Passengers and the driver of a car in the Cannock area have escaped without harm after it went down a ditch at the weekend, police have tweeted.

Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

The wife of Stoke City striker Peter Crouch, Abbey Clancy, has been left shaken after coming face-to-face with burglars at their holiday home in the south of France.

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The Press Association says a source confirmed she was in the house with friends when she discovered intruders rifling through their belongings. 

Her husband Peter Crouch was away at the time, working as a TV pundit at the Euro 2016 football match between England and Iceland.

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There's slow traffic on the M6 northbound in Staffordshire between junctions 12 and 13 because of an earlier broken down vehicle.

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The B5017 Forest Road near Burton is closed between the junctions of Henhurst Hill and Shobnall Road, because of a crash involving a car and a lorry.

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Plans for nearly £200,000 to be targeted at people living in fuel poverty are to be put forward to councillors in Staffordshire.

As an English town considers bringing back the stocks, which other settlements have kept their instruments of medieval correction?

Cities are bidding to become the UK's City of Culture in 2021, and Nick Higham went to visit one contender - Stoke-on-Trent.

Is there more to culture in Stoke than its world-famous potteries?

A former UKIP MEP on trial for alleged fraud had a poor relationship with leader Nigel Farage, a former aide tells a court.

Port Vale sign Calvin Mac-Intisch, Quentin Pereira and Anthony de Freitas - all on two-year deals.

Emma Thomas
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

Cyclists from across the world are taking part in this year's Staffordshire Cycling Festival, external, which started today at Shugborough Hall.

Now in its fourth year at the estate, the three-day event sees amateurs and some of the country's top cyclists , externaltaking part in races across the county.  

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BBC Local Live

The Burton MP, Andrew Griffiths, who came out in support of Theresa May yesterday, has been speaking to the BBC about the qualities that make her a suitable leader.  

"The difference with Theresa is she has made difficult decisions in the interests of our country," he said.   

"She is the Home Secretary, she has had to take those tough decisions and she has had to go into tough negotiations."

Mrs May and the four other candidates - Michael Gove, Andrea Leadsom, Stephen Crabb and Liam Fox - will take part in a series of ballots of the party's 330 MPs, starting on on Tuesday.

Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local LIve

Costumes from the ITV drama Downton Abbey are going on display from tomorrow at a Stoke-on-Trent museum.   

They're part of an exhibition at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Hanley, external which will run until October.

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Our BBC Weather Watchers got out and snapped some of the skies in Staffordshire and Cheshire over farmers' fields by the look of these pictures.

They're from users Shane's place in Fazeley and Coton Karen in Stafford.

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Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Stoke City players who have been on international duty at Euro 2016, the Copa America and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers have been told they do not have to report back for pre-season training next Friday.  

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Instead, Jon Walters, Glenn Whelan, Shay Given, Marko Arnautovic, Xherdan Shaqiri, Geoff Cameron and Mame Diouf will link-up with the rest of Mark Hughes' first team squad ahead the trip to Florida later this month.

The Potters squad are due to fly to the United States on 24 July.

Thousands of people across the Midlands have marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.

Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Port Vale's signings keep on coming as two more players have been added today. 

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French midfielder Anthony de Freitas, 22, external, and Dutch centre-back Calvin Mac-Intosch, 26, external, have both signed two-year deals at Vale Park. 

They follow French midfielder Quentin Pereira, external who arrived earlier today.

Their arrivals make it five transfers in into Port Vale this week by new manager Bruno Ribeiro.

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Salters Lane in Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent is shut both ways because of an overturned lorry.

It's between the A52 Ash Bank Road and the Malthouse Lane junction.

Thousands of people across the Midlands have marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. The campaign in France lasted five months, with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone.