Summary

  • JLR reveals future vision amid new jobs hope

  • Campaigners against Amazon warehouse vow to 'fight on'

  • Sleigh ride celebrates 60th birthday with new home

  • Cuts to sheltered housing in Nuneaton and Bedworth 'inevitable'

  • Updates from Friday 25 November

  1. Your West Midlands Questions answeredpublished at 12:12 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    All week you have been using Your Questions to ask about the West Midlands. Here are some of our answers.

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  2. Your pictures: Coventry sleigh ride from years gone bypublished at 11:55 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

    Some of you have been sharing on our Facebook page, external pictures of your memories of meeting Father Christmas at the Coventry sleigh ride, as it celebrates its 60th birthday. 

    Maureen Pitt posted this one of her with her elder sister and family in the mid-1950s.

    She says she also took her two children to the ride every year when they were growing up and her three grandchildren for the past 11.

    Maureen Pitt and family at Sleigh rideImage source, Maureen Pitt

    Vanessa Howard said she remembered the ride as a child and will be taking her friend's children on it again this year.

    Vanessa Howard with Father ChristmasImage source, Vanessa Howard
  3. Campaigners against Amazon warehouse vow to fight onpublished at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Campaigners opposed to the storage and distribution centre in Coventry, understood to be for Amazon, have vowed to "continue their fight".

    Paul Liggins, vice chairman of the local Allesley and Coundon Wedge Society, said planners "made two or three fundamental errors in their presentation to the planning committee" and that their campaign "isn't over".

    Plans for warehouseImage source, Coventry City Council

    The warehouse, on the former Jaguar Browns Lane site, was given the go-ahead by councillors yesterday.

    Jim O'Boyle, the councillor in charge of development in Coventry, said it could mean the biggest influx of jobs into the city in more than a decade.

  4. Latest: Sheltered housing cuts; campaigners against Amazon warehouse vow to fight onpublished at 10:34 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Some of our headlining stories are:

    • Cuts to sheltered housing in Nuneaton and Bedworth 'inevitable' due to funding 
    • Campaigners against Amazon warehouse vow to fight on
    • Sleigh ride celebrates 60th birthday with new home
  5. MP warns contaminated blood victims could be worse off under new schemepublished at 10:13 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    A Warwickshire MP's warning the government that victims of the NHS contaminated blood scandal could be worse off under a new support scheme. 

    Under the plans, all those affected would receive a regular annual payment for the first time. 

    But in the Commons, the Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi said he was concerned discretionary payments to an affected constituent could disappear.

    Nadhim ZahawiImage source, Conservative Party
  6. Video: Sleigh ride celebrates 60th birthday with new homepublished at 09:50 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    The Coventry sleigh ride is celebrating its 60th birthday with a permanent home in the Coventry Transport Museum.

    The ride, formerly at the city’s Co-op, had to be moved when the store closed last year.

    It was officially opened by BBC Coventry & Warwickshire presenter Vic Minett, who took this trip down memory lane.

    Media caption,

    Coventry sleigh ride celebrates 60th birthday with new home

  7. Paedophile jailed for historic crimespublished at 09:30 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Atherstone & Coleshill Herald

    On our front page this week: A paedophile who sexually assaulted an Atherstone child has been jailed for his crimes., external

    Front pageImage source, Atherstone and Coleshill Herald
  8. Refreshed Bell still eyes England futurepublished at 09:16 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Warwickshire captain Ian Bell tells BBC Sport that his hunger to get back in the England Test team has been refuelled.

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  9. Police crack down on illegal platespublished at 09:13 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    BBC Midlands Today

    More than 150 drivers have been caught with illegal number plates in a single week. 

    The West Midlands Police crackdown targeted those who are altering, re-arranging or obscuring plates. 

    Anyone not displaying the correct registration could be fined up to £1,000.  

    Police officer and number plate
  10. County Championship fixtures: Day-night matches announcedpublished at 08:51 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    BBC Sport

    Warwickshire will play a County Championship match under floodlights using a pink ball for the first time. 

    It's part of a full round of nine floodlit championship fixtures starting on 26 June - ahead of Edgbaston hosting England's first ever day-night floodlit test.  

    Day night cricket matchImage source, Getty Images
  11. Video: Your latest weather forecastpublished at 08:22 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Alex Hamilton
    BBC Weather

    There’s plenty of cloud around today but the chance for some slightlysunnier spells at times and highs of 9C (48F).

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    Latest weather for the West Midlands

  12. Live updates for Coventry and Warwickshirepublished at 08:02 Greenwich Mean Time 25 November 2016

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Good morning, we'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather until 18:00.

    Let us know what is going on in your area or send us your photos. You can emailtweet us @bbccovwarks, external or message via Facebook, external.

  13. Amazon to create 1,600 jobs at depotpublished at 18:34 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    Amazon is to build a storage and distribution centre, creating more than 1,600 jobs, on the former Jaguar Browns Lane site in Coventry, the BBC understands.

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  14. Our coverage across the daypublished at 18:00 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    That's it for today's Local Live updates for Coventry and Warwickshire.

    We'll be back from 08:00 tomorrow, but until then, keep an eye on this page for breaking news. 

  15. MP 'surprised' at Corbyn's NHS underfunding stance at George Eliotpublished at 17:57 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    The Conservative MP for Nuneaton Marcus Jones said Jeremy Corbyn was "quite right" to praise services at George Eliot Hospital on his visit today.

    "Since the days of the last Labour government, the hospital has made fantastic strides forward in terms of quality and patient safety," he said.

    In terms of funding the NHS, he went on, "there's an extra £10bn going into the NHS over this spending period, something that wasn't committed to by the Labour Party, so I find his comments quite surprising."

    Marcus JonesImage source, Conservative
  16. Planners give go-ahead for huge warehouse developmentpublished at 17:43 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    Proposals for a 40,000sqm distribution warehouse on the site of the former Jaguar factory have been approved by councillors in Coventry.

    The identity of the occupant has not been announced, but the BBC understands online retailer Amazon is behind the plans.  

    Councillor Kevin Maton, who was until recently in charge of city regeneration, said Coventry "had a very limited supply of land identified for employment purposes" and "where we have got applications on such land it's really important to maximise those opportunities".

    "The impact on nearby residents will be minimised", he said, but post-Brexit Coventry is a city "that's going to need as many jobs as we are able to achieve, so this is a great opportunity".

    Lyons Park development
  17. Video: What's the weather got in store?published at 17:26 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    Shefali Oza
    BBC Midlands Today

    A dry and cloudy night with some clear spells and lows of 5C (41F).

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    The latest weather for the West Midlands

  18. Latest: Huge city warehouse gets go-ahead; Corbyn in Nuneaton; A46 link road planspublished at 17:03 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC Local Live

    Here's a recap of our main stories today:

    • City planners give go-ahead for huge warehouse development
    • Corby praises services at Nuneaton hospital
    • Plans for A46 link road
  19. Plans for A46 link roadpublished at 16:49 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2016

    Details have emerged of plans for a new road improving links between the south west of Coventry and Solihull. , external

    It would start at the Stoneleigh junction of the A46 then pass near Warwick University and Westwood Heath before joining the either the A45 or A452 just beyond Meriden. 

    The idea is being led by Warwickshire County Council and by the councils of Coventry, Solihull and Warwick district. 

    It's being welcomed by Peter Dunne from the University of Warwick who says the link road would be a "big step" towards relieving the areas traffic congestion.

    Map showing A46 link roadImage source, Warwickshire County Council