Port Vale manager Neil Aspin says he understands the fans' disappointment after just one win in December, but says the abuse he's receiving is unacceptable.

The team was booed off following their Boxing Day defeat to Grimsby.

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Port Vale are at home to Oldham Athletic tomorrow and Aspin said he expected the abuse to get worse if the winless run continues.

BBC Business News

Music retailer HMV has confirmed it has called in KPMG as administrators.

The move, the second in six years, involves 2,200 staff at 125 stores.

HMV runs more than 10 stores across the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneaton, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Telford, Stoke-on-Trent, Burton upon Trent, Hereford and Worcester.

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Despite selling 31% of all physical music in the UK in 2018, is said it had suffered a "weak Christmas footfall and a further deterioration in the UK market for CD and DVD".

If you got vouchers for Christmas, you might want to spend them sooner rather than later.

A pleasant memory as we approach the end of the year:

Local Democracy Reporting Service
David Irwin

Public exhibitions – setting out details of Birmingham Airport’s draft masterplan – are due to resume in the new year.

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The proposals, which include the blueprint for future growth at the airport site, are being taken around the region.

Under the plans, it is projected that passenger numbers would rise to 18 million a year by 2033.

Airport bosses argue that further expansion will boost its annual contribution to the local economy to £2.1bn, supporting 34,000 jobs, in around 15 years' time.

Two women have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a woman and her pet dog were rescued from a fire at a property in Coventry.

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More than a dozen firefighters were sent to the blaze at Skipton Lodge, Stoke Heath in the early hours of Thursday morning, said the fire service.

The two, aged 33 and 56, have both been released on police bail pending further investigations.

BBC News Travel

Work to repair potholes on the M6 in Staffordshire is delaying traffic.

Three vehicles had to be recovered earlier after breaking down between Creswell and Hanchurch.

Stoke-on-Trent Live

Here are three stories from the Stoke-on-Trent Live website today:

• Monkey dust addict jailed after he set fire to parents' house, external
• New crackdown on school absences, external
• Neighbour hits out at car repairs workshop, external

Five people - including a mother and her two sons - were killed in the botched £300,000 insurance scam.

The American who beat Herefordshire's Lou Rudd to become the first person to cross Antarctica solo and unaided, has been celebrating his achievement

Colin O'Brady set off on the same day as his rival and completed the trek in 54 days, writing on Instagram afterwards: "We turned our dream into reality and proved that The Impossible First is indeed possible."

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Captain Rudd is due to finish his journey later today and described it as a "minor miracle" that two people could have completed the crossing within the space of a couple of days, when nobody had done it before - but added he hadn't been treating it as a race.

Three men, found guilty of murder after an explosion at a shop killed five people, lit 26 litres of petrol in the basement of the Polish shop, Leicestershire Police said.

The investigation led police to trawl through more than 700 hours of CCTV footage, and examine more than 2,500 exhibits, 1,000 witness statements and 4,000 different lines of inquiry.

Arkan Ali, 38, of Drake Close in Oldham; 33-year-old Hawkar Hassan, of Eld Road in Coventry; and Aram Kurd, 34, of Hillary Place in Leicester, had denied five counts of murder in addition to conspiracy to commit fraud.

The three were remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 18 January.

BBC Sport

Aston Villa are again likely to be without midfielder Jack Grealish for their visit to Preston North End tomorrow.

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They have failed to win any of their past three home games, but ninth-placed Villa's victory at Swansea on Boxing Day means that they have picked up 10 points from their past four away matches.

Dean Smith's side are now just three points outside the play-offs, eight points clear of 17th-placed North End, who are seven points clear of the relegation zone.

Coventry Live

Some of Coventry Live's headlines today are:

• The astonishing amount of meals donated by Coventry people to the needy, external
• Armed police called toreports of man with gun, external
• Land Rover unveils first official Defender pictures, external

BBC Weather Watchers

We've seen some fantastic early-morning photos from the BBC Weather Watchers today.

Including these, taken near Spetchley and Broadwas in Worcestershire and Market Drayton in Shropshire.

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CCTV images have been released of two men police would like to speak to in connection with a robbery at Birmingham New Street station.

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A man was punched in the face and had alcohol poured over him during the incident on 25 November.

The pair took his bag and ran off towards Navigation Street, said transport police., external

BBC News Travel

A crash has partially closed Birmingham New Road, close to Lawnswood Avenue in Wolverhampton.

Buses are being diverted away from the northbound carriageway.

Three men have been found guilty of murder after an explosion at a shop in Leicester killed five people.

The blast destroyed a Polish supermarket and the flat above it where a family lived on Hinckley Road on 25 February.

The city's crown court heard the men caused the explosion in order to make about £300,000 in an insurance scam.

Hawkar Hassan, 32, of Eld Road Coventry, along with Arkan Ali, 37, of Oldham and Arum Kurd, 33, of Leicester have also been convicted of insurance fraud.

BBC Sport

Coventry Blaze were well-beaten in the second of their Christmas-week matches against Cardiff Devils.

They lost 6-2 at the Ice Arena Wales and lost defenceman Justin Hache to injury.

They take on Nottingham Panthers tomorrow.

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Solihull Barons and long-time rivals Telford Tigers face each other at home and away over the weekend, with former players from both sides encouraged to turn up for tomorrow's game in Solihull.

Shropshire Star

Here are three stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• 112 children without a home in Shropshire, external
• Morrisons plans given green light, external
• Canal reopens after a £3m rebuilding project, external

A man in his 80s, who was taken to hospital after a crash on Christmas Eve, has died, West Mercia Police has said.

The collision, involving two cars, happened at 10:00 on the A456 Bewdley bypass - the man, from Cheltenham, was one of three taken to hospital.

A man in his 20s had a broken leg and other injuries, while a woman in her 50s was taken in for scans and suffered bruising.

Dozens of people have signed up to take part in a rugby match in memory of a Bridgnorth man who died in Australia just before Christmas.

Jason Francis was killed after being hit by a car near the home he shared with his girlfriend Alice Robinson in Perth.

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Ms Robinson, who was said to have been "heartbroken" after his death, was later found dead.

Ian George is vice-chair of Bridgnorth rugby club and says all the money raised from the game on Saturday afternoon will go towards helping the couple's families.

An online fundraising page, external has also been set up to support them and has raised more than £20,000.