BBC Midlands Today

Specialist police teams are using the same technology used to locate missing aircraft in their search for a woman last seen almost 30 years ago.

Image source, West Midlands Police

Following a tip off, they're scouring a stretch of canal between Rugby and Coventry to look for the body of Nicola Payne.

Ms Payne went missing while walking across wasteland near her parents' house in Coventry in 1991. She was 18 and had a seven-month-old son.

Flooded roads around a burst main in Tipton are expected to remain closed throughout the morning.

Park Lane West is affected between Owen Street and Mayfair Gardens.

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

Manor Road, Hill Street, Bakers Street, Sherwood Avenue and Bush Road are also closed to traffic.

Image source, West Midlands Fire Service

Tipton Green Junior School has been closed as well, says Sandwell Council.

South Staffs Water said it is aware of the burst main and has engineers at the site.

It has apologised to affected customers.

About 100 properties are being affected by flood water after a main burst in Tipton.

Eight people had to be rescued from their homes overnight after firefighters were called to Park Lane West at about 04:40.

Ten properties have been severely affected, the fire service says.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It will be a blustery day with the odd shower possible and highs of 9C (48F).

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

Welcome to our live service for Tuesday.

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Abi Blake was nearly killed by her husband. Maybe a new police pilot programme would have helped her?

Inquests have resumed into 1974 IRA bomb deaths in Birmingham and Guildford but not Woolwich.

Nicola Payne was 18 when she went missing while walking across wasteland near her parents' house.

That's all for now. We'll be back from 07:00 tomorrow with the latest news, sport, weather and travel information, but keep an eye out here this evening for any breaking news.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Plans for a new Birmingham railway station have been approved, but its name remains undecided.

Image source, Mott MacDonald

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street promised to "pay attention to the fierce debate" around whether the site at Cartland Road in the south of the city should be called Stirchley or Hazelwell station.

At the moment the planning documents refer to the latter name but there have been loud calls from local residents to call it Stirchley.

The station is part of Transport for West Midlands’ wider plans to reinstate passenger services along the Camp Hill line which will see stations brought back to Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell. Now only Moseley requires planning consent.

Birmingham City Council’s planning committee approved the proposals for Hazelwell station last Thursday, despite concerns from some residents over parking in the area.

BBC WM Sport

Wolves sporting director Kevin Thelwell is to leave Molineux after 11 years with the club.

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He's moving to the US at the end of the month to become the head of sport at the New York Red Bulls.

Wolves chairman Jeff Shi will assume Thelwell's role for the time being.

BBC Weather

It will be a clear and dry night with some cloud likely in the early hours with lows of 1C (34F).

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

Birmingham will be put on a "global stage" by holding the Commonwealth Games in 2022, the House of Lords has been told.

Image source, Birmingham City Council

Digital, culture, media and sport minister Baroness Barran said the staging of the games would create jobs, improved transport links and new sports facilities.

"A thriving Midlands is essential to our national economic success and levelling up economic regional growth," she said.

"These games will put the city and the region on a global stage," Lady Barran added, in a second reading debate on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill.

The Bill, reintroduced after the general election in December, will provide financial assistance to the organising committee and enable a transport plan to be drawn up.

John Bray
BBC News

Old Joe is the world’s tallest freestanding clock tower, standing at the heart of the University of Birmingham since 1905.

The 100-metre tower is named after the university’s first chancellor Joseph Chamberlain, a famous political son of Birmingham, who raised funds for its construction.

It has its own Twitter account, with 7,000 followers.

Coventry Observer

Some of the Coventry Observer headlines today include:

• Suspected drug death victim was Coventry University student, external
• Family fined £160,000 for 'cynical' destruction of medieval village, external
• Survivors of rogue breast surgeon meet ahead of inquiry report, external

BBC Hereford and Worcester

Drivers of electric cars in Herefordshire are being offered free parking while they charge their vehicles.

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From 16 March, they'll be able to get a free 30-minute parking ticket in Herefordshire Council's off-street car parks in Hereford, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster and Ross.

It's part of the council's aim to become carbon neutral within the next 10 years.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Household rubbish collections could move to once every three weeks under a shake-up in Birmingham.

The move, which has been proposed by consultants advising the city council, is only likely to be implemented if weekly food waste collections are introduced as well.

Councillor John O’Shea, in charge of waste, said that would mean the "smelly" waste which is the main concern to residents would still be taken away every seven days.

It comes as the first phase of an independent review of the waste service, conducted by consultants Wood Environment and Infrastructure Solutions UK, is published.

The report outlines three options:

• Maintain the service as it is currently but introduce a weekly food waste collection
• Introduce weekly food waste collections alongside fortnightly collections for recycling and residual waste – the remaining household waste once food is removed
• Introduce weekly food collections alongside fortnightly recycling collections and three-weekly residual waste collections

Conservative councillor Deirdre Alden, shadow member for cleaner streets, said: "Labour promised the electors of Birmingham less than two years ago, no ifs, no buts, there would be no fortnightly waste collections, Labour have now ordered consultants to draw up plans for three-weekly collections."

Worcester News

These are some of today's Worcester News headlines:

• Damp flat nightmare for mum and young children, external
• 17,000+ items saved from landfill thanks to Facebook group, external
• Hospital saved my life after drink-driver smashed into my head', external

Police receive "new information" about the disappearance of a young woman 28 years ago.

Former Shropshire opening batsman John Hulme has been appointed as the county's new cricket chairman.

Hulme, 69, who played cricket for Shropshire between 1970 and 1983, will replace Toby Shaw, who has been chairman since 2011.

Image source, Shropshire County Cricket Club

Hulme, from Oswestry, whose appointment was confirmed at the club’s AGM, said: “It will be no easy task in trying to fill Toby Shaw’s very sizeable shoes.

"He has made an immense contribution to Shropshire cricket in recent years, promoting the interests of the county club and securing a very sound financial base, which is the envy of many other National Counties Cricket Association clubs.”