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The new airline, Fly One, will operate three times a week from Birmingham, with 144 seats each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The flight will arrive into Birmingham from Chișinău at 12:25 and will depart at 13:20.

From Chișinău, Fly One also fly to Moscow, St Petersburg and Voronezh (Russia), Rome, Milan, Parma, Verona and Venice (Italy), Lisbon (Portugal), Barcelona, Valencia (Spain) Dublin and Paris.

Wolves have reported a pre-tax profit of £5.8m for 2015-16, their final season under former owner Steve Morgan.

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Home attendances fell by 10% in the club's second season back in the Championship, as they slipped from the previous year's seventh to 14th.

But  the sale of Benik Afobe to Bournemouth  for a reported fee of £10m helped Wolves achieved a profit.

The figures cover the year up to 31 May 2016, prior to  Morgan's sale of the club to the Fosun Group.

Poor industrial relations, staff shortages and some significant prisoner unrest are being blamed for a sharp decline in standards at HMP Featherstone near Wolverhampton .

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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says there has been a "shocking worsening in standards" at the Category C jail which holds 650 men. 

Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke told us prison managers need to get to grips with the situation.