BBC Weather Watchers

There's many of you who are now BBC Weather Watchers (and if you're not and want to be one, head to the website to sign up).

Well now, we've joined together with the BBC's Digital Creativity team to bring you a new and unique opportunity to get creative with the weather this summer.

As part of Shakespeare Lives 2016, the Digital Creativity team has been having fun with Shakespeare's more meteorological quotes to create their own dramatisations of the weather. 

Now it's time for the Weather Watcher community to have a go.

Using the Shakespeare remixing tool, Shake It Up, external, you'll be able to select people and characters, insert your weather-related quote and get creative with our weather icons, as well as some of your brilliant Weather Watcher photos.  

Our latest headlines:

- The daughter of a Stafford woman who died after being sent home in a taxi from a coach trip has told the BBC that the family are struggling to grieve properly

- Almost 300 West Midlands Ambulance Service staff were attacked last year, according to figures obtained by the BBC

- South Cheshire Olympian Bryony Page says she still can't believe that her silver medal win is real

Stoke manager Mark Hughes says Peter Crouch could start at Everton in the Premier League on Saturday. 

It's after he scored a hat-trick in Stoke's 4-0 EFL Cup win at Stevenage last night.

Image source, Reuters

Paramedics in the West Midlands could be given body cameras after an increase in attacks when they're on duty.

Ambulances have already been fitted with CCTV to record offenders.

Almost 300 members of staff were physically assaulted, external across the region last year.

A life-size statue of the late Motorhead frontman Lemmy will be unveiled at one of Los Angeles' most famous bars. 

Burslem-born Lemmy died in December, aged 70, after being diagnosed with cancer.

Image source, PA

A 6ft bronze sculpture of the rock legend is being installed at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. 

Members of Motorhead are expected to join fans for today's unveiling of the monument, which was built after a crowd-funding campaign raised more than £16,000.

The Sentinel

Even two dislocated fingers didn't stop Eddie Hall achieving his best-ever finish at the World's Strongest Man, external.

Lee Blakeman
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Staffordshire and Cheshire:

- The daughter of a Stafford woman who died after being sent home in a taxi from a coach trip says the family are struggling to grieve properly

- About 300 West Midlands Ambulance staff were attacked last year, according to figures obtained by the BBC

- Plans to build around 900 new homes in countryside near Crewe are expected to be rejected by councillors today

Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather

It’ll be a bright start with sunny spells. Cloud will increase over the course of the day. 

There’s the chance of occasional, isolated showers towards this evening but for most it’ll remain dry. 

Highs of 23C (73F).

There's heavy traffic on the A38 in Staffordshire at the Branston Interchange, due to roadworks.

There are also reports of an accident at Nelson Place in Hanley, which could delay your journey.

Welcome to Stoke and Staffordshire Live on Wednesday morning. 

We'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather as it happens. 

If you'd like to get in touch you can email, tweet us on @bbcradiostoke, external or message via Facebook, external.

Blackburn come from 2-0 down to beat Crewe after extra-time and reach the third round of the EFL Cup.

A strong Liverpool side overwhelm Championship outfit Burton Albion to reach the EFL Cup third round.

Peter Crouch scores a hat-trick as Stoke City ease into the third round of the EFL Cup with a routine win at Stevenage.

We'll be back from 08:00 on Wednesday with more news, sport, travel and weather, but keep checking here for updates this evening and into the morning.  

Pete Morgan
Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke

A Staffordshire mum has told BBC Radio Stoke she is facing a fear of heights in order to buy her disabled son a new bed. 

Jillian Reeves from Sandyford, Stoke-on-Trent, is aiming to raise £5,000 in order to buy special equipment , externalfor her 19-year-old son Daniel.

She says he suffered a severe spinal injury after being hit by a car when he was four and needs a specialist bed. 

A bed provided by the NHS when he was discharged in 2002 keeps breaking, Jillian said.

BBC Sport

Stoke City travel to Stevenage in the EFL Cup second round tonight and are looking for a safer passage through to the next round after a scare at Luton Town last season.

The Potters were taken to a penalty shootout at Kenilworth Road where they held their nerve to emerge 8-7 winners from the spot. 

Image source, Getty Images

Having been heavily beaten at home by Manchester City at the weekend, Stoke will not want a second defeat in a matter of days. 

Stevenage revel in upsets, having knocked out Championship side Ipswich Town in the first round this season.

BBC Radio Stoke

A man and a woman have been seriously hurt in a crash in Tamworth that saw two air ambulances called , externalto the scene.

Image source, West Midlands Ambulance Service

West Midlands Ambulance Service says two cars collided on Bonehill Road at around 11:15 this morning - a driver and passenger in one car were trapped. 

A spokesperson said the male driver suffered multiple serious injuries and the woman had "numerous fractures". Both were airlifted to hospital after being cut free.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

The Uttoxeter swimmer Adam Peaty says he hopes his Olympic gold medal leads to more people getting into swimming as a sport.

Speaking at a press conference after the Team GB plane landed at Heathrow, he also said he'd gone to Rio wanting to win Britain's first swimming gold in 28 years.

Peaty's told the BBC that, now Rio 2016 is over, he is off to California to celebrate his success.  

Chris King
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Our top stories this evening include:

- A girl in a pushchair was knocked over , externalwhen her mother was targeted in Burton by a would-be robber

- The Uttoxeter swimmer Adam Peaty says he hopes his Olympic gold medal leads to more people getting into swimming as a sport

- A man and a woman have been seriously hurt in a crash in Tamworth that saw two air ambulances called , externalto the scene

Nick Owen
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

This evening on BBC Midlands Today we'll have more on a grenade attack in Sweden that killed a boy from the West Midlands. 

We'll also feature a West Midlands paralympian, Ian Marsden, who says Team GB's Olympic success has inspired him to go for gold in Rio.

Join me for BBC Midlands Today at 18:30.