Friday: KVCC U-10 v Stourport (6.30pm). Saturday: Premier League: Shrewsbury v KVCC (1pm), KVCC 2nd v Knowle & Dorridge (1.30pm). County League: KVCC v Worcester Nomads, Worcester Nomads v KVCC 2nd, KVCC 3rd v Barnards Green (all 1.30pm). Sunday:
FORMER Kidderminster cricketer Steve Davies is proving a big hit with Worcestershire this season. The highly-rated wicketkeeper-batsman has forced his way into the County's star-studded first team and made his debut recently in both the Frizzell County
DINERS enjoying a meal in a packed pub were left reeling when a car smashed through the wall of the restaurant. The manager of the Plough & Harrow in Drakes Broughton said it was "remarkable" that nobody was seriously injured in the dramatic incident
EIGHT staff at an international college based near Tenbury are to be made redundant after a decision to drop the Spanish curriculum from next September. The principal of St Michael's College, Stuart Higgins, said the main reason for axing the curriculum
MAC, Birmingham - Birmingham Print Makers, until July 3. The Ballad of Hoa, until June 26. A Boy in a Woman's Body, until June 26. Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry - Works of Liliane Lijn 1959-80, until June 22. Lighthouse, Wolverhampton - Facing East, until
A STUDY claiming the controversial downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital had not adversely affected healthcare provision in Wyre Forest was likely to "open old wounds," according to the district's MP. Dr Richard Taylor - who was first swept to Westminster
A 75-year-old man has become one of the oldest people in the UK to be handed an anti-social behaviour order after assaulting and exposing himself to paramedics. Homeless Kenneth Addison is banned from spitting, swearing and throwing missiles by the order
A STOURPORT couple who carried out a catalogue of cruelty to their two-year-old son have been given custody of the child by social services. The couple each pleaded guilty to two charges of cruelty to a child. Worcester Crown Court heard that the boy
WYRE Forest students could be ordered to pay £50 fines if they are caught dropping litter. Kidderminster College has warned litterbugs about the potential penalties after receiving complaints from members of the public. Signs have been placed outside
ALMOST three-quarters of Kidderminster's Asian and Chinese restaurant staff have experienced hate crime - such as racist abuse - over a three-month period, according to a survey carried out by police. West Mercia Constabulary has promised to take a hard
CHEAPER bus travel is on offer to pensioners and people with disabilities in Wyre Forest. Anyone eligible for a bus travel permit has two schemes, available through Wyre Forest District Council, to choose from. Under the council's scheme, residents pay
Two Wyre Forest women are celebrating after obtaining Open University degrees. Claire Tranter and Robina Burford are now looking forward to their graduation ceremonies at Birmingham's Symphony Hall on June 25. KIDDERMINSTER mother, Claire Tranter, has
PUPILS at a Kidderminster school have used modern technology to help revitalise a historic town landmark. Sion Hill Middle School students worked with professional artists to create seven "striking" art panels now displayed at Broadwaters Mill. The artwork
PARISH COUNCIL: The annual meeting began with the re-election of Cllr Tony Wilkins as chairman. Cllr Judy Maguire wished to resign as representative school governor, and Cllr Devereux agreed to take her place. The chairman reported that the new base for
ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY: The society heard Gillian White speak and show slides on Elizabethan Textiles. Ms White, a graduate historian and previous curator of Hardwick Hall, brought to life through using the various textiles shown in a portrait of Elizabeth
A SPECIAL event at Chipping Norton blends the talents of a world famous orchestra with a top director and an international violin star in a production of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. The London-based Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields is performing
BEWDLEY A, without a game this week, still lead Division One of the Kidderminster & District Midweek Bowling League. Their match at Kinver was postponed allowing the teams behind them to gain ground. Stourport B move into second place after an 18-
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously hurt in an overnight fight in Stourport. The man, in his 20s, had a swollen and bleeding left eye and a cut to the back of his head. A police spokesman said at least five people were involved
ELLIE Jones took three gold medals at the Special Olympics Redditch Athletics event held at the Alexander Stadium on Saturday. She was among a host of Wyre Forest competitors who came home with medals, having won the 50m, the softball and being in the
DANIEL Bradley and Samantha Cooper each achieved two victories at the first Heart of England Track League event of the year at Tipton. Competing for Kiddermin-ster and Stourport Athletics Club, Bradley won the 400 metre and shot Under-17 men events, while
A TRAVELLER was electrocuted when a ladder he was using to cut down holly touched an overhead power cable. Henry Doe, of Watery Lane, Stourport, was working in a field in Wildmoor, Bromsgrove with his father, Henry and brother-in-law, Tommy Davies. As
RICHARD Jones has become the latest member of Kidderminster's Samurai Judo Club to gain his black belt. He took part in a grading at Walsall where he defeated two brown belts to qualify for a line-up, then three more in the line-up, all by maximum points
A LUCKY audience was allowed an hour's adventure in a dreamworld of fantasy and illusion when the circus brought its magical spell to town. Not the whip-cracking, lion-taming kind of circus, but the rope dangling, magic, illusionary experience dubbed
KIDDERMINSTER Chess Club are guaranteed to end the season with a trophy as the Rooks and Knights will contest the Worcester and District League Cup final. The teams each recorded 3.5-0.5 semi-finals victories over Headless Cross and Redditch respectively
Mucky Meadow Pool produced the winning weight in the Sunday Open for Worcester angler Chris Summers. Golden Maggot angler Tim Jones came third, with a catch of 56lb, which included 28lb 12oz of silver fish, with roach and bream but mainly golden orfe.
Tuesday Cost-Cutter, 15 fished, Meadow: Warren B Lizard (Sensas R and D) 39-13 (40), Dave Cowdell (Strike) 36-15 (56), Steve Steve Harris (SBS) 31-5 (54). Wednesday Open, 25, Meadow: Lee Curtin (MCM) 84-6 (8), Jason Cunningham (Shimano Tipton) 72-15 (
Wednesday: Dave Barnard (Colusil) 52-0 (Sycamore 29, pellets at 5m, carp 8lb, bream 2lb), Tony Foster (OB Wolves) 47-5 (Sycamore 21, pellets and corn at 5m and close, carp 7lb), Steve Roberts (Rod & Gun) 45-15 (Sycamore 23). Saturday, 40: Ken Humphreys
POLICE are seeking two people who failed to stop after collisions in separate incidents. The latest happened in Stourport at about 5.45pm on Monday, when a car and motorcycle were travelling in the same direction, towards Kidderminster. They were involved
Silver Fish match: Pete Knowles 7-10, Trevor Wills 4-0, Paul Wright 3-12. A match will be held on Saturday, draw at 8am.
