A man has been stabbed in the arm in Birmingham this afternoon.
The 29-year-old was taken to hospital just after 14:30 and part of Aston Street has been cordoned off while police investigate.
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Gurdip Thandi
A Birmingham pub that's been plagued by drugs and violence has been stripped of its licence.
West Midlands Police had applied to the city council's licensing sub committee for the order to shut the Sutton Tap on South Parade, Sutton Coldfield, saying they'd been called to a string of violent incidents at the venue in the last year.
Officers told a meeting they'd found evidence that nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas - was being dealt at the pub and said people were being served past last orders.
The landlord's lawyer admitted to councillors there had been "serious problems", but promised to increase CCTV and security.
But the committee decided the licence would be revoked in a bid to stop more crime and disorder.
Three teens were stabbed to death in Birmingham within 12 days in what police are calling a "crisis".
Read MoreA few of the stories making the headlines on the Dudley News website this afternoon:
Allen Cook
BBC News
The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police has given his backing to "extensive" stop and searches in a bid to halt what the force describes as "the rising surge of knife crime" in Birmingham.
The death of a 17-year-old on Monday marked the third fatal stabbing in the city in a fortnight - a situation described by Chief Constable Dave Thompson as a "crisis", external.
Across the country, stop and searches have sometimes proved controversial.
Quote MessageMy officers have been given extensive powers to search people without the need to suspect they are carrying weapons. I recognise this will upset some innocent young people, but I fear the carriage of weapons in the current environment is growing, often through fear, and we can take no chances."
Dave Thompson, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police
In a statement this afternoon, he's also called on parents to take an active interest in where their children are and who they're with, adding that arguments can "build on social media".
Meanwhile, the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson, says he's working with the Home Office to get more funding for placing youth workers in A&Es and mentoring in schools.
Ann Higginson died from mesothelioma, a cancer usually linked to asbestos exposure.
Read MoreCannabis dealer Jaskaran Kang was attacked with 'an array' of weapons.
Read MoreIan Webber "lost his rag" and assaulted the four-year-old boy when he had a tantrum at school.
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BBC News
Two men have been jailed for at least 20 years each for murdering a drug dealer in a "ferocious attack" involving "an appalling array of weapons".
Image source, Family handoutJaskaran Kang, 24, was attacked in his flat in Dudley, West Midlands in January 2018, by a gang who had previously bought cannabis from him.
The men were carrying weapons including a "Rambo sword" and zombie knife, West Midlands Police said.
Dontay Ellis, 20, of no fixed abode, and James Peake, 19, from Southgate Way, Dudley, were both given a life sentence after being convicted of his murder.
At the same sentencing, Joshua Campbell, 19, of King Edmund Street, Dudley, was jailed for 10 years after being found guilty of conspiracy to rob.
While Michael Cunningham, 19, of Holinshead Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme, who had admitted conspiracy to rob, was given six years and six months in a young offender institution.
Garden waste fees will increase and arts funding reduced in a budget which will see cuts of £46m.
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George Makin
The bus station in Dudley is set to be demolished to make way for a new multimillion-pound link-up between buses and Metro trams.
Image source, GoogleThe planning application , externalwill be considered next week to bulldoze the Fisher Street site to make way for a new interchange.
The scheme would be funded with £10m from the West Midlands Combined Authority and cash from Dudley Council and the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership.
It's part of a seven-mile (11km) extension of the Metro line from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill and would also see several surrounding shops and businesses demolished.
Birmingham City are under threat of a points penalty but on-loan winger Connor Mahoney says the players are totally unified.
Read MoreToday, you can't move for blue skies in the photos pouring in from our local BBC Weather Watchers.
These three came form users Margrose in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Bingoswestry in Oswestry, Shropshire and Chris n Ginny in Bodymoor Heath, Warwickshire:
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Image source, Chris n GinnyA canal footbridge in Birmingham city centre has reopened, following concerns its closure was damaging trade.
The bridge taking pedestrians from the Mailbox and The Cube towards Brindley Place had been shut for six weeks.
It reopened on Tuesday after maintenance works were completed.
Bar and restaurant owners told BBC WM blamed a drop in trade on the bridge's closure.
The Cube management apologised for the "disruption and inconvenience".
Allen Cook
BBC News
A life-sized model of the Slade frontman Noddy Holder, made out of 42,000 Lego bricks, has been installed at a theatre in Birmingham., external
Image source, Retail BID BirminghamOriginally placed at New Street station over Christmas, it was commissioned by the city's Retail Business Improvement District (BID).
Organisers say, while at the station, it raised more than £4,600 for the Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity.
Now, it's been moved to the Alexandra Theatre's main foyer where the BID says it'll still be used to fundraise for the charity.
BBC WM
A union representing Birmingham bin workers says today is the last chance for its dispute with the city council to be resolved.
Unite has put its latest planned walkout on hold in order to have more talks with the local authority.
More than 300 workers started a series of walkouts over claims of "secret payments" made to non-striking GMB staff after a dispute in 2017 - claims strenuously denied by both the council and GMB.
Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett urged the council to "do the right thing by this workforce and do the right thing by the people of Birmingham".
Councillor Brett O'Reilly says he thinks talks with the union "have gone well to some degree" and welcomed the suspension of industrial action.
BBC Midlands Today
More than 200 places across the West Midlands are breaching air pollution limits, according to new data from Friends of the Earth.
Image source, GoogleThe campaign group says Holyhead Road in Coventry recorded the worst nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels in the region.
Coventry City Council says it's working on a Local Air Quality Action Plan to submit soon to the government to cut pollution levels.
Friends of the Earth says these are the top 10 areas in the West Midlands which recorded the worst NO2 levels:
BBC Sport
Birmingham's Dan Evans progressed to the second round of the Oracle Challenger Series at Indian Wells after knocking out American Maxime Cressy.
Image source, Getty ImagesEvans, who missed out on his first ATP title at the Delray Beach Open on Sunday, won 6-4 7-5 in California.
The 28-year-old has climbed to 105 in the world after returning last April from a one-year ban for testing positive for cocaine.
The low sun's being blamed for starting a fire in a shop front in Birmingham.
Image source, West Midlands Fire ServiceWest Midlands Fire Service says the sunshine was powerful enough yesterday and at the right angle, refracted through the window, to start a blaze in a rotten window sill in the Highgate area. , external
Firefighters say people should keep mirrors or glassware away from direct sunlight., external
Birmingham Live
The Birmingham Live website's covering these stories this morning:
