A part-time game keeper from Herefordshire has been caught and fined for setting an illegal trap designed to harm birds of prey.
Wayne Edward Priday was ordered to pay more than £500 for using a pole trap - a device with a powerful spring placed on top of a post or pole where birds of prey are likely to perch.
A pole-trap Credit: RSPB
When RSPB officers discovered the trap in Ludlow they set up surveillance cameras which caught Priday visiting it.
Police say they think the trap was intended to catch a goshawk, a very rare bird with perhaps only 500 pairs in the UK.
A cyclist has been airlifted to hospital after being hit by a van in Shropshire.
The man was seriously injured in the crash, which happened at the junction of the A49 and the B4365 in Bromfield, Ludlow, yesterday afternoon.
The crash happened at the junction of the A49 and B4365 in Ludlow Credit: West Midlands Ambulance Service
Paramedics found the cyclist lying in the road with multiple serious injuries, and gave him pain relief before taking him to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Whether you love or hate bees, there is no denying that we all need them. But with the wet summers and harsh winters we've had, the bee population is shrinking rapidly.
At one farming estate in the Midlands, they've lost 102 of their 150 hives. So they've taken drastic action by importing £10,000 worth of bees, from Italy - to try to boost numbers. Kate Fisher reports.
Police have confirmed a man in his sixties has died after being swept away by flood water.
They say they received reports just after 10.30 this morning that a man had been seen being swept away by flood water in the stream at Bitterley near Ludlow in Shropshire.
The man is believed to be in his 60s but police won't release his identity until he has been formally identified.
His family has been informed, as has The Coroner for Shropshire.
