Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It's the first day of spring and it's starting out mild and sunny. Here's the rest of the weather forecast for Wednesday in the West Midlands:

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Allen Cook
BBC News

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Could your dream home cost more than you think? A growing number of new-build buyers warn it could.

Mike and Trish White came up with the idea for the blankets after losing two babies in two years.

Blake had been on holiday with a group of friends when he got in trouble in the sea.

Andy Giddings
BBC News

We'll be back with the news, sport, travel and weather from 07:00 tomorrow.

The Conservative MP for Shrewsbury says Jeremy Hunt or Dominic Raab could be good party leaders.

Theresa May has said she plans to remain as leader and Prime Minister until the next general election, but when asked about the issue on BBC Five Live this morning, Daniel Kawcxynski said both men "have the right characteristics to be very good, effective leaders of the Conservative party."

He also said "I have spent quite a bit of time with both gentleman and I think both of them, although with different attributes and different qualities and experiences."

Talk of increasing members' basic allowances has "come at the wrong time", a Birmingham City councillor says.

An independent panel has suggested the amount they receive should be increased by 4% to more than £17,000.

Labour councillor Majid Mahmood said: "I think that at a time of savage cuts to the local council and proposals to cut the pay of already low-paid female workers who are our homecare workers, it's come at the wrong time".

The council needs to save £46m from its budget in the next financial year.

Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

It's the first day of spring tomorrow and we're expecting to see some sunshine.

Temperatures could reach 17C (63F).

Wales wing Josh Adams will join Cardiff Blues from Worcester next season, the Welsh region announces.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

The winner of last Friday's Euromillions jackpot is someone from Hereford.

The lottery has not yet revealed his name, but he is now £71,570,439 richer after scooping the whole amount on 15 March.

Image source, Getty Images

Steve Hermon
Journalist, BBC WM

Black Country comedian Frank Skinner is returning to the area as part of his nationwide tour.

Image source, Getty Images

The West Bromwich Albion fan, who grew up in Dudley, will perform his new stand-up show at Dudley Town Hall on 21 November.

Entitled Showbiz, it'll be his first stand-up tour in four years and tickets go on sale on Friday.

West Bromwich Albion are considering letting James Shan stay in caretaker charge until the end of the season.

The flood barriers in Ironbridge have now been dismantled but the Environment Agency says the risk of flooding along other parts of the River Severn still remains.

Five flood warnings, external are still in place in Shropshire, along with flood alerts for Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Image source, Environment Agency

The Environment Agency says the River Severn in Ironbridge has risen by over four metres and the number of tonnes of water passing by every second has risen from 25 to 370.

Two 22-year-old men, from Leicester and Birmingham, tried to cross into Syria in 2017, a court hears.

Dozens of floral tributes have been left to pay tribute to two brothers who died in a car crash in Wolverhampton.

Pawanveer Singh, aged 23 months, and brother Sanjay, 10, were with their mother in the family's BMW, turning right off Birmingham New Road into Lawnswood Avenue, when it was involved in a collision with an Audi S3 at about 20:45 GMT on Thursday.

Sanjay was described as "the life and soul of the class" by Claire Williams, the head teacher at Cotwall End Primary School in Dudley.

Two men have been arrested and released under investigation in connection with the crash.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

More than 20,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized from a shop by trading standards officers/

Image source, City of Wolverhampton Council

The Transilvania shop – also known as the Romanian shop – on Merridale Street West, Graiseley, was raided in November when a haul of 1,027 packets each containing 20 cigarettes was found.

The cigarettes were discovered behind the counter, in a room above the shop and also in a vehicle parked outside.

The council is to meet later to discuss suspending or removing the shop's premises licence.

Two wards at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital have had to be closed after five cases of norovirus were reported.

The hospital says its working to control the spread of the diarrhoea and vomiting bug and is asking visitors to stay away unless its absolutely necessary.

The move comes as a campaigner says some members of Birmingham's Muslim community feel "victimised".

Khakan Qureshi runs an LGBT group and believes recent protests against gay rights classes at primary schools are homophobic.