FORMER United States Pres-ident Jimmy Carter was among a major international gathering of Baptists attended by the Pastor of a Kiddermin-ster Church. Pastor Jack Bentham, of Milton Hall Baptist Church, accompanied by his wife, June, and church secretary
THEY say policemen are looking younger these days. Phil Nuthall, who had his hair shaved his and beard chopped all in the name of charity, admits everybody says it has taken years off him. The head shave, in aid of the County Air Ambulance, took place
MORE than 400 children took part in a Teddy Bear's Picnic at a Worcester park and raised £934 for St Richard's Hospice. The charity's community fund-raiser, Alison Weston, said the event at Gheluvelt Park, off Barbourne Road, Barbourne, was a great way
USUALLY it is a quaint country pub, but the Hunter's Lodge is to become the stage for a play being performed as part of the Worcester Festival. The pub, on Oakhall Green, near Hallow, will be an unusual setting for the play Rites, performed by the Red
ON the progress report, Worcester City's midfield and attack are yet to receive a tick in the box. Both areas have been at pains to function in City's first three Nationwide North games. Whether it's down to misfiring individual performances or a symptom
The firm behind the disastrous Severn Boat Festival is set to be placed into liquidation after losing thousands of pounds on the event. Almost 100 creditors are owed money after Worcester Events Ltd made a loss of between £70,000 and £80,000 on the Severn
MALE shoppers - and perhaps a few female ones - will get a shock this week when they find that Marks & Spencers' women's underwear department has moved into a store previously devoted to menswear. A £100,000 makeover at the chain's two Worcester shops
WORCESTERSHIRE were plunged deeper into the relegation mire yesterday after crashing to Hampshire Hawks by four wickets at New Road. A seventh defeat leaves Royals stranded at the bottom of Division One in the totesport League with just five games remaining
NEW Road is gearing up for an enthralling Ashes climax when England Women clash with Australia tomorrow. The rivals lock horns in the second and deciding four-day Test match at Worcestershire's home ground, following a drawn first Test at Hove. The home
EVESHAM United goalkeeper Tim Clarke has not enjoyed the best of starts to his side's first season in the Southern League Premier Division. For instead of standing between the posts for the Robins on the opening day of the season at Tiverton Town, he
BROMYARD Town failed to get off to the start they needed in the West Midlands League Premier Division as they slipped 2-1 at home to Heath Hayes. In an average overall display, Town dominated play for the first half-hour and were eventually rewarded with
OLD Elizabethans' Birmingham Cricket League Division Two relegation fears increased when they lost a high-scoring match with Kings Heath by four wickets. Despite a much- improved batting performance that saw OEs make 257-5, it wasn't enough to avoid defeat
OH, these heady days of traffic-free mornings in Worcester and no queues during the evening rush hour. What a blessing the summer holidays are, and the dramatic reduction in traffic in July and August just goes to show how many extra vehicles the school
WORCESTERSHIRE were plunged deeper into the relegation mire yesterday after crashing to Hampshire Hawks by four wickets at New Road. A seventh defeat leaves Royals stranded at the bottom of Division One in the totesport League with just five games remaining
BEWARE all visitors to the Mill Pond when they next enjoy a visit to Castlemorton common. Malvern Hills Conservators (MHC) have stated that because naughty people have been piling rubbish up against the three full litter bins situated around the Mill
YOUR correspondent L Spiteri queries what life would be like if the UK were outside the EU. Well, there are three examples close to home we can learn from - Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, which are all outside the EU. All three are economic success
Strike warning THE man at the centre of a dispute at a Rolls-Royce factory warned today that a strike by engineers in his support will hit production "by the hour". Jerry Hicks said he was heartened by the support of fellow members of Amicus who mounted
A FAMILY-owned business responsible for sending generations of children on activity and school trips was sold to its management for £42m. PGL Travel, which hosts more than 250,000 children a year at centres in the UK, France, Spain and Austria, has been
