Boro are looking to get back to winning ways backed by 2,600 travelling fans at the New York Stadium.
In-form Rotherham United will provide a tough test for Aitor Karanka's men who drew 1-1 with Watford last time out.
Boro have Grant Leadbitter available again after the skipper served a one-match ban.
Richie Smallwood is expected to come up against Boro for the first time in his career after completing a permanent move to Rotherham earlier in the season.
Ed Sheeran accepted a "proposal" from a teenage fan who has been bravely battling cancer for eight years.
Katie Papworth, 19, popped the question when she met the chart-topping singer minutes before he went on stage at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro.
Wearing her favourite Mrs Ed Sheeran T-shirt, Katie presented the singer with a ring which he duly accepted.
Katie, from Bearsden, near Glasgow, has an aggressive form of brain cancer and lost her sight to it, just two weeks ago.
The teenager also presented her idol with a picture she painted of a Lego house, in tribute to one of his songs.
Ed signed a copy of she’d made to keep for herself, writing: “Dear Katie, lovely to finally meet my wife.”
Katie Papworth's picture signed by Ed Sheeran
Katie’s mum Trish said: “Katie took the picture of the lego house she’d made and gave Ed a ring with an infinity symbol. Ed loved her artwork and asked if he could keep it for his wall.
“When she presented the ring he smiled and said, ‘I suppose I should say yes. OK.’
“He made it really special for her and she’s since said she needs to think about bridesmaids.”
Katie said: “We haven’t set the date yet, but it’s not official because we haven’t been in a church.”
Katie was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2006 but intensive therapy sent it into remission for five years.
Three years ago, the cancer returned to her spine.
Ed Sheeran performing on stage
Katie was keen on art and attended classes at Project Ability until she lost her sight through the disease two weeks ago.
After she created a “wish list” a few months ago, Trish got in touch with Ed’s management, who arranged for the singer to send her a video message from the US, where he was on tour.
Katie also managed to watch Ed in Leeds before her health badly deteriorated. On Thursday, she was having a relatively good health day so Trish contacted Les Hoey’s Dreammaker Foundation to see if they could help her to meet him.
Les said: “Times like this make it worthwhile. To see someone like Ed taking time out of his day is so emotional and has made such a difference.”
Sir Richard Branson has said he will continue with his venture into space tourism after the death of a pilot killed when a rocket crashed during a test flight in California.
The billionaire businessman described the tragedy, in which another pilot was seriously injured, as "a devastating loss" and said he and his team at Virgin Galactic are doing everything they can to support the pilots' families.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket came down in the Mojave Desert in California, having "suffered a serious anomaly" after a test flight conducted by partner business Scaled Composites
The Government is facing a search for a new head for the inquiry into historical child sex abuse after the chairwoman announced she was stepping down amid a barrage of criticism over her "establishment" links.
Fiona Woolf said she had no choice but to quit after accepting that the victims had lost all confidence in her ability to conduct the investigation impartially.
It follows sustained pressure over her links with former home secretary Lord Brittan, who is facing claims that he failed to act on a dossier of paedophile allegations in the 1980s.
Firefighters have walked out on strike for the weekend in their bitter row with the Government over pensions, ahead of a series of firework displays across the country.
Members of the Fire Brigades Union in England left their stations at 6pm yesterday and will not return until 6pm on Tuesday, the evening before Bonfire Night.
Picket lines were mounted outside fire stations, and will continue throughout the next few days.
Searches will resume today at a blaze-damaged fireworks warehouse after the discovery of two bodies on the site.
A specialist team of police and fire officers carried out a fingertip search of the SP Plastics industrial unit on the Baswich Industrial Estate in Stafford yesterday after a huge fire ripped through the building on Thursday evening.
A 53-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the incident was released and is now being treated as a witness.
Cautions are set to be scrapped in England and Wales as part of an overhaul of out-of-court disposals.
