BBC Local Live: Herefordshire & Worcestershire on Friday 28 July 2017

Summary

Man shoot by police 'stable'
Bomb squad called over homemade fireworks
Lottery funding for museum project
Walk-in health centre closes
New civil war exhibition
Updates on Friday 28 July 2017

Live Reporting

Jerry Chester

Body-worn video cameras: More officers issued with new technologypublished at 17:49 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Police officers in north Worcestershire will be wearing video cameras in future as part of a £1m roll-out of the technology.
Body-worn cameras will be used in Kidderminster, Stourport, Bewdley, Hagley, Bromsgrove and Redditch and throughout rural communities in north Worcestershire.
Officers in Malvern were the first to pilot the technology in April.
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Body-worn video is a quiet revolution in policing, enabling front-line officers to have an independent first-hand account of events, recorded in real-time."
Ch Supt Mark Travis, West Mercia Police
Watch: Your 50-second weather forecastpublished at 17:41 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today
Most places should become largely dry with clear spells overnight, with perhaps the odd shower around. It will be a breezy night - lows of 13C (55F).
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Weather for the West Midlands.
Your photos: Good deed - bad punpublished at 17:19 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Dobbin won't mind the jokes after getting back to dry land with the help of the police and fire service.
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Netball: New head coach for Severn Starspublished at 17:10 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
The Severn Stars netball team have appointed Sam Bird as their new head coach.
The team's former assistant coach will take charge ahead of the 2018 season.
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The franchise, a collaboration between the universities of Worcester and Gloucestershire, were coached by Monia Gerrard before she stepped down from the role last month.
Travel: Trains back to normal after police calledpublished at 16:57 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
BBC News Travel
The police were called to Longbridge station by staff travelling between Redditch and Birmingham who were worried about two unruly passengers.
The service is now back running normally, although there are expected to be a number of delays on some services.
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Kidderminster Shuttle back page: Gordon won't let the sun go down on Elton bidpublished at 16:39 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Chairman Colin Gordon revealed Harriers, external were "doing our best" to retain the services of midfield marvel Elton Ngwatala.
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Police called to deal with 'unruly passengers' on trainpublished at 16:27 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
A Redditch to Birmingham New Street train had to stop at Longbridge so the police could be called to deal with two unruly passengers, London Midland say.
The police were called by train crew at 14:10 - London Midland say one passenger was unconscious and the other was drunk and shouting.
Train services along the line will be delayed or cancelled for the rest of the day because of the length of time it took to deal with the incident, the operator says.
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Steelbacks face Worcestershire in T20 Blastpublished at 16:10 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Northamptonshire Steelbacks host Worcestershire Rapids in the T20 Blast competition later.
The Steelbacks are sixth in the North Group, but a win tonight would move them up to second in the table.
The top four teams progress to the quarter-final stage.
BBC Radio Northampton has full build-up available from 18:00, and ball-by-ball commentary from 18:30.
You can also follow the game with BBC Sport's live text page here.
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Your pictures: Working on the River Severnpublished at 15:59 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
These boats are used to transport sand and gravel from Ryall, near Upton-upon-Severn. The 350-tonne vessels take materials to a concrete plant near Gloucester.
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Ancient honour for public servantpublished at 15:39 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
A long-standing public servant has been given an honour dating back to Anglo-Saxon times.
Peter Pinfield has been made an honorary alderman by Wychavon District Council.
It's only the fifth time in the council's history the title has been granted.
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Mr Pinfield spent 32 years serving on Wychavon representing both Droitwich West and Droitwich East, having been elected in 1979.
He says his greatest achievement was securing a £2m from both Wychavon and Worcestershire County Council to restore Droitwich’s canals.
The 69-year-old retired in 2014 to take up the position of chairman of Worcestershire Healthwatch, an organisation which champions patients’ views.
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It’s a privilege to be recognised like this and I’m pleased to accept it not just for myself but on behalf of all the organisations I’ve helped and been involved with over the years, they’ve all been part and parcel of it."
Peter Pinfield
Travel: Redditch trains replaced by coachespublished at 15:16 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
BBC News Travel
According to London Midland the emergency services are dealing with an incident affecting services between Birmingham New Street and Redditch.
