Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter

It will be a cloudy day with some scattered showers but sunny spells at times and highs of 8C (46F).

The latest news, sport, travel and weather across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.

Jordan Willis' second-half own goal condemns Coventry to defeat at Burton, ending their six-game unbeaten run in League One.

Teenager Fraser Dingwall is among Northampton's try scorers as they beat Wasps in the Premiership at Franklin's Gardens.

A 21-year-old man is released by police investigating a fire that hurt three children and a woman.

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

It will be a largely cloudy night, with the chance of some mist or fog and lows of 9C (48F).

Police in Bedworth say they're investigating a report of shots being fired through the window of a pub.

Officers were called to the Old Royal Oak on Nuneaton Road just before 21:15 yesterday and said it appeared to be an isolated incident.

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Warwickshire Police said no injuries had been reported.

Coventry City Council says it is "working closely" with home care provider Allied Healthcare to "minimise disruption to their customers during the period of transition they are currently going through."

The company, which provides care for hundreds of people across the West Midlands, is in the process of transferring all its contracts to other providers after a warning from regulators that it is facing financial difficulties.

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Coventry City Council said Allied Allied provides approximately 900 hours per week "across a range of city council-funded and private clients" and added: "Our top priority is to ensure continuity of care.”

Ozeivo Akerele's body was a found more than a year after he went missing in Coventry.

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Telford Tigers will be renewing their rivalry with Hull Pirates on Sunday.

The two former EPL sides played a memorable play-off semi-final last season, which the Tigers eventually won 9-8 on aggregate after a goal in overtime.

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Tigers head coach Tom Watkins said their opponents have "a lot of talent in their line up", especially in defence and in goal.

Coventry Blaze are also in action this weekend, against the two sides propping up the bottom of the Elite League table - Dundee Stars and Milton Keynes Lightning.

Solihull Barons have just one game, away to Blackburn Hawks.

A man's been arrested on suspicion of sex trafficking after a member of the public alerted police to a suspicious vehicle in Coventry.

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A search of the car, parked in Canterbury Street, near Kildale Close, Hillfields, uncovered three knives, an axe and two identity cards belonging to eastern European women.

The 39-year-old from Romania was arrested on suspicion of possessing offensive weapons and trafficking for sexual exploitation.

He remains in police custody for questioning while the force makes enquiries with Europol to try and trace the two women whose cards were recovered, said West Midlands Police.

Home care provider Allied Healthcare said it would continue to "trade safely" while the process of transferring contracts is under way, enabling it to deliver "safe continuity of care".

The company said a warning by the regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) saying it has serious doubts about the future of the company, had "intensified the impact of the challenging environment within which we operate".

The CQC said the Staffordshire-based provider had "every opportunity to confirm a realistically backed plan" and had "failed to do so".

"A short-term extension of the existing lending facility should also help support an orderly transfer of local authority care contracts to alternative providers," it said.

A company providing home care and other support services for thousands of older and disabled people across the West Midlands has announced it will be transferring all of its contracts to other providers.

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Staffordshire-based Allied Healthcare said a warning by the regulator it was facing financial difficulties led to local authorities withdrawing contracts.

The company said it was working closely with councils to ensure there was no disruption to the continuity of care for the people they support.

Allied Healthcare announced earlier this year it was struggling with debts, blaming low fees paid by councils, but it did manage to restructure its finances on that occasion.

Police in the West Midlands are to review how they carry out searches for missing people following "confusion" in the hunt for a missing student.

Ozeivo Akerele, 24, failed to return home from a night out in Coventry on 31 January 2015, but his body wasn't found until more than a year later.

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A group of children eventually discovered it on waste ground in Foleshill in April 2016, close to where police had originally been searching.

An investigation by watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct highlighted problems in record keeping and communication during the search.

The report states, however, that the police searches were carried out "in line with policy" and there was no indication that any officer or member of staff had a case to answer for misconduct".

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

Pudsey is taking his fundraising responsibilities at Coventry Building Society very seriously, although the trainee cashier is said to be "very friendly but not terribly talkative".

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Staff at the headquarters in Coventry, along with hundreds of others in branches across the region are taking part in cakes sales, raffles and tombolas and a Krypton Factor-style challenge - The Pudsey Factor.

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These staff at the Chelmsley Wood branch are playing Where's Wally...

Shouldn't that be Where's Pudsey?

House of Commons speaker John Bercow joked about "quiet, uneventful times in Westminster" during a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon today for a charity tennis event.

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Mr Bercow travelled to Warwickshire to play against his friend Chris Onslow, a local businessman who is playing for 24 hours non-stop to raise money for Children in Need and Welcombe Hills School.

A teenager has been arrested after a man was threatened in his own home with a hammer.

A car was stolen during the "nasty rush robbery" at a property in Cheylesmore on 6 November after a forced entry to the property, police said.

The arrest was made after officers executed a warrant at an address in the Wood End area of the city yesterday, said West Midlands Police.

The 18-year-old has been released on bail pending further investigations.

A fire at a Rugby house, in which a five-year-old boy was critically injured, is being treated as arson, police say.

Det Insp Paul Thompson, from Warwickshire Police said the force had reached the conclusion following a joint enquiry with the fire service.

"A 21-year-old man from Rugby arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life remains in police custody and will be interviewed by officers today," he said.

The five-year-old boy injured in the fire remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

A woman and two other children continue to be treated in hospital for burns and smoke inhalation.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Tom Davis

An £11m plan to transform Upper Precinct and "change perceptions" of Coventry’s city centre has been approved by the council’s planning committee.

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The proposals, which were rubber-stamped on Thursday, can help attract new stores and bring the area into the 21st Century, applicant Shearer Property Group said.

Work will include opening up the pedestrian area by removing the existing green escalator and footbridges connecting to West Orchards Shopping Centre.

Alterations will also be made to the shopfronts – including the former BHS building and removal of the outside canopy – while walkways will also be revamped.

Coventry Live

These are some of today's headlines on the Coventry Live website:

• Arrest over house fire which left child fighting for life, external
• Inquest into horror crash that killed three teenagers, external
• This notorious traffic bottleneck could become a thing of the past, external