Round two, Wren's Nest Pools: Brian Dickinson 43-2, Arthur Andrews 32-9, Stan James 17-4, Ian Tetsall 15-6. Round three will be fished on Wednesday at Elmbridge, Heron Pool. The draw will be at 9am, with fishing from 10am until 3pm.
Wren's Pools: E McKeown 37-3, J Fox 29-12, T Wills 24-15. Stackpool: Fox 15-7, McKeown 7-12, Wills 6-0. The next match will be fished on June 19 on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal 8-9, draw 8am, at Bone Mill. Top five points to date: J Moon 231
Keepers Pool: Mick Rowe 55-14, Barry Southall 49-14, Roy Griffiths 49-0, Harold Willey 42-0. The next club contest will be on Wednesday at Hurst Farm, draw 9am.
I WOULD like to thank, through your newspaper, the new Mayor of Kidderminster, Councillor Peter Dyke, for choosing the Wyre Forest Talking Newspaper as his mayor's charity. This support, as we continue to try and find new premises, is most welcome. For
DOCTORS have painted a grim picture of patients travelling for miles for treatment and stroke victims having to cope with their disabilities in their own homes, if wards close at Evesham Community Hospital. GPs in the Vale and Broadway say they are totally
HEATH boss Mike Ridley vowed to take into account the views of Willows Ward users, whose comments in support of the facility he described as "touching" and "moving". Mr Ridley heard a series of emotional testimonies at a public board meeting of the Primary
I HAVE recently returned from holiday and read that the district council intends to spend £1.2 million on the Kidderminster Town Hall. Would someone on the council inform me as to who will benefit from this facelift, and what percentage of Kidderminster
FURNACE Mill's Mucky Meadow Pool produced the winning weight in the Sunday Open for Worcester angler Chris Summers. Golden Maggot angler Tim Jones came third, with a catch of 56lb, which included 28lb 12oz of silver fish, with roach and bream but mainly
TRAVELLING along Kidderminster's Worcester road daily, I have noticed that the prominent Union flag on top of Ford dealers, Brooklyn Motors, is flying upside down. Despite calling in and pointing this out to a member of staff at the front end of their
VILLAGERS in the Littletons are stepping up the pressure against the extension of Kanes Foods factory. They are angry that Wychavon District Council passed the plans, subject to the Secretary of State's approval, and are demanding a public inquiry. In
AN Evesham haulage firm which ceased trading in March with £20,000 debts has been told to pay a former lorry driver more than £1,000 after telling him only the day before that he would lose his job. RTB Traction Ltd, of Badsey, faced problems when a firm
SPICE Boys had a torrid time in the latest round of matches in Division One of the Cleobury Mortimer Sports Centre Adult Five-a-side Football League when they suffered two defeats. They are no longer top of the table, a place now occupied by Lager Louts
A BIRTHDAY meal was held at Wharton Park Golf Club to celebrate the 70th birthday of the guild. The next meeting will be at St Anne's Middle School, Wyre Hill, Bewdley, on Tuesday, June 28, at 7.30pm, when Miss C Patterson will talk about "Working as
ANGRY Kidderminster Harriers' shareholders have issued a desperate 'sort it out quickly' plea to end the crisis club's bitter power struggle. The festering saga took another controversial twist this week when chairman Colin Young-johns and majority shareholder
CREATING quite a splash - that's Stourport Boat Club's Nicola Price and Rachel Saunders. The talented twosome took part in the National Schools' Championships held at Holme Pierrepoint, the National Water Sports Centre in Nottinghamshire and picked up
LAST week's ride visited the ruined Wigmore Castle. On Sunday, there are two rides, the A ride starting from The Green, Blakebrook, Kidderminster, at 8am and heading for The Hole in The Wall, on the River Wye, Ross. The B ride will leave The Green at
IN May Robin Hill gave an illustrated talk on "Working in the Countryside", beginning with horse-drawn ploughs and cutting corn with scythes, and ending with the combine-harvester and air-conditioned tractors. The next meeting at Trinity Church Centre
THE 37th annual meeting was held on May 27, when officers and committee were re-elected - chairman Graham Kiteley, vice-chair and press officer Von Stewart, secretary Gwen Jones, treasurer Bob Drew, committee Moira Brown, Ann Norman and Bob Polfreman.
