Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Thanks for following our updates on Access All Areas day at BBC Birmingham. The newsroom's looking a lot quieter now.

Join us from 08:00 on Tuesday when we're back with the usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather.

BBC Weather
Latest

It should be a brighter day across the region on Tuesday and feeling warmer, with more in the way of sunshine particularly later in the day. Clearing skies will lead to a patchy frost overnight. Highs of 8C (46F).

The Broadcast Support Centre is based at The Mailbox here in Birmingham. Watch Laura explain how it is developing new ways of working across the BBC and ensuring our audiences see and hear our radio and television output.

John Bray
Access All Areas

I've pulled together a round-up of our behind-the-scenes day at BBC Birmingham on Storify, external.

Express and Star

Black Country council leaders are demanding that the idea of a "Metro Mayor" for the West Midlands be ruled out, external in talks on a combined authority.

A man who was abused by a paedophile teacher has told the BBC he struggled to maintain relationships and even attempted to take his own life.

John Patton, 75, admitted indecent assault against three boys under 16 earlier in the year.

The offences, dating back 25 years, were committed while he was teaching at Kingshurst Comprehensive in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull.

Birmingham Mail

Darren Fletcher has revealed Albion put their foot down to get their season back on track.

The club skipper says a spot of go karting, external helped Albion recover from back-to-back defeats to Villa.

David Jennings
Head of BBC West Midlands

Every year BBC Tours give thousands of people the chance to look behind the scenes of our studios at the Mailbox in Birmingham.

It's striking just how much interest there is in how our programmes, from Midlands Today to The Archers, are made.

But we know that for everyone able to join an in-person BBC Tour, there are many more who would love to know more about how their favourite programmes are brought to air. About The BBC can tell you more.

Nick Owen
Presenter, Midlands Today

Police are tonight appealing for witnesses after a one-year-old boy was killed when a truck crashed into his Birmingham home. The boy was at the front of the house when a wall collapsed on top of him.

Our reporter Amy Cole will be there for Midlands Today at 22:25.

Cath Mackie
BBC Midlands Today

BBC Asian Network presenter Noreen Khan is always posting questions and pictures on social media and looking for guests who have a big following. Watch what it is like working on her show behind the scenes.

John Bray
Access All Areas

This is where our history lives... Our films at BBC Midlands Today are transferred to tapes after transmission and stored in our media library.

If we want old footage, we put the tape in a flexi-cart machine and restore to our digital server.

Our library isn't as big as the one in London, so if we need any other archive we go on the BBC's internal website and order it and it's sent down the line to us.

Cath Mackie
BBC Midlands Today

Watch Home Front writer Richard Monks explain what it is like working on the Radio 4 Drama reliving World War One.

Dudley News

A Netherton man who "betrayed" a teenage girl when he raped her after offering to give her a lift home, external has been jailed for six years.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

If you ever wonder who is presenting the next Midlands Today programme and happen to see these two items on the production desk, you can be pretty sure it's Nick Owen, who is Luton Town's club chairman.

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David Cameron has revealed Christian Benteke is his favourite current Aston Villa player.

Image source, Getty Images

The prime minister, whose uncle Sir William Dugdale was Villa's chairman from the mid 70s to the early 80s, told the social media website BuzzFeed that the striker, who scored twice in the 4-0 win at Sunderland on Saturday "has been so valuable the last few years".

Stephanie Barnard
BBC Local Live

This afternoon I went to meet some of the team from BBC Blue Room.

They were talking about technology which could soon be in our homes - from 4k TVs to TV headsets.

I had a demo and watched Cirque du Soleil and Paul McCartney perform in full 360-degree vision (pictured middle). Find out more, external.

Gareth Ford-Lloyd
BBC WM

A one-year-old boy died in Birmingham in the afternoon when a wall that was hit by a lorry collapsed on to him in Stechford.

We will hear more from West Midlands Ambulance Service, that attended the scene, in our 21:00 bulletin.

Amy Cole
Reporter, Midlands Today

This is the scene in Stechford tonight - a cordon is in place after a toddler died when a wall that was reportedly struck by a lorry fell on to him.

Nick Clitheroe
Sports editor, BBC Midlands Today

Last year attendances at Walsall FC were up by more than 13,000 and broke the 100,000 barrier for the first time in five seasons.

This year is already looking good, with the financial boost from more than 27,000 tickets sold for Wembley.

Then there's the prize money and TV payments their run in the competition has earned. Walsall are never going to be a club which starts paying big transfer fees or wages, but at least the fans know they're unlikely to join the long list of teams who've spent more than they can afford and paid an appalling financial price.

via Facebook

There's been a great response on the Midlands Today Facebook page, external where dozens of people have been asking presenter Nick Owen questions this evening.