BBC Midlands Today

Tickets are now on sale for the Gymnastics World Cup which is to be held in Birmingham next year.

The city is to host the third round of the competition in March when more than a hundred of the world's best gymnasts will compete over two days at Arena Birmingham.

The six-discipline men's event will take place on Wednesday 21 March with the women taking centre stage over four disciplines the following day.

Homeless Aaron Barley turned on Tracey and Pierce Wilkinson after the family helped him off the street.

A council has promised to fund a memorial for the victims of the baby ashes scandal in Shrewsbury and says it will work with the group representing parents.

Rhiannon Davies, whose daughter Kate, (pictured) was one of the 60 children whose ashes weren't recovered at Emstrey crematorium, has criticised Shropshire Council for waiting until bereaved families approached it before agreeing to erect a memorial.

Image source, Richard Stanton

A BBC Radio Shropshire investigation uncovered historic failings at the crematorium, which meant no ashes were returned for children up to one-year-old between 1996 and 2012.

In a statement, the council said it was approached in July by two of the parents "on a confidential basis" and it was "keen to hear and consider what they had to say".

Video shows murderer Aaron Barley creeping about in the garden of his victims.

People in Inkberrow, Worcestershire, are holding a year-long arts festival.

Hereford FC have been given an initial allocation of 1,000 tickets for their FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round game at Eastleigh.

The club's fans have been allocated 314 terrace tickets and 686 seated tickets for the tie on 14 October.

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Teenager whose mother and brother were murdered remembers the moment she learnt her father survived.

Dave Bradley, BBC Hereford & Worcester's cricket correspondent, filmed this unusual sight at the retail park in Malvern.

Severn Trent says the damage to one of its stop taps was caused by "a third party".

It says water supplies in the area were not affected.

Express and Star

More than 200 children in the Black Country and Staffordshire have been treated for eating disorders in the last three years, external with one patient waiting 29 weeks for their first appointment.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A mainly dry evening is ahead leading to a cool, clear and dry night with lows of 8C (46F).

Tomorrow should be dry and bright in the morning followed by a cloudier afternoon.

A fire at a derelict building in Crewe last week was started deliberately, police have confirmed.

Cheshire East Council owns the building, which was in the process of being demolished.

The fire, last Thursday, resulted in Macon Way and the Grand Junction retail park being closed for more than 12 hours.

A 32m (104ft) diameter satellite dish is going to "go pink" to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Madley 1, the oldest and largest of 65 antennas at the site in Herefordshire, will be lit up in pink for a night during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Image source, Paul Nicolls photography

Madley Communications Centre in Herefordshire is one of the largest satellite stations of its kind in the world.

It opened in 1978 with one antenna but now boasts 65 and handles television, phone and internet communications for the Atlantic and Indian Ocean areas.

Coventry Telegraph

A burglar who targeted the homes of young Chinese women to break into at night to sexually abuse them and steal will spend at least ten years behind bars., external

Two inmates accused of prison mutiny over a riot at HMP Birmingham last December are to face a re-trial.

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court failed to reach verdicts on the charge of mutiny for defendants Carl Brookes, 33, and Ross Queen, 30.

A re-trial date is expected to be set later this month.

The pair had previously admitted a separate charge of taking an unauthorised photo in jail. They will be sentenced for this after the re-trial.

On Monday, five men were given prison terms over the riot which spread to four wings of the prison.

The documentary Kingdom of Us is to be released on 13 October.

The health secretary says the NHS in England must improve sepsis treatment and screening.

Imitation firearms, a machete, drugs believed to be heroin and cocaine, a "large quantity of cannabis" and around £5,000 in cash have been seized during raids in Tamworth, police say.

Five addresses in the Glascote and Belgrave areas were targeted under Misuse of Drugs Act.

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Nine people were arrested and released under investigation after being interviewed, a spokesman for Staffordshire Police said.

Psychiatric reports found no evidence that Aaron Barley had diminished responsibility over killing Tracey and Pierce Wilkinson, but noted his parents were uncle and niece, BBC reporter Ben Ando has tweeted from Birmingham Crown Court.

Police said Barley had still has not assisted them to gain a clear understanding of what motivated him to carry out this "truly shocking" murder.

Image source, West Midlands Police

Mary-Ann Ochota discovers how to make a traditional coracle with the help of an expert boat builder.

A project costing more than £1m to restore and preserve the iconic Ironbridge is back on schedule after hitting an early snag yesterday.

Contractors struggled to fit the specialist scaffolding needed and the first stage over-ran well into the evening.

Nicola Lowery, the Shropshire councillor for the Gorge, says the work on the 13-month scheme is now "back on track".

Image source, Nicola Lowery