ON Tuesday Pauline Annis will give a talk on "Wilden House and the Baldwins", in All Saints Church, Wilden Lane, Stourport, at 7.30pm. Members will have the opportunity to see the unique Burne-Jones stained glass windows in Wilden Church, and graves of
AN exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum made up from the collections of local people puts a new perspective on the Cotswold Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition, entitled A Cotswold Home: The People's Arts and Crafts Show, runs from June
KATHRYN Tickell, voted Best Instrumentalist in Britain in the Radio 2 Folk Awards, comes to play two concerts in the area next week. She is at Cheltenham Town Hall next Wednesday and Worcester's Huntingdon Hall on Thursday with her Kathryn Tickell Band
TWO hundred and eighty singers, mostly men, will be raising the roof at a special event in Tewkesbury this month. The Cotswold Male Voice Choir is hosting this year's Massed Choir Concert, bringing together choirs from all over the region, which is taking
THE Stourbridge and District branch may be forced to close its charity shop in Lye at certain times during the week, owing to lack of volunteers. The shop is currently open five ways a week between 10am and 4pm. Anyone who would like to help in the shop
A WALK of around eight miles duration around Winchcombe, Cheltenham, has been organised for Sunday. Ramblers are asked to meet at the Memorial Park gates, Park Avenue, Stourport, at 9am prompt. Transport can be arranged. New walkers will be welcome, so
A MEETING will take place on Monday from 7.30pm until 9.30pm at Malvern Evangelical Church. On Wednesday, Kidderminster Library is the venue for a meeting from 1.30pm until 3.30pm. Anyone with myalgic encaphalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
THE thousands of hours worked by the Cotswold Voluntary Wardens was highlighted in figures released in Volunteer Week from June 1 to 7. The figures show the volunteers notched up more than 36,500 hours over the past 12 months. The 300 volunteers, who
NORTH Cotswold farmer Jan Rowe has dismissed as "desperate deception" a claim from the National Federation of Badger Groups that cattle movements were largely to blame for the high incidence of bovine tuberculosis in the region. Commenting on the claim
Back in July 2003, a female dragonfly hovered motionless above the still waters of a pond, dipping its abdomen beneath the water and laying an egg upon a piece of pond weed. This was the moment of birth for the Emperor dragonfly, Britain's largest dragonfly
ORGANISERS of Bewdley Carnival said it was all systems go for Saturday after a volunteer crisis almost put the skids on the event. Residents from throughout Wyre Forest have been invited to join in the fun as the carnival takes a step closer to its 40th
OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM: The Evesham and District Older People's Forum is holding its next general meeting at Wallace House, Oat Street, at 2pm on Tuesday, June 14. All members and non members welcome. ART SOCIETY: At the May meeting, members and guests
ANOTHER night of great music will be held in Kidderminster to raise cash for our appeal. A fantastic line-up is set to wow the audience at the Gainsborough House Hotel in Bewdley Hill on July 7, with a night of foot-stomping musical magic. Taking to the
1st Wilden Guides 5th and 6th Stourport Brownies 10th Hereford Cubs 12th Kidderminster (Blakedown) Scout Group Ash Friendship Fund Ballroom Glitz Beards Ironmonger Bulls Head, Cookley Bridgnorth Vintage Machinery Club Cadspec Chaddesley Corbett Freemasons
IF you wish to make a donation to Operation Covert, you can: l Call in at the Shuttle/Times and News offices in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster, during normal business hours from 9am to 5pm. l Post donations to Operation Covert, c/o Becky Hayes, Shuttle
A STUDY claiming the controversial downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital had not adversely affected healthcare provision in Wyre Forest was likely to "open old wounds," according to the district's MP. Dr Richard Taylor - who was first swept to Westminster
Yvonne Seward's passion for nativity scenes has led her to amass more than 60 of them from all around the world. Her fascination started when she was a small child. On Christmas Eve along with her stocking there would be a gentle glow in the very early
VOLUNTEERS from the Pershore in Bloom team were overjoyed to receive a donation of £2,000 from the Community Champions charity. Members from the group contacted the charity for financial support to help raise the profile of the work carried out by the
WOMEN from across the three counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire will be competing at Throckmorton Airfield, Pershore, for the annual Marie Curie Cancer Care Ladies' Driving Challenge later this year. The charity's community fund-raiser
ARTISTIC pupils at Broadway First School finished top of the class after taking part in a poster campaign to urge owners to pick up after their pets. Schoolchildren were invited to design a poster to mark Poop Scoop Week, which runs from June 27 to July
IF wards close at Evesham Community Hospital - the hospital may be next! That's the warning from the hospital's League of Friends chairman and town mayor Frances Smith. Now the Journal is joining forces with her and Vale doctors in a campaign to save
SCHOOLCHILDREN will be given a taste of orchestral life this month when the English String Orchestra perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The educational event on the afternoon of Friday, June 17, will be followed by a concert - which is part of Kidderminster
MAJOR Mustard spread delight across the faces of Wyre Forest youngsters with his entertaining travelling show during half-term. His traditional storytelling, puppets and accordion playing proved hot stuff for four to eight-year-olds during sessions at
RED-faced boys in blue got stuck in a lift in Kidderminster on Monday - and had to call the fire brigade to get them out. The six officers - five men and one woman - were on a police operation when they got into the lift at Coniston House in Hurcott Road
A RARE carpet that was turned down as a Coronation souvenir for King George VI has been added to an historic collection in Kidderminster. The carpet featured symbols of all the Commonwealth countries in 1937 but it was rejected because authorities felt
A KIDDERMINSTER woman had to be cut free from her car after a crash outside West Midland Safari Park. Staff from the safari park helped police control the traffic as firefighters spent 30 minutes cutting the door and roof from the blue Renault Clio after
INSPECTORS have visited an area in Wyre Forest district protected by environment laws to investigate possible contamination. Members of the Environment Agency and English Heritage were called in to test for possible damage at the Mad Brook flood plain
CHEF David Hammond hopes to have the recipe for success when he represents the UK in an international competition in Bermuda later this year. The 23-year-old, who is junior sous chef at The Elms Hotel, Abberley, recently earned the title of UK Young Commis
CAREER advice will be available to parents of students in year 11 during an information morning in Kidderminster next weekend. Connexions, which provides careers information to young people, is offering parents the chance to talk about their child's choices
A NEW Wyre Forest geological trail has been launched as part of a week-long series of events marking International Geopark Week. The Abberley Hills trail was opened to the public last Thursday by television presenter and Geopark president, Dr Aubrey Manning
PEOPLE of all ages and abilities are being encouraged to saddle up to celebrate National Bike Week. To mark the event, a fun bike ride will be held along a seven-mile stretch of the National Cycle Network route between Bewdley and Stourport on Sunday,
DEMOLITION work is due to start on the old school buildings in Bidford - despite a campaign by villagers to save it. Stratford District Council gave developers Westbury Homes Ltd permission to bulldoze the building in Victoria Road in February. The developers
TOP classical ensemble The Bronte String Quartet is coming to The Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury on Saturday night. The programme will include works by Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven. Box office: 01684 295074 (www.rosestheatre.org).
