Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather

It's a foggy and misty start to Wednesday across the West Midlands but that should lift over the morning for a bright afternoon.

It's going to start to change though, and a yellow weather warning is already in place for high winds that are due to develop ahead of the weekend.

Riyah Collins
BBC News

Welcome to our live coverage from across the West Midlands for 5 February.

We'll be bringing you the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates until 19:00.

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Birmingham City book their place in the FA Cup fifth round with a dramatic penalty shootout win over tenants Coventry City in their fourth-round replay.

Liverpool's youngest-ever starting line-up overcomes Shrewsbury Town at Anfield to book an FA Cup fifth-round tie at Chelsea.

Julie Webb, 44, died in hospital after being found with head injuries in Handsworth a year ago.

Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski hits back at calls for suspension over appearance with nationalist leaders.

Andy Giddings
BBC News

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

An inquiry recommends Ian Paterson's 11,000 patients have their treatment reassessed.

BBC Radio Stoke Sport

Stoke City manager Michael O'Neill has admitted they missed out on a number of players they wanted to bring in, but feels he improved the squad during the transfer window.

He said they went into January with targets in mind, but, "we didn't manage to get those players for one reason or another".

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Three players signed with the club and five left and O'Neill added: "The most important thing was also to streamline the group that we had and sometimes you can just trade players for the sake of trading players and ultimately the group doesn't end up any stronger."

Another 20 electric car charging points will be set up around Pershore, Broadway, Droitwich and Evesham.

Wychavon District Council has announced it will spend £150,000 on the chargers, as part of its drive to reduce carbon emissions.

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The government's Office of Low Emission Vehicles is giving the council £64,000, to help meet the costs.

Shropshire Star

Here are three of the main stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Shrewsbury could get two new swimming pools, external
• Crash closes busy road, external
• MP Daniel Kawczynski: My critics are 'hysterical', external

Thieves stole £6,000 from pay and display ticket machines in Crewe and Nantwich during December and January.

Cheshire Police said 13 car parks had been targeted, including Lyceum Square and Railway Street in Crewe.

The repairs are likely to cost about £10,000.

Shrewsbury's town centre swimming pool is likely to get a refit, under proposals going before Shropshire councillors next week - and there could be a second pool built as well.

Four options for the Quarry Pool are on the table, with two of them being to do nothing, or to build a brand new facility - but those two options aren't being recommended in the report.

The two options being recommended are to refit the leisure centre with a competition pool and a leisure pool or to refit the centre with a leisure pool, and to build a competition pool at the town's Sundorne Sports Village.

If the cabinet approves the two recommendations, site investigations and financial estimates will be carried out for the remaining two options, and a decision would be made at a later date.

CCTV images have been released of a man police would like to speak to following a sexual offence on a train towards Birmingham Snow Hill station.

Image source, British Transport Police

The man is reported to have touched himself inappropriately in front of a mother and daughter just before 19:00 GMT on 26 January.

He then followed the pair off the train at Snow Hill station and inappropriately touched the daughter.

British Transport Police is asking for anyone with information to come forward.

BBC Weather

It will turn chilly tonight with some dense fog patches developing with lows of 0C (32F).

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You can find a detailed weather forecast for your area on the BBC Weather site.

The cousin of a young mother who disappeared 28 years ago has appealed for anyone with information to contact police.

Nicola Payne went missing aged 18 while walking across wasteland near her parents' house in Coventry in December 1991.

Speaking near a canal where police are searching for Nicola's remains, Amanda Eales said she "absolutely" believed "people know the truth" about what happened to her cousin.

Ms Eales, of Coventry, said: "I just hope that as they age - the same as we all are aging and my auntie and uncle are aging - that their loyalties may change and maybe through illness or something they may sit there and think 'I cannot take this anymore' and tell us what we need to know.”

Officers are working with a specialist underwater search team near Rugby after receiving "new information".

It is the latest in a number of searches and appeals following Ms Payne's disappearance.

Birmingham Live

Some of Birmingham Live's headlines today include:

• Damning Ian Paterson report finds healthcare system 'dysfunctional at almost every level', external
• Improvements planned for 'baffling' New Street station, external
• Ex-Birmingham City star paralysed at Ibiza venue sues for reported £8.5m, external

BBC Sport

Warwickshire's Chris Woakes has taken a wicket for England in his 100th one-day international, but he's going to need a few more to prevent an easy South Africa victory.

The tourists scored 258-8 off their 50 overs and Woakes scored 40 of those runs, but South Africa appear to be cruising to that target and need 65 runs to win from 16.0 overs, with nine wickets still remaining.

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Hereford Times

Here are three of the main stories from the Hereford Times website today:

• Ambulance station will close within two months, external
• Rogue traders drove elderly woman to the bank, external
• Weather warning issued as very strong winds set to hit, external

Shrewsbury Town will make "a lot less money" than they could have done from tonight's FA Cup replay against Liverpool, but chief executive Brian Caldwell believes it's still a fantastic opportunity.

The game at Anfield is a sell-out, but ticket prices were lowered because Liverpool are fielding an under-23 side, while their senior players take a winter break.

Mr Caldwell said: "If someone had said to us before the first game, last Sunday, you'll get a replay but you'll take a lot less money than you'd expect, we'd all have bitten their hand off."

And he's hoping their FA Cup run will bring more fans to their games and added: "If we could just get some of these people along on a regular basis to watch our league games, we'd be in a far stronger position."