THERE are still rumours that Carrie was expelled from school. Or that she left because she had become pregnant. After all, it's not normal for a teenage girl to be taken out of school three years before her GCSEs. Carrie Barker hated school, she was uninspired
A FORMER huntswoman who turned saboteur has rubbished claims that a Worcestershire hunt was threatened by protesters who vowed to come back with guns and to burn down kennels. Lynn Sawyer, of Boat Lane, Evesham, said she had experienced the bloodsport
TOURISM staff in Worcester have stocked up on a new publication which is aimed at guiding visitors in the right direction to the city's attractions and accommodation. Fifteen thousand copies of the new Worcester visitor guide have arrived at the Guildhall
NEW bylaws regarding the regulation of acupuncture, tattooing, piercing, electrolysis and skin colouring could soon come into force in the Malvern Hills. The district's chiefs are considering the new regulations in accordance with recent guidelines issued
POLICE are warning people to keep a lookout for bottles of potentially hazardous medication lost in Kidderminster. The liquid physeptone - a form of methadone - was in two 60ml child-proof bottles were inside a Lloyds Pharmacy paper bag which itself in
TONIGHT: Birmingham: Marriott Hotel - Lupa. Hibernian - Sleezon's Greetings. Symphony Hall - Tchaikovsky Gala. FRIDAY: Kidderminster: Gilt Edge Club - Ballroom Glitz. Stourport: Bar St Martin's - Ollie Hughes. The Angel - jazz. Wolverhampton: Robin R'n'B2
ANDY Preece must wish Stafford Rangers are on the menu each and every week. Despite Stafford's impressive position at the zenith of Nationwide North, Worcester can point to two highly impressive and hungry displays against the table-toppers. Only poor
HEREFORD United ended their festive period with five points from three matches after Guy Madjo's second-half equaliser earned visiting Forest Green Rovers a deserved point at Edgar Street yesterday. The Bulls had much the better of the first period and
A COMPETITIVE end-to-end derby saw Stourport Swifts and Bromsgrove Rovers share the points from a 1-1 draw at Walshes Meadow. Chris Hughes put Swifts ahead on 65 minutes in the Southern League Division One West fixture watched by 301 fans. Hughes dispatched
STRUGGLING Evesham United slipped to a third Premier Division defeat in a row, falling 2-0 at Bath City. Gethin Jones (39) and Scott Partridge (75) scored the goals after the visitors' Gavin O'Toole was sent off for two yellow cards to keep Evesham in
MALVERN Town's 100 per cent Midland Alliance record at the Langland Stadium ended with a 2-0 defeat to Tipton Town yesterday. Defender Andy Chalmers left the action on 12 minutes with a thigh injury and the visitors took advantage. Scott Voice swooped
Droitwich Ladies Circle raised £350 for St Richard's Hospice, Worcester, after holding a barn dance in the town. The hospice's director of fund-raising Marilyn Peachey thanked Janet Watson, Hazel Hawkes, chairman Leanne Day and Justine Cosson when they
Monday, January 2, 2006 THE relegation trapdoor is looming closer for Kidderminster Harriers but Martin O'Connor tried to take the positives out of yesterday's 3-0 defeat at Altrincham. While the Conference result was dreadful on paper, Harriers often
Monday, January 2, 2006 ANDY Preece must wish Stafford Rangers are on the menu each and every week. Despite Stafford's impressive position at the zenith of Nationwide North, Worcester can point to two highly impressive and hungry displays against the
AMBLING along in the winter sunshine, a shopping carrier in his gloved hand and listening perhaps to music through his earphones, this seemingly ordinary middle-aged man is David McGreavy, the evil monster who slaughtered three Worcester tots and impaled
THE final touches are being put to a bid to transform the face of Worcester's riverside. Worcester City Council has just three days left to produce a plan that will impress Lottery judges in an attempt to win £25m backing. Three new bridges, a public
A KIND-hearted film maker and a Worcester shop joined forces to raise more than £9,000 for a branch of the Air Ambulance. Gerry Anderson, the creator of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and other television hits, joined staff from The Videodrome in Broad
SOME of society's most vulnerable women are being urged to make 2006 the year when they take hold of their lives. The Asha Centre, based in London Road, Worcester, organises a number of courses, from improving self-esteem to tackling IT, and the new term
CHRISTMAS comes but once a year and when it does it brings good cheer... and an awful lot of mobile phones. One of the most widely purchased items this Christmas will have been mobile phones. An estimated 15 million are replaced in the UK each year and
A SCHEME to replace two farm buildings at a village near Droitwich are likely to get the thumbs-up from Wychavon councillors. Laight Bros want to put up a grain store and a general agricultural storage building at Great Horton Farm, Hampton Lovett, to
A NEW patient appointment system has been introduced to cut waiting times. Seriously ill patients can book an appointment by calling a main out-of-hours number which then operates through an machine-answering service. Matthew Burke, general manager of
ELLA is just one more dog who has been left without a home over the Christmas period. The timid eight-year-old border collie cross needs a loving new home to help bring her out of her shell and give her a brighter future. Since being taken to Danemere
FIXTURES Harvey World Travel Midland Football Alliance Friday, December 30, Coalville Town v Malvern Town - postponed. Saturday, January 7, Cradley Town v Malvern Town (3.00). Tuesday, January 10, Malvern Town v Romulus (7.45). Saturday, January 14, Malvern
THE Gillam Street murders sent a shockwave through Worcester that reverberates to this day. On Friday, April 13, 1973, David McGreavy committed a crime of unparallelled savagery when he murdered, then impaled, the bodies of three young children on the
MANAGER Andy Preece admits his Worcester City side must deliver Stafford-esque displays every week. Spirited City drew 1-1 against Rangers at St George's Lane, with leading marksman Adam Webster netting minutes after the interval to cancel out Craig McAughtrie's
THE relegation trapdoor is looming closer for Kidderminster Harriers but Martin O'Connor tried to take the positives out of yesterday's 3-0 defeat at Altrincham. While the Conference result was dreadful on paper, Harriers often looked the better team
ARCHDALES '73 recorded another impressive result, defeating county rivals Littleton 3-2 in Midland Combination Division One on Saturday. Both sides started strongly with chances at both ends but the first-half ended goalless. Littleton came out firing
DAGGER-thin shafts of winter sunlight probed the scarlet curtains of the master bedroom of No 10 Downing Street, shimmering across the black satin sheets and casting into sharp relief the mysterious valleys of the First Lady's crimplene dressing gown.
