Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

These are among Staffordshire and Cheshire's main headlines this morning:

- Cheshire's Olympic bronze medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle is "stable" in hospital after suffering a back injury on the Channel 4 reality show The Jump 

- There's a battle brewing over what flag should be used to represent Staffordshire

- Sam Kelly scored a late equaliser to earn Port Vale a well-deserved point against Coventry City in League One

Liam Barnes
BBC News Online

What connects a micropub in Newcastle-under-Lyme with the influential 20th Century author George Orwell?

Well this article on the BBC website will explain the link - and Orwell's love of the pub as a traditional institution.

And how, 70 years on from one of his essays on the criteria for the perfect pub, it's still cited by ale aficionados looking for the ideal spot for a pint.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

This fantastic image, sent in by Terry Love, was taken from a helicopter and is of Trentham Estate.

Image source, Terry Love

It is just great getting your photos of Staffordshire and Cheshire, of any subject - and taken from any angle!

You can share them with me and I'll feature as many as I can, on email, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or use Instagram, external.

The Sentinel

Bosses at a construction firm have been told to pay out almost £400,000 – five years after a 22-year-old was crushed to death, external by a pile of bricks on a building site.

Image source, The Sentinel

Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Sam Kelly scored a late equaliser to earn Port Vale a well-deserved point against Coventry City in League One.  

Image source, Rex Features

City keeper Reice Charles-Cook denied AJ Leitch-Smith four times in the first half as Vale dominated early on.

Jacob Murphy put the Sky Blues ahead against the run of play when he rounded Jak Alnwick and passed the ball in.

Charles-Cook saved brilliantly from Carl Dickinson's free-kick after the break, but he was unable to stop Kelly's rifled long-distance effort.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Cheshire's Olympic bronze medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle is "stable" in hospital after suffering a back injury on the Channel 4 reality show The Jump.

Image source, Ian Derry/Channel 4/PA

Tweddle, 30, from Bunbury, who retired from gymnastics in 2013, hit a barrier on landing and has quit the show.

A family statement read: "Beth had a fall on the slopes whilst in training for The Jump. She is stable and due to undergo routine surgery on her back."

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

These are among the main headlines for Staffordshire and Cheshire today:

- Two campaigns have been launched to register a Staffordshire flag - but they disagree on the design, external 

- Cheshire's Olympic bronze medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle is "stable" in hospital after suffering a back injury on the Channel 4 reality show The Jump 

- The M6 between Stafford and Cannock is now fully back up to speed after a £100m conversion, external into a "smart motorway", Highways England says  

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

You can also always find the latest forecast for Staffordshire and Cheshire on the BBC website.

BBC Travel

There's queuing traffic on the A50 eastbound this morning at the Little Chef roundabout, the junction with the B5030 Ashbourne Road.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

It might not be quite the rain and winds they're getting in the south of England with Storm Imogen but it's a wet start to the day in Hanley - this was just by the town hall at 07:30.

Charlie Slater's going to have his full weather video with today's forecast shortly and then the team here will have news, sport, travel and other updates throughout today.

You can have your say and send me pictures - you can do that on email, Twitter, external, Facebook, external and Instagram, external.