Big changes for the Warriors' team to face Harlequins at Sixways on Saturday in the Anglo-Welsh Cup.

There will be full commentary on the game on BBC Hereford & Worcester from 15:00.

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Police carried out speed checks on the Stourbridge Road in Fairfield on Wednesday, using new equipment to show motorists the exact speed they were driving, external.  

Surgeons hit out at the cost-cutting move, which health chiefs say will save around £2m a year.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

This afternoon will remain rather cloudy with some patchy rain developing, perhaps turning heavier after dusk. Highs of 7C (45F).

A woman waiting for a taxi has been sexually assaulted by a man who pretended to be her driver, external, police say.

The 30-year-old ordered a taxi to take her home from the Crown Inn in Bromsgrove at 21:20 on Sunday.

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When a car pulled up, the woman asked if it was her taxi, and the man driving said he was.

As he drove away he put his hand on the woman thigh - she asked him to stop the car, got out and returned to the pub.

West Mercia Police say the man is "not believed to be a taxi driver".

BBC Hereford and Worcester

Here are some of the stories we are looking at:

- Woman sexually assaulted by a man pretending to be her taxi driver

- Cause of a fire in a communal stairwell at an apartment block in Worcester investigated by police

- The skeletons of six possible plaque victims found in shallow grave during church rebuild

Six skeletons, found buried in shallow graves under flagstones at a Herefordshire church, may have been victims of the plague.

The bones, and a previously unknown crypt, were found during building work at St Tysilio's church, at Sellack, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

Bubonic plague first came to this country in 1348 and took a devastating toll - some estimates calculate as much as 45% of the population died.

The cause of a fire in the communal stairwell of an apartment block in Worcester is being investigated.

Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service says it was called to the two-storey building on Princes Drive, Worcester (pictured) at approximately 20:15 last night.

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Three fire engines from Worcester found the communal stairwell was filled with smoke from the fire.

The cause of the fire is being currently investigated by fire investigation officers, assisted by West Mercia Police.  

Two llamas and a goat, found wandering down a busy road near Bewdley, are now back in the field, police say.

Cue a rash of puns on social media as the errant beasts are sent alpaca-ing.

Top tips from a Springwatch star for making the most of big garden birdwatch.

Police are trying to round up the errant Llamas, with their goat friend, on the Switchback, as the B4194 near Bewdley is known locally.

Elliott Webb and Toni McDonald
Breakfast presenters, BBC Hereford & Worcester

We've been to meet a Worcester woman who never knew the identity her Amercian GI father, but who has now found out she has a half-sister living in the USA.

After World War Two, Sandra Andrews was raised by her grandparents. 

She's since enlisted the help of an ancestry expert, she's now discovered what happened to her father, and his American family.

Ryan Bethell used Your Questions to ask: "Are there secret tunnels under Hereford?"

Alfred Watkins, the Hereford-born author and photography pioneer, investigated the legend that there was a tunnel connecting the Priory of St Guthlac with its vineyard on the banks of the River Wye.

He'd found traces of it on a map dating from 1865.

Watkins was also an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist and he and a friend conducted a dig on the "tunnel".

He was disappointed to find it was "some kind of natural fault or crevice [and] not man made".

There are, however, plenty of interesting tunnels across this area, some secret, other not - here's a slideshow of some of them.

If you know of any more secret tunnels in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, we'd love to hear from you.

You can email, tweet us on @bbchw, external or message via Facebook, external.

Worcester News

Today's Worcester News, external has the story of a man who has been jailed after brandishing a weapon following a supermarket theft.

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Phil Maiden
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Here are some of the stories we are looking at this morning:

- County council and contractors go the the court of arbitration over delays to the building of a new bridge

- "Plague" skeletons found during building work at church

- Free shuttle bus service between two Worcestershire hospitals

Ryan Bethell used Your Questions to ask: "Are there secret tunnels under Hereford?"

There are certainly urban rumours about a secret tunnel running from an archway under the old bridge across the Wye (pictured) to the cathedral.

BBC Hereford & Worcester's Hereford reporter Nicola Goodwin admits to exploring the archway in search of a tunnel when she was growing up in the city.

"I didn't get very far," she says. "I was gutted that it's blocked up."

And a spokesman for Hereford Cathedral said: "If there is a secret tunnel then it's very secret, because we don't know about it."

If you know of any more secret tunnels in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, we'd love to hear from you.

You can email, tweet us on @bbchw, external or message via Facebook, external.  

Hereford Times

County wedding suppliers have donated their services for free to a groom whose final wish is to marry the love of his life, external.  

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Skeletons and a previously unknown crypt have been found during building work at a Herefordshire church.

The six skeletons were discovered in the broom cupboard at Sellack Church near Ross-on-Wye, buried only a few inches under the flagstones.

Builders found the remains and a previously undiscovered crypt as they renovated the bell tower to add a kitchen, meeting room and disabled toilet.

Patrick Darling, a churchwarden at St Tysilio's, says they won't be excavating the crypt as it could be dangerous.

A free shuttle bus between the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester will be running from 1 February, the trust running the hospitals says, external.

The "Hospital Hopper" service will run every half hour on weekdays from both hospitals.

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The pilot scheme will run until Friday 21 April and is being paid for by the trust and the Clinical Commissioning Group for Worcestershire.

The idea for the shuttle service came at a public meeting about the future of the two hospitals, organised by the MP for Redditch, Karen Lumley.

Alistair Binney
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

A construction company and Worcestershire County Council have gone to the court of arbitration after an argument over delays in the building of a new bridge. 

Hochtief won the contract to build Evesham's Abbey Bridge in 2013 - the bridge was supposed to be closed for 48 days for the work to be carried out, but it was actually shut for 174 days. 

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The council want Hochtief to pay about £250,000 in penalty payments for the £8m scheme over-running, but the company say they faced unexpected challenges during the build, including poor weather and flooding. 

Both Hochtief and the county council declined to comment ahead of the court ruling.