Father wants Apple to unlock murdered son's laptop
Man arrested after overnight roof stand-off
Wasps training centre set for approval
Updates from Friday 29 July 2016
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Moira Rawlings
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
Coventry City FC is being "pushed out" of a facility that was built for them, a supporters group says.
Plans for a £7m training centre for Wasps, on the current site of the football club's academy, are set for council approval next week.
In the application Wasps offer the football club the use of the site for up to three hours a day, five days a week.
Jonathan Strange from the Supporters' Consultative Group says there "doesn't seem to be any provision" to continue an academy there and the council should show an "evenhandedness" to promote football as well as rugby in the city.
Image source, WaspsQuote MessageThe Alan Higgs Centre was built primarily in mind of having the football club on the site and I cannot tunderstand why Wasps deem it necessary, out of all the sites they've looked at, to put themselves in a positon of owning the Higgs Centre.
Jonathan Strange, Coventry City Supporters' Consultative Group
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
The police response to reports that Coventry University student, Ozeivo Akerele was missing is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The Nigerian student, known as Ozi, was last seen at Coventry's Iglu nightclub on Spon Street in January 2015.
Image source, West Midlands PoliceHis body was found in undergrowth off Albert Fearn Gardens in Foleshill by children in April this year.
West Midlands Police referred the matter to the IPCC which is now conducting an independent investigation into the actions of police.
BBC Travel
There's a lane closed and slow traffic on the M42 southbound between J5, A41 (Solihull) and J4, A34 (Shirley), because of an accident, BBC Travel news reports.
Also on the M42 a lane is closed on the exit slip road northbound at J6, A45 (Birmingham Airport), because of a broken down vehicle.
Sixty seven years ago today, the BBC broadcast its first ever TV weather forecast.
Oh dear it appears not much changes... rain is forecast today and there were showers back in 1949 as well.
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Some bus routes around Kenilworth will affected by the town's horse fair on Sunday.
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Relive the final round of the T20 Blast, as Yorkshire seal a quarter-final spot and Jason Roy hits a century for Surrey.
Read MoreA major student housing development, external on the site of Coventry’s former Royal Mail is very much “on track”, say developers.
Image source, Coventry TelegraphVanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
Some of our headlining stories today are:
- Man hands himself in after 21-hour stand-off with police
- Wasps training centre set for council approval
- Warwickshire falconer winds major battle for HS2 compensation
Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today
A Warwickshire falconer has won a major battle against HS2 after the House of Lords ruled he should be fully compensated for having to relocate both his home and business.
Bob Edwards maintained that he wouldn't be able to fly his birds because he would be close to the line and right in the middle of the construction.
See more on Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
The first baby peacocks to hatch naturally at Warwick Castle in four years had to be rescued from a nest on the flat roof of an outbuilding, but are now being cared for and fed in a garden shed.
The fluffy peachicks and their mum Felice are being looked-after by a team at the castle.
They say it will be a few weeks before they can tell the sex of the birds, but are asking the public to help choose names for them.
Image source, Warwick CastleTrain lines through Oxfordshire will be blocked from Saturday as two major engineering projects coincide.
Read MoreMoira Rawlings
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
A plan for a £7m training centre, external for the Wasps rugby club is set for approval when it's discussed by councillors next week.
The application is to extend the Alan Higgs Centre site on Allard Road, Coventry, to create an indoor training centre and rugby pitch kicking barn.
Image source, WaspsThe move has been opposed by Coventry City Football club whose agreement to base its academy at the centre expires in June next year.
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather
It will be a mixed-bag of sunshine and showers today, with highs of 21C (70F).
Latest weather for the West Midlands
A man who spent the night on the roof of a house in a stand-off with police hands himself in after 21 hours.
Read MoreA woman becomes the first swimmer in nearly 90 years to cross a 13-mile stretch of sea between two coastal beauty spots off Ireland's north coast.
Read MoreVanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
A man has come down from a roof after a 21-hour stand-off with police.
The 23-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, assaulting a police officer and recall to prison.
Two officers were hurt after being hit by roof tiles, and two police cars were also damaged during the stand off in Willenhall, Coventry.
Quote MessageWe appreciate the massive impact on the local community and are grateful for their support and patience yesterday and this morning.
Chief Insp Karvi Khatkar, West Midlands Police
A Sikh union showcased its work to MPs last month , externalafter receiving an invitation from the Sikh Council UK to attend the Houses of Parliament.
Image source, Coventry ObserverVanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
Residents wanting to enter or leave their homes are being escorted by police, as they try to persuade a man to come down from a roof in Willenhall, Coventry.
Police in protective uniforms are at the scene of the stand-off.
A woman whose family live in the terrace of houses where the man has taken to the roof told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "My sister wasn't allowed in coming in from work last night and my nephew, who works nights, is stuck in the house.
"He wasn't allowed to come out because the man on the roof is throwing roof tiles."
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