Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes says his young players feel "at home" in the first team at New Road.

Worcestershire move one point behind Division Two leaders Essex with a 311-run win over Northants inside three days.

Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today

After years of campaigning and months of last minute delays, rail travellers in Bromsgrove are finally able to use their new railway station.

I've been at the station this morning filming for Midlands Today - you can see more on BBC One at 18:30.

Former Worcester Warriors centre Alex Grove signs for National League One club Birmingham Moseley.

Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today

Bromsgrove railway station really looks the part. If you look at the old station it really wasn't up to the job. 

One criticism I have is that it only has some small bus-stops to shelter in during bad weather.

The good thing is it is ready to accommodate an extension to Birmingham's cross-city line, which will be electrified all the way from Barnt Green to Bromsgrove from December 2017. 

Relive live text and BBC local radio commentaries from Tuesday's matches in the County Championship as they happened.

Bromsgrove's new £24m railway station opens.

Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today

This morning I'm at Bromsgrove railway station, which has officially opened nine months later than planned.

If you compare it with the former station that was here it really is like chalk and cheese. The old station hardly had any parking and no ticket office.

But now the railway station has more than 300 car parking spaces, a ticket office, ticket machines and the platform is longer, which means trains with three carriages can now stop at the station. 

Police investigating the alleged murder of Cardiff man Lynford Brewster arrest a man in Kidderminster.

A listed building which was once the home of the first of Henry VIII's six wives is up for sale in Shropshire.

Worcestershire skittle Northants for 148 before building a big lead in their second innings at Wantage Road.

The new Bromsgrove railway station is due to open to passengers tomorrow., external

The £24m station, which has longer platforms, a waiting room and a 350-space car park, was expected to open to passengers last November.  

The first train is set to arrive at 06:20.  

A former UKIP MEP cleared of expenses fraud brands the police investigation against her a "vanity case".

Worcester Wolves sign points guard Marek Klassen and forwards Deondre McWhorter and Trevor Setty for next season.

Plans for a £100m new development, including new halls of residence, are announced by the University of Worcester.

Afternoon weather forecast for the West Midlands

West Midlands Police says the expenses case against ex-UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire has been "long and complex".

Outside Birmingham Crown Court earlier, after being cleared of fiddling travel expenses, the 47-year-old claimed £1.5m of public money had been spent to build a case against her - a figure as yet unsubstantiated.

Superintendent Maria Fox said: "This long, complex inquiry has been investigated in a diligent and professional manner."

Ex-UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire has criticised what she claims has been a public spend of £1.5m on the case against her.

She was cleared by a jury earlier of fiddling travel expense claims while in office and laundering the cash.

She criticised West Midlands Police's handling of the criminal inquiry, saying that the 10 claims upon which the Crown's case rested - and of which she was cleared - were now nearly "seven years old", dating to October 2009.

The force defended its handling of the investigation and has declined to say how much the inquiry cost.

Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather

The sun could break through from behind the clouds, but we're due more rain this afternoon.

As a court clears former MEP Nikki Sinclaire of misconduct in a public office and fraud the BBC profiles her eventful private and political life.