The candidates standing to be Warwickshire PCCpublished at 09:53 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
The election was due to take place in 2020 but postponed until this year because of the pandemic.
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The candidates standing to be Warwickshire PCCpublished at 09:53 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
Football: Coventry City move further away from relegationpublished at 09:45 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
BBC SportCoventry City's "best away performance of the season" moved them six points clear of the Championship relegation zone as they beat Rotherham.
Image source, PA MediaSky Blues boss Mark Robins was full of praise for his side as they beat their fellow strugglers with a vital victory.
Coventry took the lead when Leo Ostigard powered in a header that took a deflection on its way past Millers goalkeeper Viktor Johansson.
Robins' men are now up to 18th: "It gives us a boost. It's huge and it gives us confidence. The level of performance was up there."
Prince Philip: Modified Land Rover to carry coffinpublished at 09:20 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
At his funeral on Saturday the Duke of Edinburgh's coffin will be carried on a modified Jaguar Land Rover that the duke himself helped design.
Image source, PA MediaThe Defender was made at the Land Rover's factory in Solihull in 2003 and the duke oversaw the modifications, including the open top rear section where his coffin will rest.
Image source, PA MediaThe duke used Land Rovers throughout his adult life and accompanied the Queen when she opened the company's Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton in 2014.
Quote MessageWe are deeply privileged to have enjoyed a very long and happy association with the Duke of Edinburgh over many decades. We are also honoured that the Land Rover which the duke designed will be used at the funeral on Saturday.
Thierry Bollore,, Jaguar Land Rover's chief executive
Garden fire 'arson' probed by policepublished at 08:53 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
A fire in a garden in Birmingham is being investigated as a possible case of arson.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceWest Midlands Police said, external the fire on Weeford Drive, Handsworth Wood, at about 21:50 on Thursday could have been started deliberately.
Officers said no-one was hurt inside the house and no major damage was caused.
Weather: Another dry day with mainly sunny spellspublished at 08:17 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
Dry and bright with sunny spells this morning before turning cloudier this afternoon. High: 11C/52F.
Image source, BBC Weather Watcher Billington_PhotoImage caption, This morning in Leek, Staffordshire
A mix of clear spells and cloudy ones tonight with a few patches of mist and fog developing early in the morning. Low: -1C/30F.
Keep up-to-date on your local weather forecast by visiting the BBC Weather website.
Live updates for the West Midlandspublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 16 April 2021
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Coventry get vital win at Rotherhampublished at 21:24 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Coventry climb six points clear of the Championship relegation zone with a crucial win at Rotherham.
Read MorePatterson-White defies Bears for Nottspublished at 19:39 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Liam Patterson-White makes a career-best unbeaten 73 as Nottinghamshire are bowled out for 273 against Warwickshire.
Read MoreCritchley leads Derbyshire run chargepublished at 19:11 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Matt Critchley makes a century and Leus De Plooy 98 as Derbyshire pile up 360-8 against Worcestershire.
Read MoreClaims calves abused at livestock centrepublished at 19:10 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
An animal welfare pressure group says its secret filming shows the animals being kicked, punched and thrown.
Read MorePC told victim she was 'fit' to 'lift confidence'published at 19:06 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Colin Noble, of West Midlands Police, is accused of "trying it on" with four domestic abuse victims.
Read MoreIslamic centre offers evening jab during Ramadanpublished at 18:38 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
People can be vaccinated after 21:00 BST in a bid to encourage more Muslims to have the vaccine.
Read MoreOur updates across the daypublished at 18:07 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Live updates have now ended for the day.
We'll be back with you from 08:00 on Friday for the usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather.
Taproom reopens in time for 10th anniversarypublished at 17:48 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
The end of lockdown has come just in time for the Ludlow Brewing Company to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
The company said it hopes to be back up to full capacity by the summer and there were customers waiting outside for tables when it reopened on Monday.
Image source, Ludlow Brewing CompanyThe company converted a Victorian railway shed in to a site capable of brewing 25,000 pints a week with a bar and stage.
The restoration took two years to complete using renewable technologies including underfloor heating fuelled by heat from the brewing process.
Image source, Ludlow Brewing CompanyOwner Gary Walters said it had been "an eventful ten years" and added: "The brewery was going from strength to strength up until the pandemic; but the last year has been a rollercoaster."
Teenager charged with attempted murderpublished at 17:28 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
The 15-year-old is charged with attempted murder after a 14-year-old was stabbed in Birmingham.
Read MoreWorld Snooker Championship: Highfield v Trumppublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
BBC SportLiam Highfield from Stoke-on-Trent will take on world number one Judd Trump in the first round of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe event begins on Saturday (10:00 BST), live across BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, radio and the BBC Sport website.
Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will face debutant Mark Joyce and masters champion Yan Bingtao faces Martin Gould.
You can see full results from the draw here.
Temporary mortuary to remain on standbypublished at 16:54 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
An emergency mortuary in a Birmingham Airport hangar will remain on standby until the end of summer.
Image source, PA MediaThe facility, with capacity to store to 1,500 bodies, reopened in February amid the second wave of Covid-19.
With the infection rates having now fallen to their lowest level in months, emergency planners have confirmed the Solihull site is to be mothballed at the end of this week.
But there are no plans to dismantle it for over another four months, said West Midlands Police.
Plans for Birmingham skyscraper approvedpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Plans for a 51-storey tower block in Birmingham have been approved.
The One Eastside development was originally approved in April 2020 but had to go back before the planning committee after it emerged an objection was not included in a report to councillors.
Media caption, One Eastside: Birmingham's 'tallest building' plan revealed
At 525ft (160m) high it would be bigger than the BT Tower, the city's current tallest structure.
Image source, Glancy Nicholls ArchitectsThe building will have 667 apartments to rent, residential gardens and courtyards, a gym, cinema and sky lounge project at the corner of James Watt Queensway and Jennens Road.
Bike stand installations ahead of hire schemepublished at 15:37 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
Bike stands are being installed around Stourbridge town centre ahead of a new cycle hire scheme being introduced later this month.
They will be available in and around the town with docking stations at spots including Stourbridge Bus Station, near The Bonded Warehouse and in the town centre.
The bikes can be hired using the Beryl Cycle Hire app, which will include Covid safety advice.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe West Midlands Cycle Hire scheme is running in other parts of the region including Wolverhampton and Coventry
It costs £1 to unlock a bike and 5p per minute afterwards.
Monte Carlo Masters: Dan Evans shocks Novak Djokovicpublished at 15:12 British Summer Time 15 April 2021
BBC SportBritish number one Dan Evans claimed the biggest win of his career by beating Novak Djokovic in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters.
Image source, Getty ImagesEvans, from Birmingham, who has struggled on clay in recent times, started superbly against the world number one, breaking him in his first two service games.
He was able to wrap up the opening set before Djokovic fought back at the start of the second.
But Evans recovered and held his nerve to wrap up a 6-4 7-5 win.
