Local Live has finished for the day. We're back from 08:00 on Wednesday with the usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather.

Mary Rhodes
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

A young woman from the West Midlands has been recalling the moment she had acid thrown in her face. Vikki Horsman suffered 8% burns in what's alleged to be a revenge attack orchestrated by her elderly Muslim ex-boyfriend.

Mohammed Rafiq, aged 80, denies inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, alongside two other men he allegedly employed to carry it out.

Join us on Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30.

Sara Blizzard
Weather Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

It's been a cold and foggy day but we're going to start to see the weather changing from this afternoon. Rain is working its way up from the south.

Lows of 4C (39F). More information about the rest of the week is available here.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

The glittering Christmas tree in The Cube in Birmingham is nearly finished too - a novel way to avoid bits of tinsel on the carpet.

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, posts Cadbury World, external.

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Birmingham Updates

Firefighters, Police and BCC Highways Team are looking into a sinkhole in Kings Norton.

Image source, Kings Norton Fire Station

Firefighters, from Kings Norton Fire Station, discovered the small but deep sinkhole on Middleton Hall Road, near the Selly Oak Road junction, at around 15:30 today.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

There is slow traffic on the M6 southbound between J7 at Great Barr and J6 for the Aston Expressway. It's 20 minutes to get through there at the moment due to the ongoing delays following an earlier broken down vehicle.

The latest information is available from BBC Travel.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

We've introduced BBC Local Live to bring you news, sport, travel and weather updates in one place. We'd like to find out what you think, external.

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West Midlands Police has released this recording, external of a man who rang police to clarify how to call 101.

A force spokesperson said: "It may not sound like much, but if someone is trying to get through to report a genuine life or death emergency, every second counts.

"Please remember, 999 is for emergency calls only."

Rob Mayor
Journalist, BBC WM

A woman left burned and disfigured after being doused with acid in the Black Country has told a court about the moment she saw the eyes of her attacker.

Our news editor Chris Blakemore has been following the story. Hear more from him in our 17:00 bulletin. We will also be reporting live from outside Wolverhampton Crown Court soon so stay tuned for that.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

An "instant burning, piercing pain".

That was how Vikki Horsman described the moment corrosive acid touched her skin as she gave evidence in the trial of three men accused of carrying out a revenge attack on her, on behalf of her former lover.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

A total of 134 foreign vehicles have been seized in the first few weeks of a pilot clamping down on overseas drivers flouting UK road rules, external.

West Midlands Police is one of six forces across the country taking part in a pilot project that sees officers handed devolved powers to impound vehicles being driven illegally on the country's roads.

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Supt Paul Keasey said 134 vehicles had been seized across the West Midlands and West Mercia - one of the other forces involved - since the project launched on 3 November.

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Native Monster, the entertainment website run by the Express & Star, has posted a handy guide, external for what to do at Birmingham's Good Food Show Winter, which kicks off on Thursday, including the BBC Good Food Kitchen, external.

Sandwell Leisure Trust, which runs leisure facilities on behalf of Sandwell Council, tweets, external it is upgrading facilities at Haden Hill Leisure Centre in December and the sauna, steam room and gym will all be temporarily closed at some point in the month.

The lower dance studio will also be affected by the renovations. More details here, external.

Rob Mayor
Journalist, BBC WM

It's thought the Frankfurt Christmas Market in Birmingham is on course for a record year.

About five million people are set to visit what's said to be the biggest authentic German market outside Germany and Austria and it's expected to bring in more than £90m to the local economy.

Listen live to BBC WM for more on this and other stories.

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Birmingham Updates posts, external to warns drivers one lane was closed northbound on the M6 between J10 (Wolverhampton) and J10A due to a collision.

Image source, Highways Agency

BBC Travel has since said all of the lanes have reopened but congestion is still back to J8, for the M5 interchange.

David Lumb
BBC News, West Midlands

Kruchowski admitted drinking at driving at Walsall Magistrates' Court earlier - on his birthday - and was jailed for eight weeks.

The 36-year-old, from Edukacji, Poland, was also ordered to pay £80 and banned from driving for three years.

David Lumb
BBC News, West Midlands

A lorry driver has been jailed for drinking and driving after taking an HGV along the wrong side of a dual carriageway.

Tomasz Kruchowski was stopped on the Black Country Route, in Willenhall, at 02:20 on Monday.

A breath test revealed he was more than three times over the alcohol limit.

Alex Homer
BBC Local Live

The 20-year-old acid attack victim Vikki Horsman today told jurors that she glimpsed her blistering face and neck as she stumbled back into the house, hurriedly dousing her face with cold water from the kitchen tap.

Earlier, she had described the breakdown of her relationship with 80-year-old Muslim man Mohammed Rafiq - more than 60 years her senior - with whom she had been sleeping since she was 18.

Rafiq, whom she had known for six years, had bought her a car but became increasingly "very controlling", she told the court.

Daz Hale
Presenter, BBC WM

Here's Boo the pug dog who was stolen last week from his home during a burglary.

Boo has been reunited with his owner Mark now, but he's backing calls for tough sentences for dog-napping.