Ministers want to replace existing disposals available to police officers, which include cautions and cannabis warnings, with a new two-tier approach requiring offenders to take one or more actions.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said the revamp, which at the bottom-end would see offenders writing an apology to victims or repairing damages but could see more serious offences being fined, removes the "soft option".
Scottish Labour should "apologise" for not listening to voters after electoral defeat, leadership candidate Jim Murphy has said.
The former Scottish secretary and the current shadow international development secretary has emerged as the early favourite for the job Johann Lamont left last week but he faces competition from MSPs Neil Findlay and Sarah Boyack.
Nominations opened for the posts of leader and deputy leader north of the border yesterday and Mr Murphy will formally launch his campaign in Edinburgh today.
A man has died after being shot near a food wholesaler's.
The victim, believed to be 35, was blasted in the stomach and chest near Manchester Food Traders in Openshaw, east Manchester.
Police were called at 6.20pm yesterday following reports of a man with a gun and discovered the injured person.
Thousands of wooden crosses with the name of fallen servicemen and women will be planted as a moving Field of Remembrance.
Volunteers from the Armed Forces and families began the process of transforming Saltwell Park in Gateshead into a tribute to bravery and sacrifice.
Among the volunteers was Mike Wilson whose identical twin brother, LCpl David Wilson, died while serving with 9 Regiment Army Air Corp in Iraq during 2008.
A US nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone can move about as she pleases after a judge eased state-imposed restrictions on her.
It handed officials in Maine a defeat in the nation's biggest court case yet over how to balance personal liberty, public safety and fear of Ebola.
Judge Charles C LaVerdiere ruled yesterday that Kaci Hickox must continue daily monitoring of her health but said there is no need to isolate her or restrict her movements because she has no symptoms and is therefore not contagious.
DJ Scott Mills has said Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has a softer side off screen.
The BBC Radio 1 presenter revealed the judge has apologised for his cutting comments, which included calling him a "banshee" and saying he "can't dance in any way, shape or form".
But Revel Horwood said despite the pair's inability to score highly in the competition, both Mills and tennis coach Judy Murray are entertaining to watch.
A man has been locked up for stumbling into the bedroom of an elderly woman “like a zombie” - on the night he burgled the houses of two pensioners.
James Smart, 23, had taken so many valium tablets “he couldn’t remember” breaking into a 69-year-old woman’s house on Edge Hill Way in Billingham.
He then walked a short distance and broke into a 76-year-old woman’s house on Hastings Way, in the early hours of August 3 this year.
Judge Peter Bowers jailed Smart, of Tristram Avenue, Hartlepool, for thirty three months for each offence to run concurrently.
Prosecuting, David Crook told Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday that Smart had first went to the Edge Hill Way house, stealing a tablet computer, a steam cleaner, and other items.
He had then staggered to Hastings Way, broke into the house, and woke the 76-year-old resident at around 4.55am.
Mr Crook said: “She could make out his face and was shocked to see him. She asked who he was and he answered ‘Steven Michael’, looking and sounding very confused, before he left the room. He was described as looking like a zombie.
“He stole a wallet and a purse, with £160 in total.
“The victim now says she is scared to stay in her own home.
“When arrested, he told police in interview that he couldn’t remember much after lunchtime on that day because of the amount of valium he had taken.”
The victim of the first burglary located her steam cleaner, which had Smart’s fingerprint on, and three bags taken from her porch, in her garden the next morning.
Smart had pleaded guilty to the burglaries at the first opportunity, and appeared in court via video link from custody.
Smart, who was given a 52 week sentence for burglary in September 2010, asked the judge to sentence him without the need of a pre-sentence report.
Mitigating, Duncan McReddie said: “He is full of remorse for what he has done, and that is why he wants to be sentenced today.
“His life is perhaps chaotic and unstructured, and although it is not an excuse, he had taken so many sleeping tablets that he does not remember what happened.”
Handing Smart a 33 month sentence for each burglary, to run concurrently, Judge Bowers said: “The main problem when you burgle someone’s house is the effect you leave on the occupier, especially when they confront you during the burglary. You and I have no idea of how they will feel.”
