Rich Davis
BBC Weather presenter

After a chilly start it will be a cloudy day with the odd shower and highs of 9C (48F).

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

Welcome to our live service for Thursday.

We'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather for the West Midlands.

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Colleen Bernard has been caring for her brother Stephen for three years.

We no longer need them to tell us the time - so why should we care about clock towers?

Thomas Griffith Jones, 82, whose first language is Welsh, could be cared for 135 miles from home.

Tammy Abraham scores the opener and sets up the second on his return from injury as Chelsea return to winning ways against Aston Villa.

Wolves are on their best unbeaten run in the top flight since 1972 as strikes from Leander Dendoncker and Patrick Cutrone see off West Ham at Molineux.

Shrewsbury Town centre-back Aaron Pierre is cleared of violent conduct, after being charged by the FA.

Birmingham City's ex-Aston Villa, Sunderland & West Brom midfielder Craig Gardner is to retire at the end of this season to become Blues coach.

Andy Giddings
BBC News

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

If you're planning to go and watch the demolition of the Ironbridge cooling towers on Friday, we've had some advice from Telford and Wrekin Council you might find useful.

First of all, Buildwas Road will be shut from 06:00 from Much Wenlock Road to Station Road allowing access to Dale End car park until 09:30 and the closure will extend to Dale End mini-roundabout until about an hour after the demolition.

The council also said:

• During these hours there will be no on-street parking, but all the main car parks would be open, except for the Dale End car park
• A free park and ride bus will be running from the top of Jiggers Bank into the Museum of the Gorge car park in Ironbridge between 09:30 and 13:00
• Some minor hillside roads and some footpaths will be closed along with the area opposite the power station site, until after the all clear is given. This includes Benthall Wood.
• And because a lot of people are likely to want to climb the Wrekin to see the demolition, there will be a team to manage parking and the road may have to be closed if there are too many cars.

A man has been charged with malicious communications and letters containing threats to kill sent to then MPs Rosie Cooper and Jess Phillips between May 2019 and November 2019.

The 52-year-old has also been charged with sending malicious communications to Theresa May, while she was prime minister, in September 2018.

Rakeem Malik, in HMP Birmingham, has been charged with four counts of threats to kill and two counts of malicious communication.

He is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 6 January.

Police are searching for a man who held up the Applegreen petrol station in Leominster with a knife last night.

He got away with cash after threatening staff at about 22:00.

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West Mercia Police said no-one was hurt, but the staff were left shaken.

Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

There could be some patches of fog around tonight but it'll be mainly dry:

You can stay up-to-date with the weather in your area by going to the BBC Weather website at any other time.

Shrewsbury Town and Bristol Rovers are both fined £3,500 following a mass brawl at the Montgomery Waters Meadow.

An 18th Century bridge in Telford is going to be scanned with a laser so that a record of its current condition can be kept.

Telford and Wrekin Council said it was carrying out the survey to help with any further work that might need to be done to the Aqueduct Bridge, which once formed part of the Shropshire Canal.

Image source, Telford and Wrekin Council

The Grade II listed bridge carried boats between Shropshire coalfields and the River Severn, but closed once railways started taking the goods instead.

Worcester News

Here are three of the stories from the Worcester News today:

• Pig man accosts children in Malvern, external
• Council set to help local FA with £750,000 loan, external
• Drug dealer wielded crossbow in turf war, external

BBC Radio Shropshire Sport

Just a few months after lifting the Shropshire Senior Cup, the manager of Whitchurch Alport has resigned, so he can concentrate on doing other "ugly jobs" for the club.

During Luke Goddard's three-and-a-half year reign the club has also risen up through the divisions, but that has meant more work needs done behind the scenes and with a limited pool of volunteers, he said staying on as manager would be "selfish".

Image source, Whitchurch Alport

Goddard said he would continue playing for the club and had achieved his aim of taking the club forward, but also added: "We have probably had too much success in too short a space of time and it's difficult to keep up with that off the field."

A man has been charged with attempted murder after an attack on Villiers Road in Bromsgrove on Sunday.

West Mercia Police said the 21-year-old appeared before Kidderminster magistrates yesterday.

BBC WM

A woman has made an emotional appeal in a bid to trace people involved in a "violent family feud" that left her brother dead.

Image source, West Midlands Police/Family handout

Yasir Hussain, from Burnley, was stabbed three times in the back in Dudley exactly a year ago.

Last month, Nabeel Choudhary, 21, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of murder and handed a 27-year minimum term.

But West Midlands Police said officers were still hunting the other people involved in the violence.

Mr Hussain's sister, Yasmin, said his death was still hurting their family.