Summary
Former police officer charged with sex offences
Men smuggled guns into UK on coach
Warning over school places 'shortfall'
Council out of pocket over bridge smash
Updates from Friday 1 September 2017
Dog owner hit with £1,000 costs after failing to clear up after her pet in Bedworthpublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Woman held after man stabbed in headpublished at 17:44 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Rebecca Woods
Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC News OnlineA 30-year-old woman is being quizzed by police after a man was stabbed in the head in Coventry.
Police were called to Charminster Drive, Styvechale, by paramedics who found a man, 40, with serious head injuries at 23.30 on Sunday.
He was taken to hospital but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Image source, GoogleThe woman was arrested in Gregory Hood Road on suspicion of wounding, shortly after police were called.
West Midlands Police has urged anyone with information to come forward.
Watch: Your 50-second weather forecastpublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenterCloud will thicken overnight with outbreaks of rain arriving during the early hours.
This will then become heavier and more widespread towards dawn - lows of 12C (54F).
Media caption, Weather for the West Midlands.
Cricket: Woakes wicket for Englandpublished at 17:28 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
BBC SportAnd Warwickshire's Chris Woakes takes a wicket for England as West Indies threatens to close in on victory in the Second Test.
Bridge repair bill still not paid two years onpublished at 17:24 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Image source, GoogleTaxpayers are still counting the cost of repairing Bidford Bridge — more than two years after it was seriously damaged when a farm vehicle ploughed into it. , external
Cricket: Lancashire turning screw on Bearspublished at 17:01 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
BBC SportIt's not pretty reading from Old Trafford.
Keep up with the latest county scores here. Jos Buttler is at the crease for the home side, whose Liam Livingstone made a century.
Closure-hit firm saved jobs seven years agopublished at 16:51 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Ben Sidwell
BBC Midlands TodayI'm at Lawrence Automotive Interiors in Coventry, where workers are reeling from the news they are on course to lose their jobs.
It supplies wood veneer trim to Jaguar Land Rover, and used to be the firm's veneer division.
Lawrence Automotive took over the operation in 2010 and actually secured a number of jobs.
Up to 500 people work here - about 200 or so full-time. The rest are agency staff.
But we've seen a letter sent to staff saying the intention is now to close this part of the company and make everyone redundant.
Leamington couple to have dream wedding after winning postcode lotterypublished at 16:33 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Image source, People's Postcode LotteryJLR supplier had been in 'terminal decline'published at 16:09 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Chinese owners of Lawrence Automotive, which has announced up to 500 workers are facing redundancy, reneged on promises to invest in key areas, a union boss has said.
That placed the Coventry firm - a supplier of parts to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) - in "terminal decline", said Des Quinn, Unite's regional officer, who added JLR was not giving them more work, after "a lot of support".
Image source, PAHe said: "The more investment, money or technology that they [the owners] said would happen, hasn't, and as the models have run out they've lost replacement work because they could not compete on price, quality or performance. It's been in terminal decline.
"It's a shame. It looks like the end of manufacturing work at the site."
In a statement, the firm said: "We have commenced the consultation process with our employees which we are legally obliged to do and currently we do not know what the outcome of that process will be."
Forty jobs on way as TX Maxx opens new storepublished at 15:38 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesMore than 40 jobs are to be created in Leamington next month when a new branch of TK Maxx opens its doors.
The store starts trading on 21 September in Leamington Shopping Park.
Evidence shows net is closing in on drink and drug-driverspublished at 15:17 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Pet-keeping rules: Fair enough or 'ruff' justice for council tenants?published at 14:56 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
We've been telling you this morning about Nuneaton and Bedworth Council's crackdown on those in its flats flouting rules about pets.
Let's have a look at what the authority's tenancy agreement has to say:
- You must not keep any animal at the property without the written permission of the council. Unless the property has direct access to a private garden, written permission will usually not be granted to keep a dog or a cat.
- Subject to being granted written permission to keep an animal at the property, you must not allow any animal that you keep at the property to cause a nuisance or annoyance to become a danger to anyone in the local area including our contractors or employees. You must not allow your animal to damage any council property and you must remove and dispose of all animal mess hygienically. You must not allow the property to become unhygienic as a result of you keeping any animal.
