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Stratford woman 'faked death' to con online friends out of hundreds of thousands of pounds
Arrests amid crackdown on digital TV piracy
Police investigation launched after shots fired in Holbrooks street
Customer care company creates 400 Coventry jobs
Updates on Thursday 9 June 2016
Latest weather for the West Midlandspublished at 07:35 British Summer Time 10 June 2016
Our coverage across the daypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
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Bears will stick to principles - Brownpublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
BBC SportWarwickshire are trying to balance a more attacking mentality with their more "conservative" roots in 50-over cricket this season, says director of cricket Dougie Brown.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Bears lost their third One-Day Cup match of the season by 36 runs, as record-breaking Nottinghamshire piled up 415-5 at Trent Bridge on Wednesday.
And Brown is adamant his side, One-Day Cup runners up in 2014, do not need any radical re-thinking of their approach.
"We know we've tended to play a slightly conservative 50-over game - that's worked for us in the past so we don't need to go too far away from that. We want to try and keep up to date with the modern advances the game is making and show an intent that befits the competition."
Charity's legal clause kills Coventry City hope of establishing training hub at Higgs Centrepublished at 17:50 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Any hope of Coventry City moving its first-team training facilities to the Alan Higgs Centre appears to have been killed off , externalby the Alan Edward Higgs Charity.
Watch: Latest weather for Coventry and Warwickshirepublished at 17:39 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands TodayMost places will stay dry, with a few showers around tonight and lows of 16C (61F).
Latest: Stratford woman 'faked death' to con online friends out of thousands; digital TV piracy crackdownpublished at 17:27 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Here's a recap of our headlining stories today:
- Woman who stole from victims she befriended online jailed for three years
- Three arrested in Coventry amid crackdown on digital TV piracy
- 400 jobs created at Earlsdon Park development
Police safety equipment upgraded after death of man in River Leampublished at 17:09 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local LiveWarwickshire Police has increased the availability of water safety equipment to officers after the death of a man in the River Leam in 2014.
Following emergency calls nearly 18 months ago, officers found Powell Przydalski in the Leamington water and urged him to swim to the bank. They had no access to rescue equipment.
An IPCC investigator found officers were left with few options as to how they could assist him.
At an inquest into Mr Przydalski's death, which concluded yesterday at Warwick Justice Centre, a jury returned a verdict of misadventure.
Quote MessageWe carried out an independent investigation into the police response that evening, and found that officers took all reasonable steps in the difficult circumstances they faced.
Derrick Campbell, IPCC Commissioner
Travel: M40 accidentpublished at 16:48 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
BBC TravelOne lane is blocked on the M40 northbound between J16 for A3400 (Henley-in-Arden) and M42 J3a because of an accident.
More details on BBC Travel.
Woodlands Academy GCSE students set to join others at Tile Hill Wood School in Septemberpublished at 16:36 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Plans to keep current GCSE students at Woodlands Academy boys school in Broad Lane for a further year, while other students merge with nearby Tile Hill Wood School, have been scrapped, external, the Observer can reveal.
Image source, Coventry Observer400 new jobs for Coventrypublished at 16:20 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local LiveOutsourced customer care company, Sitel, says it's creating 400 jobs at a new site in Coventry.
Sitel, which already employs 350 people in the city, is to double the size of its operation in the region with the development of a new site at Earlsdon Park, on the site of the former Butts College.
It says the refurbishment of the city centre location is set for the end of July.
Image source, GoogleOur new campaign on Coventry City academy & stadiumpublished at 15:56 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
On our front page this week: The Observer’s ‘Save Our City’ campaign calls on the city of Coventry to focus on keeping our cherished 133-year-old football club – and its vital youth academy, external.
Image source, Coventry ObserverTravel: Vehicle blocking M42 southboundpublished at 15:36 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
BBC TravelOne lane blocked on M42 southbound between J5, A41 (Solihull) and J4, A34 (Shirley) because of a broken-down vehicle.
Latest news: Stratford woman 'faked death' to con online friends; and three arrested in digital TV piracy crackdownpublished at 15:20 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local LiveThese are some of the stories making the headlines today:
- Woman who stole from victims she befriended online jailed for three years
- Three arrested in Coventry amid crackdown on digital TV piracy
- Investigation launched after gunshots fired in Coventry street
'Be spoke' - kids turn themselves into giant bike for record attemptpublished at 15:07 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
More than 1,000 Warwickshire schoolchildren have taken part in an attempt to break the world record for making the largest image of a bicycle - using the human body.
Warwickshire council will announce next Thursday whether yesterday's effort at Warwick Castle has broken the record - to coincide with the Aviva Woman's tour stage two in the county.
Image source, Chris FosseyThree arrested on suspicion of fraud amid crackdown on digital TV piracypublished at 14:48 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local LiveItems relating to fraudulent digital TV packages are among items seized from a commercial premises in Stoke and three residential addresses , externalin Coventry, say police.
Three men have been arrested after warrants were executed in relation to digital TV piracy in the city.
Officers also found a cannabis cultivation set-up at one of the residential addresses.
The men, aged 48, 51 and 38, have been released on police bail while enquiries continue.
West Midlands EU Referendum debatepublished at 14:20 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands TodayLeading figures from the Leave and Remain campaigns in the West Midlands debate the issues around the EU referendum in front of a studio audience this weekend.
Join us this Sunday from 22:35 on BBC One.
Tennis balls serving up sewer blockages - and that's just the tip of the 'fat-berg'published at 13:57 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
False teeth, tennis balls and a motorbike - these are just some of the things that Coventry-based Severn Trent says have caused sewer blockages here in the West Midlands.
The water company says it has dealt with nearly 12,000 incidents in the region in the last year.
The main cause is people flushing things down the loo and a build-up of fat poured down kitchen sinks - which can produce so-called "fatbergs" such as the one pictured, which was the size of a bus and removed from a London sewer in 2013.
Image source, Severn TrentDrivers escape serious injury after M42 collisionpublished at 13:36 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
The ambulance service says no-one was badly hurt in a collision between a car and lorry on the M42 this morning.
Both drivers were discharged at the scene.
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End of twitter postLatest news: Stratford woman 'faked death' to con online friends out of thousands; gunshots fired in Holbrooks streetpublished at 13:13 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local LiveThese are some of the stories making the headlines today:
- Woman who stole £690,00 from victims she befriended online jailed for three years
- Investigation launched after gunshots fired in Coventry street
- Customer care company creates 400 jobs at new site in Coventry
Woman jailed for using invented characters to defraud online friends out of £690kpublished at 12:53 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local LiveA woman who pretended she'd died and used fabricated identities to con online friends out of nearly £690,000 has been jailed for three years, external.
Caroline Nightingale, 45, of Sandpiper Close in Stratford-upon-Avon, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, having targeted victims with the lie she had a number of family emergencies. One, from Warwickshire, parted with £512,380 to help, while the other - also befriended over the web - paid Nightingale £177,474.
Image source, Warwickshire PoliceWarwickshire Police said she created characters - family members involved in domestic situations that could only be resolved by cash. She also pretended she had died from cancer and then continued correspondence, purporting to be from close family relatives.
Nightingale was ordered to pay back £650,000 by Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday.
