Hollywood actor and Peaky Blinders star, Tom Hardy, has donated £7,000 to the Acorns Children's Hospice, based in Worcester. 

He gave £7,000 after manning the phones for a charity fundraising day.

Here are just some of the shows he's been in on the BBC: Alfie Solomans in Peaky Blinders; Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist; John Fleming in A for Andromeda; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester in The Virgin Queen.

That's all from us on Local Live on Thursday. Join us again from 08:00 on Friday for more news, sport, travel and weather updates.

Keep an eye out here for breaking news in the meantime.

Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

Jaguar Land Rover has been fined £900,000 after a worker lost a leg following a car crash.

NHS prescriptions drugs are being wasted "on an industrial scale" in the West Midlands, health officials are warning. They are concerned some repeat prescriptions are being dispensed unnecessarily.

And if you're a Strictly fan and your Saturday nights have become a little bleak without it, then we have good news - the world of sequins and samba has landed in Birmingham.

We will have more on these stories and others on the Midlands Today so join us at 18:30 on BBC One. 

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

We're still covered in a blanket of cloud at the moment but temperatures will fall as the cloud moves overnight.

Lows of 2C (36F).

Find out more.

When Ahaon the Irish Wolfhound visits the vet, he goes via the local scrapyard to be weighed.

Birmingham Eastside

The number of men being classified as victims of domestic abuse in the UK has increased by over 80% in the past five years, it has been revealed, external.  

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here is a recap of our headlines on Thursday:

- Jaguar Land Rover has been fined £900,000 after a worker lost their leg above the knee in a crash at its Solihull plant

- Bomb squads were called to 14 Birmingham and Black Country schools in three months in the wake of government advice about a potentially hazardous chemical

- Three West Midlands Police officers will stand trial later this year charged with perverting the course of justice and perjury in connection with the death of Kingsley Burrell who had been under restraint in custody

League One side Millwall re-sign Wolves midfielder Jed Wallace and bring in Reading defender Jake Cooper on loan.

The RSPCA has been highlighting how to look after pets at this cold time of year. Watch Made in Birmingham's report.

Image source, Made in Birmingham

Express and Star

Firefighters battled for six hours to put out a gas fire, external at a Black Country supermarket.

West Brom boss Tony Pulis discusses the difficulties of management, including whether it is important to be liked by his players.

BBC Sport

Aston Villa have had a £6m bid for Middlesbrough striker Jordan Rhodes, 26, rejected. (Daily Mail), external

Here's the rest of the latest gossip.

A Hollywood actor and Peaky Blinders star has made a £7,000 donation to a children's hospice.

Tom Hardy, star of the Dark Knight Rises, manned the phones at a charity day at the offices of financial services company ICAP, which raised funds for Acorns Children’s Hospice.

Image source, Acorns Children's Hospice

The hospice provides care for life-limited and life-threatened children across Worcester and the three counties.

Blackburn make winger Ben Marshall unavailable for selection because of interest from Championship rivals Wolves.

Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

Eleven secondary schools across Birmingham and the Black Country are on a list of 282 found to be under-performing. 

Statistics show they are falling below a new Government floor target that measures pupils' progress and achievement over eight GCSE subjects. 

Wolverhampton has one of the highest percentages of under-performing schools at 29.4% - the seventh highest in the country.

Birmingham Mail

We know Birmingham is a brilliant city but its super cool credentials have got a massive boost thanks to our creative quarter Digbeth being named as one of the hippest areas of the UK, external.  

Aston Villa are understood to be finalising a deal to sign teenage defender Jacob Bedeau from League One side Bury.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

A Jaguar Land Rover worker lost his leg and two others were injured in a health and safety breach which has cost the company nearly £1m in fines.

Image source, Getty Images

After an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the company was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court, and was yesterday fined £900,000 and ordered to pay £49,868 in costs. 

The HSE said in February 2015 a delivery driver lost control of a car causing a four-car-shunt at the company's Lode Lane plant in Solihull, trapping a worker.

HSE inspector John Glynn said, external the worker's "life-changing injuries" were completely avoidable and it was "only good fortune" that prevented a fatal accident.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here is a recap of our headlines on Thursday:

- Bomb squads were called to 14 Birmingham and Black Country schools in three months in the wake of government advice about a potentially hazardous chemical

- England's cricketers are wearing black armbands in tribute to Baroness Rachael Heyhoe Flint OBE who died yesterday

- Three West Midlands police officers will stand trial later this year charged with perverting the course of justice and perjury in connection with the death of Kingsley Burrell who had been under restraint in custody

Stourbridge News

Here's today's frontpage, external.  

The family of Luke Walker may push for High Court action after a coroner refused to rule against a Greek court's verdict on the death of Walker's girlfriend - despite hearing evidence she may have died as a result of a drunken fall days earlier.  

Image source, Stourbridge News