Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

I'm back with Wednesday's news, sport, travel and weather updates.

Have your say on our stories and send us pictures you have captured of our region over email, tweet @bbcwm, external or visit the BBC WM Facebook page, external throughout today.

Around 5,000 calls about dog fighting received in the UK during the past decade

Birmingham close in on deals to sign Middlesbrough's Emilio Nsue and Cheick Keita from Serie B side Virtus Entella.

The BBC asks people in Birmingham what they think about UK PM Theresa May's Brexit speech.

With the 2017 county season here, keep up to date with the latest signings, departures and rumours ahead of next season.

That's all from us on Tuesday. Join us again from 08:00 on Wednesday for our familiar blend of news, sport, travel and weather updates.

And breaking news will appear here in the meantime.

Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

Jill Saward's hard work and tenacity changed the law around sexual assaults. Today mourners came from all over the country to pay their respects at her funeral in Lichfield.

Birmingham City Council has announced it is hoping to transfer responsibility for running children's services to a community interest company. 

And Birmingham City boss Gianfranco Zola today confirmed his interest in several players - the Derby winger Johnny Russell, Swansea City's Wayne Routledge and two full-backs: Emilio Nsue from Middlesbrough and Cheick Keita who plays in Italy.  

More on these stories and others on the Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30.

Volunteers and disabled people at a Walsall charity are devastated after the theft of a trailer used to carry wheelchairs on day trips. 

The trailer was taken from the car park at Place of Refuge Community Church in Delves at the weekend. 

The group is appealing for information to help recover the trailer - the police are investigating.  

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

It's dull overnight and cloudy, which traps some of the heat. 

Lows of 4C (39F).

Find out more.

Liam Barnes
BBC News Online

A man stabbed and punched his dog after the pet urinated on a bag of marijuana and then hid her from police behind the washing machine.

Michael Anthony Bailey, 54, from Dale Terrace in Oldbury, attacked his dog Lucky last June, magistrates in Birmingham heard.

When police came to his home he said the dog had run off, but she was found hidden behind the washing machine.

Lucky made a full recovery but was later put down after it was found she was a banned breed. Bailey was jailed for 12 weeks.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Here is a recap of the latest stories on Tuesday:

- A man who stabbed and punched his dog after the pet urinated on a bag of marijuana has been jailed for 12 weeks

- Birmingham City Council wants to offload the £726,000 annual cost of its 11-strong team in charge of Brexit issues in the city

- The man behind the Korky the Cat and Desperate Dan is being recognised with a blue plaque at his old school in the Black Country

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

Birmingham City Council wants to offload the £726,000 annual cost of its 11-strong team in charge of Brexit issues in the city.

Image source, Google

The authority hopes external sources can, within two years, pay for its Birmingham-based European & International Affairs team - plus £120,000 for its office in Brussels.

Supporters say the office is "required as much, if not more, post-Brexit".

UKIP MEP for the West Midlands Bill Etheridge thinks the office should be "closed down immediately".

BBC Midlands Today

A developer has been given outline planning permission to build an industrial estate on land near Tamworth, which it is claimed could create hundreds of new jobs.

St Mowden, external is looking to built units on a 35-acre site east of junction 10 of the M42.  

Image source, Google

Nearby areas are already used by warehouse and distribution firms and the developer says it's going to have to create an access route off Trinity Road for the site. 

They add that a "substantial area" of existing open space will be kept for natural wildlife habitats.

A man who stabbed and punched his pet dog after the animal urinated on a bag of marijuana is jailed for 12 weeks.

Alice Rosenthal
BBC WM

The man behind the Korky the Cat and Desperate Dan is being recognised with a blue plaque at his old school in the Black Country.

Image source, Steve Grigg

Image source, Charles Grigg

Image source, Charles Grigg

Charles Grigg lived in Langley and went to Rood End Primary. 

He spent more than 20 years drawing The Dandy's lead characters Korky and Desperate Dan, before his death in 2013 at the age of 97. 

His son Steve says his work was at the comic's height of popularity.

League Two Yeovil Town sign West Bromwich Albion striker Andre Wright on loan until the end of the season.

BBC Sport

West Bromwich Albion's hopes of signing Manchester City midfielder Fabian Delph, 27, appear over with Pep Guardiola keen to keep the former Aston Villa midfielder.(Birmingham Mail), external

Here's the latest football transfer gossip.

A Dudley man who hit a police officer as he drove away from a suspected drug deal has been jailed for 17 months.

Image source, West Midlands Police

Mohammed Asim, aged 25, hit Sgt Alan Hands in Wolverhampton Road as officers approached a car they thought was being used by dealers, according to police, external.

The West Midlands force said the officer had to have CT scans and six months of physiotherapy.

Asim, of Queens Cross, Dudley, admitted assault and dangerous driving and was jailed for a total of 17 months.

Express and Star

Dudley’s former museum building must be brought back into use as soon as possible, external, council bosses have said.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A dull and cloudy afternoon is in store with highs of about 6C (43F).