PIANIST Duncan Honeybourne will be giving a piano recital on Saturday at All Saints Church in Newland in the Forest of Dean. Duncan has given many lecture recitals and now combines a flourishing career as a soloist and chamber musician with a strong involvement
LINTON will be hosting its fifth annual charity music and ale festival next weekend. The three-day open air festival is a huge community effort, manned by volunteers, from June 17-19. Headlining bands are Fleetwood Mac tribute group Rumours, on Friday
PARISH COUNCIL: The annual meeting began with the re-election of Cllr Tony Wilkins as chairman. Cllr Judy Maguire wished to resign as representative school governor, and Cllr Devereux agreed to take her place. The chairman reported that the new base for
GARDENING CLUB: The May meeting was held on Thursday, May 26 at 7.30pm at Wulstan Hall. The speaker was Vic Aspland, chairman of the horticultural committee at Birmingham Botanical Gardens and a regular contributor to the Alpine Garden Society Journal
A SPECIAL event at Chipping Norton blends the talents of a world famous orchestra with a top director and an international violin star in a production of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. The London-based Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields is performing
TOM Stoppard is the clever kid in your class. He's so clever you almost want to slap him, but the man now knighted and dubbed our greatest living playwright is just so good at entertaining us you can forgive him for having a brain the size of a planet
THE rounds of applause after Leominster Choral Society's spirited version on Sunday of The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins were an eloquent tribute to the power of the music. Subtitled A Mass for Peace, it received its first performance in Herefordshire under
COMING after long years of Puritan suppression of plays, the appearance in Charles II's reign of the first actresses on the English stage caused a sensation. It is apt that a cast of feisty woman in a bawdy drama about the period led the way in sensational
THE end of the Second World War and the beginning of a modern world of industry and motor cars saw big changes in the rural way of life. Countryside traditions which had remained unaltered for centuries changed and have continued to do so, with many of
AN exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum made up from the collections of local people puts a new perspective on the Cotswold Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition, entitled A Cotswold Home: The People's Arts and Crafts Show, runs from June
KATHRYN Tickell, voted Best Instrumentalist in Britain in the Radio 2 Folk Awards, comes to play two concerts in the area next week. She is at Cheltenham Town Hall next Wednesday and Worcester's Huntingdon Hall on Thursday with her Kathryn Tickell Band
A MAJOR star in the ascendancy is stopping off in Malvern on her way to the big time, according to the critics. Jazz singer and composer Clare Teal is following two previous performances with another appearance at Malvern, but the difference is that this
THE thousands of hours worked by the Cotswold Voluntary Wardens was highlighted in figures released in Volunteer Week from June 1 to 7. The figures show the volunteers notched up more than 36,500 hours over the past 12 months. The 300 volunteers, who
NORTH Cotswold farmer Jan Rowe has dismissed as "desperate deception" a claim from the National Federation of Badger Groups that cattle movements were largely to blame for the high incidence of bovine tuberculosis in the region. Commenting on the claim
Back in July 2003, a female dragonfly hovered motionless above the still waters of a pond, dipping its abdomen beneath the water and laying an egg upon a piece of pond weed. This was the moment of birth for the Emperor dragonfly, Britain's largest dragonfly
TENOR Ian Storey likes to give something back to the community where he lives. He has twice gathered a group of his friends - among them some of the finest voices in the world - and sang in Hereford Cathedral on behalf of the Rotary Club of Hereford Wye
AN event featuring '16th century pop music' in a country garden will raise money for St Michael's Hospice, Tenbury Hospital and Leominster Choral Society. The date is June 19 and the venue is Lower House, Sutton, off the B4124, three miles from Tenbury
MEDIADEV, the development arm for new media appended to Hereford-based Rural Media Company (RMC) has ground to a halt with the demise of its European funding on March 31. "Approaches were made to Advantage West Midlands and the Learning Skills Council
WHENEVER you see the magic name "Neil Simon" attached to a play, you know you are in for a treat, and the Nonentities' latest production is no exception. The ever-reliable Athol M'Donald was outstanding as Barney, faithful husband for 23 years, who decides
ORIGINAL etchings by an internationally renowned artist are now on display at Chipping Norton Theatre. David Hockney's work, which illustrates six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, will be on display at the Goddards Lane theatre until the end of this
A TRIO of talented artists from Wyre Forest will serenade classical music lovers this month in a special event at Kidderminster Town Hall. Tenor, Russell Painter, baritone, Jonathan Darby and pianist, David Morgan are performing their Summer Serenade
SCHOOLCHILDREN will be given a taste of orchestral life this month when the English String Orchestra perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The educational event on the afternoon of Friday, June 17, will be followed by a concert - which is part of Kidderminster
A BAND that has been making music in Wyre Forest for more than 12 years is celebrating the launch of its new website. Blind Lemon's internet site, www.blindlemon, includes a guest book for fans to leave personal messages, as well as details of gigs, sound
events/talks Art in the Garden, The Ley, Weobley, 10am-4.30pm. 01432 272522. 10 Clehonger VE Day party, Clehonger Primary School. 01981 250218. 10 We Are All Europeans Now: The Earliest Archaeology of Britain, Herefordshire Archaeology Lecture, The Courtyard
The new exhibition at Parkfields Gallery in Ross-on-Wye features work by four artists whose work is inspired by proverbs and sayings. Hereford artist Shellie Byatt, exhibiting for the first time with Parkfields, has always been fascinated by words and
A 20-year-old carer who has been writing poetry since the age of eight is celebrating her work being published in seven books in three months - and says there is more to come. More than 20 poems by Bryony Freeman can be found in Spotlight Poets' books
TOP classical ensemble The Bronte String Quartet is coming to The Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury on Saturday night. The programme will include works by Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven. Box office: 01684 295074 (www.rosestheatre.org).