AN old family recipe for damson gin has proved a winner for a Worcestershire enterprise. Tipsy Fruit Gins has won two gold awards for its gin-based damson and blackcurrant fruit liqueurs, together with a silver for raspberry, in the Great Taste Awards
Fiona Kaese (left), Nichola Hill (front) and Georgina Powell are hoping the sight of them pulling pints in their nightwear and swimwear will entice people to the Swan, in Martin Hussingtree, near Worcester, for a pyjama party on Thursday and a bikini
A TOURIST hot-spot is taking family fun to new heights with a three-day kite-flying festival. Croome Landscape Park is encouraging visitors of all ages to fly a kite at the spectacular setting on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 24, 25 and 26. There
AN angry Worcester resident has hit out at housing chiefs for putting up scaffolding outside his flat, preventing rubbish from being collected outside. Forty-two-year-old Tony Wilson, of the city's Vesta Tilley Court, off George Street, said Worcester
THIS month's family fun day at a popular Worcester park looks set to be bigger and better than ever with up to 1,000 people expected to attend. The festivities at Gheluvelt Park, off Barbourne Road, will coincide with the first anniversary of the opening
THE only thing that prevented Helen Legg from enjoying her swim across the English Channel was the jellyfish. Helen, aged 17, successfully negotiated the waves as part of a team of six teenagers, raising money for a children's hospice. The Worcester College
Firefighter Bob Parr, of Worcester Fire Station, gives Joanna Street, of St Richard's Hospice in Worcester, hands-on training as they prepare for the Have A Go day, in which people can try their hand at firefighting skills to raise money for the hospice
This newspaper is greatly saddened to report that the company behind the Worcester boat festival is about to go into liquidation. It would appear that nothing went right from the start. Only a fraction of the anticipated visitors attended and many of
DRIVERS are being warned that Worcester city centre could come to a standstill again today after construction work caused long tailbacks yesterday. Builders putting up luxury apartments on land off All Saints Road caused traffic to back up along Dolday
A BABY with a rare genetic condition has gone back into hospital days after finally being allowed home. Bethany Kerrell, aged 13 weeks, was born with part of her chromosomes missing. She is connected to an oxygen supply and fed through a tube because
MARK Owen bagged a hat-trick as Malvern Town triumphed 4-1 at Tipton Town in the Midland Alliance. The former Worcester City goal machine was joined on the scoresheet by Mark Shepherd as they inflicted Tipton's first defeat of the season. Neil Hunt's
FOOTBALL: Bromsgrove Rovers take on Southern League Division One West new boys Rushall Olympic at the Victoria Ground tonight (7.45). Promotion-chasing Rovers suffered their first defeat on Saturday, slipping 1-0 at Brackley. But Rovers won their first
WORCESTER defeated bottom-of-the-table Lichfield by five wickets in the Birmingham Cricket League Division Three. Lichfield batted first and only managed 153 all out in 36.2 overs, thanks to 51 not out from O'Sullivan. Worc-ester's opening bowler Andy
NEW Road is gearing up for an enthralling Ashes climax when England Women clash with Australia tomorrow. The rivals lock horns in the second and deciding four-day Test match at Worcestershire's home ground, following a drawn first Test at Hove. The home
READERS of the Worcester News will be interested to know that 60 per cent of the studio audience at the BBC's Talkback last weekend said they didn't think there could be a united Europe. Such commonsense is a wake up call for those politicians still calling
JUDGING by his letter in the Worcester News (Monday, August 15) headlined "No future without EU" L Spiteri (Mr/Mrs?) is either joking, or is a pretty spineless person. I do not believe that anyone could really be naive enough to believe that Great Britain
IN your article headlined "Twin-pronged attack on the congestion problem," (Worcester News, Friday, August 12) Councillor John Smith, the County Council's Environment Chief says: "It's up to us to give Worcester people what they want." He then he proceeds
RIVALS rolled up their sleeves and battled it out - but don't worry no blood was spilt, instead it was water being splashed about during a charity raft race in Worcester. The Sabrina Raft Races were organised as part of Worcester Festival 2005 and saw
