The car park for a popular woodland nature reserve near Pershore will be closed for a long weekend in November to protect the woodland and its wildlife from fireworks.

Staff at Worcestershire Wildlife Trust are asking members of the public to be vigilant if they visit a local nature reserve.

Wildlife is to be better protected as a local conservation charity begins to close unauthorised paths at Tiddesley Wood nature reserve.

A programme of tree felling will begin on Tuesday 31st August in a section of Tiddesley Wood that runs along the busy A4104. Almost all the ash trees in the section are infected with ash dieback…