Paralympian says Rio games "chaos" shows "a real disrespect"
No heartbeat baby "frozen" to save her life
Surrendered knives to be turned into a giant sculpture
Teenage musician gets to appear on TV in Nashville
Updates from Friday 19 August 2016
It's the last day of a knife amnesty at police stations in Worcester, Hereford, Redditch and Kidderminster.
The surrendered weapons, left in special bins, are to be turned into a giant memorial sculpture to honour those who've been killed by knives.
Image source, PAThe sale of so called "zombie knives" has been banned across England and Wales.
A baby girl born with no heartbeat was put into total body hypothermia to save her live.
Willow Rose Forrest didn't have a heart beat for the first eight minutes of her life.
Her parents, Bex and Martin, tell how a specialist team from Bristol, then delivered a revolutionary treatment that cooled her body to prevent brain damage.
Baby born with no heartbeat saved by being 'frozen'
Willow is now 16 months old - her parents are fundraising for the charity Cots for Tots, external, which provides accommodation for parents at Bristol Children's Hospital.
A 49-year-old telephone engineer was such a successful gardener that a crop of cannabis he raised, external came to the attention of police, a court was told.
Phil Maiden
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- The parents of a baby whose heart stopped for eight minutes have revealed how medics cooled her body to save her life
- People across Herefordshire and Worcestershire have been surrendering their knives as part of a national amnesty
- A teenager who goes to school in Malvern is travelling to the home of country music in USA to perform on television
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather
A cloudy start, with rain arriving through the morning and becoming more persistent with some heavy bursts in places. Highs of 20C (68F).
You can read a full forecast on the the BBC Weather page.
Weather for the West Midlands.
BBC Travel
Roadworks are causing slow traffic on the A4440 Broomhall Way at the A38 Ketch junction. More from BBC Travel.
Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
Welcome to the Local Live service for Herefordshire and Worcestershire on Friday morning. Big change in the weather today, with a lot of cloud and rain, as you can see from this great picture from BBC Weather Watcher, Field Basher - mind you, the horse seems happy enough.
Image source, Field BasherI'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.
Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today
It will be dry for much of the night with light winds. Through the early hours of Friday cloud will thicken, with outbreaks of rain arriving in the west of the region before dawn. Lows of 18C (65F)
You can read a full forecast on the the BBC Weather page.
Shefali Oza presents the afternoon weather forecast for the West Midlands
Nick Owen
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today
Today, the waiting was finally over for thousands of A-level students and their families across the West Midlands, who learned their results.
Overall the pass rate for the region was slightly down on last year, although 97.9% of students still passed with an A* to E grade.
We'll be looking at the help now being given to students through clearing at universities and how it's been an emotional day for so many, on Midlands Today from 18:30 on BBC One.
Jan McGinity, has been a consultant at the club since 2013, and will focus on "identifying and securing talent to bring to Sixway" the club says.
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Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
These photos come from Paul Wilde, who said the weather was "dull and hot" - looks like the border collie had the best idea.
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Matthew Bone
Political reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
One of the top jobs at the trust that runs Worcetershire’s hospitals has been filled.
Caragh Merrick has been appointed as the new chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
She arrives at a critical time for the organisation.
The trust was placed into special measures after being rated inadequate in an inspection last year, and is running a budget deficit of tens of millions of pounds a year.
A crowd funding appeal by a Worcestershire campaigner has raised £160,000 in month, which he says he will use to hire lawyers to investigate Tony Blair's conduct relating to the Iraq War.
Reg Keys, whose son died in the conflict, says lawyers will now begin examining the Chilcot Report, external to see if there's enough evidence to bring a civil prosecution against the former prime minister.
L/Cpl Thomas Keys was 20 when he died in Iraq in 2003.
The crowd funding appeal closes tonight.
Quote MessageHopefully we will be able to take a civil action against any state official, including Tony Blair, [if they] acted unlawfully or in excess of their powers."
Reg Keys
This combine harvester is on fire in the Herefordshire village of Pembridge.
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Initial figures show that 85% of students at schools in Worcestershire (excluding colleges and sixth form colleges) achieved three or more A* to E grades, the county council says.
Nationally, the proportion of A* and A grades was 25.8%, down by 0.1% on last year.
The pass rate of 98.1% remained the same.
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Carson Wishart
Journalist, BBC Hereford and Worcester
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- Four people have been arrested by detectives investigating the death of a Hereford man who was stabbed on Father's Day 2015
- A pensioner who sexually assaulted a young man on a train between Worcester and Hereford is given a community order
- An accountant from Worcestershire has been selected for one of the county's top health jobs
Part of the River Teme has become so dry the Environment Agency has had to rescue over 100 salmon and more than 25 trout.
Image source, Dave ThroupThe fish have been moved downstream, beyond the point where the Teme merges with the River Clun.
Image source, Dave ThroupA similar operation, to rescue more than 100 fish, took place last month.
An 80-year-old man has been given a 12-month community order after admitting sexually assaulting a young man on a train between Worcester and Hereford.
Derek Arthur Worthington, of Bodenham Road, Hereford, committed the offence on 24 September.
He was sentenced at Hereford Magistrates' Court earlier this month.
Quote MessageFollowing the assault, the victim said he was in a state of shock and was confused about why this had happened to him. Worthington’s actions had clearly left him feeling vulnerable and exposed."
Det Con Dan Murdoch, British Transport Police
Wayne Thomas is set to return to action as Kidderminster Harriers search for their first home win of the season, external in the National League North against Stalybridge Celtic.
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