Worcester nPower office escapes job cuts
M5 overnight closures begin
100 year old WW2 dive bomber pilot dies
Updates on Tuesday 8 March 2016
Live updates for Herefordshire and Worcestershire have finished for the day but we'll be back from 08:00 on Wednesday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.
Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
These photos were taken on top of the Malvern Hills by Lucy Bond - it looks cold.
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Image source, Lucy BondThe downpours could lead to flash flooding - check with BBC Travel.
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Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- More posts at Npower's Worcester office despite the company cutting 2,400 jobs across the UK
- Temporary venue for funeral services needed while work carried out on Redditch crematorium
- Overnight lane closures begin on the M5 for "smart motorway" project
The Environment Agency has issued four flood alerts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
- River Frome in Herefordshire
- River Stour and its tributaries
- River Isbourne, Badsey Brook, Honeybourne Brook, Bretforton Brook, Littleton Brook and their tributaries.
- River Salwarpe, Elmbridge and Hadley Brooks and their tributaries
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These are the sixth annual awards, external, and the ceremony at Malvern College on 14 July will be hosted by BBC Hereford & Worcester's Andrew Easton
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Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
A cloudy start to this evening with perhaps a few spots of rain or drizzle. Then a band of rain, possibly heavy at times with hill snow, will spread eastwards overnight. Lows of 5C (41F).
A Hereford pub which was at the centre of a row over a paint job has closed, external.
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Two weeks after BBC Hereford & Worcester celebrated the 100th birthday of the man labeled "Britain's finest dive bomber pilot" by air war historians, we've learnt of his death.
Arthur Gill, from Little Dewchurch in Herefordshire, passed away last week, having celebrated his centenary in style with a trip in a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.
Image source, The Gill familyDuring his career with the RAF he survived 17 crash and forced landings, and he also flew more than 140 different types of planes, including a Concorde.
Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
This great picture comes from one of the BBC's Weather Watchers - Typhoon Taffy from Bartestree in Herefordshire.
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Image source, Typhoon TaffyA team from the University of Worcester was has won the first British Universities Wheelchair Basketball Championships.
Sixteen teams took place in the championships, which took place at the university over the weekend.
The University Arena is the official home of British Wheelchair Basketball.
Fearless steeplejacks scaled the head-spinning heights of Pershore Abbey's tower, external and carried out work to stop pigeons roosting in the historic structure.
Two witnesses who may have seen an assault which ended up with a man falling into a canal in Worcester are being sought by police.
Image source, GoogleOfficers want to talk to a man and a woman who flagged down the police following the assault, at about 9:40 am on Saturday, 20 February.
A 57-year-old man was assaulted by the canal at the rear of Padmore Street, police say.
James Pearson
Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Here's where some of the £25m local councils have received from the government's New Homes Bonus has been spent.
- Wychavon District Council: £1m on town centres in Pershore, Evesham and Droitwich; £500,000 on a new business park; £150,000 on a University of Worcester scholarship scheme
- Worcester City Council: Improving the Commandery museum and Gheluvelt Park
- Bromsgrove District Council: Has set up a community grants scheme over the last year,– which allows communities to bid for a 25% of all the money the council gets from the New Homes Bonus.
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
-Npower to expand in Worcester despite making thousands of jobs cuts across the UK
- Retiring chief constable backs merger with neighbouring force
- Overnight lane closures on the M5 begin today
Leominster's tourism service is to be taken in-house by the town council, external.
Gavin Kermack
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- Npower plans expansion of its Worcester base, despite cutting 2,400 jobs across the UK
- Redditch looks for a place to hold funeral services while work is carried out at the crematorium
- Reports of two masked men attacking a vehicle with a metal bar in Ross-on-Wye are investigated by police
Herefordshire Council has an online map, external showing which routes have been gritted.
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Image source, Getty ImagesCharlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Cloud will increase through the day, with spells of rain throughout the afternoon. Feeling cold for the time of year. Highs of 7C (45F)
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James Pearson
Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester
I've been at nPower’s Worcester office, fining out how their job cuts announced today will affect its 600 staff there.
While the company says new posts are being created here, some workers are likely to lose their jobs.
We've been told that 20 posts will go from its Worcester base. However, because Npower's also closing its Staffordshire site, 70 new posts will come here as well.
The net effect therefore is there will be 50 more jobs in Worcester long term. On the face of it that's good news, but there's still much uncertainty for staff already here.
A two-year consultation is now underway, the company says.
