CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a massive asylum seekers centre in a Worcestershire village have been approved by the Home Office, according to Whitehall insiders. MP Peter Luff was today seeking "urgent clarification" of reports RAF Throckmorton has been
WORSHIPPERS at an Evesham church hope to encourage people to turn over a new leaf after becoming the first environmentally friendly congregation in the UK. Evesham Methodist Church has beaten every other church in the country to become the first "eco-congregation
LIFE-saving clot-busting drugs have been used by paramedics for the first time to treat a heart attack patient in Worcestershire. The drugs were used by Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Service in Wyre Forest on May 6. The new development enables heart
A WORCESTER author's book launch at the city's Guildhall had a poignant feel. Dilip Sarkar's 16th book, entitled Johnnie Johnson: Spitfire Top Gun, Part One was launched on Saturday. The book tells the first half of a story of the RAF's official top scoring
AN artistic schoolgirl has used her creative talents to design a hard-hitting environmental poster for Worcestershire. Ella Charles was so worried about vandals polluting streams and dumping rubbish after seeing various articles in the Evening News, she
A MANAGER of a huge game reserve in Namibia has come to Bewdley as part of an exchange with staff at West Midland Safari Park. Stuart Crawford left the 30,000-hectare Ongaba Game Reserve behind for one month in Bewdley. "It's very different here but we
A WORCESTER mother who has an autistic son is hoping to raise awareness of the condition during a campaign aimed at highlighting its effects. Mary Dhonau is supporting Autism Awareness Week in an attempt to make the general public understand more about
EACH season begins with new hope. The energy of that hope can sustain itself for a while, but then, like the bubbles in a bottle, it must eventually go flat unless it is renewed. Derbyshire are overdosing on fizz at the moment and lead Worcestershire's
A FOUR-year-old Worcestershire boy needed hospital treatment after cutting his fingers on the legs of a three-piece suite. Furniture firm Buoyant Upholstery Ltd admitted supplying a dangerous three-piece suite after the child cut four of his fingers on
Formed:1885 Directions: The Victoria Ground is situated on the north side of Bromsgrove on the Birmingham Road, which is off the A38 Bromsgrove by pass. The M5 and M42 join the A38 to the north of the town making it easy to get to the ground without having
WORCESTER City manager John Barton is due to complete his first signing of the summer tomorrow night and could be poised to add a second. The St George's Lane boss is expected to meet another player tonight and if all goes well he could put pen to paper
THE revelation that the Government apparently plans to press ahead with establishing a centre for asylum seekers at Throckmorton airfield flies in the face of common sense. Understandably, local people don't want it, the area's MP doesn't want it and
AS summer festival fever hits the pollen filled fields, a whole spectrum of music will be on offer for all tastes. Whether it's an '80s trip back down memory lane or a desire to tune into the latest sounds, no gig-goer will be left disappointed with such
Japanese Orchestral Favourites Toyama, Konoye, Ifukube, Akutagawa, Koyama, Yoshimatsu THIS collection features six orchestral works which are favourites of the Japanese. And, in my view, they represent a truly ear-opening collection of fascinating music
WORCESTER Racecourse officials labelled Saturday's opening meeting a "big success" despite concerns over the track at Pitchcroft. Twenty-nine horses were withdrawn after trainers and owners declared their anxiety over a patch in the home straight. Drainage
HEREFORD United's Director of Football Graham Turner confirmed he has spoken to Telford United's Jim Bentley about a move to Edgar Street. However, the defender has also spoken to a couple of Football League clubs and Turner is still waiting to hear from
GRAEME Hick pin-pointed Worcestershire's failure to capitalise on the opening century stand between Stephen Peters and Anurag Singh for their 110-run Frizzell County Championship Division Two defeat against Glamorgan at New Road. Singh and Peters put
THE news of Bilston's demise means no-one is likely to be cut from the Dr Martens League Western Division this season with bottom club Rocester the obvious beneficiaries. The Queen Street club folded last week to suffer the same fate as newly-formed Bloxwich
COMPASSION in World Farming would like to thank the people of Malvern for raising a total of £253 at a street collection on April 13. All proceeds will go towards our campaigning work for farm animal welfare. KAREN MANSELL, Street Collection Co-ordinator
I WOULD like to clarify some of the points raised by Judith Hereford in your article "Say no to Assembly" (Evening News, Monday, April 29). Mrs Hereford stated that £900m of public money is currently being spent on the West Midlands Regional Assembly.
