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  • Hero Harry's rescue act...

    A HEROIC 10-year-old boy waded across a river to help ambulance crews save a stricken patient. Harry Gregory, from Battenhall, Worcester, volunteered to help two helicopter teams in a dramatic rescue operation while holidaying in Northumbria. Harry, his

  • DNA plan aims to catch culprits

    A GROUND-breaking initiative to use DNA to catch passengers who spit at rail staff is being pioneered in Worcestershire. Central Trains has joined forces with British Transport Police to stamp out the attacks, which reports show make up a third of all

  • Guards setting the right tone

    LOST tourists could be forgiven for mistaking Worcester's Guildhall for Buckingham Palace, when the Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards opens the first Worcester Festival today. The band is usually associated with the Changing of the Guard and Trooping

  • 9/8/03 - Keast hinting at game plan change

    ANDY Keast has hinted that Worcester may be a touch more pragmatic this season. The Sixways club - dubbed the entertainers for their avalanche of tries last year - may change the game plan slightly as they go for the National One crown. "It will be a

  • 9/8/03 - Hinshelwood in friendly demand

    ANDY Keast is hoping to involve Ben Hinshelwood in Worcester Rugby Club's opening pre-season friendly next Saturday. The Sixways coach wants the centre to play in the home match with Stourbridge but is well aware that the Scottish camp will now be encroaching

  • Fight for places hots up at City

    JOHN Snape predicts the battle for places in Worcester City's midfield to be just as hot as the temperatures currently sweeping the county. City manager John Barton is blessed with a number of options and Snape has warned that failure to produce the goods

  • Months of toil pay dividends with Polish trip

    EIGHTEEN members of Worcester Dragon Boat Racing Club will represent Great Britain in the World Nations Championships in Poland during the last weekend of August. Their quest for international colours began last September with long winter training as

  • 9/8/03 - Britton setting play-off target

    BOSS Ian Britton believes Kidderminster Harriers have enough strength in depth to mount a serious challenge for a Nationwide League Division Three play-off spot this season. His side, boosted recently by an influx of new players, launched their fourth

  • 9/8/03 - County look to down Spitfires

    WORCESTERSHIRE, locked in battle at New Road today in the semi-final of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against Lancashire, turn their attention back to National League Division One action on Monday when they take on Kent Spitfires in a floodit

  • Wonderful school

    I WOULD like to congratulate the head teacher, staff and pupils at my old school, Clifton on Teme, for their wonderful achievement in becoming top village school in the country. I attended the village school from 1929 to 1938. We lived in the house now

  • Mother and daughter give birth an hour apart

    A MUM and daughter have given birth within 65 minutes of one another. Jane Aubrey and 19-year-old Kerri Bulloch have always been close, but they have taken their special bond that bit further. Kerri gave birth to a beautiful girl at 7.10pm on Thursday

  • CITY QUEST FOR SEVERN HEAVEN

    A MULTI-million pound riverside redevelopment could be the jewel in the crown of a Worcester renaissance. New plans, due to be unveiled next week, would transform the Croft Road lorry park into a waterside garden and create a wetland wildlife area north

  • It's an 'exciting' time for the city

    AMBASSADORS for the city have backed "long-overdue" plans to transform Worcester's parks and riversides into major tourist attractions. The ambitious multi-million pound project to revitalise the River Severn - including a new bridge, wetland area and

  • ...as teen bully is caged

    A Worcester teenager who mounted a campaign of terror and aggression against his elderly grandparents has been sent to detention for three-and-a-half years. Christopher Field was said by Recorder Mrs Darbyshire to have made life a misery for Marjorie

  • Oliver's the latest hit from band of brothers

    THE youngest of four brothers has followed in his siblings' footsteps by becoming an Army officer. Oliver Doherty, aged 23, followed his three brothers Justin, 32, Simon, 30, and 25-year-old Dominic, when he passed out of the Royal Military Academy at

  • Who on earth would spend a pile on a ruin?

