Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Crewe Alexandra's young striker Daniel Udoh is expected to be allowed to go out on loan again, despite having only just returned from Halesowen.

The 21-year-old is believed to be moving to a National League club.

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Manager David Artell said he'd be having a chat with the player to discuss his development in the next couple of days.

Bob Hockenhull
BBC Midlands Today

Demolition work has begun on one of Wolverhampton's most run-down estates.

This morning bulldozers started tearing down buildings in Heath Town as part of a multimillion-pound redevelopment project. , external

More than 300 new homes are to be built in their place.

An owl which was rescued from the flue of a wood burner has been released back into the wild.

It was completely covered in black soot when it was discovered at the house near Ellesmere on 19 November and RSPCA officers took 90 minutes to free him.

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The owl was taken to the Cuan Wildlife Centre in Much Wenlock to be cared for, before being returned to the house where he was found and released in the garden.

The former couple, who ran Birmingham Dogs Home, admit defrauding the charity.

West Midlands Police is investigating reports of shots being fired in the Winson Green area of Birmingham yesterday.

They are believed to have been fired from a car and aimed at a blue Ford Focus on Crabtree Road.

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No-one is reported to have been injured, but police want to speak to anyone who saw any suspicious activity or who was caught up in the incident.

Georgia Walton died at the scene after a crash between a car and a lorry.

Hospitals in Shrewsbury and Telford are asking for more money to deal with an expected increase in patients this winter.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has already been given more than £2m by NHS England, but is looking to spend another £1.5m on top of that.

The chief executive of the hospital trust, Simon Wright, said the biggest challenge would be finding extra staff and that it wouldn't be a "quick fix".

Worcester News

Here are three of the top stories from the Worcester News today:

• Much-criticised Christmas tree damaged by vandals, external
• Police investigate 10 days of crime in city road, external
• Hospital trolleys 'last resort' for emergency patients, external

Simon Bramhall was accused of branding his initials into a patient's liver.

A one-minute applause will be held on the seventh minute of Stoke's game against Liverpool tonight in memory of a seven-year-old fan.

Lewis Crossley from south Cheshire, external had been battling Leukaemia for two years, and passed away earlier this month.

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Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today

A freight route running through Birmingham is among the rail routes shut in the 1960s Beeching cuts that the government is looking to reopen.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said rail lines would be reopened if they unlock jobs, encourage house building, ease congestion and offer "value for money".

But government plans to reopen lines them could be restricted because some routes have been built on.

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A lack of long-term planning has meant many closed lines in the Midlands would require compulsory purchase orders to get them reopened.

Interestingly, the Jewellery line in Birmingham and the Ivanhoe line in Leicestershire, to name but two, are former lines that were closed and now considered success stories.

BBC Sport

Worcestershire will open their 2018 County Championship division one season with two successive away matches.

The Pears will start life back in the top division with a trip to Hampshire on Friday, 13 April, followed by an away game at Somerset.

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The first home Championship game at New Road will be against Nottinghamshire starting on Friday, 27 April.

International aerospace and defence firm Meggitt has confirmed it plans to build a £130m factory and research facility at Coventry's Ansty Park.

It says it could create up to 1,000 jobs.

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The company says it hopes to have the site open by 2019.

Work to repair a Shropshire bridge damaged by a lorry yesterday will be carried out this week, with temporary barriers installed on the sides, to make it safe again.

Shropshire Council said Broad Bridge, near Stableford, will be reopened with temporary traffic lights once that is complete.

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The local authority said workmen would also retrieve stonework from the river below. Permanent repairs are likely to take place in the spring.

Birmingham Mail

Here are some of the stories making the headlines on the Birmingham Mail website this morning:

• Elderly man hit by double-decker bus outside busy train station, external
• Rainbow Venues to shut for good - how and why the decision was made, external
• Misconduct rap for two cops after mother-and-baby murder - but no disciplinary action, external

A dog has died in Staffordshire after picking-up a rare kidney disease called Alabama Rot.

Many dog walkers have taken to social media telling people to avoid Cannock Chase, though vets say it's not possible to say exactly where it was contracted or how.

Vet Philip Parry-Smith explains some of the symptoms to look out for: "Some dogs may start with blue-coloured stools and diarrhoea before any skin lesions appear.

"The kidneys are beginning to get damaged. Lots of dogs come in with skin lesions so it's how you differentiate between a so-called normal lesion and Alabama Rot."

Design and production of commemorative mugs began within minutes of the royal engagement announcement.

West Brom appoint former Newcastle and Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew as manager until the end of the 2019-20 season.

A girl who died in a crash on the A53 at the weekend has been named by police as 17-year-old Georgia Walton from Market Drayton.

The car she was driving was involved in a collision with a lorry at Blore Heath at 22:35 on Sunday and she died at the scene.

Image source, Staffordshire Police

The roof on Severn Valley Railway's new Bridgnorth station building is almost complete, with the trusses now in place.

The next step will be to add a watertight covering so that workmen can get to work inside.

Image source, Chris Bond

The slates for the rood aren't expected to arrive until the spring, but contractors have been meeting the designer of the building to agree how it will be assembled.

Image source, Chris Bond

The station is getting a new refreshment block and toilets as part of a multimillion-pound improvement project, partly funded by a share issue which raised more than £2.5m.