Ten years for man who drove off after hitting police officer
Teacher guilty of 'unacceptable professional conduct' over pupil emails
Lifeline for new football stadium plans
Allowances rises a 'slap in the face for local people'
Early opening for Cathedral square restaurants
Rare butterfly numbers on the rise
Updates on Friday 14 July 2017
It isn't a surprise to discover 58-year-old Steve Breakwell first became interested in sports and physical activity when he was a young lad growing up in Worcester, external.
Watch: Car loses control and crashes into pedestrians
Three people were injured last night when a car crashed into a group of spectators watching a gathering of vehicles.
It happened at the Kingsditch Trading Estate in Cheltenham - as first reported by Gloucestershire Live, external.
Footage posted on social media showed a red car apparently losing control and hitting the crowd.
A 28-year-old man from Worcestershire has been reported for dangerous driving.
Alistair Binney
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
A Stourport Town Councillor says he's been inundated with complaints about poor bus services in and around the town.
Diamond Buses, which operates about 30 different routes in Worcestershire, received a formal warning from the West Midlands' Transport Commissioner in January for services failing to run on time.
Councillor Rob Lloyd says there's been a notable decline in reliability and punctuality over the summer.
Image source, Wyre Forest District CouncilQuote MessageWe've had several issues with Diamond Buses in the last couple of years, but it seems to have escalated since a meeting we had with the company about two months ago. I put a comment on social media for the public to put written complaints to me direct so I could go back to the bus company. I've had about 70 since June 14."
Rob Lloyd, Stourport Town Councillor
Diamond Buses say they've invested in new GPS enabled ticket machines, which allow them to monitor their services more closely and as a result they've found customer perception of unreliability is incorrect.
Dave Bradley
Cricket commentator
Worcestershire bowling coach Matt Mason says his team let Gloucestershire off the hook on the opening day of the County Championship match at Cheltenham.
Gloucestershire will resume this morning on 343 for 8, but at one time yesterday they were 139 for 5.
Jack Taylor led the Gloucestershire fightback with an unbeaten century, and Ed Barnard was the pick of the Worcestershire attack with four wickets.
Image source, Getty ImagesQuote MessageHe [Ed Barnard] ran in with a lot more vigour, he hit the pitch hard, got good rewards for bowling a really good line and length as simple as that. It was great to see him finally get those four wickets and I hope he can get one more and get his first five wickets because he hasn't got one in first class cricket yet and he deserves one."
Matt Mason, Worcestershire bowling coach
One person has died and three others were taken to hospital after a collision between four cars and a lorry in Worcestershire.
Three of the cars burst into flames after the crash on the M42 shortly before 21:00 on Sunday, closing the southbound motorway until earlier this morning between junctions one and two.
Image source, bbcAfter the fire service put out the fires, ambulance crews found one person dead in one of the cars.
The patients were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and the Alexandra hospital in Redditch.
Worcestershire's Moeen Ali produced a man of the match performance as England celebrated a 211-run win over South Africa.
Off-spinner Moeen took 6-53 for match figures of 10-112 as well as making 87 with the bat in the first innings.
He described it as "the best all-round performance of my career".
Quote MessageIt was a great wicket and I was trying to attack the batters as much as possible and it worked out well. I learned a lot in India it helped my mindset a lot and it worked out well. It is almost like a fresh start for me with a new captain."
Moeen Ali
When Matt Odgers went blind at 17 he thought his life was over.
Now aged 22 he is hoping to become a personal trainer and is learning how to navigate his way around a city centre.
Matt travels from Hertfordshire to the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford, where he is studying sport and recreation.
How weightlifting helped me after I went blind
About 1,000 people have been stopped for using their phones while driving over the past six months, police in West Mercia and Warwickshire say.
They are running a week-long crackdown, targeting drivers who use their phones.
Earlier this year, the penalty for those caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving doubled from £100 to £200 and from three to six points.
Image source, ThinkstockQuote MessageWe are urging people to think about the consequences of their actions and ask themselves how they would feel if they caused a collision and injured, or killed, somebody else simply for the sake of making a call, reading a text message or checking social media."
Ch Supt Stephen Cullen
Mel Coles
BBC Weather presenter
After a bright and clear start it will become cloudier with the chance of some showers this afternoon and highs of 21C (70F).
Latest weather for the West Midlands
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