Hereford is to become a university city as the government pledges £15m to fund a new engineering institution.

Manufacturing, artificial intelligence and cyber-security will be on the syllabus at the university, set to be located in St Peter's Square.

Known as New Model in Technology and Engineering it will teach its first students in September 2020 with a target of attracting a 50-50 gender balance between men and women.

A fire that severely damaged a Staffordshire Moorlands house was probably started by a pet dog, the fire service has said.

The blaze started in the house on High street in Kingsley just after 20:00 on Tuesday and the dog had to be given oxygen after it was rescued by its owner.

It's thought it jumped on top of the cooker and accidentally turned the hob on.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

Thursday will become rather murky and cloudy with patchy drizzle.

The cloud and drizzle will drift northwards during the day so that by the end of the day some warmer brighter spells may emerge - highs of 15C (59F).

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"Little Dorrit's church" and Brighton's Royal Pavilion Gardens are added to Historic England's register.

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A Wellington grandmother who was taken to Heathrow and told she would be sent back to Jamaica isn't the only one to be wrongly threatened with deportation - according to the charity which took up her case.

Paulette Wilson has been living in the UK since the 1960s and the Wolverhampton Refugee and Migrant Centre said people living in the country before 1973 "absolutely have the right to be here".

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Heather Thomas from the charity said "it's not unusual for people to be phoned and told they are here illegally" and estimated it had dealt with a dozen such cases in the past two years, although she added "this is an extreme case".

Mrs Wilson was told this lunchtime that she was being released and allowed to go home, but the Refugee and Migrant Centre said it still didn't know why and whether this was just a temporary reprieve.

Mechanics have found a pair of mice living inside the air filter of a motorhome.

It's owner, 76-year-old Rob Penn from Buckinghamshire, was returning home from a holiday in Shropshire with his cat Silky when he first noticed something was wrong.

He said he pulled into a garage when an engine warning light lit up on his dashboard and said "I thought someone must be pulling my leg".

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Toby Tropper from Guest Truck and Van in Wolverhampton said it wasn't the first time he'd seen mice in the engines of motorhomes, explaining "they often get parked on grass and under trees in rural areas and mice are attracted to anywhere that’s warm and dry."

England and Harlequins prop Joe Marler will miss next month's autumn internationals after admitting a disciplinary charge of striking Wasps second row Will Rowlands in the game at Coventry on Sunday.

He will miss the matches against Argentina and Australia after being suspended for three weeks.

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Wasps forward Nathan Hughes (pictured above) is awaiting the outcome of his citing for a dangerous tackle.

Paulette Wilson received a letter "out of the blue" in 2015 saying she had "no right" to be in the country.

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Footage of two men stealing from an 87-year-old shopper has been shared by West Mercia Police on Twitter.

The theft took place yesterday morning at Aldi on Oswald Road in Oswestry.

Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

Dry this evening, but clouding over overnight with some rain, lows of 9C (48F).

A woman has been told she faces jail after cheating Justin Bieber fans by selling fake gig tickets.

Zainab Pervaiz, 25, from Walsall, described as a promising student lawyer and would-be England sportswoman, defrauded victims out of more than £7,000 worth of sales.

Pervaiz used a PayPal account belonging to a friend's "vulnerable" grandfather to sell fake tickets to unsuspecting buyers, Birmingham Crown Court heard

When customers complained, it was the grandfather who had to repay them, and the police became involved soon after.

Pervaiz previously admitted 16 counts of fraud by false representation.

Described in court as being of "high sporting ability", it was claimed she had made the England Ladies' Cricket squad and "trained with the England football camp".

Pervaiz, of Swan Pool Grove, Walsall, was bailed to return for sentence in November and could face up to three years in prison.

Hundreds of thousands of fish are being taken out of one of the Midlands' largest reservoirs.

People suspected of carrying fireworks are being searched in Shrewsbury, after reports of them being thrown in the Harlescott area of town.

Police say they are also breaking up groups they think are using fireworks inappropriately.

Telford Tigers will be looking to turn the tables on the Swindon Wildcats in ice hockey's National Cup tonight, after three previous defeats to the Wiltshire side.

The competition is in its first year and starts with teams playing each other in groups, before the top teams face each other in knock-out rounds.

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Coventry Blaze play in the Elite League against bottom-side Edinburgh Capitals at the Skydome Arena.

The father of the Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali says he's very happy at the club and there was "no particular reason for him to move".

The 30-year-old had a year left on his contract, but decided to sign a new five-year deal with his county.

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Munir Ali admitted he thought his son would leave it a bit longer before signing a new contract, but wasn't surprised to hear he was staying.

Fruit growers warn they are "counting down to catastrophe" if the government doesn't introduce a new seasonal workers scheme within the next year.

The UK needs more than 10,000 seasonal workers each year to handle an orchard crop worth £180m, according to a report prepared for the trade body English Apples & Pears.

The report says growers face "insurmountable difficulties" in recruiting UK staff, and as a result most workers come from the European Union.

Herefordshire could be one of the areas most affected if enough seasonal workers cannot be recruited.

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The county is home to two of Britain's biggest cider makers and to almost 10,000 acres of cider apple orchards, as well as other fruit farms

English Apples & Pears chief executive Steven Munday said the 2019 crop and "with it the future of the industry is at stake".

A new campaign group has been formed, to fight for services at Ludlow's community hospital.

It is bringing together Shropshire Defend Our NHS, the Ludlow Hospital League of Friends, local councillors and people living in the town.

The Save Ludlow Hospital group will meet on 9 November at Ludlow's Methodist church.