Perverted Worcester teacher Andrew Sadler is starting a four-year jail sentence for having sex with boys in Eastern Europe. The 51-year-old was convicted of sexual corruption and having sex with a boy in the Romanian capital Bucharest. The former language
NHS bosses might as well build a cemetery in Ombersley and throw patients in once Kidderminster General closes according to a Malvern woman. Lynne Hackles claims she endured a nightmare five-day stay at Worcester's Ronkswood Hospital and says most of
PEDESTRIANS could be injured if they are forced to share a footpath with cyclists along a busy Worcester street, it is claimed. Worcester city councillors will discuss the conversion of the footpath on Croft Road and Castle Street later this week. But
IT was very nearly business as usual today as Worcestershire began to recover from last week's fuel crisis. Across the county, services were being resumed as petrol forecourts began to open. A spokesman for West Mercia Police said officers had experienced
A SPOT of DIY turned up quite a bombshell for one Worcester man after a hole he was drilling in his garden caved in to reveal an air raid shelter. Dave Lander was drilling a hole for a fence post when the drill "disappeared". "We were all very surprised
ROCKETING numbers of swan injuries in Worcestershire have sparked a major campaign to cut litter dumping. The RSPCA has launched Lethal Litter, an initiative designed to stop people leaving potentially lethal rubbish in wildlife havens. It has also highlighted
KIDDERMINSTER Carolians Rugby Club began their Midlands West One campaign with a 11-9 victory over Telford at Marlpool Lane on Saturday. However, they were made to come from behind after the visitors took an early lead with a 16th minute penalty from
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
HEREFORD Rugby Club's dreadful start to the season continued on Saturday when they went down 29-15 to Scunthorpe at Belvadere Lane. The defeat - Hereford's third in succession - leaves them languishing at the bottom of Midlands One, facing a tough trip
WORCESTER'S badminton star Simon Archer and Nathan Robertson bowed out of the Olympic men's doubles, losing 15-13, 15-11 at the quarter-final stage to Indonesians Tony Gunawan and Candra Wijaya. Britain beat Indonesia in another match, however, when women's
DAVID Nicholls, still flushed with Bahamian Pirate's success in the Ladbroke Ayr Gold Cup, can enjoy another sprint-race victory with Proud Native at Beverley tomorrow. Proud Native, who has been campaigned at the highest level over the years, has yet
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
I ATTENDED a meeting at the Guildhall covering the findings of the Political Structures Working Party. I was shocked at the tone and level of much of the discussion and the time wasted in this two-hour meeting. MARGARET HODGSON, Northwick Road. Worcester
I AM becoming a bit confused by some of the recent letters in your columns and wondered if you could clear something up for me. In my Bible, there's a chap called Jesus who asks us all to love one another. Is there another version of the Bible in circulation
THE people and city of Worcester have a great asset and indeed a "nugget" in its Rugby Club and should be made fully aware of the current inequity in the proposal by Premiership Clubs to eliminate automatic promotion and relegation. Total support must
THE clear message which the French blockade of ports in protest to their government about fuel prices was that the French are supposedly at the heart of the European project. Yet when push comes to shove, ordinary people look after themselves and their
JULIAN Thake seems to be a bit off-track when he wrote about foreign investment in this country. The truth of the matter is that the investments to which he refers are already owned by foreign companies. Margaret Thatcher and the Tories sold off all our
IN reply to Coun Paul Denham, New Labour member of the former ruling group on Worcester City Council, I thank him for his recognition of The Independents in his words "the Tory and Independent-led Council". Words quite different to those uttered to colleagues
I NOTE the current financial crisis in Worcestershire County Council Social Services Department. I also observe the investigation into the accountability for the deficit in respect of the director of social services, the director of financial services
Saturday, September 16, 2000 ADRIAN Skeggs described his side's performance as sensational after watching Worcester Rugby Club sweep aside title rivals Leeds Tykes 40-13 on Saturday. The Sixways director of coaching, in charge of his first home National
RUSH hour motorists packed Stratford's petrol stations this morning (Monday) after a busy Sunday for tanker drivers coming into the town to fill almost half the town's pumps. Although almost all business and private drivers now have access to fuel, it
MORE than a third of Gloucestershire's garages now have fuel, so police in the county are hoping for an end to the sight of queues on the county's roads outside filling stations. Cotswold District Council says services which were slightly disrupted at
CAMPAIGNERS who have fought against the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital spoke today of their "disbelief and terrible sadness" as services were transferred to Worcester. Campaign chairman Dr Richard Taylor said he had walked around the hospital this
