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Kidderminster's Brinton Park is getting just under £218,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund, to pay for its development.

The money has been given to Wyre Forest District Council, which is also contributing £25,000, and will go towards building a cafe and toilets, and restoring the lake and bridge.

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The council is planning to apply for a full grant to allow it to restore the park's heritage aspects, including a bandstand and a World War One memorial.

More than 1,300 people have signed an online petition, external against a planned name change for a Telford school.

Following a sponsorship deal, The Abraham Darby Academy in Madeley will become known as Haberdashers' Abraham Darby.

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The Haberdashers Company is an ancient Merchant Guild of London and the protesters say it's an insult to the Shropshire man who built the world's first iron bridge.

Seven men and women from Stoke-on-Trent have been charged in connection with 14 robberies in north Staffordshire.

Staffordshire Police says the majority of the robberies took place at convenience stores and off licences, and all occurred between November 2016 and January of this year.

The seven, who are aged between 18 and 27, are due before magistrates on Thursday.

Walsall Manor Hospital has been rated as "requires improvement" after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

Two years ago, inspectors found significant improvements were needed - the trust was rated "inadequate" and placed in special measures.

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When inspectors revisited earlier this year they found a number of improvements had been made, but said more work was needed, external.

Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather

We're forecast a misty morning and it will remain overcast for the rest of the day.

Temperatures could reach 11C (52F) in places.

A couple whose son spent his first Christmas in hospital are giving presents to premature babies.

Kasar Jehangir was one of six people killed in the multi-car crash in Birmingham.

British Transport Police will base armed anti-terrorism officers outside London for the first time.

James Bond
BBC Shropshire

Oswestry's balloon festival will be based at Cae Glas park in the town centre next year.

The August bank holiday event, which used to be held in Llangollen, has got permission from the town council to move from the British Ironworks this year

Image source, Drone Rangers

The festival, which supports Wrexham's Nightingale House hospice, will have its costs underwritten by two local balloon companies, Lindstrand and Cloud Nine.

The council also plans to run a continental market outside the park at the same time.

Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter

A largely dry and cloudy night with the risk of some drizzle in places and lows of 5C (36F).

England could be without wing Elliot Daly and back row Nathan Hughes for the start of the Six Nations because of injury.

Ian Perry
BBC Radio Shropshire

A Shropshire game-shooter has launched a conservation trust to help protect the woodcock.

Charlie Pinkney, from Boraton near Ludlow, says the number of breeding males in the UK has fallen by nearly a third since 2003, partly because of shooting.

Mr Pinkney said modern farming techniques, predators and a decline in insect numbers were also factors.

He said he'd offer a bottle of gin to anyone who sent him photos of themselves doffing their cap to the birds, rather than shooting them.

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM

Birmingham City Council has confirmed that bailiffs have been inside the council house today in connection with a £5,000 debt.

Staff were told to comply with the enforcement officers who are believed to have taken computers and other equipment away.

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In a statement the council says it has nothing to do with "suppliers or unpaid bills" and that due to the thousands of legal and financial transactions it deals with, it's not unusual for some to involve the courts.

BBC News Travel

Damage to the overhead electric wires in the Rugby area is causing disruption to journeys between Milton Keynes Central and Coventry / Nuneaton, external, the National Rail website says.

Trains may be delayed by up to 40 minutes or revised.

This is expected to continue until 19:00.

Worcester News

These are some of the headlines in the Worcester News today:

• Crime in Angel Street hits five-year high, external
• Road gridlocked after crash, external
• Arrested man was hiding under clothes in his wardrobe, external

Stephanie Barnard
BBC News

The BBC Midlands Today team has received some stunning photos this morning of the sun rising.

Here's a small selection, including this one by Graham that was taken in Sutton Coldfield this morning.

Image source, Graham Rainbow

Here's fog rolling over the Staffordshire Moorlands.

Image source, Cliff

And how about this stunning pic taken from the river bank at Hereford cathedral this morning?

Image source, Thomas Swan

Tweet @BBCMTD, external or upload your photos to the BBC Midlands Facebook page., external

Former England player Geoff Thomas will receive an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University.

Shropshire Star

Here are three of the headlines from the Shropshire Star's website today:

• Second entrance 'unviable’ for retail park, external
• Four injured in two-car crash, external
• 37 per cent rise in reported cases of child sexual abuse in Shropshire, external

The prison sentence of a homeless man who murdered two members of a family that had supported him is to be challenged at the Court of Appeal for being lenient.

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In October, Aaron Barley admitted murdering Tracey Wilkinson and 13-year-old son Pierce and was jailed for life - with a minimum of 30 years to be served.

Mrs Wilkinson's husband Peter was also stabbed six times in the attack at their home in Stourbridge in March.

Solicitor General Robert Buckland is to argue on Thursday the sentence is unduly lenient.