BRAVE leukaemia sufferer Jordan Gibson will soon be flying off on a dream holiday to EuroDisney - thanks to the generosity of Worcester's firefighters and Evening News readers. And today Jordan will be the mascot for Worcester City FC after team sponsors
TWO funeral directors from Co-operative Funeralcare, a funeral service in Worcester's Lowesmoor, will be putting their best foot forward this weekend when they walk 62 miles in aid of charity. Mark Lannie, a 41-year-old senior funeral director, and Ellis
A RESTAURANT owner whose home was an Aladdin's Cave for stolen goods risks a jail sentence after being convicted by a jury. Police discovered 224 items stashed at Denny Cheung's house in Sudbury Avenue, Hereford. The goods came from burglaries at Do-it-All
A POWER surge that affected the whole of Worcestershire crippled one of the UK's busiest train stations and left weekend commuters stranded yesterday. A two-second fluctuation on the National Grid at 1.30pm caused a burst of power on Aquila's 275 kilovolt
A WOMAN was trapped in her car after a collision outside Worcester's Christopher Whitehead High School last night. The accident happened just before 9pm on Malvern Road, St John's, when a red Vauxhall Astra was in collision with a blue Peugeot. Two fire
A VILLAGE community has pulled together to raise £140,000 to build its primary school a sports hall - 20 years after the idea was first suggested. Cynthia Evans, the headteacher at Sytchampton Endowed First School, began campaigning for cash two decades
WORCESTER Wolves are expecting a close encounter against Hackney in today's testing National Basketball League Division Two clash in London. It will be their second league outing of the season and comes on the back of last weekend's impressive 87-84 National
CLASSIC television series Superstars made a return to our screens this week with Worcester's Simon Archer involved. The badminton ace will make his appearance in the third week of the competition which features some of the best known sports stars. The
MIDFIELDER Danny Williams is delighted to be Kidderminster Harriers' leading scorer - but he'd willingly make way for a striker to overtake his tally. The influential 24-year-old has bagged four goals so far this season, three of them coming directly
WORCESTER athletes Helen Barnett and Anna Bailey rowed their way to gold medals and Rachel Turner to a bronze at the Newark Indoor Rowing Championship -- the first race of the 2003-2004 British Indoor Rowing Grand Prix Series. They were a fraction of
MIDFIELDER Danny Williams is delighted to be Kidderminster Harriers' leading scorer - but he'd willingly make way for a striker to overtake his tally. The influential 24-year-old has bagged four goals so far this season, three of them coming directly
BUILT in 1860 as part of an impressive engineering and construction job, Worcester's railway bridge is now nearly a century-and-a-half old. It became the centrepiece of a one-and-a half-mile long viaduct and embankment carrying the new Worcester-Hereford
WENDY Hands says Tony Blair's major weakness is his excessive certainty. Would she prefer him to indecisively dither all over the place? GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester.
