PEOPLE will be able to hear from the lawyers who decide whether to take people to court. David Elliot a district prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service is speaking about the key role it plays in bringing criminals to justice. He will he talking
THE closure of another Worcester pub has caused online readers of your Worcester News to bemoan the difficult circumstances landlords face when trying to make a success of their business. We reported that the Arboretum Inn, in Northfield Street, Worcester
FORMER England squash player Vicky Hynes has helped introduce the sport to Droitwich Spa leisure centre. Following the recent news that Englishman Nick Matthew has taken the world number one spot in squash, leisure centre staff are capitalising on the
FIFTEEN-time champion jockey Tony McCoy rode two short-priced winners in tonight’s meeting at Worcester Racecourse. 18.10,Partex Marking Systems Novices’ Hurdle: 1 Ghimaar (AP McCoy, 1-3fav); 2 Lamboro Lad (TJ O’Brien, 11-4 2nd-fav). Five ran. 18.40
WORCESTERSHIRE Royals edged a nervy three-wicket victory at Leicestershire Foxes to hand the New Road side their first win on the road in the Friends Provident t20 North Group and lift them off the foot of the table. Having restricted the Grace Road
MAJOR work costing more than £500,000 to transform Cutnall Green Memorial Hall, near Droitwich, is nearing completion. The ambitious project, which was made possible thanks to the efforts of determined villagers and committee members, is set to be finished
WOODY and the Stuntcocks perform live at Drummonds in Worcester on Friday, July 16. The band, lead by Mick Essex, play an eclectic set of rock and pop classics with attitude and passion. For details see backstagepromotions.co.uk.
COMMUNITY arts projects in Droitwich Spa are being put in the shop window. Thanks to funding from the Droitwich Spa Area Partnership and Wychavon District Council, arts workshops have been taking place at Droitwich’s youth clubs in connection with the
YOUNG actress Holly Russell sports a T-shirt and baseball cap – just some of the gifts sent by American group Kool and the Gang to wish a Worcester youth drama group good luck with their forthcoming musical. Also among the gifts from the popular R&B
POLICE in Worcestershire have made a number of arrests in connection with drugs and burglary offences. Five men have been arrested in three separate incidents over two days. The first arrests were made at an address in Archers Close, Malvern, between
TOURISM and trade go hand-in-hand in Upton-upon-Severn. The town has a strong independent identity and an army of volunteers who work together to ensure that the annual festivals thrive and local business survives. Upton’s Tourism and Trade Association
A NEW nursery and holiday club for young people with complex needs has had a £7,000 cash boost. The New Hope Worcester club is now opening thanks to a helping hand from