Birmingham City Council leader John Cotton tells council meeting that all three unions have agreed on a plan to settle historical equal pay claims. This limits any further claims which could have increased BCC’s existing liabilities of £760million. @itvcentral

West Mercia police officer Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith allowed to keep her job but given final written warning - after being found guilty of gross misconduct over the death of former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson in 2016. @itvcentral

Disciplinary panel found she used “unnecessary, disproportionate and unreasonable” force by striking Mr Atkinson with her police baton during an incident in Telford. @ITVCentral

West Mercia police officer Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith found guilty of gross misconduct by a police conduct panel, over the death of former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson in 2016. @ITVCentral

Leamington Spa small business owners celebrate after a scheme to demolish their units and build 300 student apartments is rejected by planners at Warwick District Council. @ITVCentral

West Mercia Police constable Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith (32) found not guilty of ABH assault with a baton on former Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after a confrontation with police outside his father’s Telford home in August 2016. @ITVCentral

Birmingham mother Laura Heath, 40, jailed for 20 years for gross negligence manslaughter of her asthmatic 7-year-old son Hakeem Hussain in November 2017. Heath used her son’s asthma inhaler to smoke crack cocaine and ignored repeated pleas from medics to manage his condition.

WEST MIDLANDS METRO TO STAY SUSPENDED FOR “A NUMBER OF WEEKS”. Transport for West Midlands says all trams will remain out of service while replacement parts are installed to repair cracks found around doors. @ITVCentral

BREAKING NEWS: WEST MIDLANDS CHIEF CONSTABLE ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT. Sir Dave Thompson will leave the force by the end of 2022 after almost 7 years. @ITVCentral

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Vue Cinemas fined £750,000 over the death of 24yo Ateeq Rafiq at Star City in Birmingham in March 2018. He was trapped under the footrest of an electric seat which had its closing mechanism incorrectly fitted. He’d put his head under to retrieve his mobile phone and keys.

West Mercia PC Benjamin Monk found guilty of the manslaughter of former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson in Telford in August 2016. More follows… @itvcentral

BREAKING NEWS: The first batch of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has just arrived in Birmingham @ITVCentral

ITV News Central understands supplies of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are arriving in Birmingham today and vaccinations will begin in the city on Saturday. @ITVCentral

Areas in Tier 3 from Dec 2: West Midlands •Birmingham and Black Country •Staffs and Stoke-on-Trent •Warks, Coventry and Solihull East Midlands •Derby and Derbyshire •Nottingham and Nottinghamshire •Leicester and Leicestershire •Lincolnshire @ITVCentral

These areas will be in Tier 2 from Dec 2: West Midlands •Worcestershire •Herefordshire •Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin East Midlands •Rutland •Northamptonshire @ITVCentral