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Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today
It will mainly be cloudy but dry tonight - overnight, we'll see heavy rain spreading across the West Midlands - lows of 6C (43F).
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Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Port Vale's owner Norman Smurthwaite says he may enter into an exclusivity agreement with a potential buyer for the club on Friday.
Image source, Port Vale FCThe club's been for sale since December 2015 and, since then, Smurthwaite has rejected a £1.25m takeover from two local firms.
He told BBC Radio Stoke that the potential buyer would be willing to buy the football club but not the ground in the short term.
Smurthwaite says they may be able to afford to do so over a period of five years.
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Local MP Ged Killen describes the news as a "devastating blow" for the workforce and the community.
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Anna Russell
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Bromsgrove's market is going to go back under the control of the district council.
Last night, councillors in the cabinet agreed to support a motion to bring the market back in-house., external
Image source, Bromsgrove District CouncilFor the last three years it's been run by a private operator, but that agreement ends in June amid concerns about the market's financial viability.
The council says it will now look at running it in partnership with the stall holders.
The former Birmingham university campus is set to be demolished within five months.
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BBC Sport
Stoke City boss Paul Lambert says he's confident his side "will win games" as they battle to avoid relegation.
Image source, PAThe Potters are four points from safety in the Premier League with just five games left, a maximum of 15 points on offer to the club.
They play West Ham on Monday with the Hammers six points clear of the relegation zone in 14th.
Quote MessageYou need a little bit of luck at certain times. Our performance has been really high and I can't ask more of the team. If we keep doing what we are doing then we will win games.
Paul Lambert, Stoke City manager
Sarah Robertson
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
Plans for a care home on the edge of a town would make existing traffic issues worse, residents have told BBC Radio Stoke.
Image source, GoogleLNT Care Developments wants to build a 64-bedroom, two-storey property on land surrounded by the A51, Lichfield Road, Stone, external.
But concerns have been raised that it would mean more congestion and residents have said it could be placed elsewhere in the town where there are better transport links, external.
The firm says the site is suitable for a care home and there's local demand for it.
Mark Elliott
BBC News
Councillors in part of Shropshire have refused a government request to house asylum seekers while at the same time agreeing to take 10 more families of Syrian refugees.
Image source, ReutersShropshire Council's been asked by ministers to take part in two different resettlement schemes. , external
For one of them, they've agreed to take 10 more Syrian refugee families, saying they already have the infrastructure in place to support them, having already resettled 15 Syrian families.
But councillors said they didn't have the same kind of structures in place to take in 25 single male asylum seekers, so refused the Home Office's request.
Jennie Aitken
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
Traders at a city market have told BBC Radio Stoke that plans to relocate it from it's current site could end up ruining it.
Fenton Market's been held on its current site at a car park in Stoke-on-Trent for the last 34 years.
Image source, GoogleBut the city council wants to move it to a new location near the cenotaph to make way for new housing.
In response, the authority says it will consult on the idea of the move but says the new site - 50m away - could host more stallholders.
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Matt Davis
BBC Sport
Sunday morning football is a "powder keg waiting to explode", says a referee who is quitting after allegedly being assaulted by a player for the second time in his career.
Ross Hawkes claims he was attacked by a Brereton Town player last weekend after sending him off for dissent during a cup game against fellow Cannock Chase Football League side Talbot FC.
Image source, Lichfield and Walsall District Football LeagueThe 36-year-old says he was punched and kicked, leaving him with a cut eye and injuries to his legs. The game was abandoned and Staffordshire Police say it is investigating reports of an assault.
The incident comes seven years after Hawkes - who is paid £30 per game - was assaulted by another player.
Quote MessageI have been assaulted twice and it has got worse. The third assault? I do not like to think what that might be. I do not think I can carry on or want to - the risks are too dangerous. Why should I put up with that on a Sunday morning? No amount of money would make it acceptable.
Ross Hawkes, Referee
Vamos Theatre creates wordless productions performed by actors in masks.
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BBC Business News
The last remaining Toys R Us stores in the West Midlands will be shut by the end of the month as administrators say they're winding up the firm.
They include the branches in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Solihull and Coventry.
Administrators were appointed in February following the failure to find a buyer for the UK's biggest toy retailer.
They say the more than 2,000 remaining employees will be paid until their last day of work, with the final stores closing on 24 April.
West Brom want to build a team with "greater goal power" to "capture the fans imagination," chief executive Mark Jenkins says.
Read MoreA sculptor starts work on a statue of a man who helped an estimated 10,000 Jews escape Nazi Germany.
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Stephanie Barnard
BBC News
A man in his 20s is being treated in hospital after he was stabbed in a hospital car park this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service says three ambulances helped the man after an incident involving two people in the front car park at about 11:00. The man's injuries are said to be "minor".
Image source, GoogleA spokesperson for Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital said it was helping police with its inquiries.
A woman says she's been unable to walk for two months and has been left with a permanent disability after she was attacked by a ram.
Rebecca Stanners from Yarpole says she was on a public footpath when it happened
She shattered her kneecap and had to have major surgery but still can't walk, work or drive.
Quote MessageI think I will perhaps be anxious about walking by myself again, I'll be anxious if there is livestock in the field, I won't necessarily be able to run away if there's a risk and I will probably opt to walk with somebody else, maybe take a phone with me."
Rebecca Stanners, Ram attack victim
Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson says retailers have a "responsibility" to not sell car theft devices.
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