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

  2. Woman passenger revived at scene of major crash

    Claudia Berry
    Producer, BBC Hereford & Worcester

    A woman has been airlifted to hospital in a serious condition following a crash near Leominster yesterday evening.

    Three cars collided on the A49 near the OK Diner island at around 18:20, injuring three others as well.

    The ambulance service said the woman, believed to be in her 40s, had suffered multiple serious injuries and was in cardiac arrest.

    West Midlands Air Ambulance

    She was rapidly freed from the car by ambulance crews who began performing CPR and advanced life support. They successfully managed to restart her heart before emergency treatment continued as the woman was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham."

    West Ambulance Service spokesman

    The driver of the car, a man in his 60s, was also airlifted to the same hospital with a chest injury as well as minor head and back injuries.

    A young boy with chest pain and a young girl with a leg injury were taken to Hereford Hospital by land ambulance.

  3. Highest ever number of people using food banks

    Tom Edwards
    Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

    The number of people using food banks in Herefordshire and Worcestershire has reached an all-time high of 14,000 a year now turning to them to help feed themselves and their families.

    At some centres like Worcester, demand in the first five months of this year increased by 45% compared with the same period last year.

    Concerns are being raised about how to meet the growing demand, with supplies of some items like peanut butter, milk and jam beginning to run low.

    Food bank

    It's worrying because I just wonder when is it going to stop? When is it going to plateau? And it's worrying because this is local people - local people in crisis within our community."

    Graeme Lucas, Worcester food bank manager

  4. A448 closed for air ambulance

    BBC News Travel

    Drivers are being advised to avoid the A448 Bromsgrove to Redditch road.

    It's been closed at Batchley roundabout and Clover Leaf junction to allow the air ambulance to land.

  5. T20 Blast: Whiteley's six sixes in an over in vain after Willey ton

    BBC Sport

    Worcestershire's Ross Whiteley hit six sixes in an over in a losing effort as they went down by 37 runs to Yorkshire at Headingley in the T20 Blast.

    Ross WhiteleyGetty Images

    David Willey made 118 off 55 balls, the highest T20 score by a Yorkshire batsman, as they totalled 233-6.

    And although Whiteley hit six maximums in an over from Karl Carver that also contained a wide, Willey bowled him for 65 as they fell short on 196-7.

  6. Ban on smoking introduced at prison

    A smoking ban is due to come into effect today at a Worcestershire prison where a violent protest was held over the weekend.

    HMP HewellGoogle

    The new rules are believed to have sparked the disturbance at HMP Hewell near Redditch on Saturday night.

    Riot teams went to restore order among a small number of inmates on one wing.

    Police are investigating after one prison officer suffered minor injuries.

  7. Video: Your 50-second weather forecast

    Charlie Slater
    BBC Weather presenter

    After a cloudy start and the possibility of a few showers we can expect a generally dry day with highs of 21C (70F).

    Latest weather for the West Midlands

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