Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

It should be the warmest day of the week. Highs of 19C (66F) and we might see some blue sky too.

Yoan Gouffran scores a stunning goal as Newcastle avenge the league defeat by Wolves to reach the EFL Cup fourth round.

A police custody sergeant struck a detainee up to 12 times around the face and head after a dispute over a phone call, a court hears.

The family of a man who is unable to walk or talk five months after being found collapsed in a prison cell calls for "answers" to what happened to him.

Relive the action as a Toby Roland-Jones hat-trick seals Middlesex's first County Championship title in 23 years.

Pace bowler Tom Bailey takes 4-52 as Lancashire bowl relegation rivals Warwickshire out for 219 on day one at Edgbaston.

A spurned mistress and her ex-husband are jailed for life for murdering a DJ whose body was found in the boot of his car.

Relive the action and in-play highlights as Middlesex, Yorkshire and Somerset battle for the Championship title on day two of the final week.

A prolific shoplifter who has been jailed more than 20 times says she will never return to crime following the support of specialist police.

Two men cleared of being involved in what was believed to be a gangland shooting launch legal action against a police force.

Peter Wilson
BBC Midlands Today Special Correspondent

A scheme that gets police officers involved in social work has prevented more than 8,000 offences, West Midlands Police estimates.

The force has set up offender management teams to target prolific criminals.

Image source, West Midlands Police

I've been speaking to one of them, who used to be a notorious shoplifter in Coventry, but has now quit her crack cocaine and heroin habit.

She says the intervention of the specialist police team has changed her life. 

Clive Eakin
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Warwickshire lose a wicket to the fourth ball of the day at Edgbaston against relegation rivals Lancashire.

Follow all the live action here.

Duckett, Ball and Hameed are in - but which other players made the final XI chosen by BBC radio commentators?

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A cloudy night in store, with some outbreaks of rain and lows of 13C (55F).

BBC Inside Out

The scourge of fly-tipping across the West Midlands is getting worse and councils are spending millions to clean up public land and prosecute offenders. 

Inside Out investigates the issue on BBC One at 18:30 tonight.

Some residents had been angry they had to keep their doors and windows shut days after 1,000 tonnes of waste caught fire on farmland.  

BBC Radio Stoke

A public meeting will take place later today about a fire that has been burning in Staffordshire for two weeks.

Thick smoke has been billowing from the fire in Slitting Mill Road in Rugeley, since the blaze began on 5 September.

The fire service has previously said it was allowing the fire to burn in a controlled manner over fears water supplies could be contaminated.

Warwickshire captain Ian Bell says the "massive high" of winning at Lord's can help their Championship survival battle.

Express and Star

Gamblers ploughed more than a quarter of a billion pounds into betting machines across the Black Country and Staffordshire over the last year – and lost nearly £45m – according to shocking new figures, external.

Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne pleads guilty to racially aggravated abuse over a joke he told during a show.