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  • Housing group apologises for confusion

    ELDERLY residents at a sheltered housing block are breathing a sigh of relief after the threat of staffing level cuts was lifted. About 40 people at the Ferry View very sheltered housing complex in Evesham were preparing for a fight with Rooftop Housing

  • Can you design dog coat?

    DOGGY chic is all the rage for an animal trust in Worcester. Actress and model Jo-Emma Larvin has launched a charity’s search for a budding young designer to create the ultimate in doggy couture. The Retired Greyhound Trust in Worcester is asking children

  • Lack of details halt new homes plans

    PLANS to build a new housing estate which could change the face of a riverside town have been deferred by councillors. Developer Miller Strategic Land wants to build more than 500 houses on land at South Bank, off Offenham Road, Evesham, But Wychavon

  • Help us and report any incidents of dog fouling

    A CITY councillor has urged people to do their bit in keeping Worcester tidy. Councillor Roger Knight asked a meeting of residents to report every incident of littering or dog fouling they saw because civil enforcement officers would not be able to do

  • Former reporter is now a viscount

    THE Berrow’s Worcester Journal is certainly the oldest newspaper in the world – and now it’s one of the best connected, too. Because a former reporter has succeeded as the head of one of Scotland’s oldest clans. Charles Colville, who worked for the

  • Career-best Shantry halts Leicestershire

    A BATTLING innings of 74 from veteran Paul Nixon was not enough to prevent Worcestershire taking command of their LV= County Championship Division Two game against Leicestershire at Grace Road. The hosts were bowled out for 181 with Worcestershire’s

  • Top 10 gorgeous girls are guaranteed a prize

    A BULGING bag of goodies will be given to the 10 finalists of Miss Worcester 2010. The pink Everybody Knows Somebody bags have been organised by Karen Tomalin, director of 2nd Skin Ling- erie and patron of the Worcestershire Breast Unit Campaign. Women

  • Golf day tribute to Adam

    THE family of a Worcester lorry driver killed in an horrific accident at work have organised a charity golf tournament in his memory. The Adam Millichip Memorial Golf Challenge will entail about 180 family members and friends, and even soldiers

  • Cricket fixture list

    SATURDAY BIRMINGHAM & DISTRICT LEAGUE FIRST XI Premier Division: Himley v Walmley; Knowle & Dorridge v Barnt Green; Smethwick v Shrewsbury; Walsall v Kidderminster Victoria; Wellington v Kenilworth Wardens; Wolverhampton v Moseley. Division One

  • Trophy test for fit-again race driver

    WORCESTERSHIRE driver Tim Matthews returns to fully competitive racing this season after three years in the wilderness. The veteran ace has tackled only a handful of races since 2007 when he finished second in the UK Sports 2000 ‘B’ Championship. Matthews

  • County weekend football fixture list

    SATURDAY WORCESTER AND DISTRICT LEAGUE Powick FC v Northway; University of Worcester v Hallow WMC. KIDDERMINSTER LEAGUE Senior Cup final: Birch Coppice v KS Athletic. Premier Division: Two Gates v Kings Heath Old Boys; Areley Kings v Wollescote

  • What health chiefs will do if swine flu returns

    HOSPITAL chiefs have developed an action plan if the swine flu pandemic returns after learning lessons from the outbreak. Bosses spent £318,876 on managing the pandemic in the year up to April. The largest proportion of that (£181,000) was

  • Sponsor a flower and brighten someone's day

    WITH spring well and truly here, a charity shop is offering people the chance to sponsor a flower. At the Daisychain Benevolent Fund clothing and book stores in Bromyard Road, St John’s, people can drop in a pay £1 to sponsor a paper daisy which will

  • Our guide to a hung parliament

    So, with all this talk of balanced and hung parliaments, we thought we'd put together a duffer's guide to explain what COULD happen tomorrow. What constitutes a majority? Whoever forms a government needs to know they have enough votes

  • Lunchtime catch-up for lawyers and their clients

    MORE than 100 clients and professional contacts of Worcestershire law firm Harrison Clark attended a spring business lunch at Worcester Cathedral Chapter House. Guests were welcomed with a speech by head of litigation Richard Morgan and were treated

  • Estate agents take on staff as work expands

    THE Worcester office of estate agents Knight Frank has invested in two experienced negotiators to help with its expanding business. Shelley Stephenson is a local girl, having been born into a farming family from Hallow and was educated in the county

  • Greens hope for first seat on city council

    THE Green Party is hoping to win its first ever seat on Worcester City Council. While almost all of the focus has been on the general election, residents in Worcester will also get to cast their votes tomorrow in local elections being held

  • Heseltine: I can smell victory in the air for our party

    A FORMER deputy Prime Minister for the Conservatives has admitted both his party and Labour probably regret taking part in the live televised leaders’ debates. But Lord Heseltine, who was second in command to John Major between 1995 and 1997

  • French students have fun learning English while they work

    EXCHANGE students from France worked hard in Worcester to improve their English. The teenagers, from Worcester’s twin town of Le Vesinet, near Paris, spent last week working in cafés in the city to improve their language skills. Valentin Sexton, aged

  • We’d rather be alive with no breasts than in a coffin

    WHEN a mother and daughter both opted for a double mastectomy, the same thought was racing through their minds: “I’d rather be alive with no breasts than in a coffin and keep them.” Hazel Dyer and daughter Kelly have in common this rather steely

  • Leaflet concerns for city candidate

    A CANDIDATE standing in Worcester is calling on the Royal Mail to carry out a review after she was left with thousands of surplus leaflets. The Liberal Democrat party’s Jackie Alderson said she had about 7,000 leaflets left over despite the

  • Driver flees scene of A449 crash

    A DRIVER has fled the scene after crashing with another car on the A449 this morning. Paramedics were called to the busy road at Hindlip, between the B4550 and the Sixways roundabout, at 9.45am today after a black car collided with the back of a Fiat

  • Do you know wanted man?

