The new fire station in Evesham has been officially opened today.

The ceremony was attended by the chief fire officer and the chairman of the Fire Authority, Derek Prodger.

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Last part of our potted history of the Malvern Hills - sparked by an email sent to the BBC's  Your Questions .

The Malvern Hills are famous for their natural spring water wells - there are about 70 dotted across the hills, external .

In 1842, two doctors set up their famous water cure in the town, external , which rapidly grew in fame - both Dickins and Darwin "took the cure" in Malvern.

Some of the wells are housed in elegant buildings, the best known of which is probably Holywell.

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The coming of the railway to the town, in 1860, led a boom in tourism.

The better-off visitors came to Great Malvern station, and stayed at the luxurious Imperial Hotel, the first to be lit by incandescent gas. It's now a private girls' school.

The less grand also came to walk on the hills, getting off at Malvern Link station.

The population of Malvern in the 1861 census was given as 4,484, yet on 28 July 1860 the Malvern Advertiser reported that 5,000 people arrived in the town for "excursions".  

In an editorial in June 1860 the Malvern Advertiser noted that some residents "look on excursionists as a horde of barbarians, whose irruptions (sic) spoil peace, comfort and poetry... they resent vulgar and noisy people coming among them". 

Local traders and publicans probably took a different view.

The hills remain big tourist attraction to this day.

Pupils at a school will have their designs displayed when the new Worcestershire Parkway station opens.

The station is being built near Norton Juxta Kempsey CofE First School - the county council and SLC Rail visited pupils last year to explain the history of the line, and set pupils the challenge of designing the hoardings around the station.

Image source, Worcestershire County Council

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After an email to the BBC's  Your Questions  asking about the history of the Malvern Hills we've already looked at the Herefordshire Beacon - known as British Camp - and its Iron Age hill fort.

The highest point on the hills is the Worcestershire Beacon - which, as the name suggest - has been the site of warning fires since Norman times .

The Victorians in particular liked to build monstrous structures and set them ablaze - this one was built for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

Image source, Malvern Hills Conservators

Writing in the Malvern Advertiser in July 1887, a correspondent called Worcestershire Sauce described how "the leaping cracking flames and the close volume of breeze-blown smoke circling and spreading over the dark outlined hillside, the town lit lit by the powerful ruddy glow of the blazing hills, the dark masses of the people silhouetted against the glare, all made for a never to be forgotten sight".

As the Worcestershire Beacon is 425m (1,395 ft) high and if you look east the next highest hills are the Urals in Russia, a big fire can been seen from a long way away.  

A letter writer in the same Malvern Advertiser watched the one lit for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee from the top of the grandstand on Worcester racecourse, 10 miles (16km) away.  

A system of organised warning beacons on high points across the country, including the Malverns, had been in place since Norman times.

A call to arms sent by beacon would travel far faster than a messenger on horseback.

The system was not foolproof though - in 1545 rumours spread of a French landing on the coast, the beacons were lit, and the Worcestershire militia tramped all the way to Swindon before they were told it was a false alarm.

A man with learning difficulties has been headbutted and punched in a "totally unprovoked attack", police say.

British Transport Police say the 18-year-old was sitting on Evesham station when a man got off a train, shouted at him, and then carried out the attack.

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they'd like to speak to about the incident, which happened on 8 February.

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We've had an email for someone called Coast, using  Your Questions  who asks: “What's the history behind the Malvern Hills?”

Perhaps the most obvious piece of history on the hills is British Camp - on the Herefordshire Beacon at the southern end of the hills.  

According to the Malvern Hills Conservators, external , the charity who look after the hills, British Camp is an Iron Age hill fort, which probably had a later Norman fort added on the top.

A plaque on the walk up to the top of British Camp bears the local legend that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand there.

It's probably not true, but it did inspire the composer Sir Edward Elgar, who loved the hills and lived in Malvern for a time, to compose his cantata Caractacus in 1898.

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Coming next we move from the Herefordshire Beacon to the Worcestershire Beacon, the highest point on the hills, and the place where huge fires were lit to warn of coming danger.

A poster campaign asking people if they are really helping homeless people by giving them donations of cash, refreshments or clothing has been launched by Redditch Borough Council.

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Here are a selection of the comments you've been making on the BBC Hereford & Worcester Facebook page, external .

We've had an email for someone called Coast, using  Your Questions who asks: “What's the history behind the Malvern Hills?”

