Stuart Roe was attacked in the street in the Black Country during the early hours of Sunday.

Preston sign winger Josh Ginnelly from Walsall for an undisclosed fee on a two-and-a-half-year contract.

Coventry celebrate the new year in style with their third consecutive League One win as they inflict a 2-0 defeat on Wycombe.

England is awash with curious customs dating back hundreds of years.

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BBC News

We hope you have a fantastic night bringing in the New Year.We'll be back from 07:00 on Wednesday with 2019's news, sport, travel and weather.

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BBC Weather

If you're heading out to see in the new year, it could be a bit chilly, so wrap up warm.

And temperatures later in the week are forecast to fall further, down to -3C (27F) in parts of the West Midlands.

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It's been a bit of a grey end to 2018, but we've seen some fantastic photos from the BBC Weather Watchers.

These ones were taken near Lydbury North in Shropshire, Leek in Staffordshire and Southam in Warwickshire.

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Andrew Hewkin
Newsreader, BBC Shropshire

There's been a spate of poaching incidents reported in Shropshire over Christmas.

The first was near Bishop's Castle on Christmas Eve, when a farmer's dogs started barking and torch lights were seen in a field.

Then, on Thursday afternoon, three men were stopped in fields near Bridgnorth and later that night two air rifles were confiscated by police from two men acting suspiciously on the main Bridgnorth to Telford road.

West Midlands Ambulance Service will create a pop-up A&E unit in Birmingham city centre tonight for drunk people in need of its assistance.

The measure is designed to ease pressure on hospitals and 999 services.

There will also be 100 extra ambulances on patrol as the service gears up for one of its busiest nights.

Operations delivery director Nathan Hudson (pictured) said: "Managing people can be quite difficult and challenging for our crews, and also making sure we can safely look after them and our staff is paramount."

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Coventry Blaze play their 1,000th Elite League game tonight, when they travel to face the Nottingham Panthers.

That will be made up of 821 regular season games, 53 playoff games and 126 Elite League cup matches.

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They were one of the founding members of the Elite League when it formed in 2003, not long after moving to Coventry from Solihull, and have won the league title four times.

Detectives investigating the violence at the recent Port Vale-Stoke City derby match say they've now made 37 arrests, but want help identifying eight more people.

Staffordshire Police has released these images of the men officers want to question.

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The force said its last photo appeal resulted in everyone being identified in three days.

Police are trying to trace a man who was reportedly stabbed in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Leegomery area of Telford.

When officers arrived at Lawton Farm Way at 04:21 they found no trace of the man or the person who made the call.

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The force said he was reported to have walked off after the alleged incident.

CCTV footage showed the dumped dog jumping up at the car window, trying to get the man's attention.

Celebrities from the West Midlands have been tweeting their new year messages early this year.

Ozzy Osbourne is planning a party (obviously).

There have also been messages from former sprinter Katharine Merry and 80s pop star Carol Decker.

The pop star was diagnosed after coming off stage following a pantomime performance.

BBC Radio Stoke Sport

Crewe midfielder Paul Green says most teams will struggle to compete with them when they play a high-energy pressing game.

But he also believes the younger players need a bit of guidance and hopes his experience will be a benefit.

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Green has recently returned to the side after time out through injury and said they need to learn to be calm on the ball and he was trying to lead by example.

Aston Villa recall goalkeeper Jed Steer from his season-long loan deal at Charlton Athletic after Orjan Nyland injury.

The body of a woman has been found inside a Black Country flat.

Officers discovered the body after forcing entry into a maisonette in the Charlemont Farm estate, in Wyndmill Crescent, West Bromwich, in the early hours.

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The death is being treated as unexplained and has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is normal procedure in missing people inquiries, West Midlands Police said.

A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Wednesday, the force added.

An array of people including rapper Snoop Dog have come forward to adopt deserted dog Snoop.

A man's been taken to hospital in Stoke-on-Trent after a van overturned on the M6 in Staffordshire.

Emergency services were called just before 14:00 to reports the van had crashed on the northbound carriageway between junctions 15 and 16.

Fire crews from Newcastle and Hanley say they helped free a man from the overturned vehicle.