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

Andy Giddings
BBC News

We'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 tomorrow, but keep an eye out here for more updates this evening and into the morning.

BBC Sport

Wasps say they've sold more than 25,000 tickets for Saturday's Premiership match against Gloucester at the Ricoh Arena.

It means they'll have their biggest home crowd of the season so far, beating the 22,148 who turned out for the visit of Leicester Tigers earlier this month

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The club could beat the 26,292 attendance that saw last season's "Christmas Cracker" against Bath.

Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Port Vale have welcomed two of their long-term injured players back into action in a reserve team fixture this afternoon.

Goalkeeper Rob Lainton and defender Joe Davis both featured against Doncaster Rovers.

Image source, Port Vale FC

Port Vale manager said that with options thin on the ground in defence at the moment, it was especially good to see Davis get a run out.

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.

A guitar donated by Ed Sheeran has raised £4,500 for a hospice.

The singer-songwriter donated the signed instrument to St Richard's hospice in Worcester as a thank you for the care they gave to someone close to him.

The guitar was sold at auction and was hotly contested until the auction closed at midday yesterday.

The winner is a supporter of the hospice who wants to remain anonymous but the guitar will be someone's Christmas present.

The money raised will go towards supporting the hospice's free specialist care.

Image source, St Richard's hospice

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.

Image source, PA

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

James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire

AFC Telford United face a long trek up to the north east to play an FA Trophy match away to Blyth Spartans tonight.

The match was due to take place last week but was postponed because of the cold weather.

Edwards said he was aware of Blyth's previous cup success and that they had a reputation for no-nonsense football.

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.

Image source, West Midlands Police

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.

A woman returns to the hospital that saved her life 25 years ago with an unusual gift.

James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire

The New Saints could pull four points clear at the top of the Welsh Premier League table with a win over third-placed Connah's Quay tonight.

It will be the first match at Oswestry's Park Hall stadium since 25 November and the first league match for TNS since their away win to Cefn Druids at the end of last month.

Victory for the visitors would see them close within a point of TNS and give Bangor City the chance to leapfrog them at the top.

Press Association

Britain has much more to lose than the rest of the EU from disruptions to trade caused by Brexit, say researchers from the University of Birmingham.

The study says Britain is in "a very weak bargaining position" as talks on the future relationship get under way.

According to the academics' report, regions which voted Leave in last year's referendum are among the most vulnerable to an economic hit to their incomes and growth rates.