BBC Local Live: Birmingham and Black Country

That's it from us this Friday. If any news breaks tonight it will be posted here as normal but otherwise please join us from 08:00 on Monday for the usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather updates.

The Baggies are aiming to pick up a fourth home win in a row against Crystal Palace in the Premier League tomorrow.

Aston Villa go to Rotherham looking to make it three victories on the bounce for the first time since 2010.

Walsall could secure a fifth home victory in succession if they beat Oldham. 

That would be their best run at the Banks's Stadium for four years.

Outbreaks of rain will continue for many this evening and for a time overnight, but there will be some drier interludes too . 

Rain will clear during the early hours. 

Cloudy skies will keep temperatures up overnight, preventing an overnight frost.  Lows of 6C (43F).

A blind man from Birmingham says taxis operated by the online firm Uber have repeatedly refused to pick him up because he travels with a guide dog.

The three-part series Extremely British Muslims was filmed in Birmingham and last night's first episode was all about how young people balance looking for love with their faith. We have been to meet some of those involved and to gauge reaction to the show.

Tomorrow evening, Lauren Johnson will become Birmingham's first female professional boxer, and we have been to meet her.

More on these stories and others on the Midlands Today on BBC One from 18:30.

Waseem Zaffar stepped down from his role as Birmingham City Council's equality chief, a day after it was reported government integration tsar, Dame Louise Casey, said his accusations against a Catholic school - which we reported earlier - had been "grossly unfair and undue".

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Mr Zaffar said he has also asked the council to set up a "review into all current and historical speculation against me". 

Councillor Ewan Mackey, his opposite number on the city's Conservative opposition group, has now called on the authority to publish all correspondence between councillors and officers relating to the row. 

Mr Zaffar said: "After careful consideration and in light of continued media and social media speculation, I have discussed the situation with the leader of the council and I have decided I will step aside." 

Councillor Tristan Chatfield was appointed as the council's new cabinet member for transparency, openness and equality on Friday.

A 101-year-old man jailed for a string of 30 child sex offences is contesting the length of his sentence.

Ralph Clarke, of Erdington, Birmingham, is thought to be the oldest person convicted in British legal history.

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Judge Richard Bond QC said in December Clarke had been guilty of "systematic abuse" between 1974 and 1983.

He was found guilty of 21 counts of abusing two girls and admitted nine charges relating to a boy during his trial at Birmingham Crown Court.

The former RAF serviceman's lawyers urged five senior judges at London's Court of Appeal to find that his punishment was excessive because the judge at the original trial did not take enough account of Clarke's extreme old age and the likelihood he would die in prison.

A decision on the appeal will be given at a later date.

A team of devoted charity pub-crawlers have reached their 20,000th ale house in Stafford, after three decades of touring pubs. 

The West Bromwich-based Black Country Ale Tairsters - Black Country dialect for tasters - began visiting establishments listed on a map, issued by Wolverhampton brewer Banks's, in 1984.

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They arrived to complete their latest milestone in a minibus at the Knot and Plough in Stafford. 

Several veterans of the group, including co-founder Peter Hill, went to the event where they were given free beer.

A man has  died after being found lying next to a moped and a wall. 

West Midlands Ambulance Service say they were called to Main Street, Clifton Campville in Tamworth, this morning . 

They say they found a moped stuck between a lamppost and a wall. 

Paramedics found the man lying on the other side of the wall, trapped, but he died at the scene.

A Birmingham school cook has been named among the best in the country at the national School Chef of the Year competition.

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Jose Kochakkadan is a former professional chef who joined Marston Green Infants Academy so he could spend more time with his own children.

He finished in the top three in yesterday's final at Stratford College after being highly commended for his dessert - mango frangipane with mango lassi and salsa.

The identity of witnesses who gave evidence in the so-called "Trojan Horse" inquiry will be protected, Birmingham City Council has said.

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The authority had argued for identities to be protected after fears were raised they  may be revealed . 

It said the National College for Teaching and Leadership has agreed witnesses should retain anonymity. That ruling was issued before teaching misconduct proceedings for former staff at Park View Academy.

This is unless they have consented to be identified, or in four cases are already known to defendants.