The new assistant chief constable of West Midlands Police has officially started her job, external.

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Sarah Boycott joined the force after spending 24 years with the Cheshire constabulary.

She also oversaw a police project in Darfur for the UN.

X-ray pictures have been released of a crossbow bolt inside a cat.

Image source, RSPCA

The RSPCA said it was not initially obvious what was wrong with the animal - brought to a vet by a concerned owner - until a scan revealed the six-inch bolt which went in by a hind leg.

It is believed the cat, nine, was shot near to its owner's home in Balfour Road, Kingswinford, Dudley, on 7 May.

The animal had emergency surgery and is recovering.

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West Bromwich Albion head coach Tony Pulis says "two quick-fire goals killed" them in the first half of their 3-1 defeat at Manchester City.

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Albion have dropped to ninth place in the Premier League for the first time since Christmas and they are now winless in eight games.

Hal Robson-Kanu scored a late goal, but Pulis says City deserved to win.

Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

Birmingham City Council, external says it will learn lessons after a World War Two bomb found in Aston on Monday led to the evacuation of people whose homes lay within an exclusion zone.

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The authority says more than 180 people evacuated to a rest centre were kept updated and informed while army experts dealt with the device, subjected to a controlled explosion yesterday.

Businesses were also evacuated. An office manager complained on our Live page yesterday about communication with emergency services.

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And here's what evacuated people who spent Monday night in a gym had to say about their night's sleep...

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Unemployment fell by 5,000 in the West Midlands in the three months to March to 161,000, external, official figures show. 

Image source, DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images

However, compared with the same three months in 2016, the number of people out of work in the West Midlands is up by 4,000. 

Overall, the Office for National Statistics' figures showed the unemployment rate across the country fell to its lowest level in 42 years.

A man suffered multiple injuries when the car he was in rolled over, leaving him trapped upside down.

Image source, West Midlands Ambulance Service

The 25 year old was injured opposite the Vauxhall garage in Bilston Road, Wolverhampton, at just after 01:30, West Midlands Ambulance Service, external said.

It said ambulance staff worked with firefighters to remove him from the vehicle, which suffered "considerable damage".

A campaign to encourage students to vote in next month's general election has got under way in Wolverhampton. 

The city contains a number of marginal seats and organisers believe the student voice could have an impact on the result. 

#GenerationVote will work with student unions across the UK as part of a voter registration week of action. 

The idea that people can be fat but medically fit is a myth, say experts speaking in Portugal.

Their early work, as yet unpublished, involved looking at the GP records of 3.5 million people in the UK.

They say people who were obese but who had no initial signs of heart disease, diabetes or high cholesterol were not protected from ill health in later life, contradicting previous research. 

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In the study, researchers at the University of Birmingham analysed data of millions of British patients between 1995 and 2015 to see if this claim held true.   

A man who was abandoned in a cinema toilet cubicle 61 years ago has met his Scottish half-brothers and sister for the first time.

Robert Weston was found in the ladies toilet at an Odeon cinema in Birmingham in March 1956.

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He has never managed to track down his mother but a DNA database helped him to find his late father's other children, who live in north east Scotland.

Robert discovered he has at least four surviving brothers and a sister.

It was the find that brought a swathe of the city to a standstill - you can watch its demise here...

But what about the aftermath of the World War Two bomb?

Aston Expressway, closed for much of Monday and Tuesday, is open, with the 500m exclusion zone that forced the evacuation of homes and business scaled back to Priory Road, Aston, where the device was uncovered at a construction site.

And it's better news for rail commuters who have been dealing with suspended Cross City services between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley - the route runs parallel to where the bomb was found.

Train operator London Midland said earlier today...

There's relief all round - One commuter on Twitter commented that seeing a London Midland train at a Lichfield station was "a sight to brighten a grey morning".  

And just to make doubly sure if you feel like breathing a sigh of relief...

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A mostly cloudy day with further spells of rain. The rain will be locally heavy and possibly thundery, mainly in the east.

It will gradually become drier in the far west later. Feeling cool - highs of 11C (52F).

BBC News Travel

Signalling problems at Bromsgrove mean that trains between Birmingham New Street and Worcester will be delayed by up to 15 minutes or cancelled, external, Network Rail say. 

The Live team is back to bring you the latest news, sport and travel.

We'll have a weather update for you shortly.

DNA database tracks down brothers and sisters to north east of Scotland.

West Brom manager Tony Pulis says his side were "second best against a very, very good side" after a 3-1 Premier League defeat to Manchester City at the Etihad.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is "so pleased" with his "fantastic" players after a 3-1 Premier League win over West Brom at the Etihad keeps the clubs chances of securing automatic Champions League qualification "in our hands".

The M6 was shut and roads and rail services into central Birmingham were closed for safety.

England forward Rachel Williams re-signs for Birmingham City Ladies following Notts County's demise.

That's it from the Live team on Tuesday - we're back from 08:00 on Wednesday with more news, sport, travel and weather.

Any breaking news - including updates on the aftermath of the WW2 bomb explosion - will appear here before then.

The situation in Aston over the last two days is not unique.

Most WW2 bombs stumbled across in the 21st Century are discovered by builders digging foundations.

A guide on dealing with unexploded devices was released by the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) in 2009.

An estimated 15,000 items, ranging from unexploded bombs to small mortar rounds and grenades, were removed from UK construction sites between 2006 and 2008, the association said.

The CIRIA guide said as well as posing a risk, the discovery of unexploded devices can have "significant implications" for builders, causing delays and an increase in costs.