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• Lingwood in district gold

  HOLY Trinity School's Faye Lingwood has again impressed in the swimming pool with a gold in the Midland Districts U-13/14 Freestyle Relay. read more

• Macmillan during volunteers week

  DURING National Volunteers Week (June 1-7), and in the United Nations' International Year of Volunteering, I would like to say a public thank you to the committed supporters and Macmillan Cancer Relief Committee in Worcestershire, who raise over £100,000 each year. read more

• Intrusion of gadgets into our democracy

  WHILST prospective MPs here are currently busier outside, (electioneering) I hear Canadian MPs are getting noisier inside their House. During their 'Question Period' as it is called, MPs put questions to Ministers, just as is done here in our Commons. read more

• Battle may be lost but the war goes on

  FOLLOWING on to the comments by myself in last weeks Evesham United, "On course to build a field of dreams" article, we the residents in the area affected would like to put our points of view over to the rest of the population in Evesham, to let them know what has happened so far. read more

• Blazing shed

  FIREFIGHTERS from Kiddermin-ster attended a blaze in Comberton which gutted a garden shed. read more

• Tax on OAP's poor health

  EACH year thousands of pensioners come home from hospital to discover that their pension or income support has been cut. read more

• Clothes stolen from hotel room

  THIEVES made off with items of clothing after entering a bedroom at Stone Manor Hotel, Stone. read more

• Admitted theft

  A 21-YEAR-OLD woman said to have been on drugs for the past five years has been sent by Kidderminster magistrates on a nine-month residential cure. read more

• Rigorous debate, resilient breed

  BEING attacked by both New Labour and tired Tories (Shuttle, May 17) is nothing unusual for the Liberal Democrats. It goes with the territory. read more

• Last game of the season

  Kempsey 4 read more

• Doing the double

  Norton Rangers 11 read more

• Unhappy with record of events

  AS the councillor who seconded the recommendation to refuse the incinerator plan, I am sure you would agree that I may be in a better position than Councillor Warren (who I understand was not at the April 9 planning meeting) to state the reasons put forward by the committee for refusal. read more

• Too far removed from the blood and guts

  IN the May 10 issue of the Kidderminster Times, John Thompson describes an area of Shatterford as "a blight on the countryside". read more

• How not to impress the twins

  HAVE all the learned people of Stourport not noticed the incorrect and poor wording of the sign planted in the Villeneuve le Roi gardens? read more

• A Swift rise at Walshes

  STOURPORT Swifts will be preparing for their first season in the Dr Martens League Western Division - once the celebrations are over. read more

• Women to be the big issue

  FOR 40 years my mother impressed upon me the duty to vote. Emily Wilding Davidson had died in the cause of women's suffrage. read more

• Thanks to real gent

  WOULD the gentleman who stopped his car at the Squires junction on the Worcester Road on Wednesday morning, May 23 to make sure I was OK, and stayed to direct the traffic for some considerable time, please accept my sincere thanks. I didn't see him leave, so I was unable to thank him personally. read more

• Man admitted damage

  BLOOD found on broken glass in the window of a Bewdley jeweller's shop led police to a 19-year-old warehouseman, magistrates were told at Kidderminster. read more

• Praise as youngsters help boost helpline

  YOUNG members of the Stourport district Guide movement have raised almost £1,000 for children's charity ChildLine after a series of events. read more

• Walker's win

  GOLF: Steve Walker won the Men's Open at Habberley Golf Club with a nett 62, off a handicap of 20, finishing two ahead of the next three golfers. read more

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