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M5 queues continue following lorry crashpublished at 14:44 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Traffic delays are ongoing on the M5 southbound from junction 9 near Tewkesbury.
It follows an earlier collision involving two lorries.
Two lanes between J9 and J10 are closed while the vehicles involved are removed from the motorway.
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The queues are snaking back into Worcestershire.
This is the scene at junction 8:
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Fly-tipper jailedpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
A fly-tipper who dumped controlled waste, including a car, at a Bromyard caravan park has been jailed for six weeks.
Paul Biddle, 25, of Open Field Caravans, Bromyard, had pleaded guilty to the offence and was sentenced at Hereford Magistrates' Court on 20 July.
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Herefordshire Council says this is the first custodial sentence it has gained for fly-tipping.
The offences took place in April last year, the council say.
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Custodial sentences are reserved for the most serious offences, and Mr Biddle’s sentence proves that Herefordshire Council takes fly-tipping enforcement very seriously."
Marc Willimont, Herefordshire Council
WW2 munitions workers' grave foundpublished at 14:19 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
At least 16 people died and 27 were injured when a German plane dropped a cluster of bombs on a factory.
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Cricket: Moeen in team for third testpublished at 14:09 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Moeen Ali is back playing for England in their roller coaster series against South Africa.
The Worcestershire player was man of the match as England won the first game, but was part of a miserable batting performance as they lost heavily in the second Test.
England won the toss and are batting - you can follow the game on the BBC Sport live page.
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Man shot by police in 'critical condition'published at 13:25 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
A man shot by police last night is in a critical condition in hospital, an IPCC commissioner says.
Derrick Campbell told the BBC the wounded man is black and believed to be in his early 40s.
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There was a planned operation by police and unfortunately that planned operation ended with a shooting of a member of the public. [The operation] was well resourced. He's still in a critical condition in hospital. He's a black male, we think he is 42 or so years old."
Derrick Campbell, IPCC Commissioner
Police shooting: 'Armed officers running up street'published at 13:07 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
A man living near the scene of a police shooting in which a man was wounded in the chest said he saw "armed police running up and down the road" after a bang.
Emergency crews were called to Hereford Close, Rubery, at about 21:00 on Wednesday and the case has been referred to the IPCC.
Resident Simon Hodges was told by police to get back in his house.
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I was sat in the back garden and I heard a bang, so I come out the front and I see armed police running up and down the road with a police dog. I was told to get back in my house and that's where I went. It was very scary. It's not every day you see police running round with guns."
Simon Hodges, Resident
Kidderminster Shuttle front page: 60 jobs saved in foundry rescuepublished at 13:05 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Kidderminster Shuttle
Sixty jobs have been saved at a Kidderminster aluminium foundry, external after the company was taken over in a rescue deal.
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Travel: Contraflow on M5 this weekendpublished at 12:24 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
BBC News Travel
A contraflow system on the M5 this weekend will affect traffic in north Worcestershire this weekend, the county council says.
Concrete repairs and waterproofing work will be taking place at the Oldbury viaduct, between junctions 1 and 2, and the contraflow is being put in place with all traffic using the northbound carriageway.
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Changes have been put in place at key junctions in the area, including M5 junction 4a northbound and M6 junction 8 southbound, Highways England says.
The agency says this is to increase capacity where the M5 joins the M6 and M42 and reduce the amount of traffic heading towards the roadworks.
Rotherwas munitions deaths: Unmarked grave indentifieldpublished at 12:04 British Summer Time 27 July 2017
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
The unmarked grave of munitions workers killed in a bombing raid in World War Two has been identified following a BBC Hereford & Worcester investigation.
At least 16 people died when a German bomber attacked the Rotherwas munitions factory in Hereford, exactly 75 years ago today.
The graves of members of the Hursey family, who died in the bombing, are in the graveyard at St Peter's Church, which overlooks the former site of the munitions factory.
Records in the church show that next to their plots are unmarked graves, which Reverend Anna Branston believes are those of the other people killed in the raid.
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It's good that in the future it will be a place where people who have lost relatives or friends and don't know where their bodies are can go and lay flowers or go to think and reflect."
Rev Anna Branston