The winter of our discontent is coming? RSC gets some love from 'excited' GoT fanpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
The RSC is chuffed with feedback for its production of Titus Andronicus - and the praise is getting some Twitter love too...
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End of twitter post 2Travellers set up illegal camp in Hanleypublished at 14:20 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Travellers have returned to a piece of land in Coventry less than a week after the latest convoy of caravans left. , external
Pet 'detectives' to sniff out rule breakerspublished at 13:56 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Alec Blackman
BBC Coventry & WarwickshireCouncil workers will visit authority tenants' flats across Nuneaton and Bedworth to determine who is flouting "no pets" rules.
Anyone who has an animal already living with them will be granted retrospective permission - but when that pet dies, it cannot be replaced, unless the property has a garden.
Image source, Getty ImagesNuneaton and Bedworth Council says the move is down to a rise in complaints from neighbours.
Quote Message"In cases where no permission has been granted the council will give retrospective permission. However, once that pet passes no further permissions will be granted unless the property has direct access to a private garden, this has always been in the Tenancy Agreement."
Spokesman, Nuneaton and Bedworth Council
Midlands Today: Up to 500 car parts jobs to gopublished at 13:24 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Ben Godfrey
BBC Midlands TodayAt 13:00 we'll be bringing you the story of Lawrence Automotive in Coventry, which has announced up to 500 jobs are to be axed.
It began making wood trim panels at its Browns Lane site in 2010, with Jaguar Land Rover a major customer.
But the union representing workers says a lack of investment by the company's Chinese owners has placed it in "terminal decline".
Our reporter Ben Sidwell will be telling us what the company has had to say.
Shopping centre 'outdated and in poor condition'published at 13:07 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Richard Williams
BBC Coventry & WarwickshireRiley Square - the proposed revamp of which will be discussed by cabinet members this afternoon - was built in the 1960s.
The pedestrianised shopping precinct is a popular part of the Bell Green area of Coventry, with the residential flats above offering mostly social housing.
The council says it has an "outdated design and suffers from a lack of significant investment and is in a poor physical condition".
It says that by transferring the lease of Riley Square to Innovative Retail Development Limited (IRDL), a regeneration plan can get under way.
While residents think it needs a facelift to attract more businesses to the area - a third of the shops lie empty - Riley Square Traders Association says it is in the dark over plans, with no-one from the developers making contact to explain what they have in mind.
Coventry play Shrewsbury in Checkatrade Trophy first roundpublished at 12:49 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire SportThe Sky Blues take on Shrewsbury in the first round of the Checkatrade Trophy tonight.
Mark Robins' side goes into the match without a league win in the last two matches.
The game will be live on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire from 19:00.
Animal ban in council flats to be strictly enforcedpublished at 12:31 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
A ban on keeping pets in council flats across Nuneaton and Bedworth is to be strictly enforced from now on, the local authority says.
It comes after an increase in complaints that the rules on animals are being ignored by some tenants.
The ban will not be retrospectively applied, meaning those who currently have a pet can keep them. But unless tenants have access to a garden where they live, pet owners will not be able to get a replacement when their animal dies.
But some animal experts say pets can be kept in flats if the owner is responsible.
Quote MessageThey're in a flat, they haven't got the luxury of opening the door into the back garden - they do have to make the effort to take them out. But if they are prepared to do that, I don't see a problem."
Bob Haines, Animal behaviourist
Game of Thrones star to play Warwickshire mastermind behind Gunpowder plotpublished at 12:06 British Summer Time 29 August 2017
Rebecca Woods
Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC News OnlineGuy Fawkes is the name synonymous with tales about the Gunpowder plot, but the role of Warwickshire's Robert Catesby, who hatched the plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament, will be thrust into the spotlight during a new BBC drama.
Catesby will be played by Game of Thrones star Kit Harington in BBC One's Gunpowder, while Liv Tyler will play his cousin Lady Anne Vaux, who also became embroiled in the plot.
Fawkes is played by Downton Abbey's Tom Cullen and can be seen alongside Harington in a first-look trailer.
The drama will be on our screens in autumn.
For the full story on Warwickshire's connections to the plot, this feature here explains it all.
