Summary

  • Almost half of fire service call-outs are false alarms

  • Terrorist incident training centre opens

  • 110-year-old woman puts her long life down to bedtime whisky

  • Updates from Friday 16 September.

Live Reporting

Jerry Chester

  1. Latest: Fire service false alarms; terrorism incident training centre; woman celebrates 110th birthday

    Kate West
    Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester

    Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:

    - Almost half of all calls to the Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service over the last three years were false alarms

    - A new training centre which allows emergency service workers to experience a lifelike terrorism incident is opening in Hereford

    - A Worcestershire woman who's celebrated her 110th birthday puts her long life down to a nip of whisky at bedtime

  2. Train lines disrupted after derailment

    A train has derailed near Watford Junction, causing delays on lines across the Midlands. 

    It is the 06:19 service from Milton Keynes to Euston, London. No injuries have been reported

    Disruption to London Midland and Virgin services, from the Midlands into Euston, is expected. 

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  3. Watch: Weather for Herefordshire and Worcestershire

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    BBC Weather

    There will be heavy, perhaps thundery showers for many of us during the morning. However, these will gradually clear to leave a dry afternoon with increasing amounts of sunshine. Highs of 18C (64F).

    You can read a full forecast on the the BBC Weather page.    

    Latest weather for the West Midlands

  4. Good morning from today's Herefordshire and Worcestershire live page

    Jerry Chester
    BBC News Online

    Welcome to the Local Live service for Herefordshire and Worcestershire on Friday morning. BBC Weather Watcher Steffheneph caught this lovely sunset in Hereford.

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    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 or message via Facebook.

  5. Our live coverage across the day

    Live updates for Herefordshire and Worcestershire have finished for the day but local stories will be added automatically through the night. 

    We'll be back from 08:00 on Friday with more live news, sport, travel and weather.

  6. On Midlands Today: Region's breweries get national recognition

    Nick Owen
    Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

    A clutch of new breweries from across the region have made it into this year's Good Beer Guide for the first time today.

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    Find out which ones and how big an accolade this is on BBC Midlands Today from 18:30 on BBC One.

  7. Fire service warn people to be prepared for flash flooding

    The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for heavy rain overnight.

    Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has issued advice on what precautions people can take.

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  8. Paralympics: Wheelchair basketball team lose in the semi-final

    The GB women's wheelchair basketball team have lost to the USA in their Paralympic semi-final.

    The team, who are based at the University of Worcester, lost 89-78, and will now compete for a bronze medal.

    Helen Freeman (pictured) top scored for the GB team with 29 points.

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  9. Watch: Weather for this evening and tomorrow

    Shefali Oza
    BBC Midlands Today

    Thunderstorms continuing to affect some this evening and the skies will turn increasingly cloudy overnight accompanied by outbreaks of showery rain, turning heavy at times, especially during the early hours. Lows of 17C ( 63F).

    The weather for the West Midlands.

  10. Travel: Road closures for Worcester 10k

    Most of the roads will be closed for 08:00 with almost all being reopened by 12:00.

    Grandstand Road will be closed from 05:00 until 15:00.

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  11. Latest: 'No issue' over laked medical records; M5 disruption after crashes; dangerous driving arrest

    BBC Hereford and Worcester

    Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:

    - World Cup-winning rugby player says she has "no issue" her medical history being leaked online

    - Big delays on the M5 to the south of Worcester after three separate accidents

    - A teenager from Kidderminster's been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a crash involving three pedestrians

  12. Travel: Multiple accidents hit rush hour on the M5

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    There are severe delays on the M5 north of Worcester after three separate accidents.

    There have been crashes northbound between J10 (Gloucester) and J9 (A46) and between J9 and J8 (M50).

    There's been an accident southbound between J8 and J9.

    More from BBC Travel.  

  13. Olympics medical records leak: Rugby star releases statement

    A World Cup-winning rugby player has issued a statement after her confidential medical records were leaked online by Russian hackers.

    Heather Fisher, who used to play rugby for Worcester Ladies, says during her career she has needed therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) when she needed treatment after operations or for asthma.  

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    I have no issue with this information being in the public domain as every time these have been granted by an independent TUE Committee following due process. I know that I have done everything I can as a clean athlete and fully support the work of the anti-doping movement."

    Heather Fisher statement

  14. Worcestershire v Derbyshire - day four

    Listen to live ball-by-ball commentary from New Road as Worcestershire face Derbyshire in the final match of the County Championship season.

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  15. Your pictures: Cobwebs in the morning mists

    The editor who looks at all the pictures submitted by BBC Weather Watchers has chosen these two of cobwebs, taken in Worcestershire, as his picks for the day.

    The first was taken by J at Severn Ridge and the second by Annie's Scenes.

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  17. Rugby: Seven Valkyries in England squad

    Seven members of the Worcester Valkyries have been named in the latest England Women Elite Player Squad.

    Eight of the 12-player Team GB Olympic squad will return to the team as England Women bid to retain the Women's World Cup which kicks off in Ireland in August 2017.   

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    Valkyries in the elite squad are:

    - Bianca Blackburn

    - Rochelle Clark

    - Lark Davies,

    - Laura Keats

    - Ceri Large

    - Kelly Smith

    - Lydia Thompson 

  18. Survival in 'the harshest environment on the planet'

    A Hereford man will be leading a team of Army reservists in a three-month expedition to Antarctica, where they will attempt to ski over 1,100 miles (1,770km) to the South Pole, unsupported. 

    Team leader Lou Rudd will be joined by Bromsgrove Paramedic Chris Brooke and each man will be hauling an individual sledge with everything they need to survive on the ice. 

    This journey has only been completed by six people so far. 

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    Each man will have a sledge to tow behind him with about 140kg (300lbs) of food and equipment - it's really about trying to survive and travel in the harshest environment on the planet."

  19. More medals hopes for Worcestershire Paralympians

    Worcestershire's Claire Cashmore has qualified second fastest for the final of the S9 100 metres butterfly. 

    She already has a silver medal to her name.

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    Also in action today are three University of Worcester students who are part of Great Britain's women's wheelchair basketball team.

    They're already the most successful British women's wheelchair basketball team in history and today play the USA in the semi-finals with the opportunity to guarantee at least a silver.  

  20. Latest: Dangerous driving arrest; new hospital boss search; Paralympic swimmer's second medal chance

    BBC Hereford and Worcester

    Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:

    - Teenage driver arrested as pedestrian in critical condition after crash

    - Hospital trust looks for a new permanent boss after criticisms from a health watchdog

    - Paralympic swimmer through to final and the chance of a second medal