Dave Bradley
Cricket commentator

Derbyshire have reached lunch on 33-4, still needing 107 runs to avoid an innings defeat.

More quick wickets will be needed by the visitors this afternoon if they are to pull off a third successive County Championship win, an unlikely victory after rain badly interrupted play on the first two days,

Catch all the final--day action on BBC Hereford & Worcester on 738AM and online.

Worcester News

A teenage drug dealer who supplied heroin and crack cocaine in Worcester and Pershore has been jailed and could soon be deported, external.

Dave Bradley
Cricket commentator

Worcestershire have declared on 415-9 as they chase an unlikely victory in Derby.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore top-scored today with 42, but it was centuries from Brett D'Oliveira (150) and Daryl Mitchell (120) yesterday that put the visitors in control - they lead by 140.

Quick wickets will be needed if there's any chance for Worcestershire.

Follow the action on BBC Hereford & Worcester on 738AM and online.

One of Hereford's Beefy Boys, who came runners up at an international burger making competition, has died.

Police say Alex Evans's body was found at a house in St Martin's Street in Hereford on Saturday and they're treating his death as unexplained.

The Beefy Boys claimed a silver medal at the World's Best Burger competition in Las Vegas in 2014.

Claudia Berry
Producer, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Yesterday's sunset produced some incredible skies over Herefordshire. Thanks to BBC Weather Watchers Postman Les in Bromyard and HappySnapper71 in Eaton Bishop for these beautiful photographs.

Image source, Postman les

Image source, HappySnapper71

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

An investigation into allegations of animal cruelty at the kennels of the South Herefordshire Hunt has been passed on to the West Midlands Complex Crime Unit.

Five people arrested on suspicion of the crime last summer have been rebailed until June.

The West Mercia Police investigation was sparked by a video, secretly filmed by activists, appearing to show live fox cubs being taken into a shed where hounds were kept to be killed.

Hereford Times

The largest opposition group on Herefordshire Council has been left without a single senior appointment on any of the council's committees. , external

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

More than 70 years after they worked in the Blackpole munitions factory, Worcestershire will say an official thank you to the workers today.

A black pear tree will be planted at County Hall and a plaque erected to honour the hundreds of men and women who worked in the bullets factory during the two world wars.

Kathleen Halford was one of a number of women who travelled in to the factory from Upton-upon-Severn.

Russell Truran
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke

A body recovered from the River Severn in Worcester over the weekend is believed to be that of the missing man Karl Horton. , external

The 38-year-old was last seen in the city centre around midnight last Monday.

Formal identification is yet to take place, but writing on Facebook Karl's brother Gary thanked everyone for their support and said that they would miss him so much.

Emergency services were called to the River Severn at around 20:45 on Saturday and a man's body was pulled from the water near to the Ketch.

West Mercia Police say his death is not being treated as suspicious.

Dave Bradley
Cricket commentator

It's the final day of Worcestershire's four-day County Championship match at Derby.

After two rain-hit days, Derbyshire added 75 runs to be bowled out for 275 yesterday - visiting skipper Joe Leach taking 4-50.

Former captain Mitchell then made 120, followed by 150 from Brett D'Oliveira to help Worcestershire close on 323-3, a lead of 48.

Image source, Rex Features

Quick runs today could set up a victory.

Listen to the day's action on BBC Hereford & Worcester on 738AM and online.

It's 25 years today since the start of an illegal festival on Castlemorton Common that sparked a government clampdown on rave culture.

The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was passed two years after the event, giving police the powers to stop and break up large open-air gatherings where loud music was being played.

It began as a travellers festival, but within a few days 20,000 revellers had descended on the common at foot of the Malvern Hills and with the weather hot and sunny, the party-goers stayed for a whole week.

Decades before the development of social media, word of the event was spread by an answer-machine message.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Train operator London Midland says more than one in 10 of its trains last week were delayed by more than five minutes.

It tweeted this morning to say 84% of its 6,503 trains were on time or less than five minutes late, , externalwith the UK average being 91%.

Image source, PA

The operator said almost a quarter of the delays were down to London Midland issues, rather than network faults.

The week before, the company said 94% of trains were on time or delayed by less than five minutes., external

The BBC is running an election panel, asking voters for their thoughts ahead of 8 June.

We asked:

Tax has become a big election issue. Who should be paying more and who less? What should our approach to taxation be and whose policies do you support if any?

Mandy, Worcester: "I believe that the highest earners should pay more tax stop taking money from people that are not well off."

Mark James, Stoke on Trent: "Companies should pay more tax and off-shore located people if they do business in the UK should pay no matter where their domicile is.

"The working people should pay less as they have always bore the brunt of taxation, more disposable income more money spent on ''luxuries''

Beatrice Benson, Shrewsbury: "I don't think it's fair for people who earn more to pay a larger percentage. The current tax policies still mean that more money is paid from wealthier individuals.

"Labour's policies would mean paying an extraordinary amount of tax, which the party don't seem to have specified, which is a coincidence."

Today's your last chance to register to vote in the general election on 8 June.

So far, more than two million people have applied since a snap election was called.

However, the Electoral Commission has warned that approximately seven million people across Britain who are eligible to vote are not registered.

The deadline to register through the official website, external is 23.59.

With the 2017 county season here, keep up to date with the latest signings, departures and rumours ahead of next season.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

A dry day with some good sunny spells and it will feel warm, with top temperatures of 23C (73F).

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