Hundreds of bus services across the North West and Cheshire will be cancelled or disrupted tomorrow due to industrial action.

Arriva North West drivers and engineers are holding a 24-hour strike, over a dispute over pay.

The company says services across Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire will be affected.

Further day-long strikes are planned for Monday 23 and 30 October.

About 60% of cases of Alabama rot, which has killed more than 100 dogs in the UK, occur in the first three months of the year, researchers have found.

Image source, Stop Alabama Rot

New research by London's Royal Veterinary College is under way to try and discover more about the risk factors and spread of the disease.

The cause of the disease, which first occurred in the UK in 2012, is still unknown.

However, researchers have found there are more cases in autumn and winter.

Strong winds are expected to batter the West Midlands again this weekend.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, external, with gusts of 50mph expected.

BBC Breakfast

He's known as The Beast. He eats 10,000 kcals a day and is officially the world's strongest man. Meet Eddie Hall.

Eddie, from Stoke-on-Trent is the first British man to take the title in more than 20 years.

To become the world's strongest man though takes guts - even he himself describes his jaw-dropping 500kg deadlift as "one of the most dangerous lifts" he's ever done.

So how does one take the title? He said training as a youth swimmer and watching the competition as a five-year-old set him up for life and "always knew" he would try to become the world's strongest man.

As Eddie prepared to take the title to become the world's strongest man he said: "I was eating 12,500 kcals a day. Every hour of the day I had food or drink in my hand. I have the same diet as about four people."

Daz Hale
BBC WM

A row has broken out over new Welcome to Wolverhampton signs.

A total of 25 have gone up around the city, featuring landmarks such as Molineux, the Grand Theatre, and Banks's Brewery, at a cost of £23,000.

However, they have been criticised by some who say they're a waste of taxpayers' money.

The authority says they have the potential to bring in cash through advertising.

BBC News Travel

A warning that Cross City trains between Aston and Lichfield face long delays and cancellations after an emergency incident, train operator London Midland said.

Buses are to replace trains.

The first people to feature on Stoke-on-Trent's walk of fame have been revealed.

The shortlist includes singer Robbie Williams and the ceramic manufacturer Emma Bridgewater.

Image source, SOT2021 / BBC

The city council plans to create, external a series of trails of shoes to follow in Tontine Square, Hanley in 2018.

Shropshire Star

Here are some of the stories making the headlines in the Shropshire Star:

• Leaves on the line hit Shropshire train services, external
• Man tries to smash window at Shrewsbury petrol station, external
• Inflation at five-year high: Why Shropshire businesses face paying an extra £7m in rates , external

The West Midlands saw the biggest fall in unemployment in the country, according to official figures.

Some 17,000 fewer people were out of work June to August, compared with the previous quarter.

Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM

Targets for cancer, casualty units and planned operations were missed every month in the last year by the trust that runs New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.

It says national targets will always be a challenge but it's doing all it can to ensure patients are not waiting longer than necessary.

Figures from the BBC's NHS tracker also show 80% of patients arriving at Heart of England Trust's A and E departments were seen in four hours, the target is 95 percent.

Some dogs can develop life-threatening kidney failure as a result of Alabama rot, which has no cure.

A mobile "gratitude" wall inspired by research from Coventry University is going on tour, external.

The wall showed how encouraging people to write down what they were grateful for helped boost their happiness.

The results showed that they felt more positive and able to cope better with their situations after regularly filling in a gratitude diary.

Image source, Coventry University

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Canary Girls Nancy Billings, Nancy Preece and Elizabeth Cox are heading down to London this morning to meet Prime Minister Theresa May.

Two women from Swynnerton in Stoke-on-Trent are also travelling down as Mrs May officially recognises the role they played in both world wars.

BBC Hereford & Worcester's campaign to remember them was launched back in January and this summer Rotherwas workers were given special commemorative medals at the Herefordshire Country Fair.

A man's died after his car crashed into a tree near Hay-on-Wye.

Two ambulances were called to a hump backed bridge on the road between Hay and Dorstone at about 21:10 last night.

The man was taken to the County Hospital in Hereford, but died from his injuries

Birmingham Mail

Here are a selection of stories featuring in the Birmingham Mail., external

• How toddler Luke saved the life of his big brother Joshua as he battled leukaemia, external
• Shock state of council house offered to mum and kids, external - with four-letter graffiti sprayed on walls
• Urgent public meeting to discuss spike in gun and knife crime around Midlands, external

Calum Gill's family says "the tragedy of such unfulfilled potential is hard to bear".

A scooter rider has suffered critical injuries after a crash with a car in Dudley, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.

It happened outside the Castle Casino on Castle Hill at about 17:50 last night.

Image source, Google

Ambulance Service spokesman Murray MacGregor, said crews found the man with multiple injuries.

"Due to the serious nature of the injuries, the doctor anaesthetised the man at the scene. He had a pelvic binder put in place before being taken on blue lights to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham."

Unlike previous years, many hospitals in the Midlands have been struggling with A&E attendances even over the traditionally quiet summer months - that's worrying as we approach winter.

Last month, hospital chiefs warned the NHS could suffer its worst winter in recent history and called for extra funding.

All hospitals across the country have been asked to come up with a plan to tackle a surge of patients.

A Department of Health spokeswoman said the NHS "has prepared for winter more this year than ever before".

Image source, PA

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals said it had formed a plan with partners to tackle what it expects to be "a very challenging winter period".

A new specialist assessment unit for frail older patients has been opened at the Alexandra Hospital this week.

A £1m investment is likewise being used to expand and improve part of the A&E at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

Trish Adudu
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Taxi drivers in Coventry claim they're being put out of work by Uber drivers coming from Wolverhampton to pick up trade in the city.

A meeting is being held later today to see what can be done.

Wolverhampton City Council officials revealed that it licensed 241 taxi drivers with a CV postcode, most of them thought to be Uber drivers now operating around the city.

Image source, Getty Images

The Sentinel

Here are some of the stories making the headlines in The Sentinel this morning:

• Iconic ceramic poppies are coming to Stoke-on-Trent for six weeks next summer, external
• Police order review of Indian restaurant's licence - after immigration raid finds three illegal workers, external
• Bar staff's shock after man "repeatedly threw dog in the air outside pub", external