Summary

  • Live updates for Tuesday 29 March 2016

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Wednesday

Live Reporting

  1. Plan to stop young people being groomed for sex in a public park

    Plans to stop young people being sexually exploited at a park in Coventry could be approved later today. 

    New powers would then allow police and other authorities to stop groups of people suspected of grooming from gathering at Edgwick Park. 

    Edgwick Park, CoventryGoogle

    It's been claimed that two teenagers who visited the area were later raped. 

    If approved it'll be the first time in the UK that a Public Space Protection Order has been used to tackle this issue.  

  2. Cricket: Early start for Warwickshire warm-up game

    The Bears warm-up game against Gloucestershire gets underway at 10:00 at Edgbaston.

    The early start was agreed after the the first day of the scheduled two-day friendly was wiped out the weather.  

    With both teams keen for red-ball practice, the game will take place championship-style, despite the 55-overs limitation.  

  3. Library jobs go due to closures and volunteers taking over their running

    Almost 8,000 jobs in UK libraries have disappeared in six years, about a quarter of the overall total, an investigation by the BBC has revealed.  

    In Warwickshire, three libraries have closed, as have two mobile services - 13 libraries have been handed over to community groups to run.

    Library booksThinkstock

    In 2010 there were 184.6 paid staff in libraries, compared with 129.4 now.

    The council had 151 unpaid volunteers in 2010 and has 218 volunteers today.

  4. Watch: The weather for Coventry and Warwickshire

    BBC Weather

    There will be a mix of some sunny spells and scattered, locally heavy, showers with a risk of hail and thunder, merging at times into longer spells of rain.    

  5. Latest: Plan to stop sexual exploitation in park discussed; travellers set up camp in memorial park; conference looks at 'restoring confidence' in the police

    Tom Cooke
    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

    Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Coventry and Warwickshire:

    - Plans to stop young people being sexually exploited at a park in Coventry could be approved later today

    - Travellers have set up a camp on the main car park at Coventry`s memorial park

    - Restoring confidence in the police is the focus of a conference at Warwick Business School today

  6. Travel: Slow traffic on the A45

    BBC Travel

    There is congestion on the A45 Stonebridge Highway eastbound in Coventry between Festival island and Tollbar Island in the roadworks area. More for BBC Travel.

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