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  • Updates on Monday 13 June 2016

  • News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Tuesday

  1. Latest weather for the West Midlandspublished at 07:34 British Summer Time 21 June 2016

    Latest weather for the West Midlands

  2. Inmate held in prison murder probepublished at 18:51 British Summer Time 20 June 2016

    A prisoner is arrested on suspicion of murder after an inmate at HMP Long Lartin near Evesham died.

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  3. Derbyshire v Worcestershire washed outpublished at 15:17 British Summer Time 20 June 2016

    The first day's play between Derbyshire and Worcestershire is rained off foe the day in mid-afternoon.

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  4. The weather for the West Midlandspublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 20 June 2016

    The weather for the West Midlands.

  5. On BBC Midlands Today this lunchtime: Firms weigh into EU debatepublished at 12:59 British Summer Time 20 June 2016

    Patrick Burns
    Political editor, Midlands

    This lunchtime, I'm continued my EU Referendum road trip. 

    It comes on the day some of the country's biggest car producers, including Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands, have written to their staff advising them to back Britain's EU membership.

    FlagsImage source, AP

    Last week Lord Bamford, chairman of the Staffordshire-based digger maker JCB wrote to his 6,000 workers urging them to vote leave. 

    From 13:30 on BBC One I'll have reaction to the news and more from my road-trip in Midlands Today.

  6. Derbyshire v Worcestershire - Day fourpublished at 10:34 British Summer Time 20 June 2016

    Follow live text and radio commentary of Derbyshire v Worcestershire in the County Championship.

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  7. Latest weather for the West Midlandspublished at 07:37 British Summer Time 20 June 2016

    Latest weather for the West Midlands

  8. Businesses hit out over break-inspublished at 01:18 British Summer Time 19 June 2016

    Business owners on a Black Country business park say they are not being given enough support to deal with a spate of break-ins.

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  9. T20 Blast: Worcestershire v Nottinghamshirepublished at 13:30 British Summer Time 18 June 2016

    Live BBC Radio commentary as Worcestershire face Nottinghamshire in the T20 Blast

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  10. T20 Blast: Leicestershire v Worcestershirepublished at 15:25 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    Follow live text and radio commentary as Leicestershire face Worcestershire in the T20 Blast.

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  11. The weather for the West Midlandspublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    The weather for the West Midlands.

  12. Watch: Wave goodbye to the thunderstormspublished at 14:27 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    It looks like we've got better weather in store for the weekend.

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  13. Early abandonment for Leics-Worcs gamepublished at 13:31 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    Leicestershire's T20 Blast game with Worcestershire is called off seven hours before the scheduled start after heavy rain.

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  14. Heavy rain weather alert now covering West Midlandspublished at 12:57 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    The Met Office has extended its yellow warning for heavy rain this afternoon, external to now include the West Midlands.

    It says there could be torrential downpours, especially later this afternoon and this evening - the warning runs until 22:00.  

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  15. Police contact MPs to offer safety assurancespublished at 12:01 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    Andy Giddings
    BBC Shropshire

    West Mercia Police is contacting all the MPs in the area to see if they have any safety concerns, following the killing of the West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox.

    The force says it believes the attack was an isolated incident and it has no intelligence to suggest a threat to MPs in their area.

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    It also says it will be sending officers to all MPs' offices today to offer reassurance.

  16. Watch: Cheshire and Staffordshire's weather todaypublished at 08:13 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    Lucy Martin
    BBC Weather

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  17. Latest weather for the West Midlandspublished at 07:42 British Summer Time 17 June 2016

    Latest weather for the West Midlands

  18. Intense rain moving across the Midlands nowpublished at 13:51 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

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  19. West Midlands bucks the trend of drop in sports activity since London 2012published at 12:11 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    David Rhodes
    BBC Yorkshire

    The West Midlands has bucked the national trend of falling numbers of people playing sport since the 2012 London Olympics, after the Games' pledge to "inspire a generation".

    Latest figures, external show 15.8 million people play sport or exercise at least once week, a drop of 0.4% since 2012 across England.

    The West Midlands saw a rise from 1,540,100 to 1,590,200 over that time. 

    BBC analysis of the data found five of the nine regions in England recorded a decline in sports participation, which former sports minister Richard Caborn dubbed "disappointing".

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  20. Watch: BBC Weather forecaster shows 'keepie uppie' and TVs don't mixpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Allen Cook
    BBC Local Live

    On the day England play Wales in Euro 2016, can our weather forecaster Charlie Slater show off his footballing skills in a studio without damaging a TV?

    They think it's all over - it almost was.

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