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Updates from Friday 22 July 2016
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
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BBC Travel
There are delays on train services between Wolverhampton and Liverpool Lime Street, through Stafford this morning because of a signalling problem.
It's affecting London Midland, CrossCountry and Virgin Trains services.
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A lane is closed on the M6 northbound between junctions 13 and 14 near Stafford because of a broken down vehicle.
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
Well I was probably not the only one to struggle with sleeping last night - today should be a little bit cooler we are hearing.
We'll have a full look at the weather forecast for today shortly and there'll be news, sport, travel and other updates for Staffordshire and Cheshire through the day.
I'll also be featuring photos sent in by you, the audience - send them in on email, tweet @BBCRadioStoke, external or use Instagram (with the tag #bbcstoke), external.
Live updates have finished for the day but stories could still appear through the night and into tomorrow.
We'll be back from 08:00 on Wednesday with more live news, sport, travel and weather.
Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today
Our reporter Sarah Falkland visits a fruit and veg farm near Stourport on Severn to see how work continues in the heat.
A couple from Stoke-on-Trent urge the NHS to fund a treatment which saved the life of their daughter and a Telford lorry driver has his £10,000 fine, for having five illegal immigrants in his trailer, waived.
Find our more on Midlands Today, BBC1 at 18:30.
Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Stoke City have made a bid for West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino, believed to be £17m.
Image source, Michael Regan / GettyIf the deal does go through, it could break the club's transfer record as add-ons would bring the total to over £20m.
Berahino, 22, scored 36 goals in 71 starts for West Brom.
Ros Chimes
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
Equipment worth more than £1,000 has been stolen from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust's peregrine watch base near Leek.
The kit - which includes binoculars and telescopes - had been locked in the trust's van overnight.
An appeal's been launched to raise funds to replace it.
Quote MessageWe're all quite disappointed, but it's lovely to see the volunteers really band together, bringing in their own scopes and their own binoculars. Without their dedication this could have really set us back.
Ian Kynaston, Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
BBC Travel
The A521 Uttoxeter Road in Blythe Bridge is blocked in both directions at the Caverswall Road junction, because of a level crossing failure, BBC Travel reports.
Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
Here are some of the stories we've been covering today:
- Three men have been arrested on suspicion of dealing drugs in Crewe
- Equipment worth more than £1,000 has been stolen from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust's peregrine watch base near Leek
- Police have charged a 34-year-old man with attempted rape and theft in connection with an incident in Sandbach
A weather warning for thunderstorms across the West Midlands, external is in force from 17:00.
The Met Office says while most places will miss the worst, it's warning of localised flash flooding, lightning, hail and strong winds.
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Jack Dowling
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of dealing drugs.
Officers stopped a vehicle on Macon Way, Crewe, seizing cash from inside, and searched a house in Broady Court where a number of items were taken away.
Two men. aged 20 and 19 were arrested at the scene, a third, aged 19, was arrested later on.
Port Vale midfielder Anthony Grant will not be allowed to leave the club on the cheap, says chairman Norman Smurthwaite.
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A man dies after reportedly jumping into a river "to cool off" in hot weather.
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There's a lane blocked and slow traffic on the M6 northbound between Keele Services and J16, A500 (Crewe), because of a broken down vehicle, BBC Travel reports.
Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke
Port Vale have confirmed that midfielder Anthony Grant has handed in a transfer request.
Image source, Harry Trump / StringerGrant, who was last year's player of the season, joined the club after leaving Crewe last summer.
Chairman Norman Smurthwaite says no approach has been made for any Port Vale player at this time.
Eight people have been sentenced, external after victims were conned out of more than £31,000 in a fraud scam say police.
The men were sentenced at Warwick Crown Court after committing 64 offences in Warwickshire and 17 in Staffordshire between October 2014 and January 2015.
Victims receive phone calls informing them their bank card has been used fraudulently and they are tricked into handing over their details.
Police say the seven men and one 16-year-old boy targeted the elderly and vulnerable and the fraud had a "devastating" impact on the victims.
Alice Bentley
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
An armed forces charity is warning that former soldiers and their families in Staffordshire and Cheshire are living in financial hardship.
Image source, Matt Cardy / StringerThe Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Families Association, external found that working age veterans survive on an average household income of less than £14,000 a year.
It says financial disadvantage after military services is leading to long-term depression.