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Yahoo
a day ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Temperatures and pollen soar in heatwave conditions
TEMPERATURES are set to soar in Herefordshire today, rising over 30 degrees. And it is bad news for hayfever sufferers, with the Met Office warning of very high pollen counts today (June 19). With the morning starting off warm, with temperatures already in the teens, they are set to rise through the day, hitting a high of 31°C in Hereford by 4pm. It is also likely to be an uncomfortable night, with temperatures sticking at around 19°C through the night. And there will be little relief on Friday, with temperatures again rising to 31°C by 3pm and remaining high through the night into Saturday, and another day of very high pollen levels forecast. The Met Office said today will see lengthy sunshine and will feel hot, with conditions turning somewhat cloudier by dawn tomorrow but staying dry. Friday will be settled with further spells of strong sunshine, and remain hot, the Met Office said, while the outlook for Saturday to Monday is largely fine and dry with sunny spells. The Met Office said it will feel hot and humid to start, but turn fresher from the west from Sunday into Monday. Met Office forecasters warned earlier this week that the UK would be in heatwave conditions by the weekend, with the highest temperatures expected to exceed 30°C. Deputy chief meteorologist Tony Wisson said the settled weather and warm sunshine has allowed temperatures to rise day on day. "Temperatures will then rise further towards the end of the week as winds turn more southerly and even warmer air over continental Europe will be drawn across the UK," he said. "We could very well see several places exceeding 30°C, which will be the highest temperatures of the year so far.' Heatwave conditions are met in the UK when temperatures exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold for that location are met for at least three consecutive days. "Across much of the north and west of the UK this threshold is 25°C, but across Greater London and the Home Counties the threshold is higher, at 28°C," the Met Office said.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Plans submitted to refurbish Hereford listed pub building
Plans have been submitted to refurbish one of Hereford's oldest Grade II listed Grapes Tavern on East Street and Capuchin Lane dates back to the early 17th Century, but took its last orders in 2023 when it submitted by Jove Ltd propose new flats and bed & breakfast rooms on the adapted upper floors, with pub use shown on the ground floor and claimed the pub had "been in decline for many years, with long periods of closure", and that "time has not been kind" to the building, listed in 1952 but subject to later "ill thought out and poorly executed alterations". Anthony Thomas from Jove said the proposal would "arrest the decline" of the pub and ensure "the economic benefits required to deliver its renewal".The exterior would be de-cluttered and given new signage and lighting, with a new door on the East Street side and two new windows onto Capuchin plans would also address the current "poor compartmentalisation" of the current licensed and residential uses, the application added, by reorganising the layout to allow these uses to be "fulfilled simultaneously".The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is consulted on all planned changes to pubs in the county. Its Herefordshire representative Mark Haslam said the while he had yet to go through the proposal in detail, he was concerned about the possible impact of the residential plans for the upper floors."This could lead to a "clash of amenities" with the pub use, a point the group had made with the council in other building was sold at auction for £257,000 in November 2023, when the second floor was still occupied, according to property services firm on the application can be made until July 10. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Lucy Letby: Jeremy Hunt calls for 'urgent re-examination' of killer nurse case
Former health secretary Sir Jeremy Hunt has called for an "urgent re-examination" of the Lucy Letby case after "serious and credible" questions were raised by Conservative MP pleaded for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, to "speed up their normally painfully slow process". The CCRC is considering evidence presented by Letby's legal team from an international panel of medics claiming poor medical care and natural causes were the real reasons for the deaths of the babies she was found guilty of said he and parliamentary colleagues such as Sir David Davis "now believe the time has come for these concerns to be addressed as a matter of urgency". Former nurse Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester said he had noted the findings of the international panel of paediatric specialists and neonatologists, and had also read a "wide range of expert concerns about the conduct of the criminal case".He said: "Taken together - and it pains me to say it - this analysis raises serious and credible questions about the evidence presented in court, the robustness of expert testimony and the interpretation