Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

This afternoon's headlines include:

- Two people have been cut free after a crash involving two lorries and two cars, external on the northbound M6 in Cheshire this afternoon

- A cat has been shot in Lichfield with what the RSPCA, external says is thought to be a shotgun

- An event that's been called "the world's oldest dog show, external" has started in Stafford today, external

BBC Travel

Trains between Lichfield Trent Valley and Birmingham New Street are being delayed by a faulty train.

Get the latest from the BBC Travel website.

Uttoxeter Advertiser

A pensioner is to receive the country's highest military honour, external after risking his life to secure the liberation of France during World War II.

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Two lanes are still shut on the M6 northbound at junction 18, police say.

Cheshire Police also say the two people who had to be cut free from their vehicles aren't thought to have suffered serious injuries.

Lamont Howie
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

The second person who was trapped by the crash on the M6 in Cheshire this afternoon has now been released by the fire service., external

They're being taken to hospital by air ambulance, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service say.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

One person has been released from a lorry involved in the crash, external on the M6 northbound in Cheshire this afternoon, according to the fire service.

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service say the man is being taken to hospital by ambulance - they say the are still working to cut a person free from a car.

Cheshire Police say they are diverting vehicles from the scene of the crash, between junctions 18 and 19.

One lane's now been re-opened by the police on the M6 north in Cheshire following the earlier accident.

Lamont Howie
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

Three more fire engines have been sent to the scene of the crash this afternoon, external on the M6 northbound in Cheshire, the fire service says.

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service say they're working to free the two people who are trapped, after two lorries and two cars crashed between junctions 18 and 19.

Sarah Robertson
Producer, BBC Radio Stoke

What's been called "the world's oldest dog show, external" has started in Stafford today, external. 

Image source, Google

The Birmingham Dog Show Society Championship Show, which began in 1859, will feature more than 200 breeds competing for a place at Crufts next year. 

More than 10,000 dogs are expected to take part in the four day event at the Staffordshire County Showground. 

The whole of the M6 northbound at junction 18 has been shut following an accident, police say.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Two people have been trapped, external after a collision involving two cars and two trucks on the northbound M6 in Cheshire this afternoon, the fire service say.

Image source, Cheshire Police

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service say it happened between Middlewich and Knutsford at around 12:30.

They say one person has been trapped in a car, the second in a truck. Get the latest travel news from the BBC Travel website.

Lichfield Mercury

The trust which runs Lichfield's Samuel Johnson Hospital has revealed it does not pay Parking Eye , externalto operate its controversial car parking system.

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BBC Midlands Today

This lunchtime on Midlands Today - hundreds of jobs are being created in Stoke-on-Trent through a new joint enterprise between two of the country's biggest utility companies.  

Image source, Getty Images

Severn Trent Water and United Utilities have created "Water Plus" to offer services to business customers from next year. 

We'll be hearing from the boss of the new joint venture on how this could impact on jobs in Staffordshire and in Coventry - on BBC One from 13:30.

Emma Thomas
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

The Russian embassy has hand-delivered a military medal to a Staffordshire veteran of the Arctic convoys, more than 70 years after the end of World War Two.

Ronald Gray, who's 92 and from Eccleshall, was part of what Sir Winston Churchill called "the worst journey in the world" as a Royal Navy engineer on the destroyers helping deliver vital supplies to Russia.

He's now one of several thousand honoured with the Ushakov medal., external

Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Crewe Alexandra's boss, Steve Davis, says Zoumana Bakayogo deserves to have been offered a permanent contract.

Image source, crewealex.net

Bakayogo has battled back from career-threatening injuries to make 15 appearances for the Alex this season. 

Davis says the player passionate about the game and he hopes they can agree a deal.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

This afternoon's stories include:

- New shop owners in Stafford will be freed from paying business rates, external in an attempt to protect part of the county town from neglect   

- A cat has been shot in Lichfield with what the RSPCA, external says is thought to have been a shotgun

- An event that's been called "the world's oldest dog show, external" has started in Stafford today, external

Jack Dowling
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

A cat has been shot in Lichfield with what the RSPCA, external says is thought to have been a shotgun. 

Image source, RSPCA

The organisation says the six-year-old cat, called Tom, was found by his owner on April 23 near his home in Broadbent Close with serious facial injuries. 

The RSPCA says a vet found fragments of a bullet which have been sent to the police. The cat has lost part of his tongue and has damaged sinuses and eyes.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

We get great scenic shots of Staffordshire or Cheshire emailed in but we also get some great wildlife pictures too.

This stunning one of a bird in full voice has come from Shelley Nutting in Kinver. 

Image source, Shelley Nutting

Like Shelley you can share your pictures via email, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or put them on Instagram, external - adding #bbcstoke to the description, so we can find them.  

A lovely picture has been tweeted by the Gladstone Pottery Museum of the sunshine and blue skies behind their historic bottle kilns.

Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather

The BBC Weather website also has your latest forecast at any time for your part of Staffordshire or Cheshire.