the former worcestershire player alex hepburn was sentenced to five years in prison last month.bbc‘s victoria derbyshire programme about the impact the ordeal has had on her life and on those around her. the rate doesn't only affect me, it affects my mum, it affects my dad, my sister, everyone. my grandparents, my aunties, uncles, cousins. everyone that knows and ca res cousins. everyone that knows and cares about me, it hurts them just as much as it hurts me. i am back with my family and i can see the effect that has on my mum and i can't escape. my boyfriend is now travelling. i have to face this. it was then that i realised that i couldn't hide from this and that it was going to affect me whether i liked it or not. i feel i should say... this is obviously really hard for you to talk about this, and you wa nt to for you to talk about this, and you want to tell our audience about this, why do you want to speak about this? because hepburn has no idea, i believe, the extent of what his stupid actions that might cost. there are no winners here in terms of his competition, in terms

in a searing exclusive interview with this programme, a woman raped by a former worcestershire countyricketer who was taking part in a "game" to see how many women he could have sex with, describes the ptsd, recurrent nightmares, partial paralysis of her face, and panic attacks she's suffered as a result. hepburn has no idea, i believe, the extent of what his stupid actions that night caused. there are no winners here, in terms of his competition, in terms of both of our futures. there are no winners here. he has no idea the... hejust disregarded rape for all of its meaning. he joked about it and then he did it. he's got no idea of the rippling effect that it has on someone. 0k, he can cry in court because look what he's lost, he's lost his good character, he's lost his career, blah blah blah blah blah, but this was his choice. this was his decision. will bring you the full exclusive interview in the next half hour. also, days after our special investigation into the family courts revealed that four children have been killed in five yers after unsupervised contact with a known abusive

sarah — which is not her real name — is the 23—year—old graduate raped by the former worcestershire county alex hepburn. last month, he was sentenced to five years in prison and will be on the sex offenders‘ register for life. in the interview you're about to hear, sarah — speaking in herfirst broadcast interview — describes the shocking, dramatic and debilitating effect it had on her. i would like you to tell our audience about the impact on both your body and your mind, as the days turned into weeks, turned into months, because you were raped. erm... so, when it first sort of happened, i was, i guess, in denial. so, the people that sort of like know — my family and my friends and what not — they said to me, and i remember, it's a piece of advice that literally everyone gave to me was, don't let this define you. it's kind of hard because i really didn't have an understanding of rape, or the implications of rape and the effect, the impact it would have on a person that was raped. i just remember, right, don't let this define you. you're going to carry on and you'll be fine. and for the fir

keep up to date with all of our stories and watch the play—offs with lancashire in action and worcestershiremes's park is tonight as well. two great sides in action. plenty to look forward to over the weekend. see you soon. the weekend is looking decent enough for most of us. it won't be com pletely for most of us. it won't be completely dry with some showers in the forecast. this evening and overnight one or two showers scattered around from early on. here's a satellite picture from earlier on. you can see a mixed area of cloud across the uk, hazy clouds and showers in places. weather fronts to the far south. this is what it looked like earlier on with thunderstorms in parts of the midlands, east anglia and lightning across scotland. two nights showers left over but they will fade away. when the front to the south misses the southern counties so it will be dry. chilly first thing on saturday. 5 degrees in wales and 2 degrees in north—east england so possibly a touch of brass frost here and there. high pressure building this weekend initially in western areas so saturday is looking dry acros

many steak fries that you'd like and then what i love to do is take a little bit of my homemade worcestershire sauce, just a little drizzle of that. - [kimberley] look at that. - for a little flavor and then whatever garnish you like. i happen to really like a charred lemon with charred rosemary and there you have the most perfect steak and french fry dinner that you could possibly do, in 20 minutes. - in 20 minutes. (cheering) - so this is a very italian sunday tradition. - i knew you were gonna bring us something special today. - yes, tampino. but what we're gonna do is take blanched pasta, add the meats and mozzarella, lots of it, fresh basil, we're gonna take that now and we're gonna toss this all together. the meats, the pasta, the cheese. i'm gonna just go here. - we're going all in, right. - and you're gonna go in. - [kimberley] perfect, oh look at this. - watch what happens now. we take the dough and we work it in. - it's like a blanket of love (laughing). - yeah, it's like wrapping up the little baby. (laughing) in 30 minutes, this is what we're gonna have. (cheering) i hope you're re

