Surgery will move from The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital for children to get the best care, bosses say.

We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow.

Keep an eye out here for more updates and breaking news before then.

BBC Midlands Today

There's growing concern about the increase in amount of pests and vermin attracted to rotting rubbish that's piling up in the wake of the refuse worker strike.

Pest control companies are busier than ever as the rat population is increasing.

Our reporter Nicola Beckford will have more on BBC1 from 18:30.

BBC WM Sport

Three days to go until the new season kicks off and Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce says getting promotion would be his greatest managerial achievement.

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He'll have to start the new campaign without Jack Grealish who's been ruled out for three months after undergoing kidney surgery.

Villa start the campaign at home to Wolves on Saturday.

Surrey batsman Dom Sibley will join Warwickshire at the end of the season after rejecting a three-year contract.

Two police officers chased and caught a man who was brandishing a two-foot blade in Birmingham city centre.

Footage has been released of the unarmed officers giving chase to 20-year-old Iryan Brown in September last year.

Brown reportedly shouted "come on I'll chop you up" to the two officers as he was pursued through busy streets.

He was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court for possessing an offensive weapon and making threats with a blade.

Brown, from Birmingham, will be detained indefinitely at a mental health facility under the Mental Health Act.

Motorists are facing big tailbacks outside Lifford Lane recycling centre in Birmingham as they queue to dispose of their own waste.

Some residents haven't had bin collections since refuse workers started strike action on 30 June, in a dispute with the council over job losses.

Litter has been piling up on some streets, prompting residents to take it to the tip themselves.

The series of walkouts are set to continue until September after talks between the trade union Unite and the council failed.

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BBC Midlands Today

After a day of some rain and some sunshine, here's how the rest of today and the start of tomorrow is looking across the West Midlands.

You can also get up-to-date forecasts at any time for your part of the region via the BBC Weather website.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

A CCTV picture of potential witneses have been released by police, external trying to work out how a woman died at her home in Cannock.

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The body of Kerry Cast, who was 40, was discovered on 1 July at her house in Herondale, but a post-mortem examination failed to prove how she died.

Staffordshire Police says more tests are being carried out and the CCTV still they've released shows three people they want to talk to.

Det Insp Dan Ison has stressed the trio are not suspects but could be witnesses,

Alex Bruce joked that father and Aston Villa manager Steve should have signed him instead of John Terry.

Alex, who was released by Hull this season, met up with his father in Portugal this summer.

Speaking to BBC 5 Live, he said: "We had a game of golf. It soon materialised that my dad was trying to sign him. I was thinking 'you can sign someone at centre-half a bit closer to home!'

"With a club like Villa in a transition like it was, it was imperative that he got somebody in that was a big character, could handle playing for Aston Villa, and he could drag the dressing room with him."

The ability to increase a convict's sentence if it's too light is an important part of the justice system, the solicitor general has told BBC News.

Robert Buckland's comments come as figures show more inmates in the West Midlands had their jail terms increased last year than anywhere else in England and Wales.

The MP says cases where an unduly lenient sentences has been passed are becoming rarer.

"With the use of sentencing guidelines, you're getting a greater consistency across the piece from judges when it comes to criminal sentencing," he added.

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The Attorney General's Office said latest figures revealed that 141 terms were added to in England and Wales in 2016 under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme, up by 39 from 2015.

Anyone can request that certain prison spells be increased within 28 days of the original sentencing.

Express and Star

Shocking footage has emerged of bikers pulling wheelies, weaving along bus lanes and riding through red lights on one of the , externalMidlands' busiest routes.

BBC Weather Watchers

While the weather lately is more autumnal than August, the BBC Weather Watchers have still captured some great pictures.

Di's walk snapped this pic in Sutton Coldfield.

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This beautiful picture was taken in Lapworth by Kobi + H.

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Motorists are facing big tailbacks in Birmingham as they queue to dispose of their own waste.

Birmingham City decide against signing midfielder Simeon Slavchev and full-back Eddie Afonso following trials at the club.

Elizabeth Glinka
BBC Midlands Today

It's been five weeks since the refuse workers in Birmingham started their industrial action.

They're locked in a dispute with the city council over job losses.

The union Unite has announced walkouts will continue until September, after talks with the authority failed.

A lorry has become stuck on Duddeston Mill Road, Saltley, causing traffic delays between Inkerman Street and Adderley Road.

Police are directing traffic and Network Rail are at the scene.

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Remember earlier this year when there was a wave of lorries which became stuck under various Brum bridges?

Let's hope it's not a repeat of that...

BBC Sport

Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry says his career will not be tarnished in any way by moving to the Championship with Aston Villa.

The 36-year-old left Chelsea as their most decorated player, after winning 15 major honours with the London club.

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"You don't put 22 years on the line, having won what I've won - that remains regardless," he told BBC Radio 5 live.

"Over the years at Chelsea, they haven't all been successes, we had some really disappointing ones.

"But if you can have a really good year and get promoted and win a trophy, the disappointing ones get forgotten a little.

"If I can add this to a long list of trophies and successes, fantastic."

Steve Hermon
Journalist, BBC WM

A man suspected of robbing betting shops across the West Midlands at knife-point has been arrested.

The 39-year-old man was picked up by police this morning in Nechells in connection with six robberies in the space of 19 days last month.

It follows a CCTV appeal following an armed raid at the Ladbrokes shop in Kings Norton back in July - but detectives now believe he could be linked to robberies in Olton, Warley, Yardley and Balsall Common.

BBC Sport

Telford manager, Rob Edwards, has gone back to his former club to sign young Wolves defender Aaron Hayden on a season-long loan.

In June, Wolves agreed to give the club additional financial support and Edwards left his coaching role at Molineux to become the Telford boss.

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Hayden has spent four years at the Chelsea academy and has also had a spell playing for League Two Newport County.