BBC Sport

Aston Villa have announced the loan signing of AC Milan goalkeeper Pepe Reina until the end of the season.

Image source, Getty Images

The former Liverpool goalkeeper will return to the Premier League after six years and is set to replace the injured Tom Heaton.

The World Cup winner, 37, was in the stands as Villa lost 6-1 to Manchester Cityon Sunday.

Villa needed to add to their goalkeeping options after England international Tom Heaton was ruled out for the remainder of the season.

BBC News Travel

Officers are at the scene of a crash on the A38 southbound, which is causing congestion on the M5 northbound slip road at J5.

BBC Business News

The government is to consider cutting air passenger duty on all domestic flights as part of a plan to save regional airline Flybe from collapse.

Image source, Getty Images

Chancellor Sajid Javid is to meet later with the business and transport departments to discuss lowering the levy, the BBC's business editor says.

The change would allow Flybe, which has a hub at Birmingham Airport, to defer a tax bill, implement a rescue plan, and secure more than 2,000 jobs.

Flybe's network includes more than half of UK domestic flights outside London.

Express and Star

From the Express and Star:

• Nightclub boss fined over death of man who fell 40ft, external
• Murder suspects battered 15-year-old before killing man, jury told, external
• Plans to reopen Tettenhall railway station to be scrutinised by experts, external

Flash flooding is "inevitable" with heavy rain and winds forecast across the West Midlands later, the Environment Agency has said.

A yellow warning for wind is in place from 12:00 until midnight.

HMV stores in Birmingham's Merry Hill shopping centre, Worcester are still under threat of closure unless new deals can be reached with its landlords.

Image source, HMV

The company has confirmed that the Birmingham Bullring store will shut at the end of the month along with the Nuneaton branch.

The HMV Vault,which opened in Birmingham in October last year, will not be affected, it said.

Five stores across the country, which had been at risk of closing, will now remain open after new deals were secured.

HMV was purchased in a rescue deal by music mogul Doug Putman in February 2019 after it crashed into administration for the second time in five years.

Two cars were set alight close to University Hospital in Coventry on Monday, police say.

Image source, Google

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of arson after the incident on Hall Lane just after 06:30.

Officers believe there would have been witnesses as the road is used as a short cut to the hospital.

Both remain in police custody, said West Midlands Police.

Strong winds could cause travel problems and there's the possibility of power loss in some areas, the Met Office is warning.

The yellow warning, external, affecting the whole of the West Midlands, is in place from 12:00 until midnight.

Storm Brendan is set to be followed by icy patches, wintry showers and more gales in other parts of the country which could lead to further travel disruption.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It's going to get windy today with rain from late morning and highs of 10C (50F).

BBC News Travel

There's queuing traffic on the M42 southbound in the West Midlands.

A crash has closed the outside lane from J4 to J3A, M40 interchange.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

Welcome to our live service for Tuesday.

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

You can get in touch via email, Twitter, external and Facebook, external.

Emily Thornberry gains enough support just before nominations close, but Clive Lewis withdraws.

Private cars would only be allowed in and out of the city in certain places under plans by the city council.

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

The officer suffered "soft tissue damage" after being struck on Upper Dean Street in the city.

The driver, who was nearly three times over the drink-drive limit, is disqualified for 22 months.

The fire service had to be called out this afternoon to release a child from a locker at a Birmingham supermarket.

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

West Midlands Fire Service said , externalthe lockers had only just been fitted today at the Morrisons store on the St Andrew's Shopping Park, Small Heath.

BBC News Travel

A trampoline's been blown on to railway tracks near Stafford, delaying trains, Network Rail's tweeted., external

It had warned passengers of electrical problems in the earlier post, but updated to say it was down to a trampoline and they're working to remove it.

Image source, Network Rail

Strong winds are battering parts of the West Midlands this evening, but could get worse, with a Met Office yellow warning in place for the region from midday on Tuesday until midnight.

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

An ambulance taking a seriously ill child to hospital was attacked at the weekend in Hereford, the ambulance service has said.

West Mercia Police said a man blocked the ambulance at the junction of Blue School Street and Commercial Road, Hereford, on Saturday night.

When the paramedics moved to drive around him, the man then punched the ambulance as it went past.

The ambulance service said the vehicle then continued with the child and their family to hospital.

BBC News Health

The NHS has made it harder to give blood in Shropshire, according to a donor from the county.

Image source, Getty Images

Rowan Swainson, 66, from Wellington, has given blood more than 40 times.

But he told BBC News recent closures in the county had led to a rising cost in travel to blood centres, which was deterring many donors.

"In cutting costs to the service, they have just passed on the costs to their most valuable asset, which is their volunteer donors," he said.

"I know many donors that have stopped donating because of this."

NHS Blood and Transplant admitted some sessions had closed making it harder to get to ones in rural areas but a new campaign for male donors was mainly aimed at towns and cities.