Young people who missed out on voting on Brexit share their views.

John "Goldfinger" Palmer's family say they are haunted by a killer who stalked him "like an animal".

Birmingham Live

Some of the main stories on the Birmingham Live website today include:

• Man arrested after brawl , externalinvolving 'meat cleaver'
• National Express free bus ticket 'fiasco' sees passengers denied freebies, external
• Hundreds of 'controlling and coercive' husbands escaping justice, external

Fire crews are tackling a house fire on Dudley Road in Tipton.

The road is closed in both directions between Birmingham New Road and Castle Street.

Everyone has been accounted for, said the fire service.

A man in his 40s died after being found unconscious in Telford on Monday.

The government says it will make a decision "in due course" whether to allow some football fans to stand at Premier League and Championship games.

Shrewsbury Town, in League One, recently installed more than 500 rail seats in its stadium, while West Brom had a proposal to introduce them at The Hawthorns rejected by the government shortly before relegation to the Championship.

At present stadiums in the top two divisions are "all-seater" as a result of safety concerns following the Hillsborough disaster.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Plans to create a car park to ease congestion around a Stoke-on-Trent mosque have been withdrawn because of an unspecified "procedural issue".

More than 400 people have signed a petition calling for the 25-space car park to be created on Lower Spring Road and traffic surveys found 63 vehicles either double parked or parked on the pavement on one Friday last month.

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Stoke-on-Trent city council now plans to resubmit an amended application, but will have to consult on the proposals, which have been opposed by some because it will mean six trees being chopped down.

It said the decision to withdraw the original application was made "after considering legal advice earlier this week on an alleged procedural issue".

James Pearson
Political reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

A public inquiry into the performance of Diamond Buses in the Wyre Forest has heard evidence that 15% of services are early, late or don’t turn up at all.

At a hearing in Kidderminster this morning, the Traffic Commissioner for the West Midlands was told an investigation had shown Diamond's reliability in the area was worse than in the rest of the region.

If judged not good enough by the Commissioner, the bus company could have its operating licence suspended or revoked.

The family of a woman who died after getting trapped in an airing cupboard speak of their pain.

West Mercia Police say they were called to an address in Lavender Road, Worcester, on Thursday.

Parents and teachers across the region are being urged to speak to children about knife crime, ahead of the school holidays.

In the year to March 2018 there were 20 murders involving a knife in the West Midlands.

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The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, Dave Thompson, said "heart to heart" conversations could save lives.

He described the deaths of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson and Ozell Pemberton, 16, last month as "sickening" and said "we owe it to young people to work with them to make them safe".

He will be visiting a school in Birmingham today along with the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson.

A bus company in Birmingham has apologised after some customers were left unable to access free tickets it had promised.

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National Express West Midlands offered passengers a day of free travel today to people who downloaded Clean Air Day tickets using the company's app.

The site was closed for a time overnight "due to extremely high volumes of requests" the company said.

"We needed to make sure that we could process all the requests securely, and also make sure customers weren’t requesting tickets overnight that we couldn’t fulfill before the morning.”

The site was back up and running, external, just after 08:00 today it said.

The World Cup is still being played and the English Football League fixtures have only just been released, but Welsh champions The New Saints have started their pre-season friendlies already.

The Oswestry-based side beat Cefn Druids 1-0 last night, with a goal from Aaron Edwards.

TNS are due to play their first Champions League qualifying game of the new season next month.

More than £38m will be spent on Staffordshire's roads in this financial year.

That includes £5m which has already come from the government to fix potholes.

The county council has approved more than £30m to be used for the upkeep and repair of the roads.

Shropshire Star

Here are three headlines from the Shropshire Star today:

• Boy, 16, charged with murdering man in Telford, external
• ‘Nothing to fear’ over Shropshire car parking changes, say officials, external
• Jobs boost as Oswestry firm plans bigger HQ, external

Ernie Hunt, scorer of the famous 'donkey kick' free-kick for Coventry City in 1970, dies at the age of 75.

BBC Sport

Kent are batting again after bowling out Warwickshire for just 125 on day two of their county championship match at Tunbridge Wells.

Jonathan Trott (pictured below) was the only batsman to reach 50 for the visitors.

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At New Road the Worcestershire bowlers have reduced Lancashire from 77-1 to 105-7 and they lead by 142.

One man has been taken to hospital after his car hit the roadside railings of the A45 Fletchamstead Highway in Coventry today.

Emergency services were called to the westbound carriageway, close to Canley fire station, shortly after 10:00.

One lane is currently blocked between Canley Road and Sir Henry Parkes Road.

A former election candidate for Stoke-on-Trent Central who is facing racial hatred charges, has told a court she was trying to educate people.

Barbara Fielding-Morriss stood as an independent in a by-election, and the general election in 2017, and is representing herself at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.

The 79-year-old yesterday told to the court she despises Jewish people and that Adolf Hitler was the greatest leader the Germans had ever had, but denies the articles published on her website between 30 September 2016 and 15 September 2017 were threats.

Her final statement to the jury was: "Don’t mind if you find me guilty as I’ve done my best to save you from extinction.”

The case is continuing with the jury is expected to retire later.

BBC Weather Watchers

Some of our BBC Weather Watchers were up early this morning to capture sunrise on the longest day of the year.

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