of statistical data."Giving evidence in January at the Thirlwall Inquiry into Letby's crimes, Hunt said: "I want to put on the record my apologies to the families for anything that did not happen that potentially could have prevented such an appalling crime." Writing in the Daily Mail newspaper on Wednesday, Hunt said he was not arguing that Letby is innocent, adding that "the pain endured by the families affected must also be at the forefront of our minds", but they deserved the truth."And recently, some have begun to cast doubt on what actually happened," Hunt said. "Were those tragic deaths caused by an evil woman or were they the result of medical error?"He said justice "must be done and seen to be done", adding that re-examination of the evidence was not a denial of the families' pain but would "ensure that all of us can have confidence that the truth has been reached through a rigorous and fair process"."And if medical error was the cause, we can then make sure no more babies die from the same mistakes," he added. Lawyers for the families of Letby's victims have dismissed the medical panel's conclusions as "full of analytical holes" and "a rehash" of the defence case heard at mother of one baby boy who Letby attempted to murder said the families "already have the truth" and they believed in the British justice system and that the jury made the right Constabulary is continuing a review of deaths and collapses of babies at the neonatal units of the Countess of Chester and Liverpool Women's Hospital during Letby's time as a nurse from 2012 to 2016.A separate inquiry by the force into corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter at the Countess is Justice Thirlwall is due to publish the findings from her public inquiry in early 2026. Read more stories from Cheshire on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC North West on X. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
Hereford girl, 12, writes letter to help find father's killer
The 12-year-old daughter of a murdered man has said she was "never given the chance to get to know him or for him to watch me grow up."Christian Bagley, 30, was stabbed twice as he walked under the Hunderton Bridge in Hereford on Father's Day, 21 June 2015.A decade on and West Mercia Police have released a fresh appeal asking the public to help investigate the unsolved case. Mr Bagley's daughter has penned a letter describing the "emptiness" and "void" felt. She said: "I'll never be able to spend Father's Day, Christmas Day or a birthday with my dad." "Somebody taking my dad away from me when I was little is something that can never be replaced. I have no memories of my dad or his presence in my life - only what other people have told me."There's an emptiness that should not be inside me because somebody murdered my dad, that void within myself will always be there."They still haven't found who killed my dad or any answers to why somebody cruelly took him away," she Bagley had been to see his daughter, who was 19 months old at the time, at his ex-partner's house for Father's people have been arrested and released without charge since Chief Inspector Gareth Lougher said he hoped the heartfelt letter would "prick the conscience of someone carrying a burden of knowledge about his murder" and help find those responsible for his killing."After ten years, loyalties and allegiances may have changed, and we hope anyone who knows something will do the right thing and speak to us," he said. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Test Fest in Somerset 'a gathering point for cancer survivors'
A festival described by one organiser as "a gathering point for survivors" of cancer will return this Hoosiers and Woody Cook will headline Test Fest, which will take place at Taunton Rugby Football Club on Saturday 21 June to raise awareness of testicular event began in 2017 when Sue Brand, founder of charity It's in the Bag Cancer Support, said the charity found younger men preferred live music to charity Brand said: "What we want is for people to come to the festival and really enjoy themselves, learn a bit about testicular cancer, the charity and the work we do, and how we support people from Hereford right down to Truro." Ms Brand said a second stage is being introduced at Test Fest, where ticket holders often don bright orange underpants over their clothes."We turn away probably between 100 and 150 artists every year, so we've got a smaller stage this year for some acoustic bands but also some fantastic bands and artists that are up and coming," she artists billed to perform at the event include Break Beat Bandits, The Jamestown Brothers, and Whisky Brand said the festival was a place for people to meet and have a chat with others who have also lived with testicular cancer. "That's what the whole festival is about," she said."We started Test Fest because one of the guys who'd had testicular cancer said to me: 'Not everyone likes rugby and football... there's a lot of young guys that love music'."It's actually a really family friendly festival because most men who have testicular cancer are in their 30s.""Come and have a chat with us, listen to the music, have a cider - or two - and have a good time."