STOURPORT continued their good start to the season with a one-wicket victory and 20 points over Old Vigornians in their County League Division Three match, which was reduced to 45 overs. The Walshes Meadow club won the toss and put Old Vigornians in to
STONE were host to a strong Kinver side on Sunday, and were beaten by 109 runs. Batting first, Kinver made a poor start against a keen Stone fielding performance, and were 14-3 at one stage. However, 40 off 18 balls by A Nicholls and a flourish by Gary
DAVE Foster took 7-25 for Spennells in a Wilden Industrial Estates Cricket League fixture, helping his side to a 98-run victory over Moat Farm. Sportsman achieved their first Wednesday Division C win of the season, in one of the few matches played on
J0NATHAN Wright celebrated his 40th birthday with a dazzling century in Kidderminster Victoria's four-wicket win over Harborne in the Birmingham & District League Division One at Chester Road on Saturday. South African Divan Van Wyk cracked a superb
LAST week I joined a trip on the Severn Valley Railway to Highley organised by the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark to publicise the rich and varied geological features of the Valley. Dune bedded sandstone and Permo-Triassic rocks were among terms that
ANGRY Kidderminster Harriers' shareholders have issued a desperate 'sort it out quickly' plea to end the crisis club's bitter power struggle. The festering saga took another controversial twist this week when chairman Colin Young-johns and majority shareholder
TODAY: Kidderminster: Town Hall - Christopher Allsop lunchtime organ recital. Birmingham: Marriott Hotel - Lupa. Wolverhampton: Wulfrun Hall - Half Man Half Biscuit. Little Civic - Towers of London. Robin R'n'B2 - Fragile. Coventry: Warwick University
Ambitious scheme for Areley House AN upmarket rehabilitation centre for people suffering addictions including drug dependency and alcoholism is due to open in Stourport in six weeks, the Shuttle Times and News can reveal. The private clinic is aiming
HIGH-flying Kidderminster student, Will Jarman, could revolutionise air travel with his low-flying plane. The 23-year-old is ready for take-off on a career in aviation as his design makes heads turn at Coventry University's Design Degree Show this week
TRIBUTES have been paid to a retired teacher who died following a collision with a car in his home town. Seventy-five-year-old John Reynolds taught industrial studies at Wolverley High School until he retired 20 years ago and was "very, very popular"
OWNERS of CCTV systems - including householders - in Wyre Forest are being asked to sign up to a register police say could help them in the fight against crime. The voluntary register would enable officers to check whether cameras might contain useful
A FORMER Kidderminster man has been elected mayor of a West Yorkshire district. David Hopkins, 68, whose family lived in Birmingham Road, has become the civic head of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. He attended St Ambrose RC School and the former
WEDNESDAY CLUB: Met on June 1 when Mrs M Boath presided. Birthday cards were distributed. The trip to Street in Somerset was a success. The next outing takes place on Monday for a visit to the Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, with lunch earlier in the day
GARDENING CLUB: The May meeting was held on Thursday, May 26 at 7.30pm at Wulstan Hall. The speaker was Vic Aspland, chairman of the horticultural committee at Birmingham Botanical Gardens and a regular contributor to the Alpine Garden Society Journal
THE cream of the country's pedigree livestock will be competing at the Three Counties Show from June 17 to 19, the annual farming and food spectacular. Livestock entries are buoyant and although cattle entries are slightly down on last year there is a
ANOTHER wartime song celebration is taking place, this time in Malvern. Sing for Victory is being staged by the stars of the hit show Beyond the Barricade, already popular with Malvern theatre-goers. It takes place on Tuesday and is a dynamic look at
SHIPSTON actor David Wynne is making his debut in Stratford in a special performance of a Shakespeare play in the garden of one of the town's historic houses. Falcon Productions are staging The Merry Wives of Windsor in the gardens of Hall's Croft from
ALL the timeless characters from the famous Grace Brothers department store are stepping into the limelight in Badsey this month. Fans of the television show Are You Being Served will be glad to hear it is being revived in the latest performance by the
A DOUBLE bill of new one-act plays is being staged at The Everyman's Other Space studio. Bad by Norman Waller is about a confrontation between an elderly woman and an angry young man who breaks into her house and Nature Knows Best by Nick Discombe looks
THE 2005 season at Longborough Festival Opera opens on Friday, June 17, with Puccini's bittersweet La Boheme. There will be a total of 20 performances of three different operas staged at the Palladian-style opera house at Longborough, between Moreton
WYRE Forest Cycle Racing Club's Kris Doms finished a superb ninth overall in the Veterans Time Trials Association 10-mile time-trial at Weston on Saturday. In warm and sunny conditions, but with a strong wind to contend with, Doms powered around the course
ANGRY Stourport residents are calling for Worcestershire County Council to resolve the problem of a "nightmare" private road. Residents in Mill Road and Mill Close are seeking compensation because of the effect they claim the road, owned by developers
TOM Stoppard is the clever kid in your class. He's so clever you almost want to slap him, but the man now knighted and dubbed our greatest living playwright is just so good at entertaining us you can forgive him for having a brain the size of a planet
PLANS for a Tardis-style superloo in a Stourport conservation area have come under fire from a town councillor. Conservative member, David Little, branded the proposal - discussed at a recent Stourport Town Council meeting - as "outrageous". The scheme
BRIAN Humphries continued his recent good form for the Amazing Feet Running Club, achieving tenth place in the 6.5-mile multi-terrace Stourbridge Stumble, in a time of 40 minutes 17 seconds. Humphries also took runners-up spot in the M40 category. Sarah
JAMES Kear won the Junior Open at Wharton Park Golf Club, Bewdley, by just one nett point from Luke Groves. Result: Kear 78 gross 17 handicap 61 nett, Groves 78-16-62, Jonathan Bryan (Shirley GC) 89-24-65 (back nine), Ryan Jones (Belmont GC) 775-10-65
STOURPORT Boat Club's men's junior 15 coxed quad struck gold in the National Schools Championships held at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepoint, Nottingham. The crew comprised Mat Brighton (Stourport High School), Nic Danby (Stourport High
WAGGON & Horses A finished off an incredible season in the Banks's Bewdley Darts League finals night by not only collecting the league winners trophy but also the team knockout trophy after beating Cock & Magpie in the final. Champions, Waggon
Wednesday, D'Anglers AC, Dragonfly: P Andrews 25-0, E Merchant 22-8, D Conway 19-8. Friday Afternoon, Willow Marsh Open, Dragonfly: Alan Blount 45-15-8dr, Steve Pearce 29-14, Andy Spence 26-7-8. Saturday, The Gate AC, Whispers: M Taylor 16-2, P Hipkiss
AN 85-year-old man was attacked in a Kidderminster subway while walking with his 81-year-old partner, it was alleged at Worcester Crown Court. John Cater, 27, of Lenchville, Kidderminster, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Reginald Fidoe and causing him
100 Years Ago June 10, 1905 We heartily congratulate the Borough Surveyor and members of the Town Council upon the excellent progress which has been made with the laying of the water main and the relaying of the pavement in Bridge-street. We were inclined
MEMBERS of a family upset by the vandalism of their mother's gravestone face a £200 bill to repair the damage. One of the family members discovered that the black headstone had been pushed over in Brinton Park Cemetery, off Park Lane. A police spokesman
THE same Kidderminster house was targeted twice in three days by thieves who stole hanging baskets. The first basket was taken from the Dunlin Drive property between 11pm on May 29 and 9am on May 30. Three baskets were stolen in the follow-up incident
A contest will be held on Sunday at Keepers Pool, Cleobury Mortimer. The draw will be at the venue at 7.30am, with fishing from 8am until 1pm. Members requiring directions are asked to meet at Blackstone car park at 7.10am. Parking at the venue is limited
BEFORE the district council embarks on a new purpose-built centre, it might be appropriate to consider whether the authority gives any real value for money to the people of Wyre Forest. Its main areas of responsibility exclude highways, housing and leisure
Island Pool, Lower Broadheath: Pete White 30-15, John Gale 23-4, John Eggington 19-15, Kevin Haycock 11-8. Sunday's contest will be on the Heron Pool at Poole Hall Fisheries. Members are reminded that monies for Lyttelton cards are due from June 16. For
I WRITE in response to the article in the May 25 issue of the Shuttle/Times and News, regarding Councillor Nigel Knowles. The governors of St Barnabas CE First School are very grateful for his sterling work to save the school during the Wyre Forest review
Woodside Fishery: G Yeomans 17-10, B Yapp 12-3, A Williams 10-10. A match will be held at Strawberry Pool on June 19. Anglers are asked to meet at the pool for 8am draw.
