Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Live updates for Herefordshire and Worcestershire have finished for the day but we'll be back from 08:00 on Friday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.
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Updates on Thursday 21 April 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Friday
Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Watch: Latest weather for Herefordshire and Worcestershirepublished at 17:59 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands TodayIt will be mainly cloudy but dry through this evening and overnight. This will keep temperatures up in comparison to last night, with frost not expected even in rural parts. Lows of 7C (45F).
Listen: I will not be interfering with Harriers says Gordonpublished at 17:54 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
BBC SportKidderminster chief executive Colin Gordon says he will stay out of first-team matters once John Eustace takes over as manager.
"I honestly think he's a top, top manager in the making," Gordon said.
He said his main job was to provide a budget for the manager, who had made it clear "in no uncertain terms" he would not welcome any interference in dealing with the players.
Image source, Getty ImagesWatch: Top to bottom gap between Premiership teamspublished at 17:47 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & WorcesterWarriors' director of rugby, Dean Ryan, felt the home defeat by Wasps served to underline the differences that still exist between his side and the very top teams in the Aviva Premiership.
Historical Ledbury building up for architecture awardpublished at 17:40 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
The Masters House in Ledbury, external was originally a hospital dating from the 13th Century.
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End of X postWatch: Dairy industry turns sour for farmerpublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
BBC Midlands TodayA Herefordshire dairy farming family are auctioning off their herd and equipment today, claiming it's not worth them producing milk any more.
Teenager gets £8m compensation from trust after suffering multiple birth injuriespublished at 17:20 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A 13-year-old girl, who cannot be named because of her age, has been awarded a compensation package worth £8m after she suffered multiple injuries after birth complications were not spotted, her lawyers say.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has admitted liability for complications that arose after the girl was delivered by caesarean section, at just 31 weeks.
She suffered injuries to her brain, bowel and hand.
Lawyers for the family say the damages award is provisional and could be reviewed if her condition deteriorates.
The BBC has contacted the trust but has yet to receive a response.
More photos of baby rhino out his first day out with mumpublished at 17:10 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Ekozu, the first white rhino calf to be born at West Midlands Safari Park, near Bewdley, for a decade, has spent his first day in the public gaze.
Image source, West Midlands Safari Park
Image source, West Midlands Safari ParkLatest: Compensation of £8m for birth injuries: pensioner survives after court stops amputation; Harriers appoint new managerpublished at 17:00 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Claudia Berry
Producer, BBC Hereford & WorcesterHere are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- Teenager gets £8m compensation package after birth complications left her with multiple injuries
- A mentally ill pensioner from Herefordshire has survived for more than six months after a High Court Judge ruled he shouldn't be forced to have an infected foot amputated
- Kidderminster Harriers appointed John Eustace as their new manager
Hereford man with diabetes and schizophrenia defies medical expectationspublished at 16:40 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A man with diabetes and schizophrenia who was the subject of a hospital trust bid to force the amputation of his "putrefying" foot has outlived medical expectations, a lawyer has revealed.
Image source, GoogleThe Wye Valley NHS Trust asked the Court of Protection - which deals with people who lack the capacity to make their own decisions - to force the man to have his foot removed in September.
It said he could have died in days.
But lawyers said the man, in his 70s, is still alive six months later.
Watch: Baby white rhino meets the publicpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Ekozu, a white rhino calf, gets used to the wide open spaces of West Midlands Safari Park, near Bewdley, where he was born last month.
Football: Kidderminster Harriers appoint John Eustace as managerpublished at 16:07 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Kidderminster Harriers have announced the former Derby County and Watford midfielder John Eustace is to become the club's new manager.
Image source, SNSThe 36-year-old has already been assessing the playing squad at Aggborough and he's expected to be at their final game of the season at Southport on Saturday, 30 April.
Harriers have confirmed they are in discussions with Worcester City's joint-manager Matt Gardiner with a view to his becoming Eustace's head of coaching.
Long history of hill-top beaconspublished at 15:52 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A system of organised warning beacons on high points across the country, including the Malvern Hills, have been used since Norman times.
A call to arms sent by beacon would travel far faster than a messenger on horseback.
The system was not foolproof though - in 1545 rumours spread of a French landing on the coast, the beacons were lit, and the Worcestershire militia tramped all the way to Swindon before they were told it was a false alarm.
Watch: New cancer centre at Birmingham Children's Hospitalpublished at 15:38 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
BBC Midlands TodayWork starts today on a new cancer centre at Birmingham Children's Hospital, external.
The £37m building also includes the UK's first centre for rare diseases, external.
The unit will provide care for about 250 cancer patients a year, from across the Midlands. It's expected to open by the end of next year.
Baby rhino makes first public appearancepublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A baby white rhino born last month at a Worcestershire safari park has made his first appearance.
The male calf, called Ekozu, is the first to be born at West Midlands Safari Park, near Bewdley, for more than a decade.
Image source, West Midlands Safari ParkLatest: Pensioner survives after High Court stops amputation; arrest after bookmaker raids; baby rhino meets the publicpublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- A mentally ill pensioner from Herefordshire has survived for more than six months after the High Court ruled he shouldn't be forced to have a severely infected foot amputated
- Man arrested after raids on two bookmakers in Redditch
- A baby rhino born at a safari park makes his first public appearance
Kidderminster man’s ‘be brave mum’ plea sparks decade of fundraising in his memorypublished at 14:56 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A selfless Kidderminster man’s final heartfelt words to his mum sparked a decade-long fundraising drive which has seen his family generate a staggering £140,000 for blood cancer sufferers, external.
Man sought after alcohol stolen from hotelpublished at 14:34 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A CCTV image has been released of a man police would like to speak to in connection with "a large quantity of alcohol" that stolen from a hotel in Corse Lawn, near to Tewkesbury.
Image source, West Mercia PoliceWest Mercia Police say the break-in happened between 03:53 and 04:15 on Saturday, 9 January.
Memorial remembers service for Worcestershire Yeomanrypublished at 14:15 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
A new memorial is being unveiled to the Worcestershire Yeomanry, external - originally a volunteer cavalry unit formed in 1794.
The unit later became the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars and the memorial, marking some of the actions the unit was fought in - The Boar War, World War One and World War Two - will be officially opened in Cripplegate Park in Worcester on Saturday.
Man bailed after Father's Day stabbingpublished at 13:55 British Summer Time 21 April 2016
BBC News EnglandPolice investigating the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in Hereford on Father's Day release a man on bail.
Image source, West Mercia Police
