A Birmingham festival celebrates the street art culture that is challenging notions of the spray can.

Moeen Ali hits an unbeaten 121 off 60 balls as holders Worcestershire beat Sussex by eight wickets to reach the T20 Blast Finals.

Matthew Leggett was granted bail and will be retried on 30 September.

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

Allen Cook
BBC News

Long-awaited lifts at Lichfield railway station should be finished by the end of the year, according to the local MP.

Image source, Michael Fabricant

Michael Fabricant's met with Network Rail today at Lichfield Trent Valley and says it's promised to finish the two lifts by the end of 2019, providing disabled access to all three platforms.

Lichfield was originally one of 42 stations named by the Department for Transport in April 2014 to benefit from Access For All funding.

Network Rail also going to look into buying nearby land to add a lot more parking spaces, he added.

BBC Midlands Today

The first rally on closed public roads in the Midlands will take place tomorrow.

The Three Shires Stages, external will use 48 miles of road and see 120 cars speeding across Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.

The event is being held after changes to the Road Traffic Act in April 2017 made it is easier to get a closed-road event permit.

Organisers said they're committed to working with residents who'll be affected by road closures and have given them free access passes and full information about the timings of the rally.

An interactive art project, sharing the hopes and dreams for the future of local residents, has been installed in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Image source, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust/RSC

Image source, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust/RSC

Two giant pairs of binoculars have been placed in the town as part of the I See the Future project, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

The binoculars will be in place from 6-8 September as part of the commemoration of David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee, external which was held 250 years ago this weekend.

Local people were invited to contribute their ideas during interactive workshops over the summer.

Lee Blakeman
BBC Radio Stoke

Port Vale manager John Askey says he's pleased with the strength of his squad ahead of their League Two game at Newport County tomorrow.

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Vale made five changes to the side for Tuesday's EFL Trophy win over Shrewsbury Town and go into their latest match in 10th position in the division.

BBC Shropshire

Resurfacing work has been officially completed on Shrewsbury's main shopping street, almost a year after it first started.

The project on Pride Hill cost nearly £900,000 and a new contractor had to be appointed midway through the work after complaints from traders and local politicians, about the level of disruption and lengthy delays.

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Speaking in October, Council Leader Peter Nutting described the experience as a "nightmare".

Speaking today, however, project Manager Matt Johnson praised the new contractors, saying they had done a "fantastic job".

Annette Nally, 50, is jailed after being found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

These are some of the stories being covered by our Local Democracy Service reporters in Staffordshire:

• A care home's going to be built on council-owned green space (pictured) after Stafford Borough Council approved the proposals for Stone, despite objections over traffic issues and the principle of the sell-off.
• Staffordshire County Council's been criticised by the social care ombudsman for failing to apologise to a woman in care in good time after they had agreed to do so, following an earlier investigation.

• Plans to put gates at three entrances to a private estate have been rejected by Lichfield District Council over concerns they could divide a community.

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Three dogs including a puppy have been rescued from a fire that destroyed a house.

Image source, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service

The blaze broke out last night on Evershed Way, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said. , external

The three Staffordshire bull terriers were rescued by firefighters who gave them oxygen.

The service said nobody else was inside and the fire was caused by a candle which had been left alight.

The bodies of a woman and man were found at a house in Burton-upon-Trent but a toddler was unharmed.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It will be a dry night with clear spells and lows of 8C (46F).

An outbreak of a deadly disease is believed to have killed a "significant number" of crayfish in a waterway on the Herefordshire border.

Image source, Environment Agency

The Environment Agency said the dead animals were found on the Cym y Caddo, a tributary which leads into the River Monnow., external

It said it suspected the cause was crayfish plague, a disease which only harms native crayfish and has spread from American signal crayfish.

While it waits for confirmation from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, the agency's urging people to stay out of watercourses in the area and thoroughly clean fishing equipment.

Coventry Observer

Some of the Coventry Observer headlines today are:

• Woman who was lookout in violent petrol station robbery jailed, external
• Conservatives win Coventry council by-election as Labour slips to third, external
• Ex-school governor escapes jail after trying to meet girl he groomed online, external

Police investigating the deaths of a man and a woman at a house in Staffordshire say they are not looking for anyone else in their inquiry.

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Officers were called to the property on Henhurst Hill in Burton-upon-Trent, at about 23:00 on Wednesday.

They're treating the 33-year-old woman's death as murder and the 31-year-old man's death is not being treated as suspicious., external

A two-year-old child was found unharmed at the house and the force says they're being cared for by relatives.

The owner of a Dudley takeaway has been fined more than £6,000 after inspectors found rat droppings and dirty and damaged equipment.

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The operator of Yummy Wok takeaway in Dudley Street in Sedgley, Bao Yu Chen admitted 12 offences under food safety and hygiene regulations including failing to keep premises and equipment clean and failing to control pests.

An inspection in May 2018 also found mould growth on a wall in a preparation room and raw chicken stored next to milk in the fridge, Dudley Council said.

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The 59-year-old of Church Street, Barrow-in-Furness was ordered to pay a total of £6,480 at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court on 29 August.

The takeaway is now registered under a new owner not connected to the case and currently has a satisfactory hygiene rating of "three", said the council.

BBC Shropshire

A woman who started a football boot "swap shop" in Shrewsbury says she's already had other people across the UK wanting to copy her idea.

Image source, Sarah Hopper

Sarah Hopper started the scheme two weeks ago after finding it expensive to keep up with her son's growing feet over the years.

She says she has 20 pairs ready to swap now and has already had parents turning up to swap boots and telling her she's saving them £100.

Since beginning in Shrewsbury, Sarah told BBC Shropshire people in Berkshire want to copy the idea and she's also going to get boots brought in from Wrexham.

Coventry City defender Brandon Mason signs a new contract with the Sky Blues to run until June 2022.