sarah — which is not her real name — is the 23—year—old graduate raped by the former worcestershire county the sex offenders' register for life. in the interview you're about to hear, sarah — speaking in herfirst broadcast interview — describes the shocking, dramatic and debilitating effect it had on her. i would like you to tell our audience about the impact on both your body and your mind, as the days turned into weeks, turned into months, because you were raped. erm...

in a searing exclusive interview with this programme, a woman raped by a former worcestershire county

labour in suffolk, malvern hills in worcestershire, warwick and mendip, the5e malvern hills in worcestershire go into mendip. a5 control. they are in grave. i want to go into mendip. as you can see, familiar tale. liberal democrats have 5urged against the conservatives. this is a hung council. the liberal democrats were short by two so they didn't take the council entirely. let me show you the seat change. the conservatives lost 22 seats. the liberal democrats picking up 11. and the greens and independents doing well. this was a council where the conservatives had a majority of 17. now they have lost control of that council. a similar tale for labour in darlington and stockton—on—tee5. the5e tale for labour in darlington and stockton—on—tee5. these were labour controlled councils. they have now gone into no overall control. they are still counting in surrey heath. a5 are still counting in surrey heath. as you can see, it's white, so that means they are still counting. this was a conservative council. but look at what has happened. the winning po5t at what has happened. the winning post is 18.

in worcestershire, fairweather cloud in the sky.ontinue throughout the afternoon. most of england and wales, dry with sunny spells. more cloud perhaps in north wales, through southern parts of northern england and perhaps one or two showers here. 11 or 12 degrees, but up showers here. 11 or 12 degrees, but up to 21 degrees in the south—east. tonight, outbreaks of rain across the north—east of scotland. elsewhere, there will be clear spells with temperatures getting down to six, nine may be 10 degrees. 0n down to six, nine may be 10 degrees. on thursday, while it stays wet in the north east part of scotland, everywhere will be dry with sunny spells again. 23 degrees in the capital. goodbye. you're watching bbc newsroom live — these are today's main stories: british steel enters insolvency — putting 5,000 jobs in the uk at risk and endangering 20,000 in the supply chain. i have a friend returning from maternity leave, her partner works at the steelworks, asking how they are going to pay their mortgage. my cousin has not finished his a

leicestershire, trafford, north west leicestershire, trafford, north west leicestershire, south lakeland, worcestershire colchester, exeter. the spread is still there. we put the point to the lib dems earlier, given the fact that this pattern is not consistent. it is simply a protest vote. it is simply people thrashing around for something in order to avoid the other parties. i'm just putting it to you. it is true that the awful results for the conservatives and they are not at all impressive for labour, are pretty disastrous for the two biggest parties. the ones who should have been running the country, keeping things on an even keel country, keeping things on an even keel. they've made a complete mess of brexit, its complete chaos. they are both to blame and i can't believe you are arguing that this result means that labour and conservative should sit together and put together a deal and take the decision away from people when the absolute clear conclusion is that it's a complete mess, everyone wants it's a complete mess, everyone wants it to stop, no matter what. and that putting something to a peopl

in our surgery and across worcester, worcestershire, there are a huge number of farmers who have made are seeing is that they are not instead of the doctor, they are in addition to doctors. so while we recognise and support the initiatives by nhs england, in many cases what we need to do is we need to go further and we need to accelerate in terms of stabilising the workforce in order to manage what we expect will be an increase in the population of the next ten or 20 years. quite interesting stuff. thank you for talking to us this morning. it is 20 minutes past seven and carol is here with us today in the studio and that is lovely. but the weather does not look great. lovely to be here and the weather it does not look great although having said that, some of us are desperately crying out for rain and that is what we will have or do have at the moment depending on where you are. the other thing is that it on where you are. the other thing is thatitis on where you are. the other thing is that it is another chilly day. you can see this morning we have a lot of rain coming up from the sou