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Andy Giddings
BBC News
We'll be back with the latest news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 tomorrow, but keep an eye out here for more updates this evening and into the morning.
Sophie Calvert
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has elected a woman as its leader for the first time in its history. , external
City Independent Ann James (pictured) succeeds Dave Conway, who has stepped down for health reasons.
Image source, Stoke-on-Trent City CouncilHe'd been diagnosed with macular degeneration, which causes people to lose central vision.
After the official confirmation, Councillor James said it was an honour and she was looking forward to carrying on the job that her group had already started.
BBC News England
The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby says she will be kept busy at a retreat set up in his name on the fifth anniversary of his death.
Foundation work takes mum's mind off anniversary
Fusilier Rigby, from Middleton, Rochdale, was killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale outside Woolwich barracks in London on 22 May 2013.
His parents set up the Lee Rigby Foundation to help veterans and their families recover from loss or trauma and will spend the day working at Lee Rigby Lodge in Oakamoor, Staffordshire.
BBC WM Sport
West Bromwich Albion are refusing to comment on reports that Darren Moore is to take permanent charge at The Hawthorns.
Image source, ReutersMoore won three of his six matches as caretaker, losing only once, after succeeding Alan Pardew in April.
But he couldn't prevent relegation from the Premier League.
The Daily Mail , externalsays Moore has beaten off competition from the former Walsall boss Dean Smith, now at Brentford, in the race to succeed Pardew.
The Dudley News has these headlines today:
A commemorative walk has been held at RAF Cosford in Shropshire to mark the 75th anniversary of the Dambuster raids.
It was made up of 19 teams of seven walkers, each one representing one of the seven-man 19 Lancaster bombers which took part in the raid.
Image source, RAF CosfordThe walkers set off at 21:28 yesterday and finished at 06:15 this morning, to represent the times when the first Lancaster took off and the last one landed at RAF Scampton in 1943.
The event has raised around £40,000 for charity and involved military personnel and civilians.
Workers have started to install a safe-standing area at Shrewsbury Town's stadium.
The regular plastic seats are being replaced with more than 500 rail seats, which can fold up to allow fans to stand.
It will make Shrewsbury the first football team in England and Wales to have a safe-standing area.
This is how the stadium might sound on match day with the new rail seating installed
Bristol City installed a small safe standing area at its Ashton Gate stadium in 2014, but they have only been used for rugby matches.
Warwickshire have been beaten by 57 runs in their One Day Cup match against Derbyshire at Edgbaston.
The visitors set them a target of 360 to win the game, and Sam Hain was the only batsman to make a big score, with 108 off 101 balls.
They were eventually bowled out for 300 with Keith Barker the next highest scorer - he was 48 not out at the end.
Warwickshire now travel to play Yorkshire in the same competition on Sunday.
Coventry City manager Mark Robins says mistakes are creeping into training, because the players are thinking about the possibility of a trip to Wembley.
They need to beat Notts County tomorrow night to reach the League Two play-off final, after the two sides drew 1-1 at the Ricoh Arena.
Image source, Getty ImagesRobins said defender Tom Davies has no-one to blame but himself, after being banned for stamping on Notts County's Richard Duffy in the first leg.
He'll miss tomorrow's game and the trip to Wembley, if they get there.
Quote MessageThe quality might not be there, because the minds are on the game and that's basically what's happening. There's enthusiasm, there's running about, there's plenty of thinking about how we can hurt them and what we do."
Mark Robins, Coventry City manager
Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today
The West Midlands has bathed in long, sunny spells today but here's how tonight and Friday are looking:
Shefali Oza
If you need a weather forecast for your part of the region at any other time, head to the BBC Weather website.
The first steps towards holding an inquiry into child sex exploitation in Telford will be taken next week, but Telford and Wrekin Council says it shouldn't be rushed.
A group of six councillors are due to meet on Tuesday 22 May to set out what the aims of the inquiry should be, who should run it and how it can be kept independent.
Image source, GoogleThe authority agreed in April to set aside an initial £350,000 to pay for the inquiry, after the issue was highlighted again in the Sunday Mirror.
Quote MessageThere is a strong desire for the inquiry to be up and running as soon as possible and we are doing that, but we have to balance speed against ensuring a totally independent process that involves local people, even at this early stage, to ensure that the public have confidence in the inquiry process."
Jonathan Eatough, Telford and Wrekin Council
Eddie Browning was jailed for the murder of Marie Wilks in 1988 before later being released.
Read MoreA Worcestershire man, has decided to remove the fake speed camera he set up in his driveway, because of the negative comments he was getting on Facebook.
James Dyke from Clows Top says some people threatened to tear it down or even burn his house down.
Mr Dyke says he set it up to get motorists to think about their speed as they pass through the village and insists he has done nothing illegal, because it is on his land.
He said he had set it up for "the good of the community".
Quote MessageThe comments were in their thousands and it wasn't good, they were so negative about it and why I shouldn't be doing it."
James Dyke
Giles Latcham
BBC Midlands Today
Friends and family of the BBC broadcaster Ed Doolan have remembered him at a memorial service in Birmingham this afternoon.
Among the guests at St Phillip's Cathedral were the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, the comedian Jim Davidson and Midlands Today presenter Nick Owen.
Hundreds of members of the public also turned, external out to pay their respects to Mr Doolan, who died in January.
You can hear the service on BBC WM this evening from 19:00.
Allen Cook
BBC News
All lanes have reopened on the M6 northbound in Cheshire after the earlier four-lorry crash.
It had happened between J18 and J19 and one driver had to be cut free and airlifted to hospital.
Highways England says, after closing it at around 12:30, it was fully reopened just after 17:15, external.
It is dedicated in a ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum.
Read MoreAllen Cook
BBC News
A murder inquiry's been launched after a teenage boy's been stabbed to death., external
Image source, GooglePolice say the 16-year-old was found hurt in Lower Parade, Sutton Coldfield at around 15:30 today.
They say he died at the scene and they've cordoned off the area.
Stoke-on-Trent Live
The Stoke-on-Trent Live website has these headlines this afternoon:
The England manager Gareth Southgate says the former Shrewsbury Town goalie Joe Hart still has an international future, despite not being selected for England's World Cup squad.
Southgate decided to choose Jordan Pickford, Jack Butland and Nick Pope instead and preferred Burnley's Tom Heaton as their backup, if one of those gets injured.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe 31-year-old, who grew up in Shrewsbury, has won 75 caps for England and went to the last four international tournaments with the national side.
A man's been arrested on suspicion of hate crime offences , externalafter a woman was head-butted in an assault that also saw an attacker try to forcibly remove her hijab.
Last month, police say five female students were at Newcastle-under-Lyme bus station when they saw a man urinating in the street.
Image source, GoogleThey say he then approached them, spat at them, made racially abusive comments and then attacked one of them.
Today, officers say a 26-year-old man from Stoke-on-Trent was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault.
