Updates from the past week
A major campaign to honour three times British Prime Minister and one of Worcestershire’s greatest son’s Stanley Baldwin could finish on the highest political note at the official unveiling of his statue in his birth town of Bewdley, external.
A bride from Herefordshire is pleading for any information which might help her recover gifts that were stolen from her wedding.
Zara Owens married her fiance William in Hampshire on Saturday, but discovered on Monday that many of her wedding presents had been stolen from a car parked at the venue.
Zara says many of the presents had yet to be opened.
Quote MessageWe have no idea what they were - we've seen some of the cards and there are some lovely messages where people have said 'we hope you enjoy this little gift for your home', but we don't know what they were."
Zara Owens
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
A Herefordshire farmer says thousands of farms will go bust unless the government takes the issue of TB seriously.
Michael Brown, from Aymestry, will get less than £2,000 in compensation after his prize-winning Charolais cow tested positive for TB but he says she's worth more than £15,000.
Image source, ReutersHe wants the disease controlled for the good of badgers, cattle and all animals.
Quote MessageEither vaccination - and they are trying to process a vaccine at the moment - but also vaccinating or shooting badgers around here because we are in a very intense TB situation and nothing is being done for us."
Michael Brown, Farmer
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
A BBC Hereford &Worcester campaign has helped to finally secure a national memorial for the munitions workers of World War One and World War Two.
They will get a statue at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, once £250,000 has been raised to pay for it.
The organisers of a controversial cycling race have a "long way" to go before their event can go ahead, Worcestershire County Council say.
The council have now written to the CSM Active, the company behind Velo Birmingham, external, and asked them to provide information about how they will reduce the impact of the race on businesses and residents, when it passes through parts of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe 100-mile (160km) race is due to take place in September.
General entries have already sold out, and more than 15,000 riders could take part, the organisers predict.
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Britain's munitions workers are to be honoured with a statue at the National Memorial Arboretum, thanks to a campaign run by BBC Hereford & Worcester.
More than a million people worked in terrible conditions to supply shells, bombs and bullets for the allied troops, including at factories in Rotherwas in Hereford, and Blackpole in Worcester.
Image source, Getty ImagesHundreds were killed by explosives or suffered from diseases caused by the chemicals they were handling.
Rob Flello MP, the chairman of the parliamentary munitions group, says they need to raise £250,000 for the statue and plinth.
A public appeal raised £1.25m - which will be used to link Cheltenham with Broadway in the Cotswolds.
Read MoreWorcestershire's teenage seamer Josh Tongue takes 5-45 to help secure an eight-wicket win over Glamorgan in Cardiff.
Read MoreTom Kohler-Cadmore's 102 helps Worcestershire bat themselves to a good position on day two against Glamorgan in Cardiff.
Read MoreWorcestershire take control against Glamorgan as they reach the close just 27 runs behind with six wickets still standing.
Read MoreYou have been using Your Questions to ask about the West Midlands - here are some of our answers.
Read MoreLive updates for Herefordshire and Worcestershire have finished for the day but local stories will be added automatically through the night.
The owner of a Malvern post office is counting the cost today after ram raiders drove a JCB into her shop and stole a cash machine.
The police are linking the raid on the post office in Barnards Green with two other similar thefts recently in Bromyard and Kempsey.
Image source, West Mercia PoliceThe owner, Jenny Cain, says she first heard about it when her deputy knocked on her front door shortly after 06:00.
Quote MessageI've come down here and there's a JCB gone through the front of my shop, devastated my shop front and taken the ATM. They have done untold thousands of pounds of damage and devastated the business."
Jenny Cain, Post office owner
Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Luctonians have confirmed the club’s director of rugby, Alex Davidson, is to leave Mortimer Park at the end of the season.
Davidson has been with the north Herefordshire club for seven years and has played a major part in ensuring they have retained their National Two North status.
Lucs’ chairman, Simon Whiteman, said Davidson had done a fantastic job during his tenure and the club would always owe him "a great debt of gratitude".
'Great debt of gratitude' owed to departing coach
The main A&E departments in Worcestershire and Herefordshire have again failed to hit the national target of seeing 95% of patients within four hours.
Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather
After a mainly dry day for the West Midlands, here's how tonight and Good Friday are looking.
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Alex Hamilton
The thieves abandoned the vehicle outside the post office following the raid.
Read MoreA "stinger" device has been used to stop a car on the M5 which was believed to have been stolen during a burglary on the Wirral in Merseyside, police say.
Motorway police started to pursue the car just outside Worcester at 06:00 this morning as it travelled northbound on the M5.
West Midlands Police say that despite have its tyres deflated by the stinger the car still continued around the junction 2 roundabout at Oldbury (pictured) and veered the wrong way down the southbound slip road before officers were able to bring it to a halt.
Image source, GooglePolice say a 27-year-old man from Liverpool was arrested on suspicion of burglary, dangerous driving and failing to stop for police.
A 24-year-old man who was a passenger, also from Liverpool, was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
A 25-year-old man, also a passenger in the vehicle, was arrested but taken to hospital with minor injuries and will be questioned later, a spokesman says.
Worcestershire's A&E departments have once again failed to meet national waiting time targets with one in every three patients (65.8%) waiting more than four hours.
The figures for February, from NHS England, show that at the major A&E departments in Worcestershire 2,958 patients waited for more than the four-hour target.
Fifty-two patients had to wait more than 12 hours from the decision to admit them to hospital to when they were actually admitted.
In Herefordshire, just over 75% of patients, a total of 965 people, had to wait in A&E for more than the four hour target.
