The new Dean of Peterborough has been announced as the Very Rev Chris Dalliston.

Rev Dalliston, who has been the Dean of Newcastle since 2003, grew up in Norfolk and studied at Cambridge University.

He served the Diocese of Chelmsford in his first 12 years of ministry and spent a period as the vicar of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, before moving to Newcastle.

Image source, Peterborough Cathedral

"I feel deeply privileged to be asked to take on this role," he told the cathedral's website. "Peterborough is a growing, dynamic city with a great future.

"At its heart stands this extraordinary cathedral – without doubt one of the great buildings of England."

His predecessor, Rev Canon Tim Sledge, decided to step down for health reasons, external a month after being appointed earlier this year.

The classes will be in an area where "about 10%" of the population is Lithuanian, a council says.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Plans to build a multi-million pound stadium for Cambridge City Football Club have been approved.

The planning committee on South Cambridgeshire District Council voted against the recommendation of officers to refuse the plans, as they believe it will benefit the local community.

The Lilywhites are currently without a permanent home, as they left their old Milton Road ground in Cambridge in 2013.

Image source, KWA Architects

The new stadium will be on the site of a former landfill site, off Babraham Road in Sawston.

It will now go to the Secretary of State for final approval.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

So far Aston Merrygold and Jonnie Peacock have avoided the dreaded Sunday night dance off on Strictly Come Dancing, so can they make it seven weeks in a row?

On Saturday night Doddington's Jonnie will be attempting the Salsa with Oti to Turn Me On by Kevin Lyttlle, while Peterborough's Aston will be getting in a right spin as he performs the Viennese Waltz with Janette to Who's Loving You by the Jackson 5.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Dr Priya Gopal, external, a lecturer in Cambridge University's English faculty, said a working group will be established to look at the issue of diversity within the curriculum.

"Cambridge has to take very seriously the student demand to diversify and decolonise the curriculum," she said.

"It represents a very strongly-felt desire and need across the student body.

"Certainly in the faculty in which I teach I have recommended that a working group be brought together to discuss how to make modifications to the curriculum and how to diversify - and this should be replicated across the relevant faculties in the university.

"I think the university is now cognizant that there is a movement and a demand - and it has expressed a desire to listen. What concrete steps get taken remain to be seen."

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Hundreds of Cambridge University students have backed calls for a more diverse curriculum, holding a rally in the centre of the city.

The demonstration, which took place outside the Senate House on King's Parade last night, comes amid criticism over the lack of black and ethnic minority authors on the university's reading lists.

The row started with a letter, external written in June by the students to the university's English faculty, asking it to "decolonise" its curriculum by including more BME writers.

One of the rally's speakers, Cambridge University's women's officer Lola Olufemi, came under fire on social media for explaining the letter in the student newspaper, Varsity.

She told the rally that national newspapers who covered the story "stirred up a moral panic, alluding to the idea of BME students as aggressors who are attempting to dismantle the canon".

She said: "Decolonising curricula is not an end point but an ongoing process. That requires a complete rethinking of our disciplines and the Eurocentric ideologies that underpin them."

In an earlier statement reacting to the media coverage, the university said: "Academic discussions are at a very early stage to look at how postcolonial literature is taught."

It said the Education Committee in the faculty would look at decisions in a "robust, academic debate".

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

There's a little bit of mist around first thing but it will lift to bring a bright day with some sunny spells.

It will feel quite pleasant in the sunshine, with a maximum temperature of 13C (55F).

The A47 is currently blocked between Peterborough and Wansford.

Police are asking motorists to avoid the area.

A crowdfunding appeal raises money for a memorial to the world's first IVF nurse-technician.

Three non-league clubs beat EFL teams to reach the FA Cup second round - relive Saturday's first-round action as it happened.

As the re-routing of the A14, external between Cambridge and the A1 at Ellington continues...

