Summary

  • Man arrested over 2001 abduction

  • Edgbaston to host first day-night test to be played in England

  • Funeral price hike row

  • Former MEP claims Woolfe incident 'not a one off'

  • Man in court following police pursuit

  • Rail line closed for bridge work

  • Updates from Friday 7 October 2016

  1. Diana's will stored in secret warehousepublished at 08:57 British Summer Time 10 October 2016

    The last will of Diana, Princess of Wales, is among millions stored in a secret warehouse.

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  2. West Midlands MEP to stand for UKIP leadership againpublished at 08:34 British Summer Time 10 October 2016

    Louise Hancock
    Newsreader, BBC WM

    The West Midlands MEP Bill Etheridge has announced he will stand for the UKIP leadership again. 

    One of the favourites, Stephen Woolfe, has now been discharged from hospital after an altercation with a fellow UKIP MEP in Strasbourg. 

    With question marks being raised over whether Mr Woolfe can continue to seek the party leadership, Mr Etheridge says he can "no longer" support his campaign and will now run himself.

    West Midlands MEP Bill Etheridge
  3. Will identities survive super council?published at 00:03 British Summer Time 10 October 2016

    Will the regional identities of the West Midlands Combined Authority survive the merger?

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  4. Final parade for battalion's colourspublished at 19:21 British Summer Time 9 October 2016

    An army battalion's colours are paraded for the last time and laid up in a church.

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  5. Footballer injured in clash with playerpublished at 14:33 British Summer Time 9 October 2016

    A Rugby Town footballer is in critical care after a collision with another player at a game, the club says.

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  6. Man charged over 2001 child abductionpublished at 10:31 British Summer Time 8 October 2016

    A 72-year-old man is charged over an attempted abduction of a six-year-old fifteen years ago.

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  7. Our coverage across the daypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    The Local Live team will be back at 08:00 on Monday with more news, sport, travel and weather, but keep an eye out here for updates through the evening and into the weekend.       

  8. Nuneaton Town signingpublished at 17:49 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    David Deakin
    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

    Nuneaton Town have signed 19-year-old left back Luke Higham on loan from Blackpool.

    He’ll go straight into the squad for tomorrow’s game against Curzon Ashton. 

    Higham made eleven appearances at Bloomfield Road in League One last season.

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  9. Priory Visitor Centre take-over gets go-ahead after our campaignpublished at 17:41 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    On this week's front page, external

    Front pageImage source, Coventry Observer
  10. Watch: Weekend weather forecastpublished at 17:34 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    Shefali Oza
    BBC Midlands Today

    After some showers this evening a mostly cloudy but dry night with lows of 11C (52F).

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    Latest weather forecast for the West Midlands

  11. Latest: Arrest over 2001 child abduction; rail line closed for bridge repairpublished at 17:26 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Here's a recap of some of our main stories today:

  12. Battalion colours paraded for the last timepublished at 17:00 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    Retired major Algy Cole said the annual Fusilier veterans' parade in Warwick this weekend will be a "poignant day" for all involved.

    The colours of the now disbanded second battalion will be paraded for the last time, before being laid in St Mary's Church.

    Second Battalion coloursImage source, Algy Cole

    He said Fusiliers have been recruiting in the area since the early 1700s and "many Warwickshire lads have served bravely and proudly" in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and now the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

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    We've served in virtually every campaign since we started recruiting, not least in Iraq and Afghanistan; there's very few campaigns or battles we haven't been involved in some way or another. We'll have a lot of people, ex-second battalion, coming from all over the country.

    Algy Cole, Warwickshire & Midland Area Secretary, The Fusiliers

  13. MTC signs up to Austrian partnershippublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    Shelley Phelps
    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Political Reporter

    A five-year partnership has been signed between Coventry-based Manufacturing Technology Centre and an Austrian research company.

    A 35-strong Austrian delegation witnessed the signing of the agreement between Upper Austrian Research's Dr Wilfred Enzenhofer and MTC's operations director Paul Markwick.

    MTC says it's leading the way on opportunities a post-Brexit Britain has to offer for manufacturing. 

    MTC is partially funded by the government and gets the rest of its money from business. Upper Austria Research (UAR) is backed by the Upper Austria State Government.   

    The memorandum being signed.
  14. Is magic's glass ceiling vanishing?published at 16:20 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    It's 25 years since women joined the ranks of the Magic Circle - but female magicians still only make up around 5% of members.   

    Elizabeth Rogan from Nuneaton first took up magic at the age of 13 when she joined the Young Magicians Club, the youth wing of the Magic Circle.

    "It's good to be one of only 68 women in the organisation", the 20-year-old said, "but more needs to be done to encourage girls to pick up some cards and give it a go."

    This weekend she'll be taking part in an all-female gala with Debbie McGee, who was one of the first women to join the organisation.  

    Elizabeth RoganImage source, Elizabeth Rogan
  15. Stratford man involved in fatal crash in Stranraerpublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

    Police say a man from Stratford-upon-Avon was driving a car involved in a crash that killed a motorcyclist near Stranraer on Thursday.

    James Harvey, 64, was killed when his BMW motorcycle was in collision with a Subaru car being driven by a 70-year-old Warwickshire man.

    Mr Harvey died at the scene.

    The car driver and his female passenger suffered minor injuries.

  16. Women's Sport Week 2016: Hannah Cockroft on Paralympic prize moneypublished at 15:31 British Summer Time 7 October 2016

    BBC Sport

    Wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft who won double Paralympic gold at London 2012 and bettered that with a hat-trick at this summer's Games in Rio, says Paralympians should get more prize money.

    Writing as a guest editor for BBC Sport during Woman's Sport Week 2016, the Coventry University student says in 2015 she raced 53 times and won a total of £6,000 in prize money.

    "I am fortunate I get National Lottery funding", she said "which is fantastic and an amazing help, but that just about covers my annual sporting costs, which is partly why I still live with mum and dad".

    Hannah Cockroft