Phil Mackie
Midlands correspondent, BBC News

I understand West Midlands Police are very unhappy at the leniency of the sentence for three men who were caught driving at speeds of more than 130 miles an hour.

The men were involved in an illegal night time race in Birmingham, in March, but have been spared jail terms.

Jason Wakeford, spokesman for Brake, the road safety charity, said "it's shocking" the defendants have not been jailed because no one was killed or injured.

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Train operator London Midlands says services between Lichfield and Birmingham are on hold because of a "disturbance" aboard a train, external.

We'll bring you more when we get it.

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A man who was abandoned as a baby in a cinema toilet in the 1950s has finally met his family in Scotland.

When Robert Weston was an infant he was found in the Odeon in New Street, Birmingham. He has been searching for his birth mother since he was 16.

Now he's met a brother in Aberdeenshire, who revealed details about their mother for the first time.

Former Villa goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen has announced his retirement from football.

He has been playing for Melbourne City and spent five years at Villa Park, making 139 appearances for the club.

The 41 year old thanked Villa fans for their support over the years.

One resident says her rubbish was not collected for two weeks before a strike even began.

People living in Birmingham have told BBC WM not enough is being done to collect their rubbish amid the continuing walkouts by refuse workers.

Birmingham City Council said it had 52 teams out over the weekend, prioritising areas with missed collections and a build-up of black bags.

Here's more information on why refuse workers are striking.

Police dashcam video shows Golf and Mercedes cars racing at more than 130mph on a public road.

Birmingham woman Jodi Ann Bickley set up the One Million Lovely Letters project in 2013.

Intending to write a million supportive letters to people around the world, her inbox is inundated with requests from people in need of her kind words.

She found it a way to stay positive after suffering with depression and ME and wants to help others who are feeling low.

Jodi's Lovely Letters presented by Aled Jones is part of the Our Lives season and will be broadcast on BBC One at 19:30 on Monday.

Police have been dealing with reports of a man with a firearm at a property in Water Orton.

In a statement, external, the Warwickshire force said armed officers were deployed to the scene and after a search, no guns had been discovered.

Chief Inspector Jamie Dunn said: "While investigations are ongoing, at this stage we have not been able to identify that an offence has occurred or that there was any risk to the public."

Birmingham Road was partially closed from 09:30 this morning.

Phil Mackie
Midlands correspondent, BBC News

A judge handing three men suspended prison sentences after they were filmed speeding at 134mph on a dual carriageway said he took into account that they used their indicators while racing.

That they pulled over at the sound of police sirens - and that there was no accident - was also considered in sentencing the men who reached the speeds in Birmingham in March.

At the city's crown court the trio - Amar Paul, Tejinder Bhuee and Zafar Iqbal - were disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined. Their six-month prison sentences have been suspended for two years.

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In police dash-cam footage shown in court, two cars were seen drawing alongside each other before signalling the start of the race with three blasts on a car horn. Paul was in a VW Golf while the other two were in a Mercedes.

Within seconds they were clocked at 134mph - even though it was dark and wet.

Officers were following them after being tipped off that an illegal street race was about to happen.

A Worcestershire man who was left abandoned at a cinema as a three-week-old baby has tracked down a total of nine siblings.

Robert Weston, who was found in the toilet of Birmingham's Odeon Cinema, has spent 46 years searching for his family.

In May, he finally met up with a half brother and a half sister and now a further DNA search has led him to discover that he actually has five half brothers and a half sister on his father's side and one brother, a half brother and a half sister in his mother's side.

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Robert, who grew up in a children's home in Droitwich, has just returned from visiting some of his relatives in Scotland.

BBC Midlands Today

One of the biggest ever stand-alone auctions of stolen bicycles is under way in the Black Country.

Some have been recovered by West Midlands Police which has been unable to reunite them with their owners.

The BBC has learned that cycle theft is a crime where police are most likely to fail to find the culprit.

Ben Godfrey has more on BBC1 from 13:30.

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More than 100 people turned out at community venue to voice their concerns over the future of 'lifeline' children's services in, external Sutton Coldfield.

Police have been dealing with reports of a man with a firearm at a property in Water Orton.

Birmingham Road was partially closed from 09:30 this morning.

Warwickshire Police says the incident is over and investigations continue.

Highways England says one lane is closed on the M54 near Wolverhampton while barriers are repaired following a crash.

Birmingham Road in Water Orton is partially closed following reports of a man with a firearm at a property, police say.

The Warwickshire force said it was called at 09:30 and described the case as "ongoing".

A van overturned and landed on its roof on the M6 Toll route this morning.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to the northbound carriage, between J5 for Lichfield and J6 for Brownhills, at 07:55.

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The service said the van had "rolled several times" before coming to a stop.

The driver, a man in his 50s, managed to get out of the vehicle. He was treated for minor neck and knee injuries and was taken to hospital.

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Phil Bowers
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

A man who died in a crash near Lichfield has been named by police as Joshua Reece Coppinger, from Birmingham.

The 25-year-old was riding his motorbike when he was involved in a collision in Drayton Bassett last week.

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In a statement, his family said: "Our beloved, one of a kind, treasured son, brother, uncle and family member who was lucky enough to have two families. One he was born into and the other family of friends that he chose."

Staffordshire Police has now begun an investigation.

Motorcyclist Joshua Reece Coppinger, 25, was in collision with a van and died at the scene.

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The MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips, is calling on the government to give more resources to the NHS after it emerged 80% of NHS areas in England are failing to meet the two-week deadline to give women smear test results.

NHS England says it's working on options to reduce the backlog caused by a difficulty in keeping staff as the screening process is replaced with another.

Ms Phillips had part of her cervix removed after giving birth to her first child. "Abnormal" results were returned during her pregnancy when the procedure could not be carried out, although the results themselves weren't subject to a delay.

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