Live updates for Coventry and Warwickshire have finished for the day but we'll be back from 08:00 on Monday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.

BBC Weather

Although outbreaks of rain are possible through the evening, most places should become dry by the early hours. 

Low cloud and fog could become extensive by dawn. Remaining very mild overnight, with lows of 10C (50F).

Tomorrow, after a grey and murky start, it will become brighter, with highs of 14C (57F).

Coventry City say they are expecting the biggest travelling contingent since the opening day of the season for Saturday's match against Peterborough, external at the Ricoh Arena.

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The visitors have been allocated 1,200 tickets and the Sky Blues have called on their own fans to lend their support as the team attempts to extend their unbeaten home record.

Coventry will have to do it without defender Reda Johnson (pictured), however, who's been ruled out for the season.

The University of Warwick has been honoured for its work in showcasing the county's cultural heritage, external.

Dr Elizabeth Goldring, Dr Faith Eales, Prof Elizabeth Clarke and Dr Jayne Elisabeth Archer all received Bainton Prizes by the international Sixteenth Century Society.

The awards recognise the "best books written in English" dealing with the period 1450-1660.

Nuneaton News

A simple red phone is set to help more people in North Warwickshire get the help they need for free, external.

BBC Sport

A look ahead to Sunday's match between Leicester and Wasps.

Wasps director of rugby Dai Young says they really have to improve their form away from the Ricoh Arena - and it doesn't come much tougher than Welford Road.

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Wasps make four changes, with scrum-half Dan Robson and lock Kearnan Myall in the starting line-up.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Here are some of the stories we've been looking at this afternoon:

- Workers at Caparo Vehicle Technologies in Leamington hear their jobs are safe, after part of the group was put in administration last week

- Four people confessed to killing Coventry teenager Nicola Payne in 1991 but all were ruled out, a murder trial has heard

- The fire service rescues a horse from a canal

London Midland says buses will replace trains between Coventry and Nuneaton this evening because of a staff shortage.

A University of Warwick project aims to map the history of non-white actors and directors by looking at their involvement in Shakespeare's plays.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is helping to tell the story, external.

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Coventry Telegraph

Four people have confessed to killing Nicola Payne, a court has heard, external. 

Poor old Bess the horse fell into a canal - luckily Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service came to the rescue

Rugby Advertiser

A popular jewellery retailer and a large discount store are the latest additions to Rugby’s high street, external.

It's Halloween tomorrow - and how brave are you?

Would you be the monster’s first blood, or would you hang on until the end to save the day? 

Take our quiz and see if you can survive.

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Warwick Courier

An extra 7,000 homes are likely to be built, external just outside Kenilworth after a planning inspector agreed plans for the district to take on the bulk of Coventry’s housing shortfall.

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BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Here are some of the stories we're looking at this afternoon:

- The prosecution at the Nicola Payne murder trial is concluding its case

- Police are searching grassland near a Coventry business park for a man who's been missing overnight

- Workers whose jobs were at risk after Caparo steel went into administration are told the business may be sold as a going concern

Chris King
BBC Midlands Today

It's emerged police investigated four people who were alleged to have confessed to killing Coventry teenager Nicola Payne. But the trial of two men accused of her murder heard that all were discounted. 

The 18-year-old went missing in December 1991 and her body has never been found. Nigel Barwell and Thomas O'Reilly, both 51 and from Coventry, deny murder. 

Image source, West Midlands Police

The jury heard one man, known only as BB, had his confession dismissed as "flight of fancy", as he'd been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

Two others were said to have confessed whilst drunk or high on drugs - all were eliminated from the inquiry. 

Coventry Observer

Police have released an urgent appeal for sightings of a Coventry man who went missing from his home on Thursday evening, external.

Moira Rawlings
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

A Leamington factory faced with possible closure after the steel processor, Caparo, went into administration two weeks ago has been saved. 

Some 70 workers are based at Caparo Vehicles Technologies on Tachbrook Avenue. They make braking systems for Coventry and Warwickshire-based Jaguar Land Rover.

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Trade union Unite said hundreds of jobs were expected to go across the wider West Midlands.

A full statement from administrators PwC is expected later.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Police drones must be "as visible as possible", a police ethics expert tells BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.

The Warwickshire force is planning to trial the machines from January and says they will be used to search for missing people as well as examine crime scenes.

Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou, a researcher in ethics at the University of Warwick, says the public must be able to see the unmanned vehicles in the same way they can see police helicopters.

BBC Weather

Heavy rain through the start of the afternoon should ease, but it will stay mainly cloudy with further light rain at times.

It'll feel mild, despite fairly strong winds. Highs of 16C (61F).