    A WORCESTER man who failed to turn up at court is wanted by police. A warrant was issued after Richard Jauncey, of Hopton Street, St John’s, did not appear at Worcester Magistrates Court on Tuesday, April 27 to face charges of theft.

  • These road repairs seem never-ending

    A DRIVER has criticised council pothole repairs after one was filled and re-filled five times in a month. Ray Ryder was the victim of a pothole in the A44 Evesham Road earlier this year. Hitting the 7in-deep gouge broke two wheels on his Mercedes and

  • Many dental patients’ fees 'not necessary'

    NHS dental patients in Worcestershire have paid out more than £1 million in unnecessary fees, according to new figures. They come amid claims that NHS dentists are insisting patients make follow-up appointments for treatment rather than treating

  • Jobs fears as Warriors count cost of relegation

    JOBS among non-rugby staff at Worcester Warriors are under threat as the club counts the cost of relegation from the Guinness Premiership. General manager Charlie Little revealed staff had been warned that they may face redundancy as club officials

  • Counties book their place

    WORCESTERSHIRE & Herefordshire booked their place in this season’s RLF North Midlands Rugby Championship with a 20-15 win over defending champions Shropshire at Droitwich. The result was in the balance until Hereford fly-half Dean Powell kicked the

  • Hooray for mural!

    SIR – I would like to say how fantastic I think the mural on the side of United Footwear is, and a huge congratulations to pupils from the Tudor Grange Academy along with David Brown and Matt Reeves, the graffiti artists who helped them with the project

  • COMMENT: Only lowest of low steal from elderly

    SCUM. That is the most appropriate word to describe thieves who are targeting sheltered housing complexes in Worcester. The criminals responsible for the raids are the lowest of the low. Large plasma televisions have been taken from sheltered housing

  • Alarms fitted to deter sheltered housing TV thieves

    NEW hi-tech security alarms are being fitted to televisions following two raids on sheltered housing complexes in Worcester. Large plasma televisions have been stolen from Brookthorpe Close sheltered accommodation in Cranham Drive, Warndon,

  • Support your local animal charities

    SIR – As from May 4 the RSPCA will no longer take into their care pets belonging to people who are taken into hospital, evicted from their homes, unwanted or found as strays. Those holding the animal will be told to contact the police, the local council

  • Bronson clothes are simply barmy

    SIR – I read the article about a martial arts instructor in Worcester City Council’s Lyppard Grange Community Centre selling Charles Bronson’s merchandise. Why is the Prison Service helping Charles Bronson, allegedly one of Britain’s most violent criminals

  • How could these homes stay empty?

    SIR – On Friday, April 30, I watched an astounding item on BBC 1 News about thousands of new houses just outside Dublin on a beautiful greenfield site that have remained unsold and empty for years since the day they were built. Now it’s proposed to

  • Never let Parkinson’s get the better of you

    SIR – I appreciated James Connell’s article on Parkinson’s disease. Mark Davies has my deepest sympathy as a fellow sufferer. His condition is far worse than mine (we are all different), and he also lost his wife’s help. I am lucky that mine still supports

  • Armed police swoop on truck

    OUR dramatic picture shows armed police in action in Worcester. Officers from West Mercia Police stopped a Ford Transit flat-bed truck in Bilford Road, with three men inside. A police 4x4 stopped the truck as it drove towards Rainbow

  • While Britain partied, I was still in Germany

    WHILE Britain was celebrating the end of war in Europe, one city airman’s war dragged on for another 18 months. Leading aircraftsman Cyril Knight was watching soldiers from the Red Army across a river in east Germany when the surrender was announced.

  • No retrial for arson accused

    A 20-year-old man acquitted of two arson charges will not have to face a second jury trial. Ashley Dunn was cleared of starting fires at a house in Sling Lane, Malvern, and at the Focus DIY store in Roman Way, Malvern. But the jury at Worcester Crown

  • Teams wanted for worthy cause

    A team race with a difference across the Malvern Hills is being organised to raise money for charity. The adventure race, which takes place on Saturday, May 29, will start at the Outdoor Education Centre in West Malvern, and participating teams will

  • Police call off murder hunt

    THE death of a Worcester man whose body was found in a brook is no longer being treated as suspicious, say police. The body of Scott Hartland - a father of three - was found by a dog walker in Laugherne Brook, off Solitaire Avenue, in St John’s, in

  • High-energy opening for new centre

    A NEW £11 million leisure centre was formally unveiled with a school tournament. Evesham Leisure Centre was opened with a dodgeball tournament last week. The award-winning Abbey Road centre first opened its doors in September last year. Six dodgeball