Great Britain's first gold medal at the Rio Olympics came in the swimming pool from a man who used to be afraid of water as a child.

BBC Travel

The A500 D Road is shut both ways between the Sideaway roundabout and the City Road Interchange because of a petrol tanker fire. 

Congestion is already back to the A50 at Heron Cross.

Chris King
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

This lunchtime, here are the top stories we are concentrating on:

- Uttoxeter's Adam is being hailed an "incredible" swimmer after winning Great Britain's first gold medal of Rio 2016

- Fines totalling more than £120,000 have been given to parents in north Staffordshire and east Cheshire for taking their children out of school for term-time holidays  

- A man's been taken to hospital after the car he was in crashed with a police car which was on an emergency call out, external in Leek 

Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A man's been taken to hospital after the car he was in crashed with a police car , externalwhich was on an emergency call out in Leek. 

Staffordshire Police say it happened at the junction of Compton and St Edwards Street last night. 

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They say the police car was responding to reports of a woman driving erratically from Buxton towards Leek town centre. 

The force says the driver of the other car and the police officer suffered minor injuries and the incident's now being investigated. 

Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather

The BBC Weather website also has latest forecasts for Staffordshire and Cheshire. 

BBC Travel

A lane is blocked on the M6 northbound in Cheshire between junctions 18 and 19 due to a broken-down car.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, the bookies have now shortened Adam Peaty's odds of winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award after he won Olympic gold today.   

He now finds himself at 10/1 with William Hill.  

Peaty still finds himself behind Andy Murray, Gareth Bale, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Anthony Joshua and Chris Froome in the betting.

"There is a long way to go but Adam Peaty has been exceptional and his performance might well mean he is named our sports personality of the year," said company spokesman Rupert Adams.  

Nantwich News

Fire ripped through a derelict building, external on Welshmans Lane in Nantwich.  

Image source, Cheshire Police/Nantwich News

Rumeana Jahangir
Reporter, BBC News Online

A new museum has opened in Cheshire on the site of a 12th Century monastery.

Established by Augustinian canons, Norton Priory in Runcorn has become the most excavated monastic site in Europe with about 70,000 artefacts.

Image source, Norton Priory

The museum replaces an older one after the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) contributed £3.9m to the £4.5m cost of the wider development.

Steve Miller, from the HLF, said it told "the story of 900 years of social, political and religious change".

Striker Lucas Akins says Burton felt immediately at home in the Championship despite their defeat by Nottingham Forest.

Gary Rose
BBC Sport

Peaty still lives with his parents in his hometown of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire and was afraid of water as a child.

The City of Derby swimmer rose to prominence in 2014, taking two golds at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He has also won eight European golds and three world golds.

Shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2014 and 2015, Peaty became the first man to go under 58 seconds in the 100m breaststroke at the world trials last year, setting what was then a world record of 57.92secs.

He has lowered that time by 0.79secs in Rio.

The Sentinel

One of the city centre's longest-serving retailers has slammed developers behind a failed £350m shopping centre scheme , externalfor devastating his business.  

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BBC Sport

To give you an idea of the significance of Uttoxeter's Adam Peaty winning Olympic gold in the men's 100m breaststroke - he is the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal since Adrian Moorhouse in 1988.

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Peaty, who was already the world, European and Commonwealth champion, emulates the achievement of fellow Britons David Wilkie (1976), Duncan Goodhew (1980) and Moorhouse (1988) in winning breaststroke gold.

Moorhouse, who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s, believes Peaty's physical and mental attributes sets him apart from his rivals.

"He is very good at turning threats to opportunities," he said.

"He has the technical ability and talent to do this and can then cope with the pressure of the moment and put a bubble around himself. He has got everything."

Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Here's our headlines we're looking at this morning:

- Uttoxeter's Adam is being hailed an "incredible" swimmer after winning Great Britain's first gold medal of Rio 2016

- Fines totalling more than £120,000 have been given to parents in north Staffordshire and east Cheshire for taking their children out of school for term-time holidays

- Stoke-on-Trent City Council will have to save another £51m by 2020 to guarantee how much funding it will get , externalfrom the government  

BBC Travel

Two lanes are now shut on the M6 near Cannock between junctions 12 and 13 say Highways England, after a car came off the carriageway.

BBC Sport

Uttoxeter's Adam Peaty secured Team GB's first Olympic gold of Rio 2016 and he's been saluted by fellow swimmers and athletes.

Rebecca Adlington, who won two Olympic swimming gold medals at Beijing 2008, said: "His stroke and power is incredible."

Peaty's achievement delighted British Olympic teammates Adam Gemili and Greg Rutherford.

Sprinter Gemili said, external that Peaty was "in a class of his own", while long jumper Rutherford said on social media:, external "The whole of GB tower here in the village erupted when Adam Peaty won. What a brilliant feeling."

Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has leant his support to an exhibition at Lichfield Cathedral to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Adam Peaty's grandmother Mavis, or Olympic Nan as she has called herself, has become a bit of a star on social media over the past few days.

She has been following her grandson's exploits in the pool from her home in Staffordshire and has also been showing her enthusiasm on social media.  

And in our video you can see her reaction as Adam won his Olympic gold medal.

Jodie Looker
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

This morning's headlines for Staffordshire and Cheshire include:

- Great Britain win their first medal of Rio 2016 as Staffordshire's Adam Peaty took gold in the men's 100m breaststroke with a world record

- Parents in north Staffordshire and east Cheshire are handed almost 3,000 fines for taking their children out of school during term time

- Stoke-on-Trent City Council will have to save another £51m by 2020 to guarantee how much funding it will get , externalfrom the government

BBC Travel

Highways England say a car has hit a barrier on the M6 in Staffordshire between junctions 12 and 13, causing the delays this morning.