BMW strikes suspended after new offerpublished at 17:06 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Three 24-hour walk-outs were planned at four sites in a dispute over pensions.
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BBC presenters accused of indecently assaulting boys
More claims in shamed breast surgeon case
Gang 'hid crack cocaine in Kinder eggs'
Panos Pavlakis resigns as Blues director
Three held after man shot in shoulder
Updates from Friday 19 May 2017
BMW strikes suspended after new offerpublished at 17:06 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Britain First members who yelled racist remarks at a shop owner sentencedpublished at 17:00 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Two members of far-right group Britain First yelled racist remarks at a shop owner, external and made false allegations before dumping leaflets promoting a march at the premises featured in an internet video.
Blues Ladies in actionpublished at 16:49 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
BBC WM SportBirmingham City Ladies host Bristol City at Damson Park this evening in the Spring Series.
Blues are without a win from their first three games, but may welcome back striker Rachel Williams after she re-signed for the club.
There'll be full match commentary online this evening via the BBC WM homepage.
Image source, Getty ImagesHereford-Birmingham trains to get extra carriagespublished at 16:31 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Train operator London Midland is promising extra carriages, external on some of its services between Hereford and Birmingham New Street from Monday.
Image source, PADrayton Manor death: Evha Jannath 'died from chest injuries'published at 16:14 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
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Allen Cook
BBC Local LiveThe initial investigation into the death of an 11-year-old girl who fell from a theme park water ride has found she died from chest injuries., external
Evha Jannath was on a school trip when she fell from the Splash Canyon ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park on 9 May.
Image source, Family handoutStaffordshire Police says a post-mortem examination's been carried out and that an inquest has been opened and adjourned this afternoon.
The force says no date's been set for the full inquest and they and the Health and Safety Executive are continuing their investigation.
Peterborough sign Blues' Tibbettspublished at 16:13 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
League One side Peterborough United sign young goalkeeper Josh Tibbetts from Birmingham City on a two-year contract.
Read MoreMedal from Wolves 1908 FA Cup win sells for £8,000 at auctionpublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
A 1908 FA Cup final winner's medal presented to the then Wolves captain has sold at auction for £8,000, external.
Private surgery 'needs better patient safety regulation'published at 15:39 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
The Royal College of Surgeons has called for a review of the way private hospitals are regulated, following the case of Ian Paterson.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe surgeon was convicted last month of unlawfully wounding patients during breast surgery at private clinics in the West Midlands.
He is due to be sentenced this month.
In an open letter, surgical leaders said they had concerns about the availability of patient safety information in private hospitals.
Long-lost sisters brought together through jobs at Stourbridge's new KFC storepublished at 15:19 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
After growing up apart – unaware of each other’s existence - two Stourbridge sisters have been brought together by a twist of fate, external after both applied for jobs at the town’s new KFC restaurant.
Speedway offpublished at 14:58 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
BBC WM SportIn speedway, the Birmingham Brummies, external' planned home match against Buxton tonight has been called off because of the weather.
Heavy rain yesterday and a poor weather forecast for today meant the Brummies had "no other" option, they said.
The Brummies will now host Buxton on Wednesday of next week.
'I'm friends with my husband's wives'published at 14:36 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Woman says hardest thing about polygamous marriage is sitting at table and waiting for your "turn".
Read MoreUnion suspends BMW strike action to consider new pensions dealpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Britain's biggest trade union says it's suspending further strike action at BMW plants in Britain as workers consider a new offer regarding pension provisions.
Image source, Getty ImagesLast month, Unite said it would hold a total of eight strikes at four of the car giant's sites, including an engine plant at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire.
It follows a row over the company's plans to close its pension scheme by the end of the month amid claims it could reduce employees' retirement income by £160,000.
Quote MessageThe planned strike action will be suspended while members consider BMW's offer over the coming days. While Unite is not recommending the offer...members should be proud that by standing together they have forced BMW into making this offer."
Fred Hanna, National Unite officer
'Windows shattered' in World War Two bomb explosionpublished at 14:01 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
A man who owns a factory near to where a large World War Two bomb was discovered says its windows "shattered" when the Army carried out a controlled explosion.
Zakir Husain (pictured above), of ZHK Plastics, which employs 14 people, was among those forced to evacuate homes and businesses lying within a 500m exclusion zone erected around the device on Monday.
He says he has not been told when he can go back into the building in Aston.
"From Monday my business [has] been closed, every day I am losing thousands. It's been a very big loss."
Thieves caught on CCTV stealing money bound for Lichfield special school from 'honesty box'published at 13:53 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
A Lichfield mum has told the Mercury of her sadness after money collected in an honesty tub for the benefit of Rocklands Special School was stolen from Darwin Park, external recently.
BBC Midlands Todaypublished at 13:28 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Nicola Beckford
Reporter, BBC Midlands TodayBusinesses in Aston have been assessing the damage caused by yesterday's controlled explosion of a wartime bomb.
Also on the programme: First it was owls that charmed visitors to Birmingham, now stand by for a summer of bear sculptures.
They're being created in a special painting area right now.
You can find out more on BBC Midlands Today at 13:30 on BBC One.
Business feels force of unexploded bombpublished at 13:23 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
A plastics company said it is losing "thousands" since it was forced to close on Monday.
Read MoreVictims to upload own crime reportspublished at 13:16 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Plans for crime victims to upload their own reports are called 'barmy' by the Police Federation.
Read MoreDriver airlifted to hospital after two-car crashpublished at 13:04 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
A man in his 20s has been airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with a head injury following a crash involving two cars in Redditch.
It happened at about 17:00 yesterday, near to the Brook Inn at Elcocks Brook.
Image source, GoogleThe other driver suffered a hip injury and was taken to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
Almost 2,000 protest at homes on Green Belt landpublished at 13:04 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
A protest group delivered a petition with almost 2,000 signatures, external objecting to plans for 250 houses on Green Belt land.
The Midlands history of abandoned babypublished at 12:43 British Summer Time 17 May 2017
Here's a tale that almost sounds like a work of fiction.
Robert Weston - found as a baby in the ladies toilet at an Odeon cinema in Birmingham in March 1956 - has met his Scottish half-brothers and sister for the first time.
The Plymouth man has never managed to track down his mother but a DNA database helped him to find his late father's other children in Scotland.
Robert's father, Charlie Chalmers, had three young sons with his wife in Aberdeenshire before he went to work in the Midlands in the early 1950s. He appears to have had at least one child with Robert's mother, probably living in Rugby or Leicester, before returning to his wife and having three more children.
Image source, ROBERT WESTONImage caption, The Birmingham Evening Despatch carried the story of Robert being found on its front page in 1956
One of his half-brothers said: "We sort of suspected something like this over the years."
When Robert was found, at just three weeks old, there was only a brief description of a woman in her mid-20s seen holding a baby in the cinema foyer. He spent the first seven years of his life in a children's home in Droitwich, before he was adopted.
