Two men have been charged with attempted murder after a shooting in Smethwick last month. West Midlands Police said a man in his 20s was dropped off at Birmingham City Hospital in the early hours of 23 October with a leg injury.

A woman implicated in an attempted murder of a juvenile agreed to testify against her co-defendant as part of a plea deal she entered on Thursday in Boyd County Circuit Court. Selia Kackley, 39, was charged alongside her daughter,