Missing Kidsgrove cat put down after poisoning
New charges for taking DIY waste to recycling centres
Shut school air quality 'still not safe'
Chief Constable announces retirement
Updates from Friday 14 October
Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live
A child's body has been found at a house in Stoke-on-Trent.
Police say they're currently examining a property and the alleyway behind it on Packett Street in Fenton. Officers were called at 10:00 and are now also carrying out house-to-house enquiries.
A 19-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the incident.
A warning of problems on services between Rugeley Trent Valley and Birmingham New Street.
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Jennifer Scott
BBC News
Two MPs who know the pain and trauma of losing a baby are calling for more support for people affected by stillbirth or neonatal death.
Conservatives Antoinette Sandbach , from Cheshire, and Will Quince will host a Twitter session on Monday as Baby Loss Awareness Week gets under way.
The pair have also arranged a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday.
They hope talking about the issue will help stop other parents from "suffering in silence".
MP recalls night her baby died
Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live
It seems we've not seen the last of the clowns in Staffordshire and Cheshire. There are messages on social media suggesting people will be dressing up again tonight.
Facebook groups like Clown Apocalypse UK is involved in the USA craze and says it's just about people having fun and trying to give people "something to laugh about."
It says it has clowns walking the streets of Burslem, Cobridge, Tunstall, Chell Heath, Sandyford and Alsager.
Image source, Getty ImagesQuote MessageIf they get a kick out of doing that, it is quite worrying and frightening. Those people, eventually someone's going to hit one of them or they're going to get arrested."
Dr Joan Harvey, Senior lecturer in psychology, Newcastle University
Cheshire Police says it's received a small number of reports of people dressing up as clowns in the county.
Staffordshire Police have yet to comment.
A man has been remanded in custody charged with the abduction of a schoolgirl in Staffordshire 15 years ago.
Arnold Baxter, 72, of Bath Street, Rugby, Warwickshire is accused of kidnap and indecent assault after an incident in Barton-under-Needwood in 2001.
He is due to appear at Stafford Crown Court on 11 November.
The recently crowned Robot Wars champions Apollo will be fighting it out live in Cannock , externalamong many of the stars of the BBC Two's hit returning show.
All week you have been using Your Questions to ask about the West Midlands. Here are some of our answers.
Read MoreThe North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group told us "it can't comment on individual cases but that 90% of patients in community beds don't need to be there and would be better off being looked after in their own homes".
"Every patient leaving a community hospital bed is being offered appropriate alternative care packages," it added in a statement.
James Bovill
Staffordshire Political Reporter, BBC News
A Stoke-on-Trent pensioner says she hasn't slept in her own bed for three years because she has to care for her 91-year-old mother.
Theresa Brough from Lightwood looks after her mum Annie, who is housebound following a series of falls.
She says the closure of community hospital beds in north Staffordshire will cause chaos at A&E departments this winter.
Image source, Getty ImagesQuote MessageIf I wasn't here she would just sit between the care [carers' visits] and it is a very lonely, very frightening existence. I choose to sleep here because I know if I went to my own home I wouldn't sleep for worrying."
Theresa Brough, Carer
Dozens of beds have closed across the area, with more planned, as health bosses transfer funding to care in the home instead.
Crewe fought back from a goal down to earn a deserved point at fellow promotion hopefuls Luton.
Cameron McGeehan tested Ben Garratt from distance midway through the first period before Luton went ahead just before half-time when Pelly Ruddock released Jake Gray and his volley was turned home by Danny Hylton.
The visitors were deservedly level in the 64th minute when Cooper's exquisite cross was headed beyond Walton by Alex's top scorer Ryan Lowe.
BBC Politics
UKIP leadership contender Steven Woolfe has been discharged from a hospital in Strasbourg after collapsing following an altercation at a party meeting.
Mr Woolfe left hospital on Sunday morning, with a UKIP spokesman saying he was now "focused on continuing his recovery".
The MEP for North West England, including Cheshire, was taken to hospital on Thursday after an altercation at a meeting of UKIP MEPs at the European Parliament.
The fracas is being investigated both by the party and the parliament.
Image source, UKIP
BBC Sport
Alex Jones' first-half goal was all that Port Vale needed to see off MK Dons and end a winless run away from home that stretched back to April.
AFC Wimbledon's win at Oxford earlier in the day saw Neal Ardley's side go above MK Dons for the first time in the English Football League and Karl Robinson's day got even worse when Jones netted the winner.
Image source, Getty ImagesTim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live
Here are just a few pictures from a very sunny Tamworth ahead of the town's 10k race.
Thanks to Terry for taking them before completing the run, external.
Arrests of children in Staffordshire have fallen by 57%, external in the last five years - but there was a rise between 2014 and 2015, new figures reveal.
The last will of Diana, Princess of Wales, is among millions stored in a secret warehouse.
Read MoreHere are some of the stories we're looking at this morning:
- A minor injuries unit for under 16s at Stafford's County hospital isn't enough, according to a local councillor
- A Stoke-on-Trent pensioner says she hasn't slept in her own bed for three years, because she has to care for her 91-year-old mother
- MEP announces he will stand for UKIP leadership
Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC WM
The West Midlands MEP Bill Etheridge has announced he will stand for the UKIP leadership again.
One of the favourites, Stephen Woolfe, has now been discharged from hospital after an altercation with a fellow UKIP MEP in Strasbourg.
With question marks being raised over whether Mr Woolfe can continue to seek the party leadership, Mr Etheridge says he can "no longer" support his campaign and will now run himself.
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather
There will be sunny spells and scattered cloud today with a chance of rain, which could be heavy in places.
It will feel cold with highs of 14C.
Latest weather for the West Midlands
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