Allen Cook
BBC News

Train passengers are being urged to find alternative routes this evening if they were planning to use the Cross City railway line between Birmingham New Street and Bromsgrove.

Image source, Network Rail

The line's still closed after two trees fell in succession yesterday on to the line, damaging overhead power lines,, external West Midlands Railway says.

The operator says engineers are still trying to work out what caused the trees to fall but adds that the embankment's very wet and that may have been the issue.

In the meantime, trains aren't running on the line and West Midlands Railway's directing passengers to use National Express buses which are accepting tickets., external

Liz Ellis
Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke

The daughter of a Stoke City player, who died at the age of 42 in 2013, says people still send her family messages of love and support in his memory.

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Paul Ware had been in remission following treatment for a brain tumour, but was taken ill again and died.

He played 141 times during six years at Stoke and helped Lou Macari's side win the Football League Trophy at Wembley in 1992, as well as promotion a year later.

Since his death, his daughter Amy Ware's told BBC Radio Stoke people in Stoke-on-Trent still send them support and it helps keep her family going.

Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer

The Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer is covering these stories today:

• First World War soldiers' scribblings may be lost forever, external
• Firefighters tackle hedge blaze in Oswestry, external
• Rise in jobless figures for Oswestry attributed to Universal Credit switch-over, external

Daniel Sandford
Home Affairs Correspondent

A 29-year-old man from Birmingham arrested in connection with the car crash outside Parliament is now being investigated for attempted murder, according to Scotland Yard.

Salih Khater, a UK citizen, but is originally from Sudan, was detained yesterday on suspicion of terrorism.

Here is what we know so far:

• There are unconfirmed indications that he may have spent some time in Libya between 2008 and 2010.
• He came to Britain in 2010 as a refugee and did an English language course in Birmingham.
• He then possibly worked as a security guard before taking a Diploma in Science between 2014 and 2017.
• The last course he did was in accountancy at Coventry University.

Image source, Facebook

Within the last two years he became a British citizen.

Police are trying to work out why he apparently deliberately drove a car into the security barriers round Parliament, injuring three cyclists.

His brother Abdullah Khater told the BBC that the family was in a state of shock.

He said Salih was a normal person and they had seen no sign of him being an extremist.

Allen Cook
BBC News

A bridge that was only built last year to replace an 18th Century one that collapsed is going to be shut for two nights after being hit by a vehicle.

Back in 2016, the Grade II-listed Eastham Bridge, in Worcestershire, fell apart and its apex plunged into the River Teme as a school minibus attempted to cross.

A new £2m bridge near Tenbury Wells opened to traffic in April 2017.

But today, Worcestershire County Council says it'll be closed tonight and tomorrow night f, externalor "minor repairs".

A seventh man has been arrested in Rugby as part of a crackdown on drug dealing in the local area.

Police in Warwickshire say, external they arrested a 30-year-old man at a property on Wentworth Road in Rugby, as part of Project Palladium this morning.

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The man's been questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Officers say one man has been charged as part of the on-going investigation.

The Met Office is warning drivers to expect heavy rain , externalin the West Midlands overnight, saying the roads may be particularly slippery.

Downpours should disappear through Thursday morning.

Police apologise to anybody caught up in traffic on the A444 between Coventry and Nuneaton.

Stephanie Barnard
BBC News

The Cross City railway line between Birmingham New Street, Longbridge, Redditch and Bromsgrove remains closed.

West Midlands Railway this morning said the line would reopen at midday, but has since apologised on Twitter saying Network Rail engineers remain on site.

The line closed after a landslip and fallen trees on the track.

Image source, West Midlands Railway

The train operator says, external tickets are still being accepted on Network West Midlands bus routes.

Birmingham Live

Here are some of the top stories to feature online today:

• Westminster terror suspect named as Salih Khater, external after police raided Birmingham addresses
• Counter terrorism cops search Stratford Road address in Sparkhill after Parliament car crash, external
• Killer driver stopped for McDonald's as friend lay dying after falling from his bonnet, external

BBC News England

The buried remains of a stately home in Staffordshire are among the remnants of England's ancient past which this summer's heatwave has revealed to archaeologists.

Surveys from the air have revealed Neolithic ceremonial monuments, Iron Age settlements, square burial mounds and a Roman farm.

They include the buried foundations of Tixall Hall, near Stafford, which was built in 1555 but demolished in the 1920s., external

In each case the remains are revealed as differences in colour or in the height of crops or grass.

Sophie Calvert
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

"Persistent and aggressive" begging could be banned from a town centre if people feel it's on the increase.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough councillors have already agreed the ban in principle but said it has to go to a six-week public consultation, which is now starting., external

Under the plans, the issue would be added as another condition to a current Public Space Protection Order, which already prohibits things like street drinking and car cruising.

The local authority says it believes there has been a rise in persistent and aggressive begging in the last year.

Anyone caught breaching the order would face an automatic £100 fine.

The Fire and Rescue Service say arson is not being ruled out as the cause of the fire in the Roaches.

BBC WM Sport

Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Walsall are all in the hat for tonight's draw for the second round of the Carabao Cup.

Birmingham City were the only losers in last night's first-round games - going down 2-0 to Reading.

The draw takes place tonight at 19:00.

Hereford Times

These are some of the stories on the Hereford Times' website today:

• Curry restaurant boss's illegal workers shock, external
• Changes to on-street parking, external
• Retired draughtsman took his own life, inquest hears, external

Lucie Plant
BBC Hereford and Worcester

Image source, Danielson Wilde

A road's been shut in Hereford after a digger fell into a hole in the middle of roadworks.

Herefordshire Council says it happened on Three Elms Road, which is shut from the junction with the A4103 to Three Elms Business Park., external

It says recovering the digger could take until around 17:00.

Image source, Herefordshire Council

ONS finds the region recorded a 5.8% in annual house price rise, while London had the biggest decline.

Scope shop staff are planning to auction the Ralf Schumacher outfit online.

A man is believed to have been hit and it is thought an altercation may have begun on the M5.

England and Worcester centre Ben Te'o says his injury problems of the past year left him contemplating his future in the sport.