    VISITORS to spectacular Witley Court have been stunned by the For Sale sign at the former stately home - and are baffled as to exactly who would buy the ruin. The site's owners, the Wigington Family of Stratford-upon-Avon, posted the freehold for sale

  • Phew! It's cool to be home from a warzone hotspot

    THE heatwave scorching Britain is nothing for an RAF woman who has just returned from Iraq - where she had to cope with temperatures up to 150F. Rachel Hewlett's time in the former war zone had seen her moving across the Middle East map. The 22-year-old

  • County look to down Spitfires

    WORCESTERSHIRE, locked in battle at New Road today in the semi-final of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against Lancashire, turn their attention back to National League Division One action on Monday when they take on Kent Spitfires in a floodit

  • Singh on song for seconds

    ANURAG Singh staked his claim to play in today's semi-final by hitting 70 as Worcestershire's Second XI Championship game against Somerset at Kidderminster ended in a draw. Kadeer Ali (81), Shaftab Khalid (45no) and Steve Davies (40) also batted well

  • Keast hinting at game plan change

    ANDY Keast has hinted that Worcester may be a touch more pragmatic this season. The Sixways club - dubbed the entertainers for their avalanche of tries last year - may change the game plan slightly as they go for the National One crown. "It will be a

  • Bickerton and Park well up

    DROITWICH'S John Bickerton and David Park of Hereford were both well up the leaderboard after the second round of the inaugural Nordic Open in Copenhagen. Bickerton shared 21st place on seven under par after a 70 yesterday, while Park shot a 71 to lie

  • Thrills and spills at Worcester Races

    LARGE crowds flocked to Worcester Racecourse again last night for the latest evening meeting. There was plenty of exciting action and thrills and spills in the six races. The feature race of the night, the Handicap Chase, was won by 7-1 shot Flying Instructor

  • Brave Sue is beaten

    BROADWAY'S Sue Davis saw her tremendous bid to win the National Express All-England Two-Wood singles title foiled in the final by Kent's Ann Dennis at Royal Leamington Spa yesterday. Davis led 6-5 after nine ends, but Dennis hit back to lead 11-9 and

  • Family fortunes in pubs, meat and a winning horse

    The Rice and Ince family tree has been outlined to me through the generations by 81 years-old Harvey Ince of Glenthorne Avenue, Worcester, who describes himself as the "family's historian". He traces the story back to mid-Victorian times and to his maternal

  • It's time to cull city's seagulls

    TAKE a stroll along the High Street at almost any time of the day or night, and you will see and hear seagulls. They may be perched on the parapets of some of Worcester's beautiful historic buildings, on chimney tops, or swooping and driving through the

  • We should listen to EU experts

    n ONCE more, I have to reply to the misguided fulminations of Gary Webb. Of course the bosses of the top 300 companies are only concerned with profits and shareholders dividends. Any fool knows that. That's the essence of capitalism. However, human nature

  • No need for him to feel sad

    I SEE that L Cammack of St John's is saddened by my lack of faith (You Say, July 30). There is no need for him to be sad at all on my behalf just because I believe there is no such person or being called God. He states that when he went through a most

  • We were taught how to survive

    "UNFORTUNATELY, some young man dies swimming in the River Severn every summer," observes Worcestershire coroner, Victor Round (Evening News, July 30). He might have added that in almost every instance over the years, alcohol has been a factor. Those of

  • Smaller parties are entitled to have say

    M J Levins is right to call for more independence from MPs and to blame the system of party loyalty and careerism for their lack of it (You Say, August 2). However, his solution to abolish political parties in favour of Independents only is neither practical

  • 9/8/03 - Fight for places hots up at City

    JOHN Snape predicts the battle for places in Worcester City's midfield to be just as hot as the temperatures currently sweeping the county. City manager John Barton is blessed with a number of options and Snape has warned that failure to produce the goods

  • 9/8/03 - Webster willing to sacrifice strike role for City

    ADAM Webster is prepared to sacrifice a striking role to secure a first team place. The Worcester City stalwart, second top scorer with 16 goals last season, is desperate to play, even if it isn't in his preferred position. Webster, Mark Owen, Leon Kelly