That's a very big question that takes in Pre-Cambrian geology, the Ice Age, Iron Age hill forts, warning beacons and even the music of Elgar - so here goes.

Let's start with the geology - how this distinctive range of hills standing out from the flat flood plain of the River Severn came to be.

The hills are protected by an Act of Parliament, and looked after by a charity called the Malvern Hills Conservators, external .

It says the rocks that make up the hills are known as schists and gneisses, and date from the Pre-Cambrian period between 600 and 800 million years ago.

The rock is very hard, and for years were  quarried to be used in road building, among other things . 

The damage the quarries did was very controversial - George Bernard Shaw said the Malvern Hills were in danger of becoming "the Malvern flats".

The first Malvern Hills Act was passed in 1884, but there was quarrying going on right up until 1977.

This slideshow shows some of the quarries as they were and as they are now - pictures of the old quarries courtesy of the Malvern Hill Conservators.

Coming up next -  hill forts, Roman seiges and warning beacons

Runners planning to take part in the Worcester City half marathon and 10k run are being offered the chance to take part in a free training session with former world champion Steve Cram and a "mystery guest".

Runners have to apply by email to take part in the training session, external , which involves a meet and greet session with Steve Cram followed by "an easy 5k run". 

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The training session takes place at the new Perdiswell Leisure Centre, on Thursday, 23 March at 19:45.

The half marathon and 10k runs take place on 17 September.

A man has died after his car hit a tree this morning near Upton Snodsbury in Worcestershire.

It happened on the A422, just before 8:50, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.

Two ambulances and a paramedic were dispatched, but the man was confirmed dead at the scene.

There were no other injuries. 

Wildlife reserves in Worcestershire have been given a grant of £30,000 from an environmental fund.

Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, external , which manages the reserves, says the money will be used for tree surveys, opening up sunny woodland rides, bracken control and boardwalk repairs.

Image source, Paul Lane

The money will be used at Piper’s Hill Common, near Hanbury (pictured above), The Devil’s Spittleful and Pound Green Common, near Bewdley, Ipsley Alders Marsh in Redditch, Tiddesley Wood in Pershore, and Eades Meadow near Bromsgrove (pictured below).

Image source, Paul Lane

The Great Places scheme will benefit 16 areas, with a particular focus on those hit hard by industrial decline.

A paedophile hunter says he has secured two arrests in four weeks since he started targeting online predators.

A "hard-hitting" poster campaign asking people if they are really helping homeless people by giving them donations of cash, refreshments or clothing has been launched by Redditch Borough Council.

The council says giving homeless people change or even food and drink "does not tackle the underlying issue of homelessness" and actually "facilitates and sometimes encourages a street presence".

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The council says it is working to "strongly encourage" homeless people to "come off the streets" or change their "street profile".

Hereford Times

A cemetery which is running out of burial space could be extended, external .

A police boss and QC has called for closer links between the police and groups who hunt paedophiles .

Vera Baird QC, the police and crime commissioner for the Northumberia force, said: "The police do need to acknowledge that these groups are likely to continue to do what they are doing and that the public are not opposed to that."

A Hereford man claims he has received hundreds of suggestive messages and explicit texts after he posed as a 14-year-old girl online.

Ms Baird says her forces tries to recruit paedophile hunters as "special constables… and therefore do this as fully-warranted officers, or as police volunteers."

BBC Weather Watchers

In stark contrast to yesterday, there is a lot of cloud cover about - but the BBC's army of Weather Watchers have still been providing some great photographs.

These come from Mikesnapper, Ricardo, Happysnapper71, Morning Amble and J at Severn Ridge.

Pacey, a student at Birmingham's John Henry Newman Catholic College, would normally have been in a history lesson but today he has been interviewing a teacher from another school as part of BBC School Report News Day .

In a way, though, history was still the topic - they were discussing the experiences of one of the teacher's pupils, Rony; a refugee from Syria.

Rony (pictured below) attends Balaam Wood School, in Frankley.

Pacey said Rony's story was interesting because "he's had to leave so much behind and try and start afresh".

A paedophile hunter from Hereford say he's "not trying to do the police's work", but claims he's received hundred of suggestive or offensive texts or messages while posing as a 14-year-old girl online.

David John Poole has also confronted several people in person who've contacted him online.

West Mercia Police say they "do not encourage members of the public to pursue their own investigations".