An investigation is continuing after reports of violence at HMP Hewell yesterday.

The prison service confirmed two men had been taken to hospital for treatment, but said it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Earlier, police said two ambulances and a paramedic were called to the prison in Redditch at about 16:30.

The alleged assault occurred a day after a meeting between the Prison Officers Association and the government over the rise in violence and suicides in prisons.

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Worcester News

One in four pharmacies across Worcestershire could be forced to close because of controversial government cuts, external, it is feared.  

Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Warriors have confirmed scrum-half Luke Baldwin has joined their lengthy injury list. 

Baldwin damaged a bicep during the game at Harlequins last Saturday and faces around two months on the sidelines.

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You can hear full commentary on Warriors' Anglo-Welsh Cup against match Bristol as part of a rugby special on BBC Hereford & Worcester from 19:00 tonight.

Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Hereford's Westfield Football Club have the biggest match of their history this weekend in the first round proper of the FA Cup. 

They are the lowest placed club left in the competition and will be taking on the Manchester-based side Curzon Ashton.

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Mick Ralphs, guitarist with Mott The Hoople and Bad Company, is recovering in hospital after a stroke.

The 72-year-old from Stoke Lacy, in Herefordshire, played on some of Mott The Hoople's biggest hits including All the Young Dudes - which was written by David Bowie.

He left the group and went on to form Bad Company with members of Free. He recently appeared on the BBC's Later With Jools Holland with other members of Bad Company.

Claudia Berry
Newsreader, BBC Hereford & Worcester

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

-  Police investigate an alleged assault in a Worcestershire jail

- Brexit court ruling an attempt to "frustrate the will of the British people" says MP

- Shane Sutton says he'll contest British Cycling's findings that he used sexist language towards Bromsgrove's Jess Varnish

A coroner in Australia has found that the death of the former Worcestershire cricketer Phillip Hughes was a tragic accident for which no-one should be blamed.

He died from a brain haemorrhage, two days after being hit on the neck while playing for South Australia in a first-class match in Sydney.  

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Mr Barnes said there had been no "malicious intent" from New South Wales' Sean Abbott, who bowled the fatal delivery at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and "no failure" to enforce the laws of the game in respect to the short-pitched deliveries.

The coroner did, however, make recommendations to ensure the sport was safer - Cricket Australia said it would make the changes as soon as possible.  

Malvern Gazette

Critics claim plans to build a cycle track in a historic park, external will leave a permanent 'gash' in the landscape.  

Claudia Berry
Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester

A Worcestershire schoolgirl has fought off an attacker in an underpass while on her way home from school, police say. 

The 11-year-old was walking home near Prospect Road North in Redditch when a man grabbed her from behind and took her mobile phone. 

She screamed, grabbed the phone back, and ran off, getting home shortly after the attack at about 15:45 on Tuesday. 

A 36-year-old man has been questioned and released on bail, West Mercia Police say. 

BBC Midlands Today

Reports of an assault on an inmate at HMP Hewell, near Redditch, are being investigated, police say.

West Mercia Police say a man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after an incident at 16:30 yesterday and inquiries are "ongoing".    

Claudia Berry
Newsreader, BBC Hereford & Worcester

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

- A coroner in Australia finds that the death of the former Worcestershire cricketer Phillip Hughes was a tragic accident

- A man has been arrested after a Worcestershire schoolgirl fought off an attacker in an underpass

- Westfields have the biggest match of their history this weekend in the first round proper of the FA Cup

A mainly dry and bright day with some sunny spells for all of us, but it will feel cold once again. Highs of 10C (50F).

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

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 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.

Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today

It will be dry for most through this evening and overnight but there may be the odd shower at times. 

It will be a little milder than last night, but still cold, with frost a risk in some rural areas.  Lows of 7C (45F).

Ged Scott
BBC Sport

New Road, Worcester will be the setting on Friday night for a new play highlighting the tragic decline into alcoholism of former England and Northamptonshire batsman Colin "Ollie" Milburn.

When the Eye Has Gone, which is visiting all 18 first-class county cricket clubs in 24 days in November, is a one-man show written by former Kent and Derbyshire all-rounder turned playwright James Graham-Brown.

Milburn, whose brilliant career was cut short by the loss of his left eye in a car accident in May 1969, died in a pub car park in February 1990 after drifting into chronic alcoholism.  

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The play will be staged in The View, Worcestershire's main corporate entertainment suite at New Road (19:30). Tickets cost £10 and £8 for concessions, external.  

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Fifa may be trying to ban poppies, but the poppy man on a bench in Hereford sums up the spirit of Remembrance Day.

Worcester News

Worcester's Middle Battenhall Farm has been taken off an official "at risk" register, external, it has emerged.

Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Worcester Warriors’ defence coach Simon Cross says he’s disappointed to hear the news Bristol have suspended their director of rugby, Andy Robinson.

Cross played under Robinson during his time at Edinburgh and describes him as "a fantastic coach and a thoroughly decent bloke".

Warriors will host Bristol in the Anglo-Welsh Cup at Sixways on Friday, 4 November - you can hear full commentary on BBC Hereford & Worcester from 19:45.

Temperatures have dropped, but not far enough to mean the roads need gritting, the council says.