Updates from the past week
Here's a view of the walled gardens at Croome Court in Worcestershire you don't see every day - unless you're a bird.
Thanks to Dave Bright from Bright Sky Videos, who specialises in aerial photographs.
Image source, Dave BrightA “paranoid” man broke a stranger’s nose with one punch, external and ran away laughing, a court was told.
Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Hereford FC's rearranged game at Didcot Town will be played behind closed doors on Tuesday, 11 April, the club says.
The original game was abandoned in the 87th minute after crowd trouble .
Quote MessageFollowing consultation with Thames Valley Police, both Hereford FC and Didcot Town submitted a request this morning to the Southern League that the match ordered to be replayed should take place behind closed doors."
Hereford FC statement
Drivers in Herefordshire are twice as likely to successfully appeal a parking ticket compared with people who park in Worcester city centre.
In Worcester, only 28% of people who challenged their fine managed to get it overturned.
In Herefordshire, 61% of people successfully appealed between January and October last year, according to figures obtained by a Freedom of Information request by the Press Association.
Herefordshire Council says all appeals against parking tickets "are considered on their individual merit, taking into account mitigating circumstances and the nature of the contravention".
Nationally, 38% of initial challenges made by drivers over on-street parking fines made to local authorities in England were successful in the same period.
Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Last night, Stourport Swifts eased their worries of being drawn into the Midland League relegation battle with a 2-0 home win against Brocton .
Tonight, Westfields will host Loughborough University at Allpay Park.
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Wednesday will be cloudier and feel a little cooler than Tuesday, but it will be a largely dry day with some bright or sunny spells . Highs of 12C (54F).
Weather for the West Midlands.
Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
Welcome to the Local Live service for Herefordshire and Worcestershire on Wednesday morning. There's a sunny start to the day, as this photo from BBC Weather Watcher Morning Amble shows.
Image source, Morning AmbleI'll be bringing you all the news, sport, travel and weather as it happens.
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We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow, but keep an eye out here for more updates this evening and into the morning.
James Pearson
Journalist, BBC Hereford & Worcester
A survey of fish stocks in the River Severn, external has found 16 different species living in the stretch between Shrewsbury and Gloucester.
The Environment Agency, which carried out the survey, said 2016 was the "year of the dace" - the most widespread species found.
Image source, Environment AgencyOfficers found fewer fish than previously but there are now 16 species on our stretch of river, including barbel and bleak, gudgeon and goby.
Minnow were the most numerous fish, and it was the first year common bream had been caught, the agency said.
The children's ward at Worcesterhsire Royal Hospital had to be evacuated overnight after a water pipe burst.
The trust running the hospital has released (left) during and (right) after images, showing the work staff did.
Image source, Worcester Acute Hospitals NHS TrustPatients have been moved back into the ward today after the damage was addressed.
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Clear spells are expected this evening but it will gradually turn a little cloudier overnight . It will feel rather chilly by dawn, especially under clear skies. Lows of 6C (43F).
Weather for the West Midlands.
Nature has been putting on a good show on this sunny spring day as these photos from BBC Weather Watchers prove.
Thanks to Cloudgazer, Spennell's Pensioner, Sunshine Seeker and Chris & Ginny for the images.
Butterflies and blossom
A dog owner has been ordered to reduce the number of dogs she keeps after six years of neighbours' complaints about their barking.
Margaret Lansdell, from Dancing Green in Ross-on-Wye, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a noise abatement notice served on her by Herefordshire Council in November 2015.
After the 69 year old's plea on Friday, the council asked Hereford Magistrates Court to make a Criminal Behaviour Order telling her to reduce the number of dogs she had at the property.
The court ordered her to reduce the number of dogs she kept from 10 to six by 1 May.
Quote MessageThe council believes that this was the most practical and pragmatic way to bring about a change in Mrs Lansdell's management of her dogs' barking."
Marc Willimont, Herefordshire Council
Spencer Stokes
Journalist, BBC News
Eight years in captivity and he's now adjusting to being a free man.
Janusz, not his real name, was trafficked from Poland to the West Midlands picking vegetables from fields, as well as working at a a recycling plant for 12 hours a day, six days a week.
Figures show the number of potential victims of slavery and people trafficking in the UK has risen to 3,805 in 2016 - a 118% increase in three years.
Many that are rescued are taken to safe houses run by the Salvation Army.
Janusz was freed after a police investigation and now lives in one of these safe houses.
Anne Read from the organisation says: "They are often trapped, not by keys or padlocks but by threats which we are seeing continually."
See more on this story on BBC Midlands Today at 18:30.
Plans to build 335 new homes and a village hall in Cofton Hackett , external have been blocked by district planners, over fears the council is being "hoodwinked".
Patients had to be moved from the children's ward at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital last night after a burst pipe caused a flood.
All the patients were moved safely to other areas of the hospital overnight while works to repair the area started, the hospital trust said.
The flood was cleared and the pipe repaired overnight, with the majority of the ward re-opening earlier- all patients should be back in later today, the trust says.
Plans to build hundreds of new homes on the site of a former car plant in north Worcestershire have been deferred.
At a planning committee meeting last night, district councillors in Bromsgrove called for further consultation on two applications to build 150 and 185 houses plus a community centre on part of the former MG Rover works near Cofton Hackett.
Image source, GoogleWork to refurbish the Sons of Rest Pavilion in Gheluvelt Park, Worcester, will start this autumn, the council says.
The timber building was opened in 1953, with the Grade II-listed park opened in 1922 to commemorate the 1914 battle of Gheluvelt which involved the Worcestershire Regiment.
Image source, GoogleThe new facility will have a refreshment kiosk and a community room.
The work is expected to be finished by April next year, the council says.
A date has been fixed for the funeral of the former Shropshire County Council chairman, Major Adrian Coles.
It'll take place next Wednesday at St Paul's Church in the village of Knowbury, near Clee Hill.
Image source, British Hedgehog Preservation SocietyMajor Coles, who also founded the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, died nearly a fortnight ago at the age of 86.
Celebrations were held to mark the re-opening of Hereford's Black and White House, external following a refurbishment.