MORE than 100 ex-servicemen and women and members of a Malvern church turned out to honour ''The Few'' who defeated the German Luftwaffe during The Battle of Britain. The service yesterday at Christ Church was held to commemorate the 60th anniversary
THE tremendous efforts of Glenn McGrath have failed to secure Worcestershire promotion from the County Championship Division Two. In the end they had to settle for fifth place in the table after their rain-ravaged match with champions Northamptonshire
BY any sporting measure, Worcestershire's cricketing decline this summer was spectacular. A season which began with such promise, and more than lived up to it during its first two months, fizzled out on a miserable weekend of doom and gloom. The campaign
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
NEW Road cricket committee chairman Martin Horton has hit out at the central contracts system for England players which severely restricted Graeme Hick's appearances for Worcestershire this season. "They have been absolute chaos," said Horton as the inquest
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
WORCESTER City manager John Barton expects to pass a fitness test to take charge of his side's Dr Martens League Premier Division game at Bath City tomorrow! Barton was forced to miss Saturday's fine 3-2 win at Cambridge City following a knee operation
ADRIAN Skeggs described his side's performance as sensational after watching Worcester Rugby Club sweep aside title rivals Leeds Tykes 40-13 on Saturday. The Sixways director of coaching, in charge of his first home National League Division One clash,
GREAT Britain, who have Worc-estershire's Leslie Law in the ranks, are still challenging Australia strongly for Three-Day Event gold despite a fall for Ian Stark, riding Jaybee, at the first water jump on the Cross Country Course at Horsley Park. Had
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
I write whilst Worcester's fate hangs in the balance, but with it tipped pretty heavily in the wrong direction, at least in the four-day game. Back in April I hoped for a good start, a rarity in recent seasons, and was obliged with some wonderful cricket
Saturday, September 16, 2000 HEREFORD United's excellent unbeaten start to the Nationwide Conference season finally came to a close at one of their long-standing bogey grounds. The Bulls have now won just once in 17 visits to Belle Vue in a run dating
WORCESTERSHIRE'S nightmare season hit rock bottom yesterday when they were relegated from the Norwich Union National League Division One following a disastrous eight wicket defeat against Kent Spitfires at New Road. After topping the table by eight points
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
I AM appalled at your grossly distorted reporting of my contribution to the city council's recent Health Service debate. I kept the notes that I made for my speech. How on earth can your totally inappropriate "Crisis? What Crisis?/No trouble in the Health
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
WORCESTER City manager John Barton expects to pass a fitness test to take charge of his side's Dr Martens League Premier Division game at Bath City tomorrow! Barton was forced to miss Saturday's fine 3-2 win at Cambridge City following a knee operation
FUEL supplies in the Vale improved over the weekend and police reported no significant problems. Many filling stations in the Vale were open again this morning but unlike Friday there was little sign of queuing traffic. West Mercia Police, which has headed
THE secrets of reducing stress will be on offer to professional managers in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. A seminar entitled Living with Stress is to be run by the Institute of Management on Tuesday, September 19, at University College Worcester.
DELIGHTED Droitwich residents, Sue and John Slater, have celebrated a housebuilder's sparkling success with a £500 John Lewis voucher. The couple were presented with their prize and a bottle of champagne after taking part in a customer survey drawn up
THE England cricket team's sparkling success is being put down to gallons of Herefordshire cider. Darren Gough, Graeme Hick, and Mike Atherton's squad has packed away a whopping 100lbs of apples and almost 200 litres of Scrumpy Jack throughout this summer's
Saturday. September 18, 2000 MANAGER Jan Molby didn't think Kidderminster Harriers played particularly well on Saturday -- but they were still good enough to end Leyton Orient's unbeaten Nationwide League Division Three record with a 2-1 win at Aggborough
Saturday, September 16, 2000 JOHN Barton may have been absent -- but he will draw a great deal of satisfaction from Worcester City's fine 3-2 victory at Cambridge City on Saturday. The Worcester boss was forced to miss the match after undergoing a knee
GLENN McGrath has completed a clean sweep of Worcestershire's end of season awards. The Australian pace star was named as Worcestershire Supporters' Association and the junior Black Pears Club's Player of the Year. He was also presented with the Dick
WORCESTERSHIRE are today expected to agree to release unsettled paceman Alamgir Sheriyar from his contract. The 26-year-old wants to leave New Road and his request is being considered by the County's management committee. Worcestershire secretary Mike
