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After a cloudy start with some showers it will be a bright afternoon with some sunny spells and highs of 20°C (68°F).

This was the scene earlier in Stonnall in Staffordshire as taken by BBC Weather Watcher Tippytoes.

Image source, Tippytoes

The latest news, sport, travel and weather from across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.

Opener Alex Lees hits 126 to send Durham top of the One-Day Cup Group A, as impressive Glamorgan remain at the Group B summit.

Coventry City come from behind with two late goals to beat Nottingham Forest in their first game in the city since April 2019.

Wolverhampton Wolves host King's Lynn Stars in the Speedway Great Britain Premiership - listen to BBC Radio WM commentary.

Police are investigating links between a series of distraction burglaries in the Black Country.

Aston Villa re-sign defender Axel Tuanzebe on a season-long loan from Manchester United.

A man in his 40s was found dead at a house in Birmingham in the early hours of Saturday.

The flyweight boxer beat Carlo Paalam on Saturday while his family watched from Birmingham.

Galal Yafai's family watch from Birmingham as the boxer wins gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Places linked to the exhibition, which ran from May to September 1951, are given greater protection.

Relegated Sheffield United fall to defeat by Birmingham City on the opening weekend of the Championship season.

Coventry boss Mark Robins calls the club's latest return to the city "the missing piece" ahead of another Sky Blues 'welcome home' party.

Stoke twice let slip a lead to Reading before Sam Surridge's late winner in their first home game watched by a crowd in 17 months.

Northampton get their League Two season up and running with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over 10-man Port Vale at Sixfields.

A Birmingham nightclub opens a walk-in centre to encourage 18-24 year-olds to get the Covid jab.

The National Memorial Arboretum is forced to cancel its Summer Proms after a positive Covid case.

West Midlands Police employed the UK's first dedicated football hate crime officer in January.

The coins were found by detectorists in a Warwickshire field and will be displayed in Coventry.

A man from Poland is charged with murdering a man who was found injured at an industrial estate.