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In the last few minutes the Severn Valley Railway has announced it's reached its target of raising £2.5m with a share issue.

It has been selling them to the public for £1 each and the money will be spent on improvements to its station in Bridgnorth.

Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Port Vale manager Neil Aspin is hoping their break from league action will give the players time to improve before their next League Two outing.

Their three-match unbeaten run came to end on Saturday when they lost 3-0 at home to Swindon, leaving them clear of the relegation zone on goal-difference.

Image source, Port Vale

Neil Aspin's side have an FA Cup tie at home to Oxford United on Friday.

A dairy farmer who lost over 60 cows to bovine TB in February has said he is struggling to rebuild his herd.

Ernie Durose, who farms near Tean, North Staffordshire, has only got 13 Guernsey cows remaining and explained they are difficult to replace.

Mr Durose said he'd been searching the whole country, but the best he could get was a promise of some in the spring.

Port Vale have so far had nine different goalkeepers in 2017 - and there are still two months to go to the end of the year.

Birmingham's application to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022 is still the only option on the table, according to the man in charge of the bid.

The team is in "ongoing talks" with the Commonwealth Games Federation, said Commonweath Games England (CGE) boss Paul Blanchard, with a month to go before the deadline closes.

Image source, Birmingham 2022

The deadline for bids was extended to November 30 after Birmingham's application was judged to be "not fully compliant".

Speaking to Press Association Sport from the CGE's annual general meeting in London he said "everything is going well".

Scientists at the University of Warwick have been involved in the discovery of a 'monster' planet.

NGTS-1b is 600 light years away from us and is around the same size as Jupiter, but is orbiting a star half the size of our sun.

Image source, Getty Images

The man leading the research, Dr Daniel Bayliss, said the discovery was a surprise, because it was previously thought that planets of this size could not be formed by such a small star.

Shropshire Star

Here are some of today's headlines:

• Shopping centre site owners ‘still committed to redevelopment', external
• Council website goes down on secondary school deadline day, external
• Boy hit by car in Bridgnorth, external

A man has been taken to hospital after a cigarette in a waste paper basket started a fire in his flat.

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to his home, off Newcastle Road in Newcastle-under-Lyme and found it had spread to the carpet and radiator in his bedroom.

Image source, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service

The man has been treated for the effects of breathing in smoke after being given oxygen at the scene.

Doctors have been given permission to operate on a cancer patient after a judge ruled she doesn't have the mental capacity to make treatment decisions.

A hearing at the Court of Protection heard the woman, in her 60s, who has been diagnosed wtth paranoid schizophrenia, does not accept her breast cancer diagnosis, maintaining she "simply has a cyst".

In a written ruling the judge said he was satisfied that the woman has breast cancer and satisfied that surgery proposed by specialists was the right option.

Doctors at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, which has a hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, had asked for a ruling.

Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter

Staying cloudy tonight with the odd mist and fog patch developing by dawn with lows of 8C (46F).

It should be a bright start tomorrow with cloud gradually building.

The Sentinel

Here are some of today's headlines:

• Man suffers head injury after five car smash, external
• Motorcyclist, 49, dies after accident on A53, external
• Woman from keeping animals after more than 43 guinea pigs found dead, external

Tony Crocombe's microlight crashed in a field near Shifnal airfield, killing him and his passenger.

A van driver has been seriously hurt in a crash in Redditch.

He had to be cut free from his vehicle by the fire service after his van was involved in a collision on Arrow Road North.

The two men in the car were treated for minor injuries at the scene.

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The number of children aged 10 and under investigated by West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police more than trebled between 2012 and 2016.

Officers from the two forces looked into reports of more than 432 offences in 2016, including allegations of assaults on a police officer, arson, racist abuse and rape.

That was up from 124 in 2012.

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West Mercia Police said it was working with teachers, parents and carers on these cases and that it sent officers into schools to educate children about crime and consequences of their actions.

Hello World Live apologises to fans after they were left disappointed at its "immersive live" event.

The Severn Valley Railway has extended the deadline for people to buy shares until 21:00.

It started selling them on 1 November last year, aiming to sell £2.5m of the £1 shares in a year, and had originally set a deadline of 16:30 today.

The railway said it had decided to push the deadline back "due to an overwhelming number of shares being purchased today".

And it said it was only £100,000 short of its target.

A four-foot long python, which escaped its home in Stoke-on-Trent while it's owners were preparing for Halloween, has been recaptured.

The snake isn't venomous, but the police had advised people not to approach it, just in case.

It is now back with its owners after three days on the slither.