MAY I return to the subject of Stourport Civic Centre and what seems to be the obsession of the local authority to knock down anything from the past, only to replace it with housing? Some 55 years ago it was felt desirable to let the canals deteriorate
Latest result: Geoff Wilkes 38-9, Steve Raynor 28-10, Dennis Moles 18-7, Ron Robinson (guest) 18-0. Points to date: Moles 79, Raynor 69, Mick Swalwell 68, Wilkes 61, Ray Jordan 60, Trev Hyrons 41. On Saturday members are asked to take part in cutting
I HAVE recently discovered from an 1891 Census entry that my maternal great grandfather, John Thomas Pitt, was born in Kidderminster in 1858. When he joined the Wolverhampton Branch of the Amalgamated Society of House Decorators and Painters on September
Larford Specimen Lake: Barry Chesson 43-1 (bonus peg), Mark Edwards 27-12, Darren Campbell 27-10-8, Mark Pearce and Dave Perry 19-1. Silver fish winner: Chesson 42-0. Haye Farm is the venue for the contest on June 19. To book a place in this event telephone
A PENSIONER, who has been living in her car on a supermarket car park in Evesham, has refused help from social services. Audrey Burslem, aged 71, believes her house in Harvington was wrongly confiscated to repay costs incurred in a civil court case, which
DINERS enjoying a meal in a packed pub were left reeling when a car smashed through the wall of the restaurant. The manager of the Plough & Harrow in Drakes Broughton said it was "remarkable" that nobody was seriously injured in the dramatic incident
VALE motorists should be glad to hear the road widening works on the A44 Worcester Road in Evesham should be finished by the end of the week. The road improvement project has been taking place at Fladbury Cross since April 4 and has cost up to £250,000
SPARKS flew when Professor Richard Walton, treasurer of the Elmley Castle group of churches, picked up an electricity bill for £2,493 for a quarter's supply of power to Bricklehampton Church. "The bill from npower is usually around £40 to £50 a quarter
VALE fund-raisers have received a big thank you from tsunami victims after sending them £1,126 earlier this year. An Evening with Merlin was arranged at Evesham Working Men's Club in January and attended by about 200 local people. The entertainment also
THE Mercian Festival Junior Football League are going ahead with plans to introduce under eights football for the first time next season. This will be in the form of a league, but instead of a knockout cup competition a 'Fun Day' will be arranged later
THE end of the Second World War and the beginning of a modern world of industry and motor cars saw big changes in the rural way of life. Countryside traditions which had remained unaltered for centuries changed and have continued to do so, with many of
ONE former pupil of a Kidderminster school travelled halfway around the world to attend a reunion. A total of 185 ex-students, from all over the globe, gathered at Sladen CE Middle School for the annual event, which included a supper. Members of the Old
AT The Lion Inn, Cleobury Mortimer, on May 24, a Mitchell movement was played. The north-south winners were Gerald and Joy Link with 64.29 per cent, Terry Lucey and Doreen Round coming second with 60 per cent. East-west winners were Philip Morgan and
ANOTHER walks weekend is planned for June 25/26. The Saturday walks are local to Cleobury, exploring the countryside surrounding the town. A dawn walk will be followed by breakfast at a local tearooms. A daytime walk includes a pub lunch, and promises
A TALK entitled "Elmley Lovett, Scenes from Village Life in the Early 19th Century" will be given by John Maynard at Hartlebury Parish Hall on Thursday, June 16. The talk will start at 7.30pm. Members and visitors will be welcome. There will be a small
POLICE want to hear from anyone who has received any suspicious phone calls from a man claiming to be from the Neighbourhood Watch. The appeal comes after a call was made to an address in Station Road, Broadway. The man who called himself Pat Delaney
THE parish church of Stourport is inviting anyone who was baptised and/or confirmed there to a Thanksgiving for Baptist and Confirmation service on Sunday at 3.30pm. Refreshments will follow the short service. There will be no formalities, people are
A VICTORIAN tea party was held on May 23, when Joan Southerton carried on the Victorian theme in her flower demonstration at Areley Kings village hall. She used antique items, such as an oil lamp, washbowl and jug, and a rocking horse, complementing the
A strawberry tea will be held at St Michael's Church rooms at 2.30pm on Thursday, June 16. Tickets are available from 01299 825331. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Lickhill Community Centre, Lickhill Road, Stourport, at 7.30pm,
ON Saturday, John Sinclair, community support officer to the Police, will give a talk at Tulip Tree Centre, Castle Road, Kidderminster. The meeting will start at 2pm, and close at around 4pm. For information on the group/meetings, telephone 01562 60501
THE next meeting at the TA Centre, Birmingham Road, Kidderminster, will be on Sunday. Everyone will be welcome at the meeting, which starts at 11.30am.
