A number of inmates have been moved to other prisons after a riot at HMP Hewell over the weekend, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed

A prison officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries after an "incident" on Saturday evening.

Men shouting and swearing, as well as banging and dogs barking, could be heard coming from the prison.

Specialist security squads, equipped to deal with riots, arrived at the site in unmarked vans at about 19:30 on Saturday.

A mother says her daughter's life may have been saved because she learnt about the death of a teenager who died from leukaemia.

Laura Handley, from Tenbury Wells, says she only decided to take her daughter to the doctor after reading about 13-year-old James O'Mara, who died last month just days after he was diagnosed with the disease., external

Laura says her one-year-old daughter Tazmin has also been diagnosed with a form of the blood cancer and it was reading about James's symptoms that made her realise something could also be wrong with Tazmin.

A man has been charged with indecent exposure following an incident in Worcester.

The 48-year-old is due before magistrates in the city on 24 August.

The arrest follows an appeal for information about an incident on New Road on the evening of Thursday 20 July.

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BBC Weather presenter

We're forecast another mild night and tomorrow we'll have more of this light cloud, with some sunshine around.

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West Mercia Police say they'll be flying a rainbow flag at full mast above their headquarters at Hindlip Hall to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales.

The Sexual Offences Act was passed on 27 July 1967 and was the first stepping stone in paving the way for equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender communities.

West Mercia say they wish to celebrate the milestone and also to demonstrate the force's commitment to the LGBT communities.

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Producer, BBC Hereford & Worcester

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Town Councillor Philip Edmundson is calling on Wyre Forest District Council to create more parking spaces and claims the problem is being exacerbated by delays to the development of a new car park in Load Street on the site of the old medical centre and library.

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Wyre Forest District Council says it will soon be seeking tenders for constructing the new car park and the work will not be completed until after the busy summer period.

The best way to tackle the growing demand for food banks is to increase wages and employment, the Conservative MP for Worcester Robin Walker says.

Some 14,000 people have collected food parcels from food banks in Herefordshire and Worcester in the last 12 months - up 2,000 on the year before.

The Worcester food bank has seen an increase in use of 45% in the first five months of this year, compared with the same period last year.

Herefordshire has been named as one of the top 10 places in England to stay when it comes to hospitality.

The AA ranked the county ninth based on their ratings for the quality of its bed and breakfasts, hotels, caravan and campsites, and restaurants.

Andrew Oxley from the AA says it's great news for businesses in the county.

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BBC Hereford and Worcester

Detectives investigating several sexual offences in Worcester have arrested a 27-year-old man from the city on suspicion of sexual assault.

The most recent offence occurred on Diglis Bridge at around 19:45 on Tuesday 18 July.

Officers are investigating seven similar offences since April which they say may or may not be linked to this offence.

The man has been released under investigation.

One of Britain's most successful wheelchair athletes is preparing to take part in the Worcester 10K , externalthis September.

Baroness Tani Grey-Thompson won 11 Paralympic gold medals during her career before going on to take a seat in the House of Lords.

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Tom Edwards
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

A big increase in demand for help from food banks across Worcestershire has been blamed on "benefit issues".

More than 5,000 people use the Worcester food bank every year and in the first first five months of 2017, numbers were up by 45%, compared with the same period last year.

Samantha Stapley, the operations manager for the Trussell Trust, which manages the food bank network, says delays to benefit payments are a big problem.

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Sunny, warm and blowy - BBC Weather Watcher Marlaine in Evesham is making the most of a good day to get her washing dry and Morning Amble in Ashton under Hill is clearly enjoying the blue skies as well.

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"Mother's instinct" after reading the tragic story of 13-year-old James O'Mara, of Claines, who died of blood cancer last month, helped a mum-of-five to realise her daughter could have undiagnosed leukaemia, external.

A Worcestershire man who was left abandoned at a cinema as a three-week-old baby has tracked down a total of nine siblings.

Robert Weston, who was found in the toilet of Birmingham's Odeon Cinema, has spent 46 years searching for his family.

In May, he finally met up with a half brother and a half sister and now a further DNA search has led him to discover that he actually has five half brothers and a half sister on his father's side and one brother, a half brother and a half sister in his mother's side.

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Robert, who grew up in a children's home in Droitwich, has just returned from visiting some of his relatives in Scotland.

One in 11 women who undergo smear tests in Herefordshire are not getting their results within the government's two-week deadline.

In Worcestershire, one in 13 women have not been receiving their letters within the target.

Nationally 80% of NHS areas are failing to meet it.

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NHS England says changes are being introduced in April 2019 which will mean they'll need fewer staff and as result, in the run up to the deadline, laboratories are struggling to retain their staff.

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Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Survivors of a World War Two air raid on Hereford have been remembering the day 75 years ago when a German bomber targeted the Rotherwas Munitions Factory.

At least 19 workers were killed, including Kathleen Wheeler from Ross on Wye (pictured).

However many of the names of those who died are still not known.

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Five members of the Hursey family, who lived next door to the factory, were also killed.

Ken Hursey, who was 15 at the time, was the only survivor.

Firefighters in Herefordshire and Worcestershire are having to rescue an increasing number of animals.

They carried out 125 animal rescues in 2016 compared with 88 in 2014 - a rise of nearly a third in two years.

Area Commander John Price for Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service says it requires specialist skills to save animals.

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From the cornfields of Martley to the tractors out on the roads in Lyonshall, there's work to be done on farms across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, especially now the sun's come out again.

Thanks to BBC Weather Watchers Andy R and Johnqa for sending in these lovely pictures.

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