Pat Murphy
BBC Radio Five Live

This is a coup for Edgbaston. Several other counties have lobbied for a floodlit Test but Warwickshire - who staged the first floodlit one-day match against Somerset in 1997 - have been in the vanguard of night cricket for years. 

Permanent lights were installed at Edgbaston in 2011, 11 years after the ground staged its first floodlit one-day international against Zimbabwe.

It will be Edgbaston's 50th Test - the scene of just eight defeats and 26 victories for England. It will be an invaluable learning process for the home side, with at least one [day-night] Ashes Test due a few months later in Australia.

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Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A damp and drizzly start to the day with plenty of cloud around, however the rain should clear up as the day goes by with something a little brighter possible this afternoon. 

Highs of 15C (59F).    

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

I'm in the Coventry newsroom and we'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather for Friday. 

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The first day-night Test to be played in England will take place against West Indies at Edgbaston in August 2017.

We're back at 08:00 tomorrow with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather, but keep an eye out here for updates through the evening and into the morning.    

Coventry Telegraph

A Coventry man was among an “extremely well organised team of criminals, external” behind a £160,000 amphetamines plot, a court heard.  

A police pursuit of a vehicle on the Straight Mile near Stretton-on-Dunsmore this morning ended with the car crashing into a tree.

Police say a 52-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous driving.

He was taken to hospital for treatment to a hand injury and is in police custody.

Police have released an image of a man they'd like to trace after wallets and phones were stolen , externalduring a training session at St Andrew's Rugby Club.

They say a wedding ring was also taken at the Ashlawn Road venue, Rugby, on Thursday 22 September.

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Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

Here's a recap of our main stories today:

- Man arrested after police pursuit of stolen car

- Next generation 'Boris Bikes' to be made by Pashley in Stratford

- Nuneaton man admits stabbing a 15-year-old girl

A 96-year-old woman is the longest serving member of a keep fit group in Coventry celebrating its 60th anniversary.

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

Mainly dry and cloudy overnight, with the odd spot of rain and lows of 10C (50F).

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

The BBC is marking National Poetry Day by commissioning 40 poets to celebrate England's best-loved local landmarks in verse.

Each represents an area served by the BBC's 40 local radio stations in a project that this year has the theme of "messages".

Here, poet Bridie Squires weaves together the 40 works.

Rugby Advertiser

Police have revealed that two people were arrested in Newbold last night, external after a car left the road and landed in a canal.

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Plans to build parts of Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon in China are part of a wider development honouring playwrights - with additional tributes to Tang Zianzu and Spain's Miguel de Cervantes, who died in 1616, the same year as The Bard.

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Sanweng Town will include three villages that will be designed in 17th Century Spanish, British and Chinese styles to pay homage to each of the writers, marking their 400th anniversary of their deaths. 

It is part of a larger development called Wenquan New Town, which will be situated in the Fujian province, boasting a landscape of mountains, hot springs and a river that will emulate the Avon.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Second row Kearnan Myall, Scrum half Dan Robson and flanker Thomas Young have all signed contracts to extend their stay, external with Wasps.

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Kenilworth Weekly News

Warwickshire’s fire and rescue service has revealed plans for a new state-of-the-art station in Southam., external

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Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

A young Coventry woman with Down's Syndrome is campaigning against proposals for a new prenatal screening test highlighted in a BBC documentary, A world without Down's Syndrome.

The programme revealed that 90% of people in the UK who know their child will be born with Down's Syndrome have an abortion.

Heidi Crowter, 21, who works as a hairdresser in Leamington Spa, said: "I think we should value everyone, for who they are and not for what they achieve.

"Let’s keep spreading the preciousness of life and together let’s change people’s hearts and thoughts and fight for justice for everyone."

Image source, Dan Crowter

William Shakespeare may be celebrated in China with a development attempting to replicate his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.

A Nuneaton man has admitted stabbing a 15-year-old girl in west Cumbria.

Adrian Fallows, 39, of Jodrell Street, denied attempted murder but at Carlisle Crown Court yesterday he admitted unlawfully and maliciously causing the girl grievous bodily harm, with intent.

He also admitted assaulting another teenage girl.

He's has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

The West Midlands UKIP MEP, Bill Etheridge, says he's wishing "all the best" to his fellow party MEP Steven Woolfe (pictured) who's in hospital after an apparent "altercation" at a meeting of the party's MEPs. 

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Nigel Farage says Mr Woolfe is in a "serious" condition following the incident in Strasbourg. 

Mr Woolfe, MEP for the North West, was taken to hospital in Strasbourg for tests.