Updates on Thursday 4 February 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Friday
At the height of the fire at Haigh Industrial Estate in Ross-on-Wye a total of six fire engines were tackling the blaze, along with an environmental protection unit, an aerial ladder platform, specialist hazardous materials officers, police, ambulance and the Environment Agency.
Image source, David HowardThe fire service said they faced "a severe fire involving exploding propane gas canisters".
Users and staff of an ailing Kidderminster training provider have been left devastated after the centre ceased trading this week after more than 20 years, external.
Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester
The fire service says it will be watching carefully a building in Ross-on-Wye badly damaged by fire overnight, as there is a risk it could collapse completely.
The fire is now out but this road closure is still in place.
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A cordon remains in place while firefighters and a power company check the safety of a building on an industrial estate hit by a fire last night.
Image source, Environment AgencyQuote MessageAt the moment we've cordoned the area off and we've got Western Power Distributors here to make sure the building is completely safe for our firefighters to go in and damp down and turn over - our main focus is safety and to make sure local businesses can continue as normal.
Gary Jay, Incident commander, Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service
Louise Hancock
Newsreader, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Here are some of the main stories we are looking at in Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- A cordon remains in place after a fire at an industrial unit in Ross-on-Wye
- The trial of a Kidderminster man accused of starting a fire that killed a 22-year-old woman in the town in 2014 continues today
- A Hereford man and his crew are expected to become the first all-amputee team to row unaided across the Atlantic later today
Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather
It'll be a damp start to the day for most with some occasional heavy outbreaks of rain. Skies will stay mostly cloudy and grey though the day but any rain will ease into the afternoon. Highs of 12C (54F).
BBC Travel
Recreation Road in Bromsgrove remains closed in both directions after crews were called to reports of a large unattended bonfire there.
BBC News England
A woodburner may have caused a blaze at a Herefordshire industrial unit, the fire service says.
Image source, Rob Farquhar from R&B SportThe fire, which was reported at about 17:45, was at a plumbing supplier and an industrial firm on the Haigh industrial estate in Ross-on-Wye.
About 40 firefighters tackled the blaze, which could have been sparked when the device was left on, the fire service said.
Gas canisters go off "like bombs" during a "serious" fire at an industrial estate in Ross-on-Wye.
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Jerry Chester
BBC News Online
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