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Allen Cook
BBC News
Kenilworth's new railway station will now open at the end of the month, the county council says.
It cost more than £13m to build and was supposed to be open in December.
This afternoon the council said it and West Midlands Trains had agreed that Kenilworth Station would open on 30 April., external
Olivia Morley
Journalist, BBC WM
The man in charge of building the delayed, £350m Midlands Metropolitan hospital in Smethwick says it must open within two years.
Work on the site was halted when key contractor Carillion collapsed in January.
The hospital was due to open in October 2018, but no interim contractor has been secured and the trust board fears costs could rise.
Earlier in the week, Prime Minister Theresa May said the contract to build the hospital was still in force and the Department of Health, as well as the Cabinet Office, were "working to resolve it".
Quote MessageWe have stretched the patience and the genius of our staff pretty thin over the last little while. We were meant to open in 2018, this can't go beyond 2020."
Toby Lewis, Chief executive of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Hospitals Trust
Wasps' South African forward Ashley Johnson has been suspended by the Rugby Football Union after failing a drugs test.
Read MoreVicky Breakwell
BBC Hereford and Worcester
Four men have been released on bail , externalfollowing their arrest after trouble broke out near a pub.
Image source, GooglePolice were called to the Horse and Jockey, New Street, Ross on Wye, on Wednesday evening following reports of disorder outside.
One man needed treatment in hospital.
Officers arrested the four, aged 19 to 25 and all from Herefordshire, on suspicion of affray.
Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today
After a fine evening, it will stay dry tonight with often clear skies and only the odd cloud with lows of 6C (43F).
Latest weather for the West Midlands
A reminder that Victoria Square in Birmingham will welcome home Team's England Commonwealth Games stars tomorrow from 12:00.
Image source, Birmingham 2022Members of the public are being encouraged to join the party with sporting taster sessions, and live arts performances.
Erdington rapper Lady Sanity and city spoken word poet Amerah Saleh, who both took part in the Games’ closing extravaganza on Sunday, will reprise their performances.
Commonwealth Games: Next host city Birmingham puts on a show in Gold Coast ceremony
The free event follows the official handover of the Games’ baton to Birmingham, which will stage the competition in 2022.
A baby's died in Coventry and its death is being treated as unexplained.
West Midlands Police says officers were called to reports of a one-year-old going into cardiac arrest on Ellacombe Road this afternoon.
They say paramedics couldn't save the child's life.
The Crewe Chronicle's covering these stories today, among others:
A man found out a battery had exploded in his house , externalwhen his dog woke up him.
Image source, Staffordshire Fire ServiceA lithium battery for a golf trolley had overheated while being left on charge, the fire service says, at Kingfisher, Wilnecote, Tamworth yesterday.
The people inside the house thankfully got out safely.
Shrewsbury Town insist they have no need to sell in-demand midfielder Jon Nolan even if they miss out on promotion.
Read MoreThe sun's returned back this afternoon after the grey start and our BBC Weather Watchers have been snapping away.
These three are from users Punxsutawney Phil in Redditch, TAY in Newport and SteveC in Kenilworth:
Image source, Punxsutawney Phil
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Image source, SteveCA police poster in the West Midlands has been taken down after it told people not to give money to "people who beg".
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BBC Sport
Worcestershire and Warwickshire have both managed to bowl out their opponents before tea in their latest County Championship matches.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Pears knocked Somerset over for 202 in their first innings on the first day of their Division One fixture, 22-year-old Ed Barnard (pictured) taking a maiden five-wicket haul.
Warwickshire meanwhile bowled Northamptonshire out for 147 but are making heavy weather of their reply, reaching 28-3 at tea.
You can stay up-to-date on either game via local radio commentary or with the BBC Cricket website.
Two drivers are being urged to come forward by police investigating a fatal crash following a police pursuit.
Image source, Lyz Sweetland StubbsThe Toyota Aygo was being pursued by police as it travelled the wrong way on the A50 near Longton in Staffordshire on Sunday.
A 19-year-old man died in a crash, while an 18-year-old woman remains in hospital.
Today, police say they're keen to speak to the drivers of a red Skoda estate and a burgundy 4x4, seen heading eastbound on the A50 just before 06:00 that morning.
Scum-half Michael Dowsett will leave Worcester Warriors at the end of the season to continue his career in Japan.
Read MoreA man has been jailed for eight months after narrowly missing hitting a woman and child during a police chase in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Eamon McCarthy, 23 of Oaks Driver, Featherstone, Wolverhampton admitted dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Warwick Crown Court.
CCTV captures the moment a driver narrowly misses hitting a woman and child
The chase, along the A426 towards the M6 in March 2017, saw him collide with a police car and injure an officer.
Det Sgt Ollie Deakin from Warwickshire Police said McCarthy had "put his own life at risk and the lives of other road users and pedestrians".
He was also banned for 32 months.
Police investigating the death of a woman in West Thurrock this morning have arrested a 31-year-old man from Birmingham on suspicion of murder.
A woman was found with serious injuries close to the A1306 Arterial Road and died a short time later.
The road has been closed for an investigation and unlikely to re-open for some time.
A 21-year-old motorcyclist has died in a crash in Walsall.
Thorneycroft Way is likely to remain closed for a number of hours, while the scene is made safe, said West Midlands Police.
Mark Elliott
BBC News
Shrewsbury Town's fading hopes of gaining automatic promotion from League One suffered a blow last night, without them taking the field.
Image source, Getty ImagesBlackburn Rovers beat Peterborough 3-1 and the result stretched their lead over third-placed Shrewsbury to eight points.
Town host Bury this weekend with three more games left to play in the league this season, giving a maximum of 12 points available to them.
"A rumbling noise was heard and then an explosion."
On this day in 1876, a Shropshire man was left to pick a meteorite out of the ground in Rowton, external.
Image source, Shropshire ArchivesShropshire Archives says the 3.5kg iron meteorite was found "still warm" and buried 18 inches (45cm) deep.
It's now at the Natural History Museum in London.
