THE Malvern Hills Trust will be cancelling all volunteering and events for the foreseeable future.

A statement released by the trust said: "Unfortunately, in light of recent events we have made the decision not to launch our events programme for 2020 at this time. The health of the local community and visitors is important to us and we have taken this decision to protect the wider community.

We do not anticipate that any events will be held until after the 31st May at this time.

The wide, open spaces of the Hills and Commons, however, are an important part of people’s lives and access to nature is essential to keep people physically and mentally well and therefore the hills, open spaces and car parks currently remain open.

To help keep visitors healthy we will be increasing the frequency of cleaning and disinfecting the car park machines.

See: www.malvernhills.org.uk for updates