Speed cameras are being introduced across Here-fordshire and Worcester-shire.

The sites chosen are all accident blackspots, where serious incidents causing death and injury have occurred.

Among the roads being targeted is the B4211 Guarlford Road, near Barnards Green.

Fixed cameras will be used on the A4103 Here-ford-Worcester road at Leigh Sinton and mobile ones at Ridgeway Cross, Stiffords Bridge and Storridge.

Caroline Orgee, chairman of Leigh and Bransford Parish Council, has welcomed the use of speed cameras on the A4103.

"It's great news" she said. "We've been asking for this for absolutely ages. We've recognised for years that we've got a problem with people speeding through the village."

The A44 between Brom-yard and Worcester will also be closely monitored, with cameras at the Bromyard bypass, Bringsty Common and further along towards Worcester.

The A417 at Parkway, outside Ledbury, will be another blackspot under surveillance. A 40mph speed limit was imposed there in 2000, following a series of accidents and near-misses.

Parkway resident Gary Walton said: "I'm all for these cameras. If you installed one here on Monday, it will have paid for itself twice over by Friday.

"When my wife takes the kids to school between 8 and 9, it's like Silver-stone."

The campaign is being run by the Safety Camera Partnership, an alliance of local authorities, police and the court service.