Mental health patients 'feel abandoned'
New university set to buy council sites
'World Cup' number plate sells for more than £4,000
Updates from Friday 22 July 2016
There was a lot of mist about this morning, you can see the remains of it being burned off by the early morning sun in this picture taken in Strensham by BBC Weather Watcher Field Basher.
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Work could begin in September to improve traffic and air quality issues on a polluted Leominster road, external.
A number plate with links to England's 1966 World Cup victory is being auctioned in Malvern today.
The WC66 ENG reg is one of 1,500 number plates going under the hammer at the Morgan Factory as part of a three-day DVLA sale which is expected to raise up to £4m in all.
Image source, APA driver was caught doing more than 154mph on the M5 early this morning.
That's more than double the legal speed limit for the motorway - the car would have been travelling more than 4,500 yards or 4km every minute.
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A Worcestershire hospital trust has launched an investigation, external after patients of two senior consultants were referred to their private clinic for treatment - costing the NHS, external up to £1m.
Kate West
Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- Patients across north Worcestershire suffering with mental health problems say they feel abandoned by local NHS services
- Herefordshire Council could sell or lease a number of sites to the city's university project
- A number plate with links to England's 1966 World Cup victory is being auctioned in Malvern today
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather
A bright start across the West Midlands this morning, followed by a warm and mostly dry day, with some sunshine too. Highs of 25C (77F).
You can read a full forecast on the the BBC Weather page.
The weather for the West Midlands.
BBC Travel
Delays are expected due to temporary traffic lights on A44 Broadway Road at Wickhamford Lane in Evesham.
Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
Welcome to the Local Live service for Herefordshire and Worcestershire on Friday morning.
I'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather as it happens.
If you'd like to get in touch you can email, tweet us on @bbchw, external or message via Facebook, external.
Live updates for Herefordshire and Worcestershire have finished for the day but local stores will be added automatically through the night.
We'll be back from 08:00 on Friday with more live news, sport, travel and weather.
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather
Cloud increasing from the west will bring outbreaks of showery rain northeastwards overnight, although some places will stay dry albeit cloudy. Lows of 16C (61F).
You can read a full forecast on the the BBC Weather page.
Weather forecast for the West Midlands
BBC Midlands Today
Photographs chronicling the history of a Worcester school have been unearthed by the widow of a former teacher.
Dennis Fisher's wife Janet found more than 250 old Samuel Southall Secondary Modern School photos dating back to the mid 1960s that her husband had kept; and was going to take them to the tip but then decided to give them to an ex student.
The photos have already been viewed on Facebook more than 20,000 times.
More than 250 photographs are described as a 'treasure trove of nostalgia'
Director of cricket Steve Rhodes says Worcestershire have not given up hope of making the T20 Blast quarter-finals.
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Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Kidderminster Harriers have announced their scheduled pre-season friendly against Doncaster Rovers on Saturday has been cancelled.
This is because Rovers picked up a number of injuries in a warm-up match last night and so say they would be unable to field a side.
The cathedrals in Hereford and Worcester have been awarded more than £800,000 in total to carry out urgent repairs.
Image source, Worcester CathedralThe money will go towards restoring stained glass windows in Worcester and fixing part of the roof in Hereford.
The money comes from grants awarded by the First World War Centenary Cathedral Repairs Fund.
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- The husband of a Worcestershire head teacher has been given a community order after admitting to harassing a married woman
- A new £6m primary school is set to be built in Colwall to replace the Portakabins where the 200 children are currently being taught
- The cathedrals in Worcester and Hereford have been given more money from the WW1 Centenary Cathedral Repairs Fund.
The husband of the headmistress of a leading girls' boarding school is sentenced for harassing a married woman by trying to kiss and touch her.
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There are now three separate lane closures affecting traffic going north on the M5:
- A broken down vehicle is partially blocking the carriageway and traffic is very slow between J10 (Cheltenham) and J8 (M50)
- There is slow traffic between J8 and J7 (Worcester) because of emergency repairs
- One lane is blocked by a broken down vehicle between J5 (Droitwich) and J4a (M42)
A new £6m primary school is set to be built in Colwall to replace the Portakabins where the 200 children are currently being taught.
Since September, children have had lessons in a number of temporary classrooms because of a major damp problem in the old school, thought to have been caused by an underground stream.
Image source, GoogleToday the council's cabinet will discuss buying a site at Mill Lane in the village to build a new school - the money will come from the government's school's fund.
BBC Travel
There is a lane blocked and very slow traffic on the M5 northbound between J5 (Droitwich) and J4a (M42) because a vehicle has broken down in the roadworks area.
Another northbound lane was already closed between J8 (M50) and J7 (Worcester) to allow emergency repairs.