THE annual meeting will be held on Tuesday at 1.30pm at Kidderminster Library. The following day is Disability Action Awareness Day, a Kidderminster town event, organised by P Perrin, who can be contacted on 01299 828280. For further details of the group
A MAJOR star in the ascendancy is stopping off in Malvern on her way to the big time, according to the critics. Jazz singer and composer Clare Teal is following two previous performances with another appearance at Malvern, but the difference is that this
FISHING pools in Bewdley are set to go under the hammer in a public auction. Halls Auctioneers is conducting the sale of Snuff Mill Fish Pools, together with land at Heightington Road, Bewdley, at 6pm on Wednesday at the Gainsborough House Hotel. The
STAFF at Bewdley Medical Centre are limbering up in preparation for a five kilometre run for charity. A total of 17 women from the centre are taking part in the Race for Life event, held in aid of Cancer Research UK. The runners, of various ages, will
AFTER 10 years and three different administrations the clerk at Bewdley Town Council has taken his final minute. David Flack has stepped down following a decade logging the many viewpoints, complaints and exchanges between town councillors. The 61-year-old
CARNIVAL programme sellers will be knocking on doors throughout Kidderminster during the next week to boost funds for this year's charity - Operation Covert. Scores of Scouts will be out in force helping the organising committee sell the £1 programmes
ADULTS who make the Scouting experience possible raised £100 with a quiz night in aid of Operation Covert. The Stourport Scout Fellowship, which comprises helpers and leaders, held the battle of the brains at the Vale Road HQ the 1st Stourport St Michael's
GARDEN lovers have dug deep for Operation Covert. Our appeal has been boosted thanks to Sheila and Adrian James who organised an open weekend at their Comberton Avenue garden in Kidderminster. The colourful display of spring flowers attracted scores of
NEWS that orthopaedic work currently carried out in Evesham could be transferred to the Independent Sector Treatment Centre at Kidderminster has received a mixed response from health figures. Chief executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
WHENEVER you see the magic name "Neil Simon" attached to a play, you know you are in for a treat, and the Nonentities' latest production is no exception. The ever-reliable Athol M'Donald was outstanding as Barney, faithful husband for 23 years, who decides
MAX Power Live, the biggest and most eagerly awaited modified car show the nation has ever known, is returning this summer. From July 1 until July 3, 2005 Birmingham's NEC will be taken over by the loudest and fastest modified cars in the country. Max
FORMER students of Pershore College went back to the Avon Bank campus for an open day as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. College spokeswoman Jo Thompson said: "We provided a special hospitality area for former students where they could get
WOMEN from across the three counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire will be competing at Throckmorton Airfield, Pershore, for the annual Marie Curie Cancer Care Ladies' Driving Challenge later this year. The charity's community fund-raiser
ORIGINAL etchings by an internationally renowned artist are now on display at Chipping Norton Theatre. David Hockney's work, which illustrates six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, will be on display at the Goddards Lane theatre until the end of this
A COMMUNITY spirited Evesham resident is to take tea with the Queen. Jean Dyke, chairman of the Coronation Street disabled club, is thrilled to be invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace on July 14. She said: "I was really surprised to get the
A TRIO of talented artists from Wyre Forest will serenade classical music lovers this month in a special event at Kidderminster Town Hall. Tenor, Russell Painter, baritone, Jonathan Darby and pianist, David Morgan are performing their Summer Serenade
GREASE will be the word in a Kidderminster hotel this month when tribute is paid to one of the best-loved musicals in the history of rock and roll. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John sound-a-likes, collectively known as Grease Is The Word, will belt
A BAND that has been making music in Wyre Forest for more than 12 years is celebrating the launch of its new website. Blind Lemon's internet site, www.blindlemon, includes a guest book for fans to leave personal messages, as well as details of gigs, sound
THE three-year evaluation was compiled by a Birmingham University team of experts, led by Professor James Raftery at the university's Health Services Management Centre. It monitored the effects of Kidderminster Hospital's downgrading - referred to in
DIABETICS will be given advice on how to reduce the risks of complications arising from the condition during an open evening at Kidderminster Hospital. As part of National Diabetes Week, the diabetes team will be in the hospital's treatment centre on
MEET Chloe Blackburn, the youngest headteacher in Wyre Forest. It was only for a day - but it was a dream time for the eight-year-old at Areley Common First School. She was voted in as head by her fellow pupils - and then got to boss them about by herding
CROWDS flocked to the open day at Kidderminster Fire Station in Castle Road on Saturday to look around fire engines and the station itself. "It was a very good day," a spokesman said. "We had a steady stream of visitors looking round and listening to
ELDERLY people living in Bidford's High Street say they are being driven out by noisy children at night. The couple, who are too upset to be identified, say the children who look between aged 12 and 14 gather together and drink, smoke and generally cause
A SUMMER fair with a variety of stalls and attractions will be held at a Kidderminster school this Saturday. The event will take place at Blakebrook School, Bewdley Road, from 1pm. Admission is free for children and 50p for adults.
