The area's police commissioner said the site will be used to accommodate additional officers.

BBC Business News

The UK's Big Four accountancy firms should be separated into audit and non-audit businesses, says an influential committee of MPs.

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Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC conduct 97% of big companies' audits while also providing them with other services.

They are under review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has proposed an internal split between the two functions.

The CMA's review, released on 2 April, follows high-profile company collapses such as Wolverhampton construction firm Carillion, which was audited by KPMG.

The body of a man has been found in a Birmingham canal, police say.

Officers were called by a walker who spotted the body just before 07:30 in water off Aldridge Road in Great Barr.

The man is yet to be identified, said West Midlands Police, which is treating the death as unexplained.

A small cordon remains in place while emergency services examine the scene.

The owners of Coventry City have been given until the end of today to finalise their plans to remain at the Ricoh Arena by the English Football League.

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City's owners remain in a legal dispute with Premiership club Wasps, the Ricoh's owners, and Coventry City Council.

Both have said that they will not enter negotiations while that is ongoing.

If it is not resolved by 2 April, EFL clubs will be notified about a meeting to decide Coventry's future.

The EGM would take place on 25 April, at which Coventry could face expulsion from the league.

Coventry first moved to the Ricoh Arena in 2005 after selling their former home at Highfield Road. They returned in 2014 after just over a year ground-sharing 33 miles away with Northampton Town.

But they have been told by the EFL that they must play their home games within six miles of the city centre.

The legal case involving City's owners Sisu hinges on their claim that Coventry City Council undervalued the Ricoh Arena by £27m when the ground was sold to Wasps.

Coventry Live

These are some of the Coventry Live headlines today:

• Man attacked with knife in raid on Nuneaton home, external
• Bus driver was rummaging for change when he ploughed into lorry, external
• Concerns new ethical standards could fuel culture of offence, external

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Tom Davis

The percentage of households in Coventry living in fuel poverty is higher than both the West Midlands and the national average, figures show., external

A total of 20,479 households in Coventry are fuel poor, a public health and sport council meeting was told on Monday, making it the 10th highest in the country.

This represents 15.3% of all households in the city, which is higher than both the 11.1 % of homes in England and 13.7% in the West Midlands.

The government is asking all authorities to send a report on measures they are taking to improve energy efficiency by 31 May.

Seventeen doctors have been recruited to work at at two emergency departments.

The recruitment, at hospitals in Telford and Shrewsbury, follows a recent visit to Dubai and India.

Trust staff also visited Dublin in a bid to attract nurses.

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust chief executive Simon Wright described the recruitment as a "significant increase" which will remove reliance on agency staff.

The trust was put under special measures in 2018 after an inspection highlighted safety fears.

MPs have been voting on four different options for the next steps in the Brexit process.

Options included another referendum, seeking a customs union, staying in the single market, and potentially cancelling Brexit altogether if no deal could be agreed.

None of the proposals earned a majority in the second round of so-called "indicative votes" to test Parliamentary support.

You can find out how your MP voted on each of the options here.

A man is in hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car on the hard shoulder of the M40.

A woman was also injured in the incident.

The couple's car car broke down and they got out of it on the hard shoulder between Warwick Services and junction 12 during the early hours of Monday, police said.

The 25-year-old man is currently in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

The woman, 26, suffered minor leg injuries.

Police are asking for any witnesses to come forward.

Express and Star

Some of the early headlines on the Express and Star website today are:

• Project creating 8,000 homes 'set for 2021', external
• Date looms for Cavendish House demolition plans, external
• £1m masterplan to boost flood defences around rivers, external

Staff at HMP Birmingham are not expected to be affected by plans to move the prison back into public ownership.

The jail has been run by the Prison Service ever since inspectors described it as being in a "state of crisis" last year.

Security firm G4S was awarded a 15-year contract to run HMP Birmingham in 2011.

HMP Birmingham will formally be returned to the public sector in July with staff automatically moving across.

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BBC Weather

After some early rain it should be a bright day with some showers and highs of 9C (48F).

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We'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather for the West Midlands.

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A policy of focusing on recruiting players born close to the Hawthorns is helping West Brom cope with life outside the Premier League.

A court hears PC Colin Noble left the domestic violence victim feeling "horrible and intimidated".

Leneto Kellengbeck's mother says her "precious" son's death has turned her world upside down.

That's all for now, but we'll have any breaking news here this evening and into the morning.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It will be a dry night with clear spells and lows of 6C (42F).

A 10ft bronze statue created in tribute to three West Bromwich Albion footballers is finally set to be unveiled.

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The Celebration Statue, showing West Bromwich Albion's Cyrille Regis, Brendon Batson and Laurie Cunningham celebrating a goal, is to be unveiled on 22 May.

Jim Cadman, who led a long-running campaign for the sculpture, said it will stand in New Square, West Bromwich, as "it was felt that a tribute in the heart of England and in a multicultural society like West Bromwich would be appropriate".

When Regis, Cunningham and Batson played together in 1978, it was the first time a top club had regularly fielded three black players.

A clay model of a statue (pictured above) was unveiled in 2013.

Prisons minister Rory Stewart says the government believes private providers should still play "a crucial role in our system", after the news HMP Birmingham is being taken back into public ownership.

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Private security firm G4S was awarded a 15-year contract to run the prison in 2011, but has had it terminated.

In August 2018, Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, said the jail had fallen into a "state of crisis".

The Prison Service took it over, initially for six-months, in August and will now run it permanently.

Mr Stewart said: "We need to be absolutely clear that we still believe in a mixed economy of providers with some of our private prisons among the best performing in the country.

"Indeed, G4S itself is running excellent prisons at Altcourse and Oakwood."