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Angela Eagle will challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership on Thursday, the BBC is told, but Mr Corbyn says he is determined to "carry on" in the face of calls to resign.

Four officers with West Midlands Police face misconduct hearings after a Dudley man who went missing was later found dead.

Commuters in the West Midlands will be able to pay for their journeys using contactless cards and smartphones, bus operators announce.

An MEP's claims for road journeys she never made would not have been paid if it was known she had travelled more cheaply by plane, a court is told.

We're back at 08:00 tomorrow with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather, but keep an eye out here for updates through the evening and into tomorrow morning.

Nick Owen
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

One of the region's biggest bus companies is investing millions of pounds on its transport network to enable passengers to use contactless bank cards and smartphones. 

National Express West Midlands is installing the technology on its 1500 buses. 

In the continuing leadership vacuum after the EU Referendum, two senior local MPs look increasingly likely to mount efforts to fill it. 

The Bromsgrove MP Sajid Javid is on a "joint ticket" for the Conservatives. And the West Bromwich East MP Tom Watson is one of two names expected to contest a possible Labour leadership election. 

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

David Lumb
BBC News Online

Fire crews had trouble getting onto the site of a fire at British Car Auctions in Castle Bromwich because of locked gates.

Firefighter Steve Horsley said: "We were concerned about the heat from the fire affecting fuel tanks at Flo Gas."

Vans and a range of cars were affected, he said, with tens of thousands of pounds' damage estimated. 

The fire broke out during the early hours of the morning.

BBC Travel

There's a lane closed on the M40 southbound between J16, A3400 (Henley In Arden) and J15, A46 (Longbridge Island), because of an accident, BBC Travel reports.

There's also a lane closed and queuing traffic on the M42 northbound at J3a M40, because of an accident.  

Ben Sidwell
BBC Midlands Today

A three-year-old boy who is fighting a brain tumour and is about to start 18 months of chemotherapy, has had a police dog named in his honour.

A West Midlands Police officer asked the force to name the dog after Bobby Humphries from Yardley in Birmingham after meeting him and his family when he was rushed into hospital last October. 

And now Bobby has met Bobby. See the moment on Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30.

BBC Travel

There's a lane closed on the M42 northbound between J5, A41 (Solihull) and J6, A45 (Birmingham Airport), because of an accident involving a car, BBC Travel reports.

Watch Big Centre TV's report with a sneak peek at a large folk ensemble in final rehearsals in Birmingham for their tour.

David Lumb
BBC News Online

These pictures give you some idea of the heat reached and the damage wreaked by the fire at the British Car Auctions fire overnight in Castle Bromwich, which we reported earlier.

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

Through this evening we will start to see rain drift away.

Lows of 12C (54F).

Find out more.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here are our headlines this afternoon so far:

- An adventure playground and sensory centre in Wolverhampton has been forced to close after vandals struck for the fifth time in three months

- 'Racist' leaflets have been left at dozens of homes in north Aston

- A former West Midlands MEP denies making 10 dishonest expenses claims between 2009 and 2010 when she was still in office

Former Ukip MEP Nikki Sinclaire is accused of submitting 10 expenses claims dishonestly between 2009 and 2010.

In six, Antonie Muller, prosecuting, said Sinclaire flew via Brussels, Basel in Switzerland or Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, despite allegedly signing claims stating she had driven.

Ms Sinclaire denies all the charges against her. The trial continues.

No play is possible on the final day at Edgbaston as Warwickshire's game with Nottinghamshire is abandoned as a draw.

Giles Latcham
BBC Midlands Today

Dozens of homes in north Aston have received leaflets which police say they are treating as a racially-aggravated offence. 

The leaflets have been seized and officers are looking at CCTV footage to try and find out who is responsible. 

Police say they are considering it as "material intended to incite racial hatred" and say they will not tolerate hate crime. 

Shabana Mahmood, Labour MP in Birmingham Ladywood, said she felt "shocked and angry" about the leaflets being delivered in her constituency, which she described as "multi-page...full of hatred and bigotry".

BBC WM

Unite the union say more than 525 job losses announced at Lloyds will hit staff in Birmingham and several other sites around the country. 

The cuts will hit the bank's retail and group operations. The bank, 9% owned by the taxpayer, said the cuts were part of 9,000 reductions announced in 2014.

Lloyds say 115 new roles are being created in the affected areas.

A former Ukip MEP's expenses claims for road journeys she never made would "certainly not" have been paid if it was known she had travelled more cheaply by plane, an EU bureaucrat in charge of expenses has told a court. 

Nikki Sinclaire, who represented the West Midlands until 2014, signed and submitted "significant" expenses "in excess of the flight costs", according to the prosecution. 

It is alleged Sinclaire wrongly claimed for thousands of euros in road and ferry travel expenses when she had travelled more cheaply by air, but she denies all charges against her.

Image source, PA

Francisco Estela Burriel, head of the European Parliament members' travel and subsistence expenses unit, said: "In the files and documentation presented for the member for the European Parliament there is no evidence of flying."