Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

This morning's headlines include:

  - Around a hundred asylum seeking children are being cared for by local authorities in Birmingham and the Black Country  

- Police are continuing to question two more men arrested on suspicion of murdering a man stabbed to death in Wolverhampton in what they think was a targeted attack  

- A Walsall mother has contacted BBC WM after her son was taken out of class yesterday for wearing the wrong kind of shoes

We now have data examining the impact of the badger cull on the incidence of TB in cattle.

Matthew Bone
Political reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

The children's ward at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch officially closes today.

Ambulances carrying under 16s will have to make the 35 to 40-minute trip to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.

The trust running the hospital says children who currently use the Alexandra Hospital for things such as blood tests, outpatient appointments and scans will continue to do so. 

It is only those who are seriously ill and require an inpatient bed, who will receive their care at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, the trust says.

Daniel Wainwright
Data unit - English regions

Around a hundred asylum seeking children are being cared for by local authorities in Birmingham and the Black Country. 

They include 72 in Birmingham and 23 in Sandwell. The largest group are boys aged 16 and 17, coming from Afghanistan.

This comes as figures released to us under the Freedom of Information Act reveal at least 104 councils were caring for more unaccompanied minors than they were in 2015.

The Home Office said it had increased funding to cover the costs of care and other support for unaccompanied minors.

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BBC Weather

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BBC Travel

There is queuing traffic on the A41 Pershore Road in Kings Norton, Birmingham, at the junction with Lifford Lane in the roadworks area, drivers are warned.

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Follow live text coverage as Bournemouth face West Brom in the Premier League at the Vitality Stadium.

An Islamic street preacher threatened to blow up a Muslim woman's house and claimed she was Satan for wearing tight jeans, magistrates hear.

Bidders for the West Midlands rail franchise are being given permission to remove seats and create more standing room to fit more passengers in.

Two more men are arrested over the murder of Mircea Gheorghe Cozmiuc who was stabbed in Wolverhampton.

Somerset spinner Dom Bess takes 6-28 on his Championship debut as 21 wickets fall in the day against Warwickshire.

That brings to an end our updates on Tuesday.

Join us again from 08:00 on Wednesday when we'll have more news, sport, travel and weather to tell you about.

Please keep an eye out on here for any news that breaks this evening.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

Tonight is set to be dry, cloudy and feeling quite muggy with lows of 17C (63F).

Nick Owen
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

The BBC has learned companies bidding to run trains in the West Midlands are being given permission to remove seats to create more standing room to cope with the massive growth in rail travel. 

A Black Country borough saw the opening of its first new secondary school for a decade today.

And we remember how The Belfry played a key part in the revival of golf's Ryder Cup.

Join us for the Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Warwickshire are all out for 123 in their first innings against Somerset - a lead of just 28.

Somerset's 19-year-old spinner, Dom Bess took 6-28 on his Championship debut.

There's been lots of interest in the Taunton wicket with 15 batsmen falling before tea.

You can relive the action here.

From one famous triangle to living down the road from our own Balti triangle - an eel thought to be more than 20 years old has been found in a canal near West Bromwich.

The 5lb 10oz eel was found by the Canal & River Trust after nearly 200lbs of fish were rescued from the waterway when pollution was investigated along the Ridgacre Branch Canal.

Image source, Canal & River Trust

John Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager at the Canal & River Trust, said: ““Eels are such a fascinating animal, they start life as a little egg in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda and make an epic 4,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean to end up in canals and rivers across Europe and North Africa.  

"Once they enter in the canal they will spend their life growing and maturing before returning to the Sargasso Sea to breed.”

Residents in Bromsgrove can find out what plans there are to improve train services in the area, after the opening of the town's new £24m railway station.

Network Rail is holding a drop-in event to explain where a further £100m is to be invested on the railway in the area.

The next phase of the scheme will be to electrify the line between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green and increase the number of trains per hour from Bromsgrove station from December 2017.

The line will be closed for 12 days between Tuesday, 25 October to  Sunday, 6 November.

The drop-in event is being held tomorrow between 16:30 and 19:00 at Bromsgrove railway station.  

A chocolate scientist in Birmingham has had her taste buds insured for £1m.

A man was punched in the face and kicked to the head after he fell to the ground before his mobile phone was robbed by three men in Walsall, police say.

The victim, a 28-year-old man, was making his way to his relatives' house where he was staying after having been drinking at the Mary Rose pub, Staffordshire Police said.

He was attacked as he walked along an alleyway off Mount Pleasant by three men - two of whom were wearing wearing motorbike helmets, the force said.

The trio demanded the man's iPhone 6. Officers are urging people to come forward with information about the robbery on Saturday.