Four people living in a Stoke-on-Trent tower block have been threatened with legal action because they won't let the city council change their front door.

Officials say the doors at Sothern Court in Penkhull need to be replaced because the new doors would last ten minutes longer in a fire.

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The council says it has contacted the tenants who have not allowed the council to fit appropriate doors to their properties, to discuss the replacements it will be installing.

It says it is in the interests of all tenants that "this work happens swiftly".

Listen to live BBC Radio Cumbria commentary as Barrow face Crewe Alexandra in a pre-season friendly.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

Another warm day in store with the possibility of sunny spells and highs of 26C (79F).

You can find a detailed forecast for your area on the BBC Weather site.

Welcome to the Local Live service for Staffordshire and south Cheshire on Tuesday.

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

We'd like to hear from you so send us your news, comments and photographs via our Facebook, external page or our Twitter , externalaccount.

Tom Sylvester and Julie Baum's wedding pictures were taken in temperatures as low as -9C (15F).

A video of a man throwing a flip flop off a 15th floor hotel balcony and getting it to land inside a rubber ring below has been viewed millions of times.

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

Ben Godfrey
BBC Midlands Today

The BBC has learned that since 2014, councils across the West Midlands have spent more than £900,000 on legal costs and clean-up operations associated with travellers' illegal camps.

I’ve been filming in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and Herefordshire to see how a game of cat and mouse is being played out.

Local authorities are trying to preserve public spaces while traveller groups are demanding they do more to provide permanent pitches.

See more on this story on BBC Midlands Today at 18:30.

The final HS2 routes beyond Birmingham have been revealed for the Manchester and Leeds arms of the project.

The routes, from Crewe to Manchester and from the West Midlands to Leeds, were laid out last November, external.

Earlier, the government announced seven contracts worth nearly £7bn for engineering works between Birmingham and London.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Two polar guides have become the first couple to be officially married in British Antarctic Territory (BAT).

Tom Sylvester, from Sheffield, and Julie Baum, from Yoxall, Staffordshire tied the knot at the Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Image source, Neil Spencer/BAS

The couple have been together for 11 years and are experienced instructors who were picked for the British Antarctic Survey last year.

Ms Baum, with help from friends at the site, made her own wedding dress which included part of an old orange tent for the skirt.

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

People in Kidsgrove are being asked what kind of sports facilities they'd like in the short term, following the closure of the town's sports centre.

It shut last month , externalwith Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council saying it couldn't afford to run the county council-owned site.

The two councils say they are working together on long term plans for leisure, health and well-being for Kidsgrove but say they want ideas in the interim to fill the gap.

They're running a consultation from today until 14 August 2017., external

Phil McCann
Cheshire Political Reporter, BBC News

Proposals to build a rolling stock depot for high speed HS2 trains near the village of Wimboldsley between Crewe and Middlewich, external are being backed by the government.

It's among the details announced as ministers confirmed their new HS2 rail links , externalwith the route between Birmingham and Manchester, via Crewe, set out.

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The government also confirmed it is backing the idea of a high speed "hub" station for Crewe but it would be in the existing railway station.

Its report says says HS2 trains could stop between Birmingham and Manchester - previously they would have gone straight through Crewe.

However the money for the work in Crewe is yet to be confirmed, with the report saying decisions on additional investment in the town will be taken in 2017, external.

Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live

A family have rebuilt a memorial garden in Staffordshire after it was "smashed to smithereens" by vandals.

In 2011, Mike Sutton died after a prank went wrong and he fell into the Trent and Mersey Canal in Kidsgrove.

At the site a memorial garden was erected by his family but, last week, they say they found it'd all been ripped up and vandalised.

His father, Anthony Sutton, says it left them devastated and they spent the weekend putting up a new one.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

After a fine, sunny day for most of us today, here's how the next 24-hours is looking for the West Midlands.

You can keep up-to-date with the latest forecasts for your area via the BBC Weather website.

Phil McCann
Cheshire Political Reporter, BBC News

The Director of Legal Services at Cheshire East Council has been suspended.

It's amid an investigation over the conduct of the council's three most senior managers.

The chief executive was suspended in April while the chief operating officer has had some duties taken away.

The council says the suspensions are a neutral act and won't comment on the nature of the concerns. An investigation led by councillors is under way.

Phil Bowers
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

Staffordshire and Cheshire are among the worst places in the country for the illegal trade of puppies, according , externalto the RSPCA.

Image source, Science Photo Library

The charity says it fears soaring demand for fashionable breeds like pugs, chihuahuas and Yorkshire terriers could be fuelling demand in the trade.

It's released a top 10 "hotspots" based on the number of calls they've had about questionable dealers in 2016.

Burton Mail

Elderly and disabled people across East Staffordshire will lose a "lifeline" when a much-needed mobility scooter hire service is axed, sparking fears the closure could damage trade in the town, it is claimed., external

Image source, Burton Mail

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Back from a week off and your photos of Staffordshire keep getting shared with me - here are six I've picked out today.

You can send your pictures of the area in on email or, if you use Instagram, external, put them there with the tag #bbcstoke to show you agree to share them.

John Acres
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

The former Stoke City defender Mike Pejic says he believes it was fate that led him to marry his childhood sweetheart after more than 50 years apart.

He dated Mal Burgess at school but she moved to London in 1965 and it wasn't until two years ago that they met again.

On leap year last year, Mal proposed to Mike and they tied the knot earlier this year, saying they'd met their "soul mates".

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Firefighters are tackling a fire in a field outside Stoke-on-Trent involving around 20 acres (eight hectares) of straw.

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service says four engines were sent to Rownall Road, Wetley Rocks just after 15:00.