There may be some drizzle in Herefordshire today, but it seems the county has been missing out on recent wet weather.

Dave Throup from the Environment Agency tweets that rainfall in the area this month has been exceptionally low.

A virtual reality game to help young people learn about the Coventry Blitz has been developed to mark the 77th anniversary of the bombings.

The joint project from Coventry and Birmingham City Universities and the Coventry Telegraph takes students into the Cathedral on the night of the bombing where they take on the role of a firefighter.

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Thousands of homes were destroyed when German planes dropped 30,000 bombs on the city.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street has been to Finland to see how the country has cut drastically the number of people sleeping rough.

Mr Street spoke to former homeless people who have been given accommodation under the country's Housing First strategy.

The idea, which has cost the Finnish government 240m euros, has seen recorded long-term homelessness cut by 43%.

Families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings say they're "desperate" to raise a further £20,000 to challenge a coroner's ruling not to name suspects at new inquests into the deaths.

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Twenty-one people died when two bombs were detonated in the city centre in November 1974.

The Justice4the21 campaign group won the right for a judicial review next month but have now been refused legal aid to pay for their lawyers to represent them.

The families managed to raise more than £17,000 to apply for the review.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

A cloudy day with drizzly showers possible throughout the day and highs of 12C (54F).

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

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The West Midlands Mayor Andy Street wants the region to pilot Finland's Housing First strategy.

In two hours one man was killed and three were injured in a series of "domestic incidents".

Anthony Nicholls died after a large commercial firework started a fire at his home.

We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 tomorrow.

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

Sedation would not have been "effective" on a bull which was on the loose in Solihull, said police whose marksmen shot and killed the animal.

It was targeted this afternoon as it got closer to the M42.

The West Midlands force said the bull entered Monkspath Junior School, "but at no time were children or teachers in any danger".

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A young girl has suffered a "very serious leg injury" in a crash involving two cars.

The ambulance service said it happened on Brighton Road near the junction of Moseley Road in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, at about 15:30 this afternoon.

A spokesman said the injured girl was aged about 10.

An ambulance service statement said she was involved in a collision with a car that "also collided with a second car".

A man in the first car was uninjured and three people in the second car - a man, a woman and a boy of about 10 - were taken to hospital for assessment.

The works around the English Bridge in Shrewsbury pause from today until the new year.

Image source, Google

Work has now been completed to put in new traffic signals around the gyratory system.

The next phase of works, to upgrade the footpaths between Wyle Cop and the English Bridge, starts in January.

BBC Weather Watchers

Seany B shared this amazing picture of the sunset taken from the Birmingham Library secret garden.

Image source, Seany B

Apparently a pink sky at night is a shepherd's delight, so this picture taken in Alderminster by Soadave should fit the bill.

Send us your weather pictures here.

Image source, Soadave

Free parking is being offered at council-run car-parks across Herefordshire in a bid to attract Christmas shoppers.

Image source, Herefordshire Council

City centre car parks, including the Old Market and on-street pay and display, will be free for shoppers after 16:00 on dates leading up to Christmas starting Wednesday 22 November.

Free parking will also be available in market towns to coincide with festive events.

An official range of souvenirs to mark the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's platinum wedding anniversary, is to be made by Stoke-on-Trent potters.

Image source, PA

The Royal Collection chinaware pieces, commissioned by Buckingham Palace and featuring the Queen and Philip's entwined monograms, will be hand-made in the city.

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh married on November 20 1947 at Westminster Abbey.

Leamington Observer

Here are some of the stories the Leamington Observer is featuring today:

• Police firearms amnesty aims to keep guns out of the wrong, external hands
• Angry residents say articulated lorries are using their small cul-de-sac, external to access building site
• Hospice bowled over by support from neighbouring, external club

A text message 'trigger' saw Paul Lander kill his wife before taking his own life, an inquest hears.

It should be a cloudy night with the chance of some outbreaks of rain or light drizzle by dawn.

Staying chilly with lows of 5C (41F).

Specialist conservators working for English Heritage are beginning begin vital repair work on the Iron Bridge, so-named as it was the first in the world to be made of cast iron.

It marked a turning point in British engineering and became a symbol for the Industrial Revolution.

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Surveys have shown the structure is under threat from cracking due to stresses in the ironwork dating from the original construction, ground movement over the centuries and an earthquake in the 19th Century which pushed the two sides of the gorge it spans closer together.

Experts say the bridge is now 305mm (one foot) narrower and the apex 100mm (3.9in) higher than when it was built.

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With major scaffolding in place around the bridge, English Heritage will clean, conserve, repair and where necessary reinforce the iron radials and braces holding it together, deck plates and wedges and the main iron arch.

It will also be repainted to protect it for the future.

Image source, PA