THE article on page 7 of Monday's issue (Evening News, May 6) headlined "Future of council housing... tenants to decide" shows the complete contempt with which our politicians regard local democracy. The council tenants (and I am not one) are to be invited
THOUSANDS of complaints ranging from buskers to bins and cesspools to stubble burning have flooded in to Bromsgrove's environmental health officers. A total of 4,262 service requests were dealt with in the year to the end of March. Pest control was the
POLICE were called out to a break-in at Colsec Ltd, in Wassage Way, Droitwich, on Monday, May 6, at around 10.20pm. A man, who was arrested on suspicion of burglary, was later released on police bail pending further inquiries. Anyone with any information
FOR those who may have thought the word 'organic' has only taken root in our culture as part of a seed sown in the late 1980s, you may be interested to glean from this tome that the history of natural food production has been in existence probably since
PUBLICANS have been treated to a demonstration on how to recycle glass bottles. The Worcestershire Licensed Victuallers' Association (LVA) organised a demonstration of the new Comet 1000 Glass Crusher machine at the Anchor Inn, Diglis, for the benefit
THE centuries-old tradition of the English village fete could be under threat in the two counties, according to a rural business organisation. Village fetes and other rural activities are being threatened by proposed new planning regulations, according
EVENING News readers are being invited to a summer ball in aid of Acorns' Three Counties Appeal. The paper has joined forces with Worcester Rugby Club to stage a huge ball for 700 people to help the charity towards its fund-raising goal of £4m. The black-tie
AN ex-police officer from Worcester, who claimed colleagues' bullying and sexist jibes drove her out of her job, has reached a settlement with her former employers. West Midlands Police agreed to hand over an undisclosed sum to Sarah Compton on Friday
A WORCESTERSHIRE man's fund-raising exploits are music to the ears of a Worcestershire charity. Nick Smith, the co-owner of Worcester music shop Music 47, is setting off on a sponsored bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats today. The 49-year-old
A HOTEL porter who stabbed a love rival with a steak knife in a Hereford street has been jailed for four years at Worcester Crown Court. Twice-married Thomas Hill flipped when his girlfriend Kylie Howell left him and began sharing a house with Glyn Jones
A WORCESTER mum has been bound over to keep the peace after a catfight with another woman over their daughters. City magistrates heard how Teresa Martin and Sharon Gormley, still in her dressing gown, came to blows during a heated argument. Kerry Moreton
A WORCESTER-based charity is hoping to fund-raise its way into the Guinness Book of Records. If Leukaemia CARE is to succeed in breaking the record for the number of 20p pieces in a row, 80,000 coins are needed to make a 4.2-mile long line. The record
JOHN Brain has confirmed a double signing at Sixways. Worcester's Director of Rugby has captured the signatures of Premiership prop Adrian Olver and up and coming full back Hugo Southwell. Olver, the 32-year-old tight-head prop from Harlequins, has penned
VISITORS to Worcester's Guildhall will be able to visit the building's notorious cells when they are opened to the public tomorrow. Anyone wanting to take a journey into the history of crime and punishment can arrange a guided tour of the attraction.