Provision is being made for wildlife:

John Devine
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

"If you're going to do it, go big - or don't bother," says the man who's created a Halloween gore-fest in his garden.

Tommy Kelly's display in Wisbech Road in March includes zombies, dismembered hands clawing their way out of a well, and a severed head sitting in a bucket beneath a guillotine.

Is this the most X-rated house of horrors in Cambridgeshire?

It's pretty scary, but Mr Kelly says he tests it all out on his six-year-old daughter, who's even named the zombies.

Bernard's not the scariest name for one of the undead, but the Kelly family thinks it suits him.

This mammoth undertaking is "just a bit of spooky fun", says Mr Kelly.

"It's different. Not everybody does it, but everyone's been really positive and we haven't had any complaints," he said.

News of the horror-house has spread far and wide with people making the trip from towns and villages across the county.

It's all in a good cause as well, as the Kelly family is raising money for Scotty's Little Soldiers, external, a local charity which raises money for the bereaved children of British military service personnel.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

The Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will once again close its Halley VI Research Station during the Antarctic winter because of safety concerns.

The base sits on a floating ice shelf, which has two large developing cracks.

The research institute withdrew its staff from Halley last winter because of uncertainty over how the cracks would evolve.

Image source, BAS

BAS director Professor Dame Jane Francis said: "What we are witnessing is the power and unpredictability of nature.

"Our Antarctic summer research operation will continue as planned, and we are confident of mounting a fast uplift of personnel should fracturing of the ice shelf occur.

"However, because access to the station by ship or aircraft is extremely difficult during the winter months of 24-hour darkness, extremely low temperatures and the frozen sea, we will once again take the precaution of shutting down the station before the 2018 Antarctic winter (March - November) begins."

Staff will be redeployed to other BAS operated stations, external or to its headquarters in Cambridge.

John Devine
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

If the ghouls and ghosties are giving you the heebie-geebies and you need an antidote to all this Halloween-based gore, how about this one?

There are no words.

OK, there are a few...

It's in Soham.

Christmas comes early to Cambridgeshire - they started putting this little lot up in September!

Chris West's family described him as a "big and unique personality".

Helen Burchell
BBC News

Carved pumpkins aren't just the for the kids - and here's the proof.

Image source, Hammerton Zoo Park

Hamerton Zoo Park's meerkats have been enjoying their own ghoulishly-carved giant vegetable in their enclosure, while one of the raccoons chowed down on a pumpkin filled with "raccoon treats".

Image source, Hamerton Zoo Park

And no, before you ask, we don't know what a raccoon considers to be a treat.

This isn't a trick. We really don't know.

Helen Burchell
BBC News

Strange things happen on the night shift, police are warning would-be criminals...

Image source, @FenCops

"From the darkness of the cells comes PC Frankenstein," Cambridgeshire Police's Fenland officers say on Twitter.

Dressed to scare off suspects, one of their officers spent the night wandering around the cells in a ghoulish mask.

At least we think it's a mask...

Come and have a nice little chat, they say, and then: "Welcome to your room for the night."

Image source, @FenCops

We reckon this is pretty much everyone's idea of a hotel from Hell.

Good work, scary cops!

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

It's a grey and cloudy start this morning across the BBC East region, with some occasional light rain, gradually becoming dry with some bright spells developing.

For a more detailed forecast where you are, visit BBC Weather.

Nine hundred years after his supposed first sighting, the "killer" dog's reputation has not faded.

Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

Mainly dry with some clear spells across the BBC East region, but thicker cloud from the north- west could produce some rain or drizzle later.

Temperatures under clearer skies could fall as low as 1C (34F), with the risk of a ground frost, but temperatures will be higher where there’s more cloud.

There'll be a cloudy start to Tuesday, with some spots of rain but it should become drier and brighter with the chance of some hazy sunshine.

Mainly light west to south westerly winds and highs around 13C (55F).

Get a more detailed forecast where you live, from BBC Weather.