James Taylor bowls a maiden to Jake Libby to end the afternoon session at New Road.

It's been a tough one for Worcestershire, especially when Dan Lawrence hit five successive sixes in an over which cost Shoaib Bashir 38 runs.

Lawrence was eventually last man out for 175 and the home side have lost three wickets in 26 overs since starting their reply - all three caught behind by Ben Foakes, but Libby remains on 30 not out.

Matt Parkinson tosses the ball up to Josh Bohannon, delivering a wide in an otherwise tidy over costing just three runs.

We're not taking the new ball yet and Marcus O'Riordan will continue.

Good line from O'Riordan with a hint of loop and turn outside off.

Maiden over.

Dane Paterson takes the final over of the afternoon session.

Tom Lammonby and Tom Abell take a single each and that will do us.

The pair have batted Somerset into a strong position at tea, trailing by 187 runs with eight wickets in hand.

Somerset resumed on 60-1 after lunch and soon lost Tom Kohler-Cadmore.

The Notts attack stuck to their task well, but the two Toms have added an unbroken 105-run stand to seize the initiative.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

Durham's total of 587 was their highest against Essex. They had Essex in the field for four sessions in the heat before they were out just before lunch.

The follow-on target is 436 and at the moment that looks a long way off with the hosts four down at tea. But in this heat, would Durham bowl two innings straight off anyway?

Nick Browne, who was dropped in the slips on 10, eventually perished eight runs later, caught behind off Matty Potts for 18. Potts later bowled the dangerous Jordan Cox for 32 as well.

There were big celebrations among the Durham players when Dean Elgar was out for 40, caught at first slip by Scott Borthwick off the bowling of Peter Siddle.

The other wicket saw skipper Tom Westley fall lbw to Ben Raine for 24.

Josh Bohannon is back and across to spinner Marcus O'Riordan, pushing the spinner through cover point for two to take the second wicket partnership to 300 in 463 balls.

This has been an epic stand.

What do Kent need to do to take wickets here?

Will they take the new ball straight away or leave it till just before stumps?

The pitch is playing well plus Josh Bohannon and Luke Wells have put together a record stand for the Red Rose against this opposition, playing with fluency and confidence.

Bohannon will face spinner Marcus O'Riordan on 136 not out.

Luke Wells has 148.

Matthew Potts has the ball for the final over before tea.

Paul Walter takes a two off the first ball and then defends the next three. A single takes Tall Paul to five before Matt Critchley blocks out the final ball.

Durham's tea time cuppa will taste mighty good after a superb afternoon's work.

They have taken four wickets and are still a commanding 462 runs ahead.

Essex resumed on 10-0 after lunch and have lost openers Nick Browne (18) and Dean Elgar (40), skipper Tom Westley for 24, and Jordan Cox (32).

Potts has starred with the ball, taking 2 for 34.

Tom Abell reaches fifty for the 35th time in his first-class career as he punches a loose Calvin Harrison full toss across the boundary rope.

It’s been a patient, well-paced knock, coming off 101 balls with seven fours and it’s his first of the Championship season.

It’s only his second match of the campaign, mind you.

Abell helps himself to another boundary in Harrison's next over which takes the third-wicket stand with Tom Lammonby to three figures. Suddenly, things look a little ominous for Notts.

Frank Watson
BBC Hereford & Worcester

I think we're going to see a bit of Dan Lawrence before tea. He's going to have a little twirl with his off spin.

People say that he's not got a conventional action but my argument is that his action itself isn't that unconventional.

It's just how he gets into that action because his arms move around a lot. Both arms move together but when he gets there and once he's actually into a delivery stride it's not that unconventional.

The field is set deep for Michael Burgess.

But there's no stopping the fourth ball of the Muhammad Abbas over, moving across and shovelling the ball over fine leg for four.

Out!

Michael Burgess has played on to Muhammad Abbas and the innings gap is 44.

Abbas wraps up the innings but Keith Barker is the hero of the hour with 6-74.

He walks off with the ball to an applauding crowd. That's tea.

He's not quite in Dan Lawrence mode - five successive sixes - but the boundaries are flowing for Louis Kimber at Hove.

After three in an over off Danny Lamb, he punches Nathan McAndrew away for another at the start of the next to move to 28 not out.

Just 11 runs separate the teams in Cardiff, where Glamorgan have added 109 during the afternoon session for the loss of three wickets.

The big one from a Northants perspective was Marnus Labuschagne, who missed out on a hundred when he was lbw to Justin Broad for 93.

Kiran Carlson made 71 before falling to Luke Procter and Chris Cooke is 15 not out at the interval, with Timm van der Gugten on one.

The Red Rose go into tea in complete control with Luke Wells and Josh Bohannon playing their best respective innings of the summer to date.

Wells is just shy of 150 on 148 not out and Josh Bohannon has 136.

A breakthrough for Kent feels a long way off and at this point the likeliest route to a breakthrough is an over confident batting error.

Luis Reece reaches 50 from 111 balls with a boundary off Henry Brookes for Derbyshire against Middlesex at Lord's - they are 145-2 in the 35th over.

Louis Kimber drives Danny Lamb for four at the start of a new over and Leicestershire are 184-5 against Sussex at Hove.

Ben Charlesworth square cuts for four at Scarborough, where Gloucestershire are 77-1, having dismissed Yorkshire for 456.

Yet another delay at Trent Bridge as Notts skipper Haseeb Hameed ask the umpires to take another look at the ball.

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts, Neil Mallender and Ben Debenham agree.

The suitcase of used cherries comes out after 44.4 overs and a similarly old ball is decided on.

The replacement isn't of immediate use for the Notts bowlers as Tom Abell steers his sixth four of the innings to move Somerset past the 150 mark.

Craig Miles is beaten by the first ball but he lofts the third ball over mid wicket for four.

Goodness me! Four more clipped through mid wicket.

He's making this look quite easy. He'll keep the strike too as the last ball is run away square on the off side for one.

Michael Burgess finds a gap and works the fifth ball of the Kyle Abbott over square on the on side for one.

Craig Miles drives straight and the ball rolls safely to mid on and the Warwickshire number 10 will face Keith Barker...