Clive Eakin
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Sky Blues midfield players Liam Kelly and Peter Vincenti have been back in training and hope to return to action soon after recovering from injuries.

Kelly has been sidelined for eight weeks and Vincenti has been out for the last three but manager Mark Robins says both are close to full recoveries.

Defender Rod MacDonald returns to the squad for tomorrow's League Two game at Exeter.

Attacking midfield player Devon Kelly-Evans and loanee Josh Barrett are also back in training and could be involved.

A force is calling for tougher sentences for those who use violence against its staff.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Firefighters are tackling a house fire in Crewe.

There were reports someone was inside.

Furber Street has been closed and neighbouring terraced properties have been evacuated.

Six fire engines are in attendance and searches of the property are being carried out.

Two teenagers broke into Simon Johnson's home to steal cannabis plants in a bungled break-in.

Extra bin lorries, which were brought in to clear the Christmas backlog, will continue to be used to collect recycling in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

The borough council says they will remain while it looks at how to make waste collections more reliable.

All waste going into the trucks is being recycled as normal, the council says.

A seal which has been nursed back to health at a Cheshire RSPCA centre after it became stuck in a drain, has been released back into the sea.

Tyrion arrived at the Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Nantwich in July after being found at Flint in North Wales.

He weighed only a quarter of his ideal weight.

Image source, RSPCA

He was fed fish soup through a tube to start with before moving back to eating whole fish.

Part of Stoke-on-Trent was sealed off by police and a woman needed hospital treatment.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Joe Launchbury, Kyle Eastmond and Simon McIntyre all return to Wasps' starting line-up to face Harlequins in the European Champions Cup meeting at the Stoop tomorrow.

Dai Young has named unchanged back-row, half-back and back three combinations for a third consecutive week.

A couple from Redditch who lost two teenage children to sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) have lost a third child.

Robert and Maggie Underwood have campaigned to get defibrillators in schools since their 16-year-old daughter Charlotte died suddenly in 2010.

Three years later their 17-year-old son Craig died from the same condition.

On the family's charity Facebook page, they've announced that their son Carrick passed away yesterday morning and that they believe his death was heart-related too.

Claire Mackenzie was found collapsed on Sutton New Road in Erdington and died at the scene.

BBC Midlands Today

A hospice has launched an appeal to raise almost £1.5m so it can expand.

The total cost to redevelop St Richard's Hospice in Worcester is more than £5m.

Organisers have managed to raise most of that total with events such as auctioning off a guitar belonging to the musician Ed Sheeran.

BBC News Travel

Disruption to rail services between Birmingham and Coventry is set to last until 18:00 services.

Trains will continue to be delayed, cancelled or revised, said National Rail. , external

There was an incident at Tile Hill.

Andy Street's plan to raise the council tax precept by an average of £10.80 falls.

A Wolverhampton man has been jailed for eight years after trying trying to import explosives from the dark web in an attempt to kill his parents.

Image source, National Crime Agency

Gurtej Singh Randhawa, of Grove lane, Tettenhall tried to buy a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, which was replaced with a dummy device by the National Crime Agency, before it was delivered.

Randhawa pleaded guilty to attempting to import explosives in July 2017 and was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court today.

Randhawa had attempted to purchase the explosives intending to kill his parents, after his mother discovered he was having a relationship with a girl she disapproved of the National Crime Agency said.

Early Land Rover to be restored and put on show after rotting in a Welsh field for 20 years.

Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

Students in Cheshire have knitted jumpers for a group of chickens they've rescued.

The animals, now at the zoo at Reaseheath College, in Nantwich, were rescued from an intensive colony farm.

When they arrived, the chickens were missing feathers and had never been outside.

The students say the jumpers keep the animals warm and have helped them recover and get back to behaving more normally.

Paulette Wilson has been left "traumatised" after she was wrongly detained in October.

BBC Sport

West Ham have issued an "indefinite" ban to a fan who sparked an altercation with West Brom's Jake Livermore by commenting about the death of his infant son.

Image source, Getty Images

The Hammers said the man "violated a number of ground regulations" during their 2-1 win against the Baggies at London Stadium on 2 January.

Livermore, 28, avoided Football Association disciplinary action.

"Abusive behaviour will not be tolerated," said a West Ham spokesman.

The Birmingham-based crime series Peaky Blinders has proved popular again and viewing figures show it was the most-watched drama on BBC Two last year.

It averaged 3.3 million viewers through its run and peaked at 3.6 million for the final episode.

That makes it the most popular Peaky Blinder series so far, ahead of series one and three which both averaged 2.4 million.

And BBC iPlayer figures reveal nearly 60% of the audience viewing the show online were under 35 years old.

Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Crewe Alexandra manager David Artell says he wants to break out of their sequence of winning one game and then losing the next.

That inconsistent run stretches back to November and they travel to Carlisle tomorrow, aiming to win two in a row for the first time this season.

Image source, Getty Images

Artell said that if they carry on with this sequence they should be "fine" at the end of the season, but he went on to say "I don't do fine, you want more than that".