Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

Spells of rain should continue overnight, before moving away leaving clearer spells with lows of 7C (45F).

The funeral of stabbed schoolgirl Mylee Billingham has taken place in Brownhills.

Mourners were invited to wear "bright and beautiful" clothing in memory of the eight-year-old.

Mylee was stabbed at a bungalow in Brownhills on 20 January.

Her father William Billingham has been charged with her murder.

Mum Clare Maceachen says she repeatedly reported the advert to Facebook but it was not removed.

Joan Cummins
Midlands Today reporter

A controlled explosion has taken place on an area of land in Coventry where bomb disposal teams have been investigating reports of explosives.

Residents in a part of Whoberley have been evacuated from their homes after what is thought to be suspicious items were found after a search of a property in Brookside Avenue.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Carmelo Garcia

Residents near Leominster are hoping to secure the future of a popular pub.

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The Bell Inn at Yarpole is for sale for £325,000 and the local community is hoping to come together to buy it.

The pub is registered as a community asset and a meeting to discuss its future will take place at St Leonard's Church on 3 May at 19:00.

The meeting will explain how the pub can be purchased from its current owner Enterprise Inns and organisers say their plan would involve looking for a suitable tenant to run it as a free house.

Lucie Plant
BBC Hereford and Worcester

A new football team set up for diabetic players hopes it will be able to play in an international competition.

Student Chris Bright, from Worcester, set up the Futsal side for people with type 1 diabetes.

A friend pays tribute to the darts legend ahead of his funeral and remembers his "sheer arrogance".

Stoke-on-Trent Live

Among today's stories:

• Woman killed her own mother through neglect - after leaving her sitting in a chair for ONE YEAR, external
• IT recyclers jailed for VAT fraud and laundering - after claiming to be selling computers to Africa, external
• Two-car accident on Stoke-on-Trent Road, external

Unsold food from the supermarket is the centrepiece of social events run by the Salvation Army.

A celebration is held for the five-time world darts champion who died this month at the age of 60.

Simon Byrne is accused of bullying but his lawyers failed in an attempt to have the hearing thrown out.

BBC Radio Stoke Sport

Stoke City captain Ryan Shawcross says a "number of things" have led to the club being on the verge of relegation from the Premier League.

Stoke are four points from safety with just three games left to play.

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Phil McCann
Cheshire Political Reporter, BBC News

The chief constable of Cheshire Police is considering launching a legal challenge after he failed in his attempt to get a string of bullying allegations thrown out on legal grounds.

Simon Byrne is alleged to have "exhibited volatile, unpredictable and offensive behaviour".

His lawyers applied to have the gross misconduct claims dismissed following "procedural errors", but a disciplinary panel decided that while there had been flaws in the investigation, they did not cause "serious prejudice".

Mr Byrne's gross misconduct hearing has now been adjourned until July to give him time to launch a judicial review.

Residents on a street in Coventry are still waiting to gain access to their properties after homes were evacuated for a bomb disposal team to carry out an investigation.

Brookside Avenue remains closed as a precaution, police say.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested under the Explosives Act.

Disposal experts were called following a police search of a property. According to the West Midlands force, its officers found "suspicious items".

Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

A private funeral for darts legend Eric Bristow MBE is taking place in Stoke-on-Trent this afternoon.

The man known as the Crafty Cockney died on 5 April at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack.

A private service is being held at Camountside Crematorium.

Guests have been asked to wear darts or football shirts to the funeral which will then be followed by celebrations at The Rewind Bar in Leek.

A self-driving car that can "see" around corners is being developed in a partnership between the University of Warwick and Jaguar Land Rover, the university says.

Image source, Warwick Manufacturing Group

Its Warwick Manufacturing Group is working with the car company on the £4.7m AutopleX project designed to develop enhanced capability.

The university says the scheme combines connected, automated and live mapping tech to allow the autonomous vehicles to "see" and "talk" to each other.

Professor Mehrdad Dianti from the university said enabling the vehicles to safely operate in complex environments was a "crucial challenge toward realisation of fully autonomous cars".

Faith Page
Reporter, BBC Shropshire

A replica First World War trench system near Oswestry is to be rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire.

Two underground rooms built as part of a £30,000 complex were completely destroyed at Park Hall Countryside Experience.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service says it is investigating the cause of the blaze.

Mark Hignett, from Oswestry Town Museum, which supervised the construction, says all that's left of the underground rooms is "a blackened hole in the ground".

He said: "We can rebuild them but obviously I'm annoyed; a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that."

Kate Whittock is the first nurse in the UK to have carried out a procedure usually done by doctors.

Police want to identify the owners of the animal, believed to be an American Bulldog.

Dean Lowe lived in blood-stained flat for four months after murdering Kirby Noden, a court hears.