Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

After a cloudy start with some light showers, it should be a dry and bright day with highs of 12C (54F).

You can find a detailed forecast for your area on the BBC Weather site.

Worcestershire pull off a remarkable win over Northants inside two days, in a match dominated by the bowlers at New Road.

England's Moeen Ali scores 50 in his first Championship game of 2017 for Worcestershire, as 16 wickets fall against Northants.

Trevor Owens
Sports Editor, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Luctonians’ director of rugby, Alex Davidson, has confirmed he has been made redundant by the club and will leave at the end of the month.

Davidson has been with the National Two North club for the past seven seasons and has helped establish them at the fourth tier of the pyramid.

The former Birmingham Bees lock says he’s disappointed and plans to take a break, but insists he will then be looking to get back into the game.

You have been using Your Questions to ask about the West Midlands - here are some of our answers.

Rebecca Wood
BBC Weather

It's going to remain cloudy overnight, but we should see a little sunshine tomorrow afternoon with temperatures expected to reach 13C (55F) in places.

BBC Weather Watchers

It may be cloudy overhead but BBC Weather Watchers have been out and about getting some great spring pictures.

Thanks to Toppo, Postman Les, Mikesnapper and Johnqa for this selection.

A new bridge, to replace the one that dramatically collapsed into the River Teme in Worcestershire last year, will open to traffic next week.

The old Grade II listed structure, at Eastham near Tenbury Wells, crumbled last May leaving locals with a 10 mile (16km) detour.

Image source, Worcestershire County Council

Bill Elerihouse used Your Questions to ask: "What is Worcester most famous for?"

THE ANSWER

Candidates so far have been the world famous Worcestershire Sauce, which is still made at a factory in Worcester, Royal Worcester, external porcelain, which sadly isn't and the city's glove industry.

The last battle

The first and last battles of the English Civil War took place in Worcester.

The first took place on the 23 September 1642 - though the Battlefield Trust , externalsay it could "probably be better described as a skirmish".

Royalist cavalry, under the dashing Prince Rupert, routed a Parliamentary force.

Nine years later there was a far bigger battle at Worcester, external, as a largely Scottish army commanded by Charles II came up against the New Model Army, under the generalship of Oliver Cromwell.

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The royalists lost the battle, and King Charles had to flee the city, beginning his famous escape to France via an oak tree.

The house he fled from is still standing, and is known as The King Charles House.

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The importance of the battle is shown by the fact that in 1786 two future American presidents - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson - made a special pilgrimage to the city, visiting Fort Royal (pictured), the capture of which led to the Parliamentary victory.

In a speech in the city John Adams, the second president, even took the country to task for not properly commemorating the battle.

Image source, Worcester City Council

A plaque commemorating their visit stands, appropriately enough, on the wall of the White House Hotel in Foregate Street.

The trusts running hospitals in Herefordshire and Worcestershire are to get a share of extra money promised by the chancellor in the budget.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which has been in special measures since 2015, is to get £920,000.

The trust was placed in special measures in December 2015 by the Care Quality Commission watchdog, which raised safety concerns over A&E, paediatrics, maternity and gynaecology departments.

The trust running hospitals in Herefordshire is to get £749,000.

The department of health says the money must be used "to meet the 95% standard of admitting, transferring, or discharging patients within four hours".

Both trusts have consistently failed to meet A&E waiting-time targets.  

BBC Politics

A snap election called for 8 June risks leaving many would-be voters unregistered.

BBC News explains how to fix that.

Local politicians and councillors have been at one of Worcestershire's congestion hot spots as they try to persuade the government to spend tens of millions of pounds sorting it out. 

Worcester's Carrington Bridge currently only has one lane each way and there are calls for it to have more or for a Northern Link road to be built to reduce the number of cars needing to cross it.

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Tim Race
Producer, BBC Hereford & Worcester

The fire service says it will be carrying out re-inspections of the site of the massive warehouse fire in Worcester every four hours, and will do so for the next 24 hours, checking for hot spots.

The fire investigation is ongoing, alongside West Mercia Police, Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service says.

Image source, West Mercia Police

Up to 100 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze at the building, operated by delivery company ArrowXL, on the Blackpole East Industrial Estate in Worcester.

The fire broke out just after 08:30 yesterday.

Access to Blackpole estate is now back to normal, a spokesman said. 

A midwife in Worcestershire is hoping to set up a sanctuary for lambs born with abnormalities to their necks.

Jess Bason might be swapping babies for lambs, but she's on familiar territory as part of a farming family. 

She was inspired after the birth of sheep nicknamed Crooky eight years ago.

Crooky needed constant care just to survive and even now has to feed kneeling down.

Worcester News

A married couple from Malvern Link have been ordered to pay £1,200 in fines and costs after allowing two trees to be cut down illegally, external.  

Like many soldiers who served in WW1, Thomas Porton never spoke of his experiences, despite being awarded the Military Medal, according to his grandson, Mat, who's from Barnt Green.

He and his father will be making their way to Belgium for the special ceremonies to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele, which claimed an estimated 250,000 British and Commonwealth casualties.

Image source, Porton family

Mat still has several artefacts from his grandfather’s service including his spoon, stamped with his regimental number with one side flattened from being scraped along the bottom of billy cans, as well as Thomas’ Princess Mary Christmas gift box, a brass tobacco tin given to all serving soldiers at Christmas 1914.  

Thomas Porton served on the Western Front from August 1914 to July 1918, making it back home safely to his family.   

Alex Winter
BBC Radio Northampton sport

All change at Worcester with three wickets in 10 balls for Andy Carter, playing here for his sixth county.

First, Moeen Ali drove a touch loosely to one brought back in towards him and then Tom Kohler-Cadmore shouldered arms fourth ball.

Moeen never quite looked in full control, with several plays-and-misses through his innings. But he did play two straight drives of note and an extra cover drive to make the crowd purr. A half-century to begin his season, but his side in a spot of bother, with Ben Cox also gone, caught behind in Carter's next over..

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Ged Scott
BBC Sport

Moeen Ali marked his return to County Championship duty with Worcestershire by hitting an unbeaten 42 on the opening morning against Northamptonshire at New Road.

The England all-rounder, playing his first Championship match for almost 12 months, looked in good touch as Worcestershire reached lunch on 92-3 from 28 overs.

Image source, Worcestershire County Cricket Club

Having opted to bowl after an uncontested toss, Northants struck early when Mohammad Azharullah found Brett D'Oliveira’s (pictured) edge for 5. 

But Moeen then put on 62 with Daryl Mitchell (30) before the former became the first of two lbw decisions just before lunch, Tom Fell (5) following cheaply. 

You can hear ball-by-ball commentary on the game on BBC Hereford & Worcester's 738AM frequency and online. 

At lunch Worcestershire are 92 for 3 in the four-day Championship match against Northants.

Moeen Ali, back in the side after being on England duty, is not out on 42.

You can hear ball-by-ball commentary on the game on BBC Hereford & Worcester's 738AM frequency and online.

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Nick Clitheroe
BBC Midlands Today

On Midlands Today this lunchtime we'll be hearing of the many tributes being paid to the Midlands footballer Ugo Ehiogu who's died. 

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He was 44 and played more than 200 games for Aston Villa. 

Tributes have been paid from across our region and I'll have more from 13:30.