It's a hat-trick of loan signings for Stoke City now - Bruno Martins Indi joins Wilfried Bony and Lee Grant at the club in today's deadline deals for the Potters.

Ros Chimes
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

Plans have been submitted to build two apartment blocks near the centre of Leek, external.

Image source, Google

The application, by a company called Marcus Machines and Tools, based in Longton, details housing for 27 apartments on land on High Street.

The land used to house a garage but has been derelict since 2003. 

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

The BBC Weather website also has the latest weather forecasts for Staffordshire and Cheshire if you need an update at another time.

Burton Mail

For most a trip to Alton Towers is a fun day out with family and friends and nothing more but for one man, the trip to the Staffordshire theme park was the beginning of a life-changing journey.  , external

Image source, Burton Mail

Simon Stone
BBC Sport

It seems Saido Berahino won’t be leaving West Brom today.

Stoke had been interested in the England Under-21 striker.

But Berahino wanted to move at the start of pre-season, when West Brom weren’t willing to sell.

And as the transfer window has dragged on, it has appeared increasingly likely Berahino would remain at the Hawthorns.

As I understand it, that is exactly what will happen.

Raj Kaur Bilkhu
Broadcast Journalist

A staff member at a Stafford hospital that has been placed under special measures, did not intervene when a child repeatedly banged their head against a wall, inspectors said. 

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has criticised Huntercombe Hospital after carrying out inspections in April and May.

Inspectors highlighted over-use of restraint, insufficient staff numbers in key areas and issues around staff training and medication doses.

A spokesman for The Huntercombe Group said: "The inspectors' verbal feedback acknowledged that improvements had been made. 

"We deeply regret that some aspects of the service had fallen below the high standards that we are committed to provide. 

"We are confident that the centre has been turned around by the strengthened management team and it has made good progress towards returning to the standards that we expect of it."

Juliette Ferrington
BBC Radio 5 live

With Stoke City signing both Wilfried Bony and Lee Grant on loan already today, a couple of BBC Sport journalists are hearing whispers that Charlie Adam, externalcould be on the move away, external from the club. 

As yet, the club won't let the 30-year-old go despite a number of clubs being interested in taking him - but that could all change.

Image source, Getty Images

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

These colourful bikes on the A534 Crewe Road were spotted by Jonathan White in Crewe who says they're there for the Cheshire leg of the Tour of Britain, external, which arrives next month.

Image source, Jonathan White

While this stunning view of Audley was captured by Duncan Richardson.

If you've got a picture of Staffordshire or Cheshire and want to see it featured on our Live pages in the future - send it in on email or put it on Instagram (with the tag #bbcstoke), external.

Image source, Duncan Richardson

Chris King
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

This afternoon's latest top headlines we're looking at include:

- The sister of a woman who died in a knife attack at an Australian hostel has praised the bravery of a man from Cheshire who tried to save her life

- A man sexually assaulted two women on a train between Shrewsbury and Crewe, external, and left one of them "cowering in the corner", police say  

- Stoke City sign striker Wilfried Bony on a season-long loan deal from Premier League rivals Manchester City

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Three fire crews are at the scene of a blaze in a wood pellet compacting machine , externalin Staffordshire. 

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service say it's at Elford Biofuels on Watling Street, Ivetsey Bank. 

They say they were called at 13:37 and found the machine was "well alight" - two more crews have been called to help them.

Matt Sandoz
Stoke City commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

The Stoke City manager Mark Hughes says it was a "no brainer" to sign Wilfried Bony on loan from Manchester City for the season. 

Speaking to the club's website he said the striker, external knows the league well and "has scored plenty of goals at this level".

"He has power, speed and very good physical attributes which will undoubtedly help us, and his technical and finishing skills are outstanding too," Hughes added. 

Image source, Stoke City FC

He also said that Stoke had today signed goalkeeper Lee Grant on loan as, external "we felt it was important to make sure that we are well covered in that area".

Express and Star

Crime has soared in Cannock Chase over the past year – with violent crimes, sex offences and public order violations, external rising by 7.1%.

A backpacker who died after trying to save a fellow traveller as she was attacked at an Australian hostel is nominated for a bravery award.

Rebecca Woods
BBC News Online, Journalist

A Cheshire backpacker who died a week after being stabbed trying to save a fellow traveller in Australia has been nominated for a posthumous bravery award, external. 

Thomas Jackson, 30, from Congleton, was hurt as he tried to shield Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 21, in the attack at a hostel in Queensland last week.

Image source, Facebook

The Australian state's Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she was so moved by his efforts that she has nominated him for a bravery award. 

She wrote on Twitter: "Tom Jackson's actions of putting his own life before the life of Ms Ayliffe-Chung is an extraordinary act of courage and deserves recognition."

Chris King
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A man sexually assaulted two women on a train between Shrewsbury and Crewe, external, and left one of them "cowering in the corner", police say. 

British Transport Police say the attacks happened on the 12:51 Arriva Train Wales service on 7 August - they've released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incidents, who may have vital information.

Image source, British Transport Police

They say the first victim was sitting next to a man when he lunged at her and grabbed her twice. 

Officers say he touched the chest of the second as she passed through the carriage. 

Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

The Staffordshire strongman Eddie Hall says it was "pretty special" to win the UK's Strongest Man contest for the sixth year, external in a row.  

Eddie, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, also came third in the latest World's Strongest Man, external competition.

He told BBC Midlands Today that he does what he does because he wants to be a hero for his children and other youngsters - as Arnold Schwarzenegger was for him.  

BBC Travel

On the M6 in Cheshire there's a lane blocked on the northbound side between junctions 18 and 19 because of a broken-down vehicle.

Lucy King
News Editor, BBC Radio Stoke

Two people have been seriously hurt in a crash involving a camper van in Staffordshire, external which ended with the vehicle hitting the side of a house. 

West Midlands Ambulance Service say the two-vehicle collision happened last night outside the Green Man pub on the A523 in Ipstones.

Image source, West Midlands Ambulance Service

The service say four people needed treatment in total - two in the camper van were more seriously hurt and one, a woman in her 30s, had to be airlifted to hospital. 

Paramedics say the other two in the car, which had "significant front end damage", suffered minor injuries.

Sarah Falkland
BBC Midlands Today

On Midlands Today this lunchtime, there's a warning to anglers across the West Midlands to try and stop the spread of a virus that has killed thousands of fish. 

We'll also hear about an economic partnership with China that's set to benefit Stoke-on-Trent. 

Both those stories and more, including your weather forecast for the rest of today, on BBC One from 13:30.

Second signing of the day confirmed for Stoke City - and it's probably the one most Potters fans were looking forward to.