BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

A poor turn out last weekend at a festive street food market in Coventry's Cathedral's Ruins has led plans for it to be cancelled this weekend. 

The decision was taken by the Digbeth Dining Club, who organise street dining experiences across the Midlands. 

Spokesman Jack Brabant is putting it down to bad weather and potential visitors being busy with other things in the run up to Christmas.

Twenty-five years after she went missing, the parents of Coventry teenager Nicola Payne have said they'll never give up hope of finding out what happened to her.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Unemployment in the West Midlands fell by 25,000 to 151,000 in the three months to October, according to the Office for National Statistics, external (ONS). 

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The unemployment rate was 5.3% for the same period. 

Compared with the same three months in 2015, the ONS says unemployment in the region is down by 4,000. 

Across the UK as a whole, unemployment stands at 1.62 million for the period, with a drop of 16,000 for the country.

Coventry Telegraph

Lee Stuart was spotted by police when he nearly hit a lorry at Tollbar island, external. 

BBC News England

A new witness has come forward with information about the disappearance of Nicola Payne.

The mother-of-one was last seen 25 years ago, on 14 December, on her way to her parents' house in Coventry.

Police say they now know she was taken to a country park the day she went missing.  

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Her body has never been found but police said a new witness has come forward to say the teenager was taken to Coombe Abbey.

Officers have recently been searching woodland at the country park.

BBC Weather

It’ll be fairly cloudy throughout this morning but drier air is feeding in from the south. 

Expect the cloud to thin and break over the course of the day leading to some bright and potentially sunny intervals. Highs of 11C (52F).

On the 25th anniversary of her disappearance, police say they now know where Nicola Payne was taken the day she went missing.

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Kevin Reide
Midlands Today

Elderly residents at sheltered housing complexes in one part of Warwickshire say their lives are being put at risk by huge cuts to the warden service. 

Nuneaton and Bedworth Council is consulting residents about reducing the number of wardens from 50 to 14 to save money. 

You can see my report on BBC Midlands Today at 18:30 on BBC One.

An initiative to help water voles has been awarded a grant of £12,000.

Tesco customers voted for proceeds of Nuneaton and Bedworth stores' 5p bag levy to go to the Walk beside the Water Voles project run by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

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Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

It's been a fairly mild start to winter so far, but 70 years ago it was a very different picture. 

The winter of 1946 was one of the most severe in living memory and one Midlands schoolboy recorded it in meticulous detail. 

Now his former school is trying to track him down. 

The search is on to find Ron Hadley who attended Earls High School in Halesowen between 1943 and 1950.

Conservative MPs Craig Tracey and Marcus Jones met with Health Minister Philip Dunne to discuss concerns over the future of A&E and maternity services at the George Eliot Hospital.

A reorganisation of some NHS services in Coventry and Warwickshire is being considered to save £200m. 

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The MPs for North Warwickshire and Bedworth and Nuneaton said they vowed to fight any plan which may lead to major services at the Eliot moving to Coventry.

Kay Crewdson
BBC weather presenter

A cloudy, mild night for all parts with a little light rain or drizzle this evening and feeling mild with lows of 10C (50F).

A 17-year-old boy from Nottingham has been charged with wounding with intent, affray and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place, police say., external

It follows an incident at the Miners Welfare Park in Exhall on Sunday 30 October in which a 31-year-old man from Coventry was treated for a puncture wound to his back.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

Here's a recap of some of our main stories today:

• MPs meet health minister over hospital shakeup review
• Automotive jobs created by £10m investment
• Boy charged after Bedworth stabbing incident

West Midlands Police says it receives on average 238 abandoned 999 calls every day.

Coventry Telegraph

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is understood to have turned down the chance to become Coventry City ’s new manager.  , external

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

Coventry University has joined a university in Finland to create a giant digital window that allows two groups of students to learn about Shakespeare together, despite the geography between them.

The wall-sized immersive Shakespeare Portal , external- which lets students interact with virtually no delays - was recently awarded gold at the international Reimagine Education Awards. 

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Can a team of robots plant, tend and then harvest a field of barley?