Alice Bentley
BBC Local Live

People in Stoke-on-Trent are protesting this lunchtime over the new 30 pence charge to use the toilets at Hanley bus station.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council says the fee is to help keep them clean and it was always the plan to bring it in. 

However, North Staffordshire Pensioners' Convention has organised the 'free to pee' demonstration at the bus station in protest.

Heidi Booth
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

It may be gloomy outside in the fog, but it makes for some beautiful pictures in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.

Image source, Duncan Richardson

Check out this one sent in by Duncan Richardson of North Staffordshire this morning.

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Lichfield Mercury

A Lichfield plumber is preparing to travel to Calais, external to help build shelters for refugees in the town's "jungle camp".

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Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

A well-known barber who cut the hair of many of Stoke City's players has died. 

Image source, The Sentinel

Sid Cartlidge, 76, from Cocknage near Longton, passed away yesterday after a short illness. 

He was a lifelong Stoke fan and styled many of the star names of the seventies, as well as current club owner Pete Coates.

This morning BBC Radio Stoke's John Acres went to have a look at the new memorial garden in Cheshire to remember the people who died in the Bosley wood mill explosion.

The Sentinel

A woman is furious after being handed a parking fine, despite telling council officials she was locked out of her house and could not move her car., external

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BBC Midlands Today

A five-year-old girl could have been trapped for hours in a car with her father's body after he was killed in a crash in Staffordshire.

Image source, Google

Cyclists called 999 yesterday morning after they discovered the car which it's thought had hit a tree near the Ashbourne Road in Crakemarsh. 

More this lunchtime on Midlands Today on BBC One from 13:30.  

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Here are the stories we're looking at this lunchtime on Local live:

- A driver, 25, has died and his five-year-old daughter is being treated for minor injuries after their car was found in a ditch near Uttoxeter

- A pedestrian who died after being hit by a car at the weekend is identified

- An independent report into mistakes made during Stoke-on-Trent's election counts in May will be revealed this afternoon

Mike Perkins
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A 69-year-old pedestrian who died after being hit by a car in Uttoxeter at the weekend has been identified.

Staffordshire Police, external say Barbara Bagley from Weaver Road in Uttoxeter died in hospital after the accident on Saturday afternoon on the A522 New Road. 

The female driver was treated at the scene for shock  

Burton Mail

A Burton man hounded by drug barons into pushing heroin and crack cocaine, external has been jailed for 32 months.

Image source, Burton Mail

John Acres
BBC Radio Stoke

A memorial garden is being built in a Cheshire village where four people died in a wood mill explosion in July.

Emergency services are still searching through the rubble in Bosley because the remains of one of the men involved still haven't been found. 

Reverend Pam Butler, from the village's methodist church, says work is under way to remember those who died and "the community has grown in it's concern for each other". 

Express and Star

The number of sick days taken by Staffordshire firefighters hasincreased by a third in 12 months, external– despite an NHS troubleshooter being brought in to tackle the problem.  

Perry Spiller
Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke

I'm talking poppies on the show this morning and asking: “Should everyone where a poppy?”.

Actress Sienna Miller has come in for some criticism this weekend after she appeared on the Graham Norton show and wasn’t wearing one.

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We love to feature your pictures on Local Live, check out this one sent in by Graham Mayer of Trentham Lake in Staffordshire.

Image source, Graham Mayer

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The Sentinel

A pub has been allowed to continue trading after noise complaints resulted in a licence review., external

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BBC Travel

The A50 in Meir is partially blocked eastbound between Sideway Roundabout and the A50 junction because of a broken down car.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Some of the stories we're looking at this morning on Local Live include:

- Police say a five-year-old girl could have been trapped for hours in a car with her father's dead body

- Fears over prescription drug addiction in Staffordshire and Cheshire

- A review into failures during May's election counts in Stoke-on-Trent is being released later

BBC Travel

There is disruption to flights to and from Manchester and Birmingham due to the fog.

Passengers are being advised to check the status of their flight with their airline before travelling. 

Terry Goodwin
News Editor, BBC Radio Stoke

Staffordshire police have revealed the man found dead in a car with an injured five-year-old girl in the back was her father.

The vehicle and its occupants were found on Sunday on the Ashbourne Road in Crakemarsh by two cyclists "some time" after the crash.

Staffordshire police are appealing for witnesses, external to contact them.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A five-year-old girl is being treated at the Royal Stoke University Hospital after being found in a crashed car in Uttoxeter with the dead driver.

Image source, Google

The vehicle and its occupants were found on the B5030 by two cyclists. The girl was in the back of the car.

A spokesman said the vehicle appeared to have hit a tree in very foggy conditions.