There's been a positive reaction from passengers using the new station in Bromsgrove, which opened for the first time today.

The station was due to open in November and came in about £7m over budget.

Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today

This morning I'm at Bromsgrove railway station, which has officially opened nine months later than planned.

If you compare it with the former station that was here it really is like chalk and cheese. The old station hardly had any parking and no ticket office.

But now the railway station has more than 300 car parking spaces, a ticket office, ticket machines and the platform is longer, which means trains with three carriages can now stop at the station. 

Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather

It's a rather grey start to the day and it's going to stay that way. It will be a rather cloudy day, with outbreaks of rain in many parts.

Through the afternoon, showers will become well scattered and some may be heavy, especially towards the east where they may turn thundery, with highs of 16C (61F).

BBC Travel

There's queuing traffic on the M6 northbound between J5, for the A452 (Castle Bromwich), and J6, at the (A38M Aston Expressway Spaghetti Junction) because of an earlier broken down vehicle. 

Congestion goes to to J4a, at the M42.

More details on BBC Travel.

Stephanie Barnard
BBC Local Live

I'll be bringing you regular news, sport, travel and weather updates for Birmingham and the Black Country between now and 18:00.

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Adam Wheater's career-best unbeaten 204 ensures Hampshire remain on top against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

Rugeley's Rob Rock is excited at being back in the Open Championship after a four-year absence.

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

The new Bromsgrove railway station is due to open to passengers tomorrow., external

The £24m station, which has longer platforms, a waiting room and a 350-space car park, was expected to open to passengers last November.  

The first train is set to arrive at 06:20.  

Richard Wilford
BBC WM

Carson Yeung's return to prison after failing to overturn his money-laundering conviction is little more than a postscript to his time in charge at Birmingham City.     

Although he still holds shares in the club's parent company BIHL, he has entered a legal agreement not to obstruct any sale of the club by administrators Ernst & Young. 

His upheld conviction also disqualifies him from being a director of Blues or any other English football club.

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Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

I won't be mentioning heatwaves and spanish plumes in our weather this week. 

However, it does look showery, warm and humid. 

Join me for the latest forecast on BBC One from 18:30.  

Victoria Derbyshire

The use of Sharia councils in the UK to settle disputes using Islamic religious law has been criticised for discriminating against women. With rare access, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme looks at what takes place inside one such council. 

"Is it not possible to forget all the things he has done to you?" one of three Islamic scholars asks Yasmeenah - not her real name - in a side room of Birmingham Central Mosque. 

Yasmeenah has been in an arranged marriage since the age of 15, and says her husband has emotionally and physically abused her throughout the relationship. 

Stephanie Barnard
BBC Local Live

The top stories in the BBC WM newsroom include:

- A former UKIP MEP cleared of expenses fraud has criticised police for leading a "vanity case" against her

- A man's being treated in hospital after he was shot in the arm through the window of his car in Selly Oak last night

- It's understood that West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino has rejected the offer of a new four-year contract with The Baggies

Nick Clitheroe
BBC Midlands Today

It was a cracking weekend for athletics as Great Britain won two relay titles on the final day of the European Championships in Amsterdam on Sunday.

More locally Robbie Grabarz already has an Olympic bronze medal from London and won the European title four years ago. The Birmingham-based high jumper was satisfied with his silver but knows that he may have to go higher than 2 metres 29 if he’s to be among the medals in Rio.

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Danny Talbot completed our quintet of medallists but in less than satisfactory fashion. 

The Birchfield Harrier actually crossed the line in fourth in the 200 metres but was later promoted to bronze when the winner Churandy Martina was disqualified for running out of his lane.  

BBC Travel

Delays on the roads in Birmingham and the Black Country include:

- Clapgate Lane in Woodgate partially blocked in both directions at the Stonehouse Lane junction, because of an accident

- Slow traffic on A41 Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton at the Bath Road junction due to roadworks

A former UKIP MEP cleared of expenses fraud brands the police investigation against her a "vanity case".

Nick Clitheroe
BBC Midlands Today

With a little over three weeks to go until Rio, this was just the shot in the arm Midlands athletics needed. Five medallists, two of them for the first time at a major championships.

Perhaps the most unexpected was the Birchfield Harrier Elliot Giles. His victory in the 800 metres at the British trials a fortnight ago was a shock, but to carry that form into the Europeans and finish millimetres off a silver medal was a huge leap forward for the 22 year old. 

All the more impressive when you factor that he's fighting back from a couple of years blighted by the injuries he suffered in a motorbike accident.  

Club mate Julian Reid was the other first-time winner but the triple jumper described his bronze in Amsterdam as bittersweet because he’s still chasing the Olympic qualifying standard and may now have to rely on the discretion of the selectors to be picked for the Games.  

National League side Chester sign Walsall defender Theo Vassell on loan until 1 January.

A man was shot in Birmingham last night.

West Midlands Police say the 27-year-old received a bullet wound to his upper arm, external on Tiverton Road, Selly Oak, at about 23:30.

Police officers believe he was a deliberate target and are appealing for witnesses.

He is in a stable condition in hospital.

Afternoon weather forecast for the West Midlands