BBC News Travel

A points failure between Coleshill Parkway and Nuneaton is disrupting trains between Birmingham New Street and Leicester.

Disruption to services is expected to last until about 10:00, said National Rail.

BBC News Travel

Specialist cleaning equipment is needed to clear a large fuel spillage after a lorry crashed on the A446 Lichfield Road in Curdworth earlier.

The road is closed northbound between the B4117 at Cole End and M42 J9 because of the spillage.

Louise Brierley
Reporter, BBC Online

The family of a five-year-old are being supported by financial donations on a website so they can move to The Hague where he can be treated with medical cannabis oil, which is illegal in the UK.

Alfie Dingley, from Kenilworth, has a rare form of epilepsy and has been taken to hospital scores of times suffering violent seizures.

He's been reliant on steroids but they have serious side effects.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

A bright start with sunny spells and the chance of a few isolated showers later on - and highs of 18C (64F).

A warning for wind has been issued for later this evening and tonight which could cause travel disruption.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC Local Live

Welcome to our live service for Tuesday.

We'll bring you all the latest news, sport, travel and weather updates throughout the day.

If you'd like to get in touch with the BBC Local Live team, you can do so by emailing us, tweeting @BBCCovWarks, external, or visiting our Facebook page, external.

Alfie Dingley has a rare form of epilepsy and has been hospitalised scores of times suffering violent seizures.

Live updates for Coventry and Warwickshire have now ended.

We'll be back with you tomorrow from 08:00 but look out for updates and breaking stories.

The University of Warwick is looking to fill about 200 vacancies for engineers, researchers, data analysts and software developers at the Warwick Manufacturing Group.

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Available positions will be highlighted at a recruitment open day, external at the university's International Digital laboratory on Saturday 16 September.

Recent projects announced by the organisation include a partnership to develop and enhance vehicle electrification.

Three men have been imprisoned after admitting a string of "car and key" burglaries across Coventry and Warwickshire, police say., external

The team stole high value cars, worth more than £340,000, after stealing keys, as well as designer watches.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

It's going to be a cloudy night and we should have a bright start to the day tomorrow, but there could be showers later in the day.

Myra James was 11 months old when she contracted polio, while her family were living on Broad Lane in Coventry.

The 65-year-old has travelled from Yorkshire for an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the outbreak in the city.

Image source, Myra James

She was kept in isolation at what was then the Whitley Hospital in the city.

"My parents weren't allowed any direct contact with me", she said, "they could only look at me through the glass".

"When they came to take me home I cried for the nurse... I became really attached to them."

Coventry Telegraph

Schools in Coventry are facing a recruitment crisis according to worrying figures that show the city has had some of the highest rates of vacant teaching posts in England, external.

A Coventry restaurant is facing a fine of up to £80,000 after five men were arrested by immigration officers.

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The men were detained on Saturday evening, after authorities received a tip-off about the Turmeric Gold restaurant in Spon Street.

Five Bangladeshi men aged between 22 and 48 were found to have overstayed their visas at the restaurant, which has now been temporarily closed under the Immigration Act.

Three of the men are detained pending their removal from the UK, the Home Office said, and two others, with outstanding applications, were ordered to report regularly to authorities.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Coventry City say they won't contest a red card handed to Rod McDonald in the match against Port Vale on Saturday.

McDonald was was sent off for a lunging tackle on David Worrall nine minutes from the final whistle.

City managed to cling on to a narrow 1-0 win at home.

Nuneaton News

As the £1m works to transform A&E into a 'one stop shop' emergency department take shape, bosses at the George Eliot Hospital are asking visitors and patients alike to be mindful of changes, external to the existing access and to simply follow the signs.

The police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands says officers could be lost, external if it is forced to increase salaries without extra government funding.

The government announced it's to lift the 1% pay cap for both police and prison officers, but many forces say they haven't budgeted for the change.

Labour's David Jamieson says for every 1% pay increase, it would cost the force the equivalent of 80 police officer posts.

An event in Coventry is marking the 60th anniversary since a major outbreak of polio in the city.

Image source, Getty Images

Poliomyelitis has existed as long as human society, but became a major public health issue in late Victorian times with major epidemics in Europe and the United States.

Image source, Getty Images

The disease, which causes spinal and respiratory paralysis, can kill and remains incurable, but vaccines have assisted in its almost total eradication today.

You can read more about the history of polio here.

Coventry Observer

Three men carried out a campaign of burglaries, external in which they targeted houses in Rugby, Kenilworth, Coventry, Nuneaton and Bedworth to steal the keys to expensive cars.

Wasps hooker Tommy Taylor and Worcester prop Nick Schonert are ruled out of England's tour of Argentina through injury.

Stratford Observer

A celebration of 40 years of town twinning between Alcester and Vallet was marked with a sit down. , external