Wasps Academy player Tom Willis has been named as the captain for the England Under 18s side.

The U18s are in South Africa on a development tour and play Wales tomorrow.

Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire

In the three months from 1 April to 30 June the police recorded more than 100 crimes involving drones over Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

The majority involved drones flying over properties, but there were also two reports of drones being shot at, seven of drones flying over prisons and one of a drone flying over a police station.

Warwickshire Police recorded 30 incidents in that period and West Mercia Police 80.

And there were reports of drones crashing into gardens and sports fields and one of an owner trespassing to recover their drone.

Nuneaton News

More illegal cigarettes have been taken off the streets of Nuneaton following a series, external of raids.

Police in Warwickshire want to trace a 22-year-old man from Rugby in connection with a number of burglaries there.

Police say Aiden Henry is thought to be in the Coventry area and is known to have links to Nuneaton.

Image source, Warwickshire Police

BBC Weather Watchers

Here's two gorgeous photos sent in by the BBC Weather Watchers.

PaulaMaria took this one in Hillmorton.

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MaidMarion sent in this one of a moody grey sky taken in Bidford-on-Avon.

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BBC Midlands Today

Warwickshire-based National Farmers Union says the cost of rural crime's gone up in the first six months of the year.

Its research suggests the sum has risen by 20%, with tools, Land Rovers and livestock targeted by thieves.

Image source, OWEN HUMPHREYS/PA

Warwick Courier

A drug dealer who aroused the suspicion of locals after getting stranded in a village near Warwick when he was ordered off a train for having, external no ticket has been jailed.

Follow BBC local radio commentary as Lancashire host Birmingham in the T20 Blast.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of assault and making threats to kill after a woman was knocked to the ground and left with facial injuries.

She was sat on a bench at Bedworth Reservoir when, from the other side of the water, police said, a woman verbally abused her, then approached and assaulted her.

The victim, in her 20s, was assaulted again when she tried to run away during the ordeal last Thursday afternoon.

The arrested pair - women aged 42 and 20 - have been bailed.

Warwickshire Police, external is appealing for witnesses.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Work to improve drainage and make safer a Coventry junction has been prolonged because of an incorrect map, according to a city councillor.

Broad Lane will now be shut for the next three weeks between Banner Lane and Hockley Lane while Severn Trent carries out pipe work.

Jayne Innes, the cabinet member for city services, told us an incorrect map of the existing pipework is behind the problem.

John Bray
BBC Midlands Today

Bowls England's National Championships is taking place in Leamington Spa.

Bowlers from all over the country are taking part at the event in Victoria Park.

A special exhibition is being held as Coventry's Midlands Air Museum celebrates turning 50 years old.

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The museum is looking back at the work of its volunteers down the years.

There will be events, workshops, exhibition and guest speakers.

West Midlands Police says it has saved thousands of pounds by using electric cars.

The force has 33 electric vehicles which officers use for appointments rather than 999 emergencies.

The switch, the force says, has saved it about £55,000.

BBC Sport

Warwickshire's cricketers have kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast after an eight-wicket victory over Durham Jets at Chester-le-Street.

Ed Pollock and Dominic Sibley scored half centuries as the Bears reached their target with more than five overs to spare.

The Bears will battle Lancashire Lightning on Friday at Old Trafford.

BBC Weather Watchers

You may have seen over the weekend the UK was treated to a meteor shower.

The Perseid event occurs every July and August as the Earth passes debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet.

BBC Weather Watcher Kingfisher Whisperer snapped this picture in Coventry.

Image source, Kingfisher Whisperer

Leamington Observer

A surge in anonymous crime information in Warwickshire has been marked by the , externalCrimestoppers charity.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Unions say they'll take their campaign to save jobs at Coventry's Children's Centres to the streets.

GMB says its fighting closures to 14 centres amid council budget cuts threatening 100 jobs.

Image source, Coventry City Council

Andy Groves from the union says members will be in Broadgate, Coventry, telling the public what the authority's plans entail.

The City Council says its proposals are designed to improve service provision.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

"A fantastic result" - that's how the Sky Blues manager Mark Robins described Saturday's 2-0 victory away to Grimsby.

It means Coventry sit a couple of points clear at the top of League Two.

While Robins isn't getting carried away so early into the campaign, he said he couldn't fault any of his players at Blundell Park.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

Here's how the day's looking across the West Midlands and you can keep yourself up-to-date at any time with the BBC Weather website.

Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Online

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