YOUNGSTERS at Stourport High School are working hard to ensure that future generations do not forget the sacrifices made by local people during the Second World War. The school has been awarded a £2,000 Lottery Grant for the Veterans Reunited project
SWIMMING classes aimed at developing confidence and safety in water are being offered to Wyre Forest children. The lessons, run by the Baba Seahorse company, are for newborn babies and toddlers up to the age of four. The classes, taught by fully qualified
VEHICLES that collect Wyre Forest's reusable rubbish have had their image recycled and emerged with a new look. The Wyre Forest District Council vehicles that are used in the kerbside recycling scheme have been fitted with new posters that show which
EXCLUDED pupils created a striking dragonfly for a beauty spot near Stourport. Youngsters from the town spent two months making the copper insect for the Bishops Wood Centre, at Crossway Green. Children from Pupil Referred units in Stourport, Martley
PEOPLE caring for relatives or neighbours and who feel they need help and advice will find it available in Wyre Forest during the national Carers Week. The theme of the event, beginning on Monday and running through until Sunday, June 19, is work, rest
CREATIVE couple Malcolm and and Barbara Phillips are opening their garden at Cedar Lodge, Blakeshall, near Wolverley, this Sunday, from 2pm until 5.30pm. Cream teas and plants will be on sale and proceeds are in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association
A 20-year-old carer who has been writing poetry since the age of eight is celebrating her work being published in seven books in three months - and says there is more to come. More than 20 poems by Bryony Freeman can be found in Spotlight Poets' books
A FOOTBALL-mad writer from Stourport is looking forward to his dream coming true later this month with the publication of his first book, The Evil Ones. Terry Coy has been writing for the last 30 years and has completed four novels but the only work he
VISITORS to Bewdley Museum this month will be able to catch a glimpse of life in Wyre Forest during the Second World War in an exhibition called Make Do and Mend. The display opens on Monday and consists of a host of old photographs, pictures and video
MEMBERS of the Salford Priors Fete Committee are to host a weekend packed with events celebrating the 60th anniversary of VE day. It kicks off tomorrow night at 7.30pm with a Home Front Black Country night held in a marquee on the playing fields with
A 78-year-old Bidford resident had a lucky escape after denying a bogus caller entry into her home. The elderly woman from Grafton Lane, Bidford was visited by a man in his 20s who claimed to work for Dyno-Rod. She refused to let him in but an elderly
TODAY: Kidderminster: Town Hall - Christopher Allsop lunchtime organ recital. Birmingham: Marriott Hotel - Lupa. Wolverhampton: Wulfrun Hall - Half Man Half Biscuit. Little Civic - Towers of London. Robin R'n'B2 - Fragile. Coventry: Warwick University
MAC, Birmingham - Birmingham Print Makers, until July 3. The Ballad of Hoa, until June 26. A Boy in a Woman's Body, until June 26. Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry - Works of Liliane Lijn 1959-80, until June 22. Lighthouse, Wolverhampton - Facing East, until
A NEW Leominster-based singing group with a passion for the music of the 16th and 17th centuries is to stage its inaugural concert at the Priory Church on Saturday. Border Voices was the idea of former Cambridge choral scholar Kevin Scot, head of religious
MUSICIANS at Hereford Cathedral Junior School had a fantastic day raising funds for the school choir's trip to London at the end of term. Twelve hours of non-stop music directed by head of music Jon Weller involved the efforts of the various year choirs
HEREFORD Cathedral's organist and director of music, Geraint Bowen, gives the second gala concert on the recently-restored Willis organ at the cathedral, on Tuesday, June 14, at 7.30pm. His concert will be a keystone in this summer's programme of gala
WEDNESDAY CLUB: Met on June 1 when Mrs M Boath presided. Birthday cards were distributed. The trip to Street in Somerset was a success. The next outing takes place on Monday for a visit to the Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, with lunch earlier in the day
ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY: The society heard Gillian White speak and show slides on Elizabethan Textiles. Ms White, a graduate historian and previous curator of Hardwick Hall, brought to life through using the various textiles shown in a portrait of Elizabeth
THE cream of the country's pedigree livestock will be competing at the Three Counties Show from June 17 to 19, the annual farming and food spectacular. Livestock entries are buoyant and although cattle entries are slightly down on last year there is a
ANOTHER wartime song celebration is taking place, this time in Malvern. Sing for Victory is being staged by the stars of the hit show Beyond the Barricade, already popular with Malvern theatre-goers. It takes place on Tuesday and is a dynamic look at
SHIPSTON actor David Wynne is making his debut in Stratford in a special performance of a Shakespeare play in the garden of one of the town's historic houses. Falcon Productions are staging The Merry Wives of Windsor in the gardens of Hall's Croft from
ALL the timeless characters from the famous Grace Brothers department store are stepping into the limelight in Badsey this month. Fans of the television show Are You Being Served will be glad to hear it is being revived in the latest performance by the
A DOUBLE bill of new one-act plays is being staged at The Everyman's Other Space studio. Bad by Norman Waller is about a confrontation between an elderly woman and an angry young man who breaks into her house and Nature Knows Best by Nick Discombe looks
THE 2005 season at Longborough Festival Opera opens on Friday, June 17, with Puccini's bittersweet La Boheme. There will be a total of 20 performances of three different operas staged at the Palladian-style opera house at Longborough, between Moreton
A LUCKY audience was allowed an hour's adventure in a dreamworld of fantasy and illusion when the circus brought its magical spell to town. Not the whip-cracking, lion-taming kind of circus, but the rope dangling, magic, illusionary experience dubbed
BLUE Peter's resident scientist and Sky One's Brainiac presenter Dr Bunhead (aka scientist Tom Pringle) brings the funniest, silliest, most surreptitiously educational science show to The Courtyard for two performances on Monday. The West End hit Dr Bunhead's
TWO hundred and eighty singers, mostly men, will be raising the roof at a special event in Tewkesbury this month. The Cotswold Male Voice Choir is hosting this year's Massed Choir Concert, bringing together choirs from all over the region, which is taking
OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM: The Evesham and District Older People's Forum is holding its next general meeting at Wallace House, Oat Street, at 2pm on Tuesday, June 14. All members and non members welcome. ART SOCIETY: At the May meeting, members and guests
MAX Power Live, the biggest and most eagerly awaited modified car show the nation has ever known, is returning this summer. From July 1 until July 3, 2005 Birmingham's NEC will be taken over by the loudest and fastest modified cars in the country. Max
GREASE will be the word in a Kidderminster hotel this month when tribute is paid to one of the best-loved musicals in the history of rock and roll. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John sound-a-likes, collectively known as Grease Is The Word, will belt
A FOOTBALL-mad writer from Stourport is looking forward to his dream coming true later this month with the publication of his first book, The Evil Ones. Terry Coy has been writing for the last 30 years and has completed four novels but the only work he
VISITORS to Bewdley Museum this month will be able to catch a glimpse of life in Wyre Forest during the Second World War in an exhibition called Make Do and Mend. The display opens on Monday and consists of a host of old photographs, pictures and video
