Sam Conners and Alex Thomson have sent down a couple of overs each before lunch, with Glamorgan openers Zain Ul Hassan and Eddie Byrom gleaning eight runs in total.

That leaves the home side to score another 376 runs for victory in the two sessions that remain of the season.

Earlier, Luis Reece racked up an unbeaten 119 and passed 1,000 runs for the season as Derbyshire declared on 234-2.

Will Davis adds a couple of runs to the Leicestershire score off Matt Parkinson in the final over before lunch - but it's surely just a matter of time at the Riverside.

Leicestershire began the final day on 13-0 but have lost wickets regularly - two each for Matthew Potts, Vishwa Fernando and Parkinson.

Tom Scriven and Lewis Hill are the only batters to reach 20, but Ben Cox is 18 not out at the interval.

Ged Scott
BBC Sport at Edgbaston

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It is a glorious day in Birmingham - but the season is sadly over here.

Hands have been shaken and the game has been called off.

Too much overnight rain had seeped onto an area of the outfield - and umpires Paul Pollard and Ian Blackwell have taken the decision to terminate the contest.

One of the days when Dickie Bird would surely have loved to have been in charge.

Warwickshire, already guaranteed to finished fourth, take nine points from the game to end up 13 points adrift of third-placed Hampshire.

Somerset, who take three points, cannot catch fifth-placed Lancashire - and earn some prize money. They will now finish sixth, unless Notts finish off Middlesex this afternoon.

Sam Robson goes to lunch just 11 short of a century, but Middlesex haven't been able to build to kind of lead that would enable them to declare during the interval.

They are 159 ahead with five second-innings wickets standing and 66 overs left in the day.

Brett Hutton's two wickets this morning move him back into the lead in the race to finish as the Championship's leading wicket-taker with 62.

Jake Ball, playing his last game for the county, took an excellent catch to secure one of those wickets for Hutton, but hasn't yet picked up one himself.

Steven Croft cuts and is caught by Daniel Bell-Drummond at first slip - and that's lunch at the Spitfire Ground.

It's a second wicket of the morning for Aron Nijjar and he and fellow spinner Jack Leaning have put Kent on top after an opening stand of 194 between Luke Wells and Keaton Jennings.

Wells made 117 and Jennings 74, but Lancashire are only 59 in front and Kent have a great chance of a victory that would guarantee their place in Division One next season.

Josh Bohannon has been Lanceshire's best batter this season and they need another contribution from him now after slumping from 194-0 to 210-4 in the space of eight overs.

He clips an Arron Nijjar full toss to mid-wicket for four and is six not out, with Steven Croft on 14 - they lead by 55.

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Notts 384 v Middlesex 366 & 150-5

Middlesex just haven't managed to gain the kind of traction they needed this morning and that's credit to Nottinghamshire's bowlers.

Ideally, the visitors would have been looking to smash it around and set themselves up for a lunchtime declaration - but they're only 132 ahead as it stands.

Sam Robson is 77 not out, with Josh de Caires on 12.

A reminder that we've had no play so far today here, after a couple of pitch inspections this morning prompted concern about moisture in the field and an early lunch break.

If conditions permit, we'll get underway in just under half an hour.

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We could be into extra half hour territory here if Leicestershire lose another.

But for now, Tom Scriven is off the mark in streaky fashion with an edge in between second slip and gully for four runs as the batter pushes forward.

Cox gets a single off Vishwa Fernando, who finds the edge of Scriven's bat on the drive next ball but it doesn't quite carry to keeper Ollie Robinson.

Scriven picks up three more runs, deflecting Fernando safely through backward point.

It looked as though Leus du Plooy fancied a half-century in his final innings for Derbyshire, but he decides to pull out midway through Kiran Carlson's over and ends his career for the county with an unbeaten 38.

Luis Reece finishes 119 not out and Glamorgan now have 70 overs in which to chase 384.

They'll have a few of those to face before lunch.

Surrey may have lost to Hampshire earlier on but it hasn't put a dampener on the spirits of the 2023 county champions.

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You can bet there won't be any part-time bowlers employed by Worcestershire at Headingley.

Yorkshire are 6-0 after three overs of their run-chase and Finlay Bean and Adam Lyth have the chance of passing 1,000 runs for the season - they are both in the 970s at the moment.