DUMPED cars, ripped up paving slabs, smashed in windows and stolen benches - the grounds at County Hall have undoubtedly suffered. But after increasing security, educating children and targeting the trouble-makers, staff at the Worcestershire County Council
A GROUP of Droitwich students fear they might fail their exams because a Hollywood star was forced to pull out of a crucial theatre performance. Now the A-level theatre studies and English students hope someone will turn in a star performance and help
A WORCESTERSHIRE youth media group has designed a card to help teenage girls needing the morning after pill. The county council group, Image Download (ID), has created the discreet card, which features a list of pharmacists in Worcester that dispense
BLOOD donors from across the county who have been donating for more than 50 years are being asked to come forward. The National Blood Service is on the lookout for donors to help celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The service is interested in hearing
EVENING News readers are being invited to a summer ball in aid of Acorns' Three Counties Appeal. The paper has joined forces with Worcester Rugby Club to stage a huge ball for 700 people to help the charity towards its fund-raising goal of £4m. The black-tie
IN an age when directors are often criticised for "modernising" classic plays out of all recognition, audiences for the Royal Shakespeare Company's current production of Much Ado About Nothing are in for a treat. Admittedly the setting of 1930s Sicily
BROMSGROVE Rovers' supporters finally have something to celebrate today after the club's promotion to the Dr Martens Western Division was confirmed. It ends five miserable years for the Victoria Ground club in which they were relegated three times from
WEIRD and wonderful flowers of all shapes and sizes helped make The Three Counties Spring Gardening Show the biggest and best yet. In the show's massive floral marquee, strange looking carnivorous plants stood side by side with exotically blossomed clematis
SUCH was the level of apathy in all but a few Worcester wards, I'm sure many will agree that the May elections were probably the biggest turn-off so far this year. In dribs and drabs, it seems only the bravest-of-the-brave managed to stride out in unseasonably
BROMSGROVE Rovers' supporters finally have something to celebrate today after the club's promotion to the Dr Martens Western Division was confirmed. It ends five miserable years for the Victoria Ground club in which they were relegated three times from
JOHN Brain has confirmed a double signing at Sixways. Worcester's Director of Rugby has captured the signatures of Premiership prop Adrian Olver and up and coming full back Hugo Southwell. Olver, the 32-year-old tight-head prop from Harlequins, has penned
WORCESTER City manager John Barton is due to complete his first signing of the summer tomorrow night and could be poised to add a second. The St George's Lane boss is expected to meet another player tonight and if all goes well he could put pen to paper
MALVERN Rugby Club powered to a 47-8 win over Aston Old Edwardians to lift the North Midlands Cup for the first time in the competition's 30-year history. It was the perfect send-off for Rudy Smith, the former Moseley winger, who is stepping down as Malvern's
IT was title-chasing Julian Pritchard who stole the show at the North Ledbury Hunt point-to- point meeting at Cold Harbour on Saturday when he scored a treble to take him to 29 winners for the season. A pillar to post victory in the Mixed Open aboard
THE idea of smacking your own children has been well-argued across Britain, with some people quick to pounce on those who choose to punish in this way. But what about smacking other parents' children if they've been misbehaving? Well that's an option
I KEEP reading about initiatives on graffiti in Worcester but there is simply no action to follow the promises up. Every post box, lamp post, wall, signpost and so on is covered in scribble and the culprits seem to be the same people - but nothing whatever
I FEEL I should jump into the Lib Dem versus Conservatives argument raging in the local Press because both sides have their facts wrong about Regional Government. It is correct that a Council of Europe was set up in 1949 along the regional lines we see
COUNCILLOR Adrian Gregson wrote a timely reminder as to what happened in France, when apathy reigns (You Say, April 29) The tragedy of the French Presidential election is not so much that Mr Le Pen came so close to the presidency by default, but that
GEORGE Cowley is at it again (You Say, April 25) condemning the motor and motorist. It would not be so bad if he was sure of his facts. The biggest polluter of the planet are human beings because there are too many of us. But no one has done more to clean
n How to Cook by Carolyn Humphries (Foulsham, £5.99) IT has to be a good idea to write a cookery book for those just starting out on the food trail. If you wander around the supermarket unsure of what to buy and how to cook it, look no further. There
GRAEME Hick pin-pointed Worcestershire's failure to capitalise on the opening century stand between Stephen Peters and Anurag Singh for their 110-run Frizzell County Championship Division Two defeat against Glamorgan at New Road. Singh and Peters put
BROMSGROVE Rovers will be playing Dr Martens Western League football next season. The Victoria Ground club were offered a place in the league on Saturday and have since accepted. The promotion is subject to undisclosed criteria but chairman Tom Herbert
APRIL 15 Oxford UCCE - Won 332 19 Gloucestershire CCh New Road - Won 206 runs 24 Northamptonshire CCh Away - Draw 29 Gloucestershire BHC New Road - Lost 6 wkts MAY 1 Northamptonshire BHC Away - Won 5 wkts 3 Warwickshire BHC Away - Won 3 wkts 5 Glamorgan
BROMSGROVE Rovers will be playing Dr Martens Western League football next season. The Victoria Ground club were offered a place in the league on Saturday and have since accepted. The promotion is subject to undisclosed criteria but chairman Tom Herbert
THE hunt is on to find the most motorcycle-friendly company in the two counties. The winner of the competition will be the firm or organisation which manages to get the most employees to travel to work by motorcycle, moped or scooter on Friday, June 14
ANDY Bichel was Worcestershire's Player of the Year in 2001 - and who would bet against him picking up the award again this season? The Australian pace ace has already made a major impact this term in both four-day and limited-over cricket. He quickly
