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Updates from Friday 10 March 2017
Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM
Eyewitness Kelsey Nuttall has told of seeing two policemen "running around" and telling residents to "get back" as they dealt with a triple stabbing in her block of flats.
The attack happened in Highfield Court.
She said: "We're all a tight community around here. I don't even feel safe going in there [the block] to be honest."
Alex Homer
BBC Local Live
This picture from the Express & Star , external captures the scale of the emergency services' operation that descended suddenly in an area of Wolverhampton described as "normally quiet" by a resident of three and a half years.
Bystanders have gathered at the scene of the triple stabbing in the city. Nearly every other car is a marked police car or ambulance.
Image source, Express & Star
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Ireland and Warwickshire bowler Boyd Rankin has been ruled out of the T20 series against Afghanistan because of a back problem .
The former England paceman has been suffering from a "lower back issue", but is expected to feature in the five-match ODI series beginning next week.
Ireland play the Afghans in three T20s in India, staring on Wednesday.
Image source, Press EyeResident Kerry Siau was feeding her daughter when she noticed the whirring of helicopter blades from behind the blinds that were down on her windows.
The nurse said when she looked outside three air ambulances had landed on Warstones Green between the football goalposts.
She said she had seen one marked police car. She said: "It's really quiet here normally. We moved here three and a half years ago and I've never seen anything like this."
Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM
Police officers remain at the scene of the triple stabbing in Wolverhampton.
There are three officers at the front door of the block of flats at the centre of the police operation in Leasowes Drive, which we now know is Highfield Court.
Forensic experts are on the scene in protective white clothing, combing the area for evidence. West Midlands Ambulance Service has already confirmed two people have died, both believed in their 30s, including a woman and a man suspected of being the knifeman.
A second woman has been rushed to the major trauma centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with "critical stomach wounds", the service says.
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Mick Brice, a taxi driver, was near the scene when he said he saw “12 or 14 police cars”.
He said he saw police “shuttling” ambulance staff into the block of flats.
A “paramilitary-style” police vehicle “came screaming down the road” and onto the scene before he saw two officers take something out of the back and enter the flats.
Alex Homer
BBC Local Live
The woman fighting for her life with stomach wounds after the stabbing in Wolverhampton has been rushed in an ambulance to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, the ambulance service says.
The police officer who was hurt suffered a "minor injury to his arm" and was discharged after treatment at the scene, the service said.
Police say they stormed the block of flats where the stabbing occured in Wolverhampton using stun grenades "in a bid to distract and detain the knifeman".
Alex Homer
BBC Local Live
A woman believed to be in her 30s died at the scene in Leasowes Drive in Wolverhampton while the male suspected was also pronounced dead a short time later.
Police say it is believed the man attacked two women before stabbing himself.
Another woman believed to be in her 50s has been rushed to hospital with "critical stomach wounds" and a police officer is being treated for minor injuries, the West Midlands force said.
Two people have died following a domestic stabbing in Wolverhampton this morning, police have now said.
Four people have been injured after a stabbing attack in Wolverhampton, police said.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was at the scene of a "serious incident" in Leasowes Drive in Penn.
The stabbing is domestic-related, a West Midlands Police spokesman said.
Police have confirmed the situation they are dealing with is a stabbing.
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Several people have been injured in a serious assault in what we believe to be a block of flats in Wolverhampton.
Image source, @kerrylou85We have been told West Midlands Ambulance Service has sent three air ambulances, two ambulances, three officers and a doctor to the scene.
We will have more on this developing story as soon as we have details confirmed.
We are sending reporters to the scene and will have more information for you as soon as we have it.
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A man has been charged with arson with intent to endanger life after a baby, toddler and two women were rescued from a fire at a third-floor flat.
Image source, West Midlands Fire ServiceNearly 30 people were evacuated from Redway Court flats in Sutton Coldfield. A three-month-old baby girl, an 18-month-old boy and two females were rescued from a balcony.
A 43-year-old man has been charged with arson with intent to endanger life and assault by beating and will appear before magistrates today, police said, external .
The two women and two children were treated for minor injuries after being rescued at about 14:00 GMT on Monday.
A motorcyclist was taken to hospital with "life-changing injuries" after a crash with a car on a major Solihull road.
The 23-year-old was in collision with an Audi A3 on Chester Road near to Solihull Parkway at around 09:00 on Tuesday, police said.
The driver of the Audi was "spoken to at the scene", according to officers. Witnesses are being urged to come forward to police with information, external .
Alex Homer
BBC Local Live
A nine-strong drug network peddling cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy and masterminded from a prisoner behind bars has been busted, according to police.
Tavaseen Iqbal, who since December 2015 has been serving six years in jail for firearms and drugs offences, used phones smuggled into HMP Featherstone near Wolverhampton to pull the strings, according to police, external .
Image source, West Midlands PoliceOn the other end of the line, his cousin Saif Iqbal, from Ransom Road in Foleshill, Coventry, co-ordinated the supply chain and managed "safe houses" from which the drugs were distributed, officers said.
A trio kept the drugs supply flowing around-the-clock, according to West Midlands Police, including Haroon Tasharat, 33, from Dunbar Avenue, Rohan Patel, 22, from Alum Close and Mahmud Ali, 23, from St Georges Road.
Brothers Dahiru Barka (28), Elijah (19) and Samuel Enenche-John (22) allowed their Humber Avenue home to be used to weigh and bag-up orders, according to police.
Seven of them were arrested in raids on 13 July 2016. Rohaib Iqbal, Saif Iqbal's brother, was arrested in September after picking up the reins of the business following the earlier raids, and Patel was arrested later after returning from abroad. All nine have now been jailed for a combined 40 years, police said.
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Wolves manager Paul Lambert has described Saturday's match at home to Rotherham as "a must-win game" following last night's goalless draw at Ipswich .
Image source, ReutersWolves are a single point clear of the dropzone.
Michele Paduano
Health correspondent, BBC Midlands Today
A health campaigner is worried for the safety of children in Redditch.
It comes after the death of an eight-year-old boy who died after ambulance staff could not take him to the Alexandra Hospital despite it being only two minutes from his house.
Image source, family photoCallum Cartlidge was taken to the Worcestershire Royal instead where he died.
Last year children's inpatient services at the Alex were moved to Worcester nearly 20 miles away because of a shortage of junior doctors and a consultation is running at the moment about whether that could become permanent.
Sharon Harvey was part of the Save the Alex Campaign and is a mother of three from Redditch and said the proposal "was just not safe".
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Walsall's sixth successive home victory has moved them up to eighth in League One.
Image source, Getty ImagesScott Laird scored the game's only goal at home to Chesterfield .