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  • Bike ride for hospital ward

    THE family of a baby girl fighting a rare digestive problem have pledged their support to the children's ward where she is being treated. Five-month-old Lauren Davis, who was born at Worcester's Ronkswood Hospital, was transferred to the Diana Princess

  • Brain tested for BSE in 'cover-up'

    LESSONS must be learned from the "sacred cow" of cheap food which fuelled the BSE crisis, the son of one victim has warned. Roger Onions' mother, Lucy, died from CJD, the debilitating human form of mad cow disease, in 1993. Months of agony followed as

  • MP regrets 'risk' remark over beef

    FORMER health secretary Stephen Dorrell has spoken of his regret at claiming beef posed "no conceivable risk" to the public. Just months after making the remark, the Worcester-based MP gave his first warning of the link between BSE and variant CJD. "The

  • Saddle thieves knew the security system at stables

    A STABLES near Worcester has been left counting the cost of a £20,000 burglary. Thieves ransacked the stables at Great House, Brockamin, and stole 19 saddles, stable rugs, a television, a video and a horse statue. The owners, Liane and Christopher Warwick-Drake

  • Rooney spells out Rovers fall

    GEORGE Rooney has outlined his reasons for leaving Bromsgrove Rovers after just four months in charge. The former Worcester City boss left the Victoria Ground this week, having struggled with a lack of cash which had seen a young side slump to 20th place

  • Robinson stays in hunt with 69

    JEREMY Robinson fired in another impressive display on the second day of the Italian Open in Sardinia. The Evesham golfer added a three-under par 69 to his opening day's 66 for a half-way total of nine-under. That leaves him just three shots off joint

  • Offering a cruel choice

    WYCHAVON District Council has given Nellie Copson a cruel choice, either she forfeits the right to even retire or, at the age of 81, she moves away from the home where she has lived for so many years. Clearly the premises where Nellie lives should cease

  • Making the right stand

    PETER Luff is quite right in his stand to save parish councils. This is just another attempt by the Labour Government to erode the great democratic systems of our country. It is possible that they see great financial savings, to further fund their qango's

  • 28/10/00 - Robinson stays in hunt with 69

    JEREMY Robinson fired in another impressive display on the second day of the Italian Open in Sardinia. The Evesham golfer added a three-under par 69 to his opening day's 66 for a half-way total of nine-under. That leaves him just three shots off joint

  • 28/10/00 - Rooney spells out Rovers fall

    GEORGE Rooney has outlined his reasons for leaving Bromsgrove Rovers after just four months in charge. The former Worcester City boss left the Victoria Ground this week, having struggled with a lack of cash which had seen a young side slump to 20th place

  • Red light claim is denied by train firm

    CENTRAL Trains has denied a Malvern man's claims that a driver went through a red signal with his fingers crossed for luck on the same day as the Hatfield disaster. Businessman Haydn Edwards was travelling on the Hereford to Birmingham train at the signal

  • Mum of 'wildcat' looks to the future

    THE mother of a pint-sized tearaway locked up for a string of assaults has appealed for people to see the positive side of her daughter. She believes the six-month sentence and training order handed to the 14-year-old girl by Worcester magistrates this

  • University College finds it's on the ball

    University College Worcester is fast becoming a British centre of basketball excellence with a string of firsts. It has launched the first British scholarship in basketball aimed at nurturing new talent and Sports Science degree students have begun a

  • Ex-Mayor chose his own hymns

    MOURNERS have paid their last respects to one of Worcester's most colourful Mayors, Stanley Marshall. Former city councillor Mr Marshall, who donned the robes of office in 1962, was an active member of numerous committees and charities over the years.

