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A peregrine falcon in the nesting box, facing the camera. Below, buildings and cars can be seen.

Final cathedral peregrine chick healthy and well

The surviving peregrine chick at Worcester Cathedral is said to be thriving and healthy.

Hereford & Worcester

A falcon sits by one chick with an unhatched egg to its right.

Second cathedral peregrine chick dies

Four eggs were produced at Worcester Cathedral, but only one bird is now left.

Hereford & Worcester

Pope Leo XIV wearing a purple shoulder cape that is attached to a white cassock. He wears thin, framed, rectangular glasses and has grey hair. He is waving and smiling slighting looking on from a balcony

Priest welcomes Pope Leo XIV as a 'people's Pope'

Father Brian McGinley says he feels Pope Leo XIV will speak truth to power as pontiff.

Hereford & Worcester

Two men in black an blue wet suits holding a paddle, There are three men and one woman dressed in all black smiling looking at the two gentleman.

Team take on Severn source to sea challenge

Members of DRPG are running, cycling and kayaking the 220 miles in aid of charity.

Hereford & Worcester

A group of 11 people, including police officers in uniform, stand and kneel on a stretch of grass, smiling at the camera. Three dogs are in the photo, with leads held by three police officers in uniform who kneel on the ground. An orange tent is behind them.

New scheme to care for police force's 250 dogs

The scheme, announced for West Midlands Police, aims to enhance the welfare provision of the dogs.

A falcon sits by one chick with an un-hatched egg to its right.

Livestream cathedral peregrine chick dies

A livestream of the nest went down overnight, leaving what happened to the chick unknown.

Hereford & Worcester

Two young boys in black and white photo

'I wasn't evacuated because I was blind'

Michael Campbell was left in the care of Guernsey Blind Association while his family was evacuated.

Hazel Smith stands behind the bar set up in a tap room created in the couple's front room. There are tap handles customised with brewery branding and there is a board with writing on to one side, decorated with flowers. Mrs Smith is wearing a black top and a patterned cardigan. She is smiling, with one hand on the bar, and has shoulder-length hair.

Town's festivals prompt front room pub creation

Hazel Smith says Upton-on-Severn's festivals led to them starting one of the smallest local pubs.

Hereford & Worcester

Men and women are lined up singing and dancing and covered in streamers as celebratations are held on VE day in this black and white archive photograph. The women are wearing 1940s skirts, jackets and blouses and two of the men are in uniform. There are reams of streamers underfoot.

Parties, concerts and flypasts to mark VE Day

Celebrations mark 80 years since the end of war in Europe on 8 May 1945.