A fire at a children's playground in Staffordshire is being investigated by police.

Ryan Lowe scores his fifth goal of the season as Crewe battle back to draw 1-1 with Blackpool in League Two.

West Brom boss Tony Pulis is pleased with the "attitude and work" of his players as they claimed a 1-1 draw at Stoke with a late equaliser from Salomon Rondon.

Stoke City boss Mark Hughes feels "encouraged" by his side's performance against West Brom but disappointed to have conceded a late equaliser in their 1-1 draw.

Salomon Rondon's equaliser in injury time earns West Brom a point to deny Stoke their first league win of the season.

A 63rd-minute penalty from Jermaine Easter clinches Bristol Rovers a 2-1 League One home win over Port Vale.

Norwich go top of the Championship as they get the better of a stubborn Burton Albion side at Carrow Road.

Danny Mills
Ex-Man City defender on Final Score

Some managers decide not to have a man on the post and it's cost Stoke here. Because grappling has been outlawed they look vulnerable at set-pieces. They need to put this rule change out their heads and just go and attack the ball.

Martin Fisher
Match of the Day commentator

How fitting that West Brom boss Tony Pulis reaches 1,000 games as a manager at Stoke - his home for nearly half of those matches over two spells in which he guided the club into the Premier League and then kept them there, season after season.

Right now, that tenure looks under threat. Four successive defeats leave Stoke bottom of the table. Their defence, so miserly under Pulis, has become shambolic.

Deadline-day signing Wilfried Bony looks rusty, and chances will be at a premium against a well-drilled Albion outfit.

A clean sheet on his return to the Potteries would be the perfect way for Pulis to celebrate his personal milestone and a win would make it four in a row against his former employers.

Stoke make four changes to the side that lost at Crystal Palace last Sunday, with goalkeeper Lee Grant, on loan from Derby, making his Premier League debut. 

Stoke: Grant; Johnson, Shawcross, Martins Indi, Pieters; Cameron, Allen, Whelan; Arnautovic, Bony, Shaqiri.

Subs: Given; Bardsley, Adam, Diouf, Imbula, Crouch, Bojan.

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West Brom show just one change to the side that beat West Brom, with full back Allan Nyom in for Brendan Galloway, who manager Tony Pulis says has gone down with a virus that has affected the Baggies camp, along with Saido Berahino.

West Brom: Foster; Dawson, McAuley, Evans, Nyom; Phillips, Fletcher (c), Yacob, McClean; Chadli; Rondon

Subs: Myhill; Morrison, Gardner, Olsson, Robson-Kanu, Leko, Field

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...to Mr Tony Pulis.

The 58-year-old started out in management in August 1992 with Bournemouth, on a plastic pitch at Preston when Snap! were at number one in the hit parade with 'Rhythm is a dancer'. 

Since then he has had spells in charge of Gillingham, Bristol City, Portsmouth, Stoke (x2), Plymouth, Crystal Palace and now the Baggies. 

When asked how much things have changed, the Welshman said: "Players live a different life now. 

"In a world where they get everything, they've become film stars."

Pulis also admitted that seeing in the milestone at Stoke "could not have been scripted better".  

We doff our baseball caps to you, TP. 

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The Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave is installed as the new bishop of Lichfield.

West Brom manager Tony Pulis will take charge of his 1,000th game as a manager when the Baggies face his former side Stoke City on Saturday.

We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Monday, but keep an eye out here for more updates this evening. 

BBC Weather

This evening will be bright and pleasant and there will be a dry night. 

It will become breezy in the early hours, especially on Cannock Chase. Minimum temperature 10C (50F). 

Nick Watson
Sunday Politics Midlands

West Midlands UKIP MEP Jill Seymour and Conservative MP James Morris joins Patrick Burns on Sunday Politics this weekend.

James Bovill wil lalso be live at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool for reactrion to the leadership race.

Patrick Burns will also speak to UKIP's new leader Diane James about the party's vision for the West Midlands. 

BBC Sunday Politics - 11:00 on BBC One.

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John Acres
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

Stoke-on-Trent is also one of the stars of the new Hollywood movie Girl with all the Gifts is out now - especially Hanley's abandoned shopping centre. 

Ian Hutchinson is the location manager for the film and told Morgan in the Morning there's plenty to recognise for a keen-eyed Stokie.

The film The Girl with all the Gifts, external, much of which was filmed in Birmingham, Dudley, Shirley and Cannock Chase, arrives in cinemas today.

Based on the book about a post-apocalyptic zombie world, it stars Glenn Close of Fatal Attraction fame and Bond girl Gemma Arterton - here she is speaking to BBC Entertainment.

Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live

There are fears trade could fall for retailers near the site of repair works on a major road in Stoke-on-Trent. 

Highways England has closed the northbound part of the A500 bridge over the A34, meaning traffic has to go up the D road to junction 16 of the M6 then back down again. 

Sue Sweatmore is the manager of Freeport in Talke, and says while the effect hasn't kicked in yet - it's only a matter of time.

BBC Sport

Stoke City boss Mark Hughes says he has been impressed by the impact that West Brom striker Salomon Rondon has had since coming to the Premier League.

The Venezuelan has scored 11 goals in 35 Premier League appearances for the Baggies.

"He is a good player. He has good pace and good energy," Hughes said.

"At times he has a thankless task because of the way West Brom set up, but given his attributes he can still affect games.

"They set up to be solid with lots of players behind the ball, and he suffers from that because he, at times, has little support.

"I have been impressed by him since he arrived in the country."

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