More time for runners to enter half marathon
Blue badge verification trial launches
West Midlands mayor's salary to be agreed
Wasps centre out for rest of Premiership season
Updates from Friday 3 March 2017
Live updates have finished for the day but local stories will be added automatically through the night. We'll be back from 08:00 on Monday with more live news, sport, travel and weather.
Cheeky chips, celebrations and managerial sackings - watch 10 magic moments from the first round of the FA People's Cup......
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You'll be able to watch a highlights programme from the first round of the nationwide five-a-side competition on the iPlayer from 06:00 on Saturday, 4 March and on the red button from 14:10 on Saturday and throughout the weekend.
Rebecca Wood
BBC Weather
Rain will clear during the early hours.
Cloudy skies will keep temperatures up overnight, preventing an overnight frost. Lows of 6C (43F).
Weather for the West Midlands.
Jaguar Land Rover bosses have launched an investigation , external after three managers were allegedly part of a Whatsapp group that shared a naked picture of a colleague.
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
A Council Tax discount for care leavers in the city is to be considered by the city council when it meets on 7 March., external
If the scheme is approved the 100% discount would apply to young people aged 18-21 who have left local authority care, but still live in Coventry.
Cllr Ed Ruane said "as coporate parents" the council has a responsibility to support young people in the "difficult transition from childhood to adulthood".
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
The Ministry of Defence has been criticised after the death of a driver, crushed by a reversing lorry, at their site in Southam.
Image source, GoogleThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a Crown Censure, the maximum sanction for a government body, after agency driver Graham Wood was caught between the lorry and another stationary vehicle at MoD Kineton.
The MoD failed to assess the risks faced by the 55-year-old from Bicester, as he delivered goods to a holding area in November 2013, the HSE said.
The censure doesn't carry a financial penalty, but is an official record of a failure to meet standards in the law.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport
Will Porter and Tom Willis have been named in the England Under 18 squad to take on France on Sunday.
The two, who've signed Senior Academy contracts this week, are in the side, with team-mate Joe Tunney named in the wider 38-man squad.
Image source, Wasps RugbyVanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
A lump of fat has been removed from the sewers beneath Stratford-upon-Avon's streets.
Severn Trent say it's been causing dozens of floods in the area, and is reminding people that only "the three Ps" should be flushed down the loo.
Fatberg removed from Stratford-upon-Avon sewer
A man died in hospital after an altercation earlier this week.
Read MoreOn our front page this week: Confused and concerned residents are calling for Stratford’s ‘ill conceived’ Transport Strategy to be withdrawn and rethought. , external
Image source, Stratford Observer
Andy Giddings
BBC Online
The police have warned Coventry fans there will be a "robust searching operation" when they arrive at Shrewsbury Town's stadium tomorrow and they will not be allowed to bring flares into the ground.
It follows protests by Coventry fans at previous games , which have involved flares and other objects being thrown onto the pitch.
Image source, Getty ImagesSky Blues fans are unhappy at the way their club is run by owners Sisu .
A minister has said the government is supportive of Jaguar Land Rover’s ambition to make Coventry the centre of the global car industry in the future. , external
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
A man has been charged with murder after a pensioner died following an assault at a snooker hall in Coventry earlier this week.
Carl Pinder, 37, of Foster Road in Coventry is accused of killing 68-year-old Patrick Redmond.
Mr Redmond was taken to hospital with a serious head injury, after the altercation at Rileys snooker hall, and his life support machine was switched off on Tuesday.
Rob Mayor
Black Country Political Reporter, BBC WM
Council leaders in the West Midlands have voted to agree a salary of £79,000 a year for the region's first elected mayor.
Image source, PA/DAVID JONESAn independent panel, which consists of representatives from the seven authority members, said when it recommended the figure it should be reassessed after a few years, when the responsibilities of the role had become clearer.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport
Kyle Eastmond's injury has forced a change in this weekend's Wasps team to meet Bath Rugby at the Rec tomorrow.
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Jimmy Gopperty will move back to inside centre, with Alapati Leiua wearing the 13 shirt.
Guy Armitage comes onto the bench to take the spot vacated by Leiua's move to the starting 11.
A car ended up on top of a parked car’s bonnet during a crash in Leamington , external yesterday afternoon.
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Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
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BBC Business News
Plans to help nearly 100,000 small businesses due to be hit by changes to rates next month are being considered by Communities Secretary and Bromsgrove MP, Sajid Javid.
Out of those, some 25,000 firms face a "cliff edge" under the new revaluation of business rates, according to ratings agency CVS.
It presented a number of proposals to Mr Javid during a meeting on Wednesday.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe government is trying to come up with some additional help for small firms after an outcry from businesses.
Ministers have said that the revaluation - the first since 2010 - will mean three-quarters of firms will see their rates stay the same or decrease.
But Mr Javid and chancellor Philip Hammond have come under pressure to act to help businesses facing large rises in areas where rental values have increased dramatically.
Critics claim the situation favours large retailers and online firms over high street shops.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
A man's been bailed by police in Leamington Spa on suspicion of fraud after an 81-year woman reported being cheated out of about £30,000.
The 66-year old was arrested in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on Thursday after the woman called officers saying the suspect was still in her house, near to Shipston.
Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live
The deadline for registering for the Coventry Half Marathon has been extended to midnight on 12 March, say the organisers., external
Image source, Coventry City CouncilSo far about 2,700 runners have registered for the event, which takes place on 19 March, and the city council hopes to push that to about 3,000.
