Leon Legge's second-half header secures victory for Port Vale in a tight derby encounter at Crewe.

Gavin Reilly scores his first goal for Bristol Rovers to help them beat Coventry at the Memorial Stadium.

Solihull Moors thrash Bromley 5-0 to condemn the visitors to their fourth successive National League defeat.

West Bromwich Albion record their fifth straight home win in the Championship by overcoming stubborn Millwall at the Hawthorns.

Wasps resist a gutsy effort by 14-man Leicester to earn a narrow win in a thrilling eight-try game at the Ricoh Arena.

The pedestrian suffered a serious head injury in the crash in Coventry.

From Belfast to Buxton to Biddulph, her performance as secretary of state is being watched with interest.

Two men convicted of murder are challenging the anonymity of a key witness in the deaths of two girls.

Sunaina Singh says her body is "giving up" and a donor is her "only hope".

Sunaina Singh says her body is "giving up" and a donor is her "only hope".

We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 on Monday.

James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire

With the minor counties cricket season finally finishing this week, Shropshire's Alexei Kervezee is officially the top run-scorer for 2018., external

Image source, Shropshire County Cricket Club

The former Worcestershire man, who's in his first season for Shropshire, hit 748 runs in six matches, for an average of 74.80.

Kervezee’s top score was 166 in the first innings of the match against the eventual league champions Berkshire.

Shropshire's captain Steve Leach says Kervezee's contributions were "outstanding".

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A town's going to have a temporary fire station while work's carried out to create a shared base with the local police force.

Image source, Google

This week, plans for both emergency services to work from the Crewe fire station site on Macon Way were approved. , external

Cheshire's Fire Authority today said that once the final design has been decided on it could take up to three years for the work to be completed.

Andre Rhoden-Paul
BBC News

Two elderly Stoke-on-Trent brothers have been jailed for historical sex offences., external

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Brian Salt, 76, of Casewell Road, was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court today.

He was found guilty following a trial in August of three counts of indecent assault on a male.

His brother Joseph Salt, 80, of Malton Grove, Tunstall, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment.

He was found guilty of two counts of rape, three counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child, after a trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court in January.

Phil Bowers
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

Three shops in Stoke-on-Trent are being investigated for selling knives to teenagers. , external

The city council says 11 stores across the city were tested as part of a week-long police knife crime operation.

Trading standards officers and police caught the shops involved when they sold a Stanley knife (pictured, example), paring knives and a kitchen knife to 15-year-old boys.

In all cases, they didn't ask for ID from the children making the purchases.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
Carl Jackson

A city council could be forced to strip services back to the "legal minimum" as it looks to make £100m cuts in less than two years.

Birmingham City councillors heard this week that the authority was now "priority budgeting" for next year and for 2019/20.

The authority's finance director Clive Heaphy said there is growing demand for statutory services at the same time as resources are going down.

He told them that it could mean the council resorting to its "minimum criteria" of offering services it is legally obliged to provide, such as for vulnerable adults and children.

This financial year, the city council's making £53m of cuts and still having to raid its reserves of £30.5m to balance the budget.

However, latest financial reports revealed the authority is set for a £12.1m overspend, mainly because of spiralling costs in waste collection and travel assist services.

BBC WM

The mum of a 10-year-old is calling for better testing for meningitis after her daughter lost both legs to the disease.

Image source, Aimee Partridge

Brogen-Lei Partridge, from Rednal, was seven when she was struck down with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia in 2016, but was initially treated for a sickness bug at A&E and sent home.

After developing a rash, her family took her to a GP where she was then accurately diagnosed.

A report this week by the Meningitis Research Foundation, external found half of children with bacterial meningitis are sent home after seeing their GP for the first time.

Mum Aimee said she believes if more testing had been done, her daughter would still have both her legs, and advised parents to "question medical experts" and "trust your instincts" when dealing with poorly children.

Hereford Times

The Hereford Times website is covering these stories today:

• Grandmother caught drunk behind the wheel, external
• Greenpeace volunteers hand back plastic packaging at supermarkets, external
• Minor injury unit closed due to staff sickness, external

Vicky Norton
BBC Radio Stoke

A couple escaped injury after a tree fell on to their bungalow in the strong winds overnight.

Cheshire Police says it happened at around 01:30 on Hospital Lane, Ravensmoor, Nantwich.

They say no-one was hurt although the road was blocked for several hours.

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Exactly a century after he was killed in World War One, the only Herefordshire-born soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross has been honoured today.

Allan Leonard Lewis took part in the final allied push to break the German Hindenburg Line but was killed on 21 September 1918.

Today, a bronze statue of him was unveiled at the Old Market shopping centre with full military honours and a plaque in his memory was also unveiled at Hereford Cathedral., external