Updates on Friday 27 May 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Tuesday
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Some warm spells of sunshine will develop during the day. However, isolated heavy showers are possible towards the west and the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain, external.
Concrete is to be poured into the hole that opened up in the A38 in Kempsey, Worcestershire County Council says.
It happened during routine work by Severn Trent workers.
The local authority said there the road would remain open.
A large hole has opened up in the A38 at Kempsey, just outside Worcester, while Severn Trent were carrying out some "planned work".
Their team was digging outside The Anchor pub when "suddenly everything caved in" to reveal a much bigger existing hole, a spokesman said.
Severn Trent have had to abandon their planned work while engineers from the county council deal with the void.
Worcestershire County Council says it is now not planning to close the road.
Image source, Worcestershire County Council
BBC Travel
The A440 in Worcester is closed after a crash - emergency services advising drivers to avoid the area.
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Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Pedal Heaven recorded their first ever Pearl Izumi Tour Series team win as they pipped Madison Genesis to victory in Redditch last night.
In the individual competition, the former Hereford-based NFTO rider Jon Mould was first across the line for JLT Condor to claim his seventh Tour Series victory - now just one behind the all-time record of Ed Clancy.
The A38 in Kempsey, just outside Worcester, is to be closed after "a void" was found under the road by The Anchor pub, the county council says.
It was discovered while Severn Trent were carrying out work in the area.
We'll bring you more details when we have them. More from BBC Travel.
Image source, GoogleA Droitwich woman who moved to Turkey says it was an "honour" to open a new supermarket in her village, external.
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- "Too early to speculate" on cause of 18th Century bridge collapse, says council
- Man taken to hospital after being rescued from River Wye in Hereford
- Five-year-old fire site in Hereford could finally be redeveloped
BBC Midlands Today
A school minibus driver has relived the moment he reversed off a bridge in Tenbury Wells just moments before it collapsed.
Derek Trow, who was driving one of two minibuses full of children, said watching Eastham bridge fall into the River Teme was "shocking".
Worcestershire's Moeen Ali celebrates a test landmark.
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A man has been taken to Hereford County Hospital "suffering from the effects of cold" after he was rescued from the river in Hereford, the ambulance service says.
West Midlands Ambulance Service say they were called to the rowing club in Hereford at 09:45 by the police to treat the man who'd been rescued by a fire service boat crew.
Just what you need at the start of a Bank Holiday weekend. You can read a full forecast on the BBC Weather website.
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We'll bring you any more details of the rescue when we have them.
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The water voles in Sanders Park, Bromsgrove are now TV stars - I wonder who their agent is.
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The council says it is "aware" that lorries were in the area of a collapsed bridge in Worcestershire, but that it would be "wrong to speculate" about what caused it to fall into the river.
The 200-year-old Grade II listed Eastham Bridge, near Tenbury Wells, collapsed into the River Teme on Tuesday
Image source, Ryan ParkesQuote MessageWe are aware that lorries were in the area recently because of highways work near Tenbury. Our investigations into the cause of the collapse are continuing and until we complete that process it would be wrong for us to speculate."
Worcestershire County Council statement
A Redditch councillor says the failure to ask the public their views on permanently moving maternity services from the town's Alexandra Hospital to the Worcestershire Royal is almost worse than the decision itself.
Doctors in the north of Worcestershire have rejected plans to reopen maternity services at the hospital because they don't think the demand will justify the £1m running cost.
Quote MessageParticularly young people are being deprived of the opportunity to put their point of view and to listen to the arguments about why they are not going to get maternity services at the Alex."
Pat Witherspoon, Redditch Borough Council
Kate West
Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- Claims lorries ignored warning sign around collapsed 18th Century bridge
- More than five years after it was damaged by fire, work to repair an eyesore in the heart of Hereford's High Town has moved closer
- Injured tortoise has Lego wheel attached to his shell to let him walk again
A tortoise in Herefordshire is back on the move after being fitted with a built-in disability aid made of Lego.
Jack, from Ledbury, has had a wheel attached to his shell after he lost a hind leg in a strimming accident.
Image source, Leadon Vale Veterinary CentreEllie Robbins, from Leadon Vale Veterinary Centre, says they removed the injured leg and glued on a wheel instead.
Quote MessageThe only other options would have been to put Jack to sleep or to try to splint his leg, but obviously being a tortoise the leg is a lot further in than you can see."
This is a service running from Worcester Foregate Street to Whitlochs End which left at 08:02.
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The delayed train is running from Worcester Foregate Street to Birmingham Snow Hill.
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