I AM appalled at the council allowing the old Royal Infirmary buildings in Castle Street to be turned into a university campus for up to 3,000 students. I consider this to be a crazy idea. Where are the cars to be parked? There will indeed be many. I
AS a nation of animal lovers, there must be one animal that holds a special place in our affection - the horse. However, I was appalled to learn of new EU proposals to inflict great suffering on these animals. For around 30 years, the export of horses
IN response to Mr Lewis (You Say, Thursday, October 2) it would appear that the only person making "spurious" comments is Mr Lewis. His imputation that I have been "blaming the ills of society on a minority" is fatuous! The Evening News wouldn't allow
DAVID Barlow (You Say, Wednesday, October 8) seems to be cock-a-hoop at thinking he's got one over Brian Hunt. However, I would ask what it matters what Winston Churchill said or did not say nearly 60 years ago. It matters not one jot. All we must remember
THERE'S little respite for Worcester City and manager John Barton who face a difficult trip to Hinckley United on Tuesday night. Last season's corresponding fixture ended in City's favour with an acrobatically taken winner from Adam Webster but it was
JOHN Brain has hailed Lee Fortey as 'one of Worcester Rugby Club's best signings'. The Sixways prop, who came from Birmingham & Solihull during the summer, made his first National One start on Saturday at Manchester and im-pressed with a hard-working
A BUSINESSMAN was left covered in blood after a man kicked his head repeatedly during a motiveless attack. Arthur Amos believes his assailant could have killed him. The 53-year-old had five stitches to a gash on his forehead, and two stitches by his left
A FORENSIC expert has revealed the horrific moment in which she uncovered the lower part of a man's body. On day nine of the murder trial, Birmingham Crown Court heard how a farm worker discovered Michael Kelly's head and upper torso lying in a copse
THE secret of what exactly happened when a Kidderminster bomb disposal expert was gunned down in Iraq could be unlocked if a speech therapist can be found. Ian Rimell was killed in a roadside ambush near Mosul in Northern Iraq while he was working for
A banned driver gave a bogus identity to police three times after being stopped. But a passing group of youths shouted out his real name, giving the game away. Kevin Jones' scam led to an innocent man being summoned to court and caused him "anxiety and
WORCESTER Wolves are expecting a close encounter against Hackney in today's testing National Basketball League Division Two clash in London. It will be their second league outing of the season and comes on the back of last weekend's impressive 87-84 National
GRAHAM Turner has got a simple motto for his Hereford United players - play your best and respect your team-mates. It's worked wonders for the Edgar Street club to date who travel to rivals Chester City today sitting two points clear at the top of the
THERE'S little respite for Worcester City and manager John Barton who face a difficult trip to Hinckley United on Tuesday night. Last season's corresponding fixture ended in City's favour with an acrobatically taken winner from Adam Webster but it was
JOHN Brain has hailed Lee Fortey as 'one of Worcester Rugby Club's best signings'. The Sixways prop, who came from Birmingham & Solihull during the summer, made his first National One start on Saturday at Manchester and im-pressed with a hard-working
BROADWAY-based Erica Watson finished in a creditable fifth spot at the Weston Park International three day event in Shropshire. This was less than a month after suffering a crashing fall at the Blenheim event left her bloody and bruised. The Weston Park
IT is sad to read that our "cancer survival rate" is the worst in Europe. The NHS won't improve until the doctors and politicians admit its weak points. It appears that our Health Service is superb at some treatments and pretty pathetic at others. We
I AGREE with Joy Turner (You Say, Friday, October 10) over the proposed reduction of scrutiny committees on Worcester City Council and the possible lack of democracy. When the New Labour government first imposed the change to a Cabinet system of local
I AM gasping with admiration at Mr Cornelius' momentous discovery, after a mere 28 years, of the existence and uses of the speedometer (You Say, Friday, October 10). May the rest of us survive his activities long enough to emulate his achievements. Soon
WELL, Geoffrey K Ryland is right about one thing - the main target of those against hunting has always been the huntsman. Foxes may be vermin but to base a social activity around the idea of hunting them down and killing them is ethically unsound. With
IN reply to Gary Webb and E W Carr, I'm sure they must have misconstrued the contents of my recent letter concerning Churchill and the Marshall plan. In a speech Churchill gave in Zurich on September 19, 1946, he said: "We must build a kind of United
n I READ with interest comments expressed by the Mayor, Councillor Gareth Jones, concerning the appalling state of Worcester city centre. Hooray. At last someone with some clout agrees with what I've been saying for a long time. I've worked in the city
n PETER Luff (You Say, Friday, October 10) holds this bizarre view that somehow I am not supportive of the campaign for fairer funding for Worcestershire schools - how wrong he is. But let us agree on some things first - I agree with him that the previous
WORCESTER City will have to wait until April to hear the outcome of a public enquiry into the club's proposed Nunnery Way stadium. The St George's Lane club had been hoping for a December or February date to hear the recommendation of independent planning