SIR Regarding your leader (December 14) on attacks on hospital staff, I reckon anyone drunk or under the influence of drugs should be refused treatment until they have sobered up. That might teach them. GEORGE COWLEY, Warndon, Worcester.
SIR - There are four attacks a week at Worcestershire Royal Hospital by drunken and drug-fuelled cretins. Could I suggest their immediate removal from any future NHS care? FRANK L JONES, Malvern.
SIR I am writing to say thank you to Asda for kindly donating 270 Christmas hampers to Marie Curie Cancer Care. These were given out to 270 of the Marie Curie nurses who gave up their own family Christmas to make someone else's special. Our nurses care
SIR - The council hopes when the wheelie bins system is up and running it will save them thousands of pounds. This could turn out to be no saving at all when people are affected by rotting rubbish for two weeks. In the summer months, can you imagine the
SIR - John Shearon, (Letters, December 16) enquires whether the introduction of wheelie bins will help to reduce council tax. This correspondent's question is irrelevant. The important factor is that wheelie bins are associated with recycling, which should
SIR - In reply to C Penzer (Letters, Wednesday, December 21), his confusion is due to the previous correspondence on bus passes being incorrect. There will be obligatory government free bus passes for pensioners and the disabled from April, 2006. However
SIR Great news just before Christmas! Maggs Day Centre receives continuing funding from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It's brilliant spin that suggests the Government really cares about homelessness. But although they fund projects like this
SIR At a time when Charles Kennedy is being strong-armed out of office by our American controlled national media for standing against the Iraq war, let's face some facts about our independent 'democracy' in Britain. It's dead. As Blair's American capitalist
MANAGER Andy Preece admits his Worcester City side must deliver Stafford-esque displays every week. Spirited City drew 1-1 against Rangers at St George's Lane, with leading marksman Adam Webster netting minutes after the interval to cancel out Craig McAughtrie's
Our photographer Sarah Jeynes caught these swans getting in the act at Bewdley's duck race.
Tony Billingham, president of the West Midlands Care Association, shakes hands with John Noott, president of the Registered Care Homes Association of Hereford and Worcester. The two groups struck a deal over Christmas which will make them one of Britain's
Banks have beaten building societies to offer the best value mortgages during 2005. Financial research firm Defaqto said HSBC was the cheapest overall mortgage provider during the year, followed by Intelligent Finance. But the group, which looked at the
Entrepreneurs are starting the new year in a confident mood with 88 per cent expecting their business to be better off or remain the same during the coming 12 months. A third of entrepreneurs plan to recruit additional staff over the coming year, while
Company bosses have been told to be on their guard after figures showed that employee fraud has risen by 81 per cent in the last two years. The Christmas break and bank holiday offers the perfect opportunity for thieves to cover their tracks because fewer
Unions are launching a campaign later today to encourage the UK's 28 million workers to check their hearing. On the day when most employees return to work after the Christmas break, the TUC is giving its backing to the Royal National Institute for the
EXPRESS delivery giant TNT, which has a base at Hartlebury, near Kidderminster, has been recognised as one of the UK's most generous and caring companies, following its inclusion in a list of the country's most charitable businesses. The business-to-business
AMAZING Amy has celebrated seeing in 2006 in remission from leukaemia, overcoming the odds. In February 2002, doctors predicted that she had just one hour to live, but the brave six-year-old has battled back to health and has been in remission for 18
A DEDICATED employee was so determined to hit his half-century at his place of work that he put his retirement on hold for two weeks. But now Mick Reynolds has called it a day after working for the Worcester News for exactly 50 years. Born in Hallow,
TONIGHT: Birmingham: Marriott Hotel - Lupa. Hibernian - Sleezon's Greetings. Symphony Hall - Tchaikovsky Gala. FRIDAY: Kidderminster: Gilt Edge Club - Ballroom Glitz. Stourport: Bar St Martin's - Ollie Hughes. The Angel - jazz. Wolverhampton: Robin R'n'B2
