A farmer has been found guilty of murdering his estranged wife.

Andrew Hooper, who is 46 and from Newport, shot Cheryl Hooper outside her home in the town in January 2018

He will be sentenced this afternoon.

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Thunderstorms and heavy rain could cause travel disruption throughout Sunday afternoon, the Met Office is warning., external

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It has now extended yellow warnings for severe weather starting at 12:00 on Sunday until the end of Monday.

Where thunderstorms do develop, 20 to 30mm rain may fall locally in an hour, and close to 40mm of rain may fall in two or three hours, it said.

The Environment Agency's Dave Throup said there was the "potential for big storms for Sunday onwards as temperatures and humidity rise".

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street went back to school, external this morning to join pupils at Langley Primary School in Solihull, his old school, as they walked to school.

It was part of a challenge by the Living Streets group which wants more children to walk to school.

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BBC News Travel

Disruption to rail services due to problems with the signalling system between Coventry and Nuneaton is now set to continue until 15:00.

Coaches are running in place of any cancelled services, said National Rail.

A mother who admitted conspiracy to produced cannabis, from a £2m six-bedroomed property in Solihull, has avoided jail, the Daily Mail is reporting, external.

Lisa Scotney, 54, of Broadway, North Walsall was handed a two-year jail sentence at Warwick Crown Court on Thursday, suspended for two years.

Two other defendants, who also admitted to the same charge, were also given suspended sentences.

BBC News Travel

Buses are being diverted away from Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield due to works to fix the road surface.

Port Vale sign striker Richie Bennett on a two-year deal after his release by Carlisle United at the end of last season.

BBC One

A Staffordshire police officer has appeared on BBC TV this morning, talking again about the injuries she suffered when she had her legs crushed by dangerous driver who was trying to escape arrest.

PC Claire Bond told the BBC's Critical Incident "It was like I was in a washing machine, my body was like turning and then all of a sudden I felt quite a hard hit" and said she remember seeing her left leg pointing the wrong way and "my foot felt like jelly".

She was in hospital for nine days and her husband Darren, who is also a police officer, said he's had to take time off and stay at home to look after her.

PC Bond, who is determined to return to front-line policing, also said that when 25-year-old Gurajdeep Malhi, of Stafford was arrested, "relief that I felt was quite overwhelming".

He is due to be sentenced later this year after admitting causing grievous bodily harm with intent to avoid arrest, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Coventry Live

Some of the Coventry Live headlines today are:

• Opening of The Wave in Coventry delayed, external
• City road closed while the barriers are fixed, external
• Coventry City had 'deal on table' to stay at Ricoh Arena, external

The government's chief whip has promised to investigate messages sent to a female Conservative MP by a colleague in which she was was called a "disgrace" and told to quit the party.

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In a now-deleted tweet, Antoinette Sandbach, MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire, shared a screenshot of WhatsApp messages which she said were sent to her by a male Tory MP.

"You too are a disgrace. Time you left the party I think," they read.

It comes as Conservative MPs voted for their final two leadership contenders.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
David Lawrence

Planners at Warwick District Council are to discuss what to do next after a number of planning appeals went against them.

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A report to this week's planning committee highlighted which cases had been lost by the council including ones for a housing development in Hampton Magna and the change of use of a former car showroom in Myton Road, Leamington.

Committee chairman Councillor Alan Boad admitted it was unusual to have so many appeals found in favour of the applicant after its original applications had been turned down.

Dave Barber, the council’s head of development services, said: “We are meeting to specifically review whether there is anything we need to learn from these decisions."

BBC Sport

Warwickshire have described their captain Jeetan Patel as a "legend" after he passed 700 wickets for the county in their win over Yorkshire yesterday.

The Kiwi spinner first joined them in 2009 and scored a century on his debut - since then he has played every season, with the exception of 2010.

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The 39-year-old has already agreed to return to the county next season.

Some economists now argue it's better to rent rather than buy your home if you're young.

BBC Hereford and Worcester

The Polish resettlement camp at Foxley in Herefordshire will be remembered and commemorated this weekend with two days of history displays, live music and a church service.

In World War Two Foxley Manor and a huge area of parkland was a home for Canadian and USA soldiers and two US military hospitals.

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It then became home to hundreds of Polish refugees who lived alongside Herefordshire families suffering from the post-war housing shortage.

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BBC Shropshire

The Labour Party in Shrewsbury could deselect the candidate they put forward at the last two general elections, over concerns she isn't following the party line.

There's a special meeting next week to raise concerns about public comments by Laura Davies on issues such as hospital reorganisation, where she has been arguing for a new super hospital - the official party line is that the two existing hospitals should be retained as they are.

Dr Davies, who works across both hospitals, was able to narrow Conservative Daniel Kawczynski's majority to 6,627 at the last election.

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Birmingham Live

These are some of today's Birmingham Live headlines:

• Frightened schoolboys jumped on, punched and kicked in street robbery, external
• Rapist who told police he might reoffend went on to kill nurse, external
• Biker seriously hurt after after horror smash with car, external

Sketches by more than 60 celebrities are set to be auctioned in Worcester today.

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Conservative leadership hopeful Boris Johnson has drawn a London double decker bus, while outgoing PM Theresa May did one her famous leopard print shoes

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Strictly's Claudia Winkleman and comedians Miranda Hart and Vic Reeves have also sent doodles to be auctioned for The Anna Wilkinson Mockingbird Trust.

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The charity organises trips for young people in the West Midlands who've been diagnosed with cancer.

Chris and Wendy Wilkinson set up the charity after their youngest daughter, Anna, died aged 16 of a brain tumour.

BBC Radio Stoke Sport

Stoke City fans have been promised a number of signings before training starts next Wednesday.

The club's chief executive Tony Scholes said: "We've been working on getting as much of it done before pre-season starts."

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Forward Nick Powell from Wigan, striker Lee Gregory from Millwall and goalkeeper Adam Davis from Barnsley are already understood to have agreed to join the Potters.

BBC News Travel

Rail disruption between Coventry and Nuneaton is now expected to last until 12:00.

Engineers are working to rectify a fault with the signalling system.

BBC Weather Watchers

The BBC Weather Watchers have been out capturing sunrise on the longest day of the year.

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Summer solstice takes place as one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the sun and the sun reaches its highest position in the sky, ensuring the longest period of daylight in the year.

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