Ian Naude, 29, a serving police officer with Cheshire Constabulary, is remanded in custody.

Liz Copper
Reporter, BBC Midlands Today

The Black Country Living Museum is asking people to share their memories of the old Gas Shrowroom from West Bromwich - as it's rebuilt at the attraction.

Image source, Francis Frith Collection

The store, which dates back to 1930, was once used to sell gas fires, cookers and lights.

It's now being demolished before being reconstructed at the museum.

A woman accused of tricking her way into people's homes, posing as a police investigator, has been charged over a series of distraction burglaries, says West Midlands Police., external

It's alleged the 45-year-old made a fake police ID badge out of a sim card-holder and shoe lace and used it to deceive women into believing she was a police officer.

She's set to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court later this month charged with four counts of burglary, four attempted burglaries and one attempted robbery.

Birmingham Mail

Here are some of the stories making the headlines today:

• Birmingham lost 1,000 affordable homes due to planning, external 'loophole'
• Police are investigating graffiti attack inside Birmingham mosque, external
• Four pedestrians found walking along M5 and Aston Expressway, external

Al-Hijrah Islamic faith school in Birmingham was found guilty of sex discrimination for segregating children.

BBC Midlands Today

Farmers from across Shropshire have been at a special safety event aimed at cutting the numbers of deaths from farm accidents.

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The event at Harper Adams University, near Newport, highlighted some of the most dangerous activities on farms.

Figures show farm workers make up less than 2% of the total UK workforce but account for 20% of work-related fatal injuries.

A Cheshire police officer has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl.

Ian Naude, 29, of Market Drayton, in Shropshire, appeared at South Cheshire Magistrates' Court on Monday and was remanded into custody.

The rape charge relates to an incident reported to officers on 3 November in Crewe.

A woman whose body was found in a river near Bewdley, Worcestershire, has been formally identified as Beverley Gibbings.

Ms Gibbings, 48, was last seen in Highley, Shropshire, on 25 October.

West Mercia Police said her next of kin had been informed and it was not treating the death as suspicious.

Plans to turn some lamp-posts into electric vehicle charging points are to be considered by councillors in Warwickshire.

Image source, Warwickshire County Council

The county council said its 10-year electric vehicle charging strategy, external will provide the infrastructure to "enable residents, businesses and communities to use vehicles every day and for any purpose".

At a meeting on Thursday councillors will also consider whether to provide work-based chargers for council staff and also add them to the council's pool fleet.

According to the report, the county has seen a huge rise in the numbers of battery-powered cars on the roads - from 10 five years ago - to more than 700 today.

BBC Shropshire

Telford Tigers have signed Adam Jones, following the end of his trial with Belfast Giants.

Image source, Steve Brodie

Jones, who played his first professional ice hockey season with the Tigers, started the 2017/18 season with Guildford Flames, in the Elite League, before going on trial with Belfast Giants.

Jones trained in Telford as a youngster before moving to North America for six years, having been born in Birmingham.

The Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) has failed in its attempt to challenge a ruling saying an Islamic faith school's policy of segregating boys and girls is unlawful sex discrimination.

Last month three Court of Appeal judges found the policy of the mixed-sex Al-Hijrah school, in Birmingham, to completely segregate from the age of nine is unlawful sex discrimination.

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At the Court of Appeal today, the judges rejected a move by the AMS to join the legal action.

In a written ruling, they refused an application by the association, made in the wake of the court's 13 October findings, to apply for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The West Midlands has its first teenage police cadets in almost 20 years.

Sixty new recruits celebrated their passing out ceremony in Birmingham last night.

The scheme, which sees cadets volunteer at public events, was scrapped in 1998 but has been reinstated as part of an initiative to improve police relations with younger people.

It will initially cover Birmingham and Sandwell, with other areas of the West Midlandsexpected to come on board over the course of the next year.

A Shropshire woman has been honoured at this year's Pride of Britain awards.

Sarah Hope, from Market Drayton, has been given the award for her work campaigning for child amputees to get sport blades on the NHS.

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Ms Hope lobbied the government and secured £1.5m for the special limbs - which have helped children across the country, including her own daughter Pollyanna.

Pollyanna lost her leg when she was just two years old. She was involved in a car crash which also killed Mrs Hope's mother Elizabeth.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel is looking at these stories today:

• Authorities are not ordering landowner to remove waste from recycling centre, external which keeps going up in flames

• Man reveals how he tried in vain to save wife's life after returning home to find, external bedroom full of smoke
• Three Staffordshire Police officers charged with gross misconduct over alleged, external use of 'racist' language

A woman missing from Hereford has been found safe, West Mercia Police says.

The force thanked people for sharing the appeal to help find Deborah Davies.

Chris Carter's motorsport dream has moved a step closer after he completed a testing session.

Vanessa Pearce
BBC News

Bus services are being diverted away from the A34 Green Lane, in Walsall, as fire crews deal with a derelict building on fire.

Image source, Stephen Allport

The fire service said three crews had been at the scene since 10:20 at the White Horse pub.

Image source, Stephen Allport

The road remains closed at the Alma Street junction.

BBC Radio Stoke

Campaigners fighting to save bus services in Cheshire East will gather at the council's headquarters today as officials decide whether to slash the budget for the transport.

Officials are looking at proposals to cut the amount the council spends on subsidising unprofitable routes.

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Janet Proudlove is trying to save her local service near Sandbach and says it's not just about getting from A to B.

English Heritage works with Google to create digital walk-arounds for 29 sites.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

A well-known pub in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, has been saved from demolition.

On Monday evening councillors rejected plans to remove the Greyhound pub, which is thought to date back to the 1800s.

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Local residents made the Greyhound, in the Rock Hill area of the town, a so-called asset of community value, to stop any development.

The pub has been closed for just over a year. Bailiffs removed the electricity meter over unpaid bills.