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Updates on Friday 19 May 2017
Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today
After a cloudy and wet day for many of us, here's how tonight and tomorrow are looking.
You can also get the latest forecasts at any other time from the BBC Weather website.
Shefali Oza
A Worcestershire man is gearing for a 100-mile kayaking challenge to mark his 100th round of chemotherapy.
Ben Lindon, from Malvern, who's 38, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour nine years ago.
Image source, Brain Tumour ResearchHe's already cycled from John O'Groats to Lands End and completed the Three Peaks Challenge to fundraise for Brain Tumour Research.
Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, but only 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to the disease, the charity says.
Drivers have been told a new camera in a Worcester road is not a speed camera after signs caused confusion, external.
Ben Godfrey
BBC Midlands Today
A water mill at Shelsley Walsh, in Worcestershire, has been saved thanks to the efforts of a group of retired enthusiasts known collectively as The Dibnahs.
There's been a mill at the site since 1308, and the current mill dates back 300 years.
The Shelsley Water Mill Society, external was formed in 2006 to restore the watermill to working order.
Find out more on Midlands Today on BBC One at 18:30.
Volunteers restore Shelsley Water Mill to its former glory.
Train operator London Midland is promising extra carriages, external on some of its services between Hereford and Birmingham New Street from Monday.
Image source, PAThe Royal College of Surgeons has called for a review of the the way private hospitals are regulated following the case of the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson.
He was convicted last month of unlawfully wounding 10 patients, including ones from Worcester, Birmingham and Burntwood, during breast surgery at private clinics in the West Midlands and is due to be sentenced at the end of the month.
Image source, Sutton Coldfield Observer
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
A former munitions worker has spent 75 years living without her toes after she was injured whilst working in a bullet factory in Kidderminster.
Ethel Williams, who's 95, first worked at the Rotherwas munitions factory in Hereford during World War Two, where her hair and skin turned yellow.
She moved on to Kidderminster where she lost the toes on her left foot in a bullet packing machine.
Quote Message[On the machine] next to us was a friend of us, and she came across and said 'You look tired old butt' - old butt is a Forest [of Dean] thing - and I said 'I am' and I put my foot against the machine to push my chair back and Della switched it on and in went my toes - so that's how I lost them."
BBC Hereford & Worcester has successfully campaigned for wartime munitions workers to be officially honoured.
Despite the damp start to the day, the BBC's Weather Watchers have been out and about taking photos - and on the plus side it's good news for garden plants.
Thanks to Mikesnapper, J at Severn Ridge, Morning Amble and Johnqa for this selection.
Rainy day is good news for gardens
A man was left lying unconscious in a Bromsgrove street with a fractured skull, external, after he was struck over the back of the head.
Ex-Worcestershire skipper Daryl Mitchell is praised by director of cricket Steve Rhodes after victory over Derbyshire.
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BBC Midlands Today
This lunchtime on Midlands Today, we'll be looking at the damage caused by the World War Two bomb that was detonated yesterday in Birmingham.
The moment Army detonates WW2 bomb found in Birmingham
We'll also hear how a water mill dating back to the 14th Century has been restored to full working order in the region.
Both those stories from 13:30 on BBC One.
A man in his 20s has been airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with a head injury following a crash involving two cars in Redditch.
It happened at about 17:00 yesterday, near to the Brook Inn at Elcocks Brook.
Image source, GoogleThe other driver suffered a hip injury and was taken to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
Here's a tale that almost sounds like a work of fiction.
Robert Weston - found as a baby in the ladies toilet at an Odeon cinema in Birmingham in March 1956 - has met his Scottish half-brothers and sister for the first time.
The Plymouth man has never managed to track down his mother but a DNA database helped him to find his late father's other children in Scotland.
Robert's father, Charlie Chalmers, had three young sons with his wife in Aberdeenshire before he went to work in the Midlands in the early 1950s. He appears to have had at least one child with Robert's mother, probably living in Rugby or Leicester, before returning to his wife and having three more children.
Image source, ROBERT WESTONThe Birmingham Evening Despatch carried the story of Robert being found on its front page in 1956
One of his half-brothers said: "We sort of suspected something like this over the years."
When Robert was found, at just three weeks old, there was only a brief description of a woman in her mid-20s seen holding a baby in the cinema foyer. He spent the first seven years of his life in a children's home in Droitwich, before he was adopted.
Dasha was found in a country lane 100 miles away from his home after going missing in 2014.
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BBC Sport
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes said he was "proud" of the team after they secured a home tie in the semi-finals of the Royal London One-Day, thanks to a win at Derbyshire.
Image source, BBC / GettyHe said the result meant a "nice pay day" for the club.
Ways to prevent student suicides will be investigated by a research project at the University of Worcester.
The work, sponsored by a charity set up in memory of a 21-year-old who took his own life, external, will look at "preventative action and support across the higher education sector".
Image source, Ben Goode/GettyQuote MessageSuicide is still not widely talked about in relation to the student population, which is surprising when you consider suicide is the leading cause of death amongst 15 to 24 year-olds in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the second in Scotland. Unfortunately, the relative silence on this issue just helps to reinforce the stigma that still persists when someone has died by suicide.”
Chantal Vinyard, University of Worcester researcher
Coca-Cola is hosting a series of quirky free activities in Lickey Hills Country Park, external on Saturday, as part of National Walking Month.
Don't worry if you see a yellow helicopter flying low over Hereford today - it's checking overhead electricity cables for Western Power Distribution.
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A tree has collapsed by the side of a busy road in Worcester, blocking the pavement.
The carriageway itself on London Road is clear, police say, but they are warning both pedestrians and motorists to take care in the area.
Image source, West Mercia PoliceFriends of a popular Hereford man came together to raise hundreds of pounds for a county hospice in his memory, external.
