A man dies two days after being stabbed in the street in Birmingham.

A severe fire has ripped through the thatched roof at a Grade II listed building that was home to a restaurant.

Warwickshire hope to make this season's final County Championship home fixture against Lancashire a day/night match.

A man has asked his girlfriend to marry him in a film using Lego that was screened to cinema goers before the main attraction.

Bad news from the Environment Agency, with heavy rain expected to hit most of the West Midlands over the next 24 hours.

A severe fire rips through the thatched roof of a restaurant.

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The county championship game between Durham and Warwickshire is under way following bad weather that stopped play earlier. 

You can keep up to date with the game on the BBC Sport website here. 

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There's been no play on the third day of Warwickshire's championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street, due to rain. 

Warwickshire are waiting to resume their first innings on 315 for seven, leading by 108 runs. 

A man hunt is under way after a stranger raped a woman in a house in Redditch. 

Police said, external the attack took place at a property in the Mount Pleasant area.

The man has been described as white, around 5'10'' tall and aged in his early 20s and was dressed all in grey.

It happened at 21:00 on Monday, 15 August but details have only just released by detectives.

Drivers are being warned they could be facing heavy rain through this afternoon and evening.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning covering most of the West Midlands:

Reaction and analysis from the Premier League match between West Brom and Middlesbrough as they battle out a goalless draw at The Hawthorns.

Wolves striker Bradley Reid rejoins Wrexham on a month's loan while Gerry McDonagh's loan is extended until January.

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Warwickshire's cricketers will aim to extend their first innings going into the third day of their championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street. 

They resume on 315 for seven in reply to the home side's 207. 

Ian Westwood scored 127 in his second match since returning after a spell out of the team.

A Worcester man proposed to his girlfriend in a novel way - using a personalised Lego advert in front of a packed cinema.   

Ben Anderson, 36, told his girlfriend Kirsten Dally they were going to Birmingham's Electric Cinema to see the new Jason Bourne film. 

But secretly he'd hired a stop-motion animation expert to make an advert - that played before the film started - using Lego figures to document the important moments of their relationship. 

It featured their first kiss, holidays and ended with him proposing... and she said yes.

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Ian Westwood makes his first century in 16 months to steer Warwickshire into a winning position against Durham.

A 23-year-old man who remains missing more than two weeks after being swept out to sea off the Ceredigion coast is named.

Relive the action as Warwickshire beat Somerset by eight wickets at Edgbaston to reach the One-Day Cup final.

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Police in Warwickshire say they need the public's help in locating a man from Leamington Spa , externalwho is wanted on recall to prison.

22-year-old Liam Timms was released from HMP Oakwood in Wolverhampton in June, after serving a sentence for burglary.

However, officers say he has since breached the terms of his release.

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Detectives say Timms has connections to Leamington Spa and Birmingham.

League One side Bury sign striker James Vaughan on a free transfer after he was released by Birmingham City.

Warwickshire's annual Second XI Championship home fixture with neighbours Worcestershire does not normally command much attention, except among the most passionate of Midlands cricket aficionados.  

But this week's three-day meeting at Edgbaston is a bit different, as it is being played with a pink ball as a day/night game, instead of on the club pitch at Barnt Green, where it had originally been scheduled.

The ECB are constantly looking at ways of increasing the popularity of domestic cricket. They first experimented with day/night cricket using pink balls in September 2011, in an end-of-season County Championship fixture between Kent and Glamorgan at Canterbury.

Australia used pink balls last November in their day-night Test match against New Zealand in Adelaide, which attracted record-breaking attendances. 

Today's third and final day's play got underway at 14:00 BST. Warwickshire currently stand on 142-3 in their second innings, having scored 304-9 declared in their first innings, to which Worcestershire replied with 300-7 dec.  

Image source, Tom Rawlings - Warwickshire CCC