  • Munching miles in a good cause

    WORCESTER'S first-ever road race will see members of the city council leading by example. Three councillors - Geoff Williams, Neil Monkhouse and Adrian Gregson - as well as Mark Middleton, head of planning and development, will be pounding the streets

  • Pave their road with pound coins

    SPARE a thought, when you roll out of bed tomorrow morning, for Andrew Davis and Adie Cornes. They'll be ready to cycle from Worcester to Birmingham, come rain or shine, to say thanks to the staff at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital who've been caring

  • 28/10/00 - Pope is hoping to end bad luck

    STEVE Pope is determined to put his bad luck behind him and make his first appearance in the Nationwide League Division Three for Kidderminster Harriers. A place on the substitutes bench is all the 24-year-old defender has managed so far this season following

  • Improving City could still prove title threat

    QUIETLY and without any fuss, Worcester City have worked their way onto the fringes of the Dr Martens League Premier Division title race. It's quite remarkable that for all their inconsistencies so far this season, John Barton's men have staked a claim

  • Bulls out to capitalise on Shield comeback

    HEREFORD United are out to take full advantage of their unexpected Auto Windscreens Shield reprieve. The Bulls learned this week that they will be one of eight Nationwide Conference clubs who will play alongside the Second and Third Division clubs in

  • Pope is hoping to end bad luck

    STEVE Pope is determined to put his bad luck behind him and make his first appearance in the Nationwide League Division Three for Kidderminster Harriers. A place on the substitutes bench is all the 24-year-old defender has managed so far this season following

  • Bromley bonus

    SPENCER Bromley went back to his old stomping ground today with fond memories of Waterloo. The 30-year-old Worcester winger spent two seasons at Liverpool St Helens while studying at university and knows the territory better than most. However, he is

  • Peter preparing to step up power

    A WORCESTERSHIRE racing driver has signed up for a prestigious sal-oon car series next season. Peter van Zyl, from Hartlebury, has been offered a chance to drive in the Ford Fiesta Credit Championship, a support series to the British Touring Car Champion-ship

  • Students impress

    FIVE students of the Clive Harrison School of Tae Kwon-Do in Worc-ester have been successful in attaining the grade they sought at the recent Black Belt grading with Global Tae Kwon-do Int-ernational (GTI), the nat-ional association to which the club

  • Red light claim is denied by train firm

    CENTRAL Trains has denied a Malvern man's claims that a driver went through a red signal with his fingers crossed for luck on the same day as the Hatfield disaster. Businessman Haydn Edwards was travelling on the Hereford to Birmingham train at the signal

  • GRAVESIDE NIGHTMARE

    A FUNERAL turned into a fiasco after gravediggers tried to bury a man in the wrong plot, sent mourners to the pub while they dug another hole and made the second grave too small. Grieving daughter Annie Breeze says she is so haunted by the sight of her

  • 28/10/00 - Bromley bonus

    SPENCER Bromley went back to his old stomping ground today with fond memories of Waterloo. The 30-year-old Worcester winger spent two seasons at Liverpool St Helens while studying at university and knows the territory better than most. However, he is

  • Labour choice

    TONY Blair suggested regional government, which can suggest coalition government. I preferred the old traditional Labour welfare state to New Labour S. HILTON, Cherwell Court, Worcester.

  • Squirt down on the farm

    EDUCATION Commentary (Evening News, Wednesday, October 18) said it is important for children to see cows being milked. When I was a village lad, cows were milked by hand. Harry Daffurn, a farmer's son, used to tilt the cow's teat sideways, and squirt

  • Language, language

    HOW much longer must the public put up with well known actors saying "**** this, and **** that", in films and plays? These stars are lowering the tone of British films and theatre, not to mention the people who write such trash. Am I only one who can

  • Are these millions part of the spin?

    MILLIONS of pounds could be pumped into Worcestershire as the county is in the running for rural cash aid (Evening News. October 19). But, is this more "spin" out of Downing Street to impress us country bumpkins in this area where the Countryside Alliance

  • There's just one way to tackle litter problem

    WHY am I not surprised that the bureaucratic control freaks have a photographic yardstick for defining "litter". Litter is another aspect of the way in which commerce dumps its packaging into our environment. I would suggest that the degree of "littering

  • 28/10/00 - Improving City could still prove title threat

    QUIETLY and without any fuss, Worcester City have worked their way onto the fringes of the Dr Martens League Premier Division title race. It's quite remarkable that for all their inconsistencies so far this season, John Barton's men have staked a claim

  • 28/10/00 - Bulls out to capitalise on Shield comeback

    HEREFORD United are out to take full advantage of their unexpected Auto Windscreens Shield reprieve. The Bulls learned this week that they will be one of eight Nationwide Conference clubs who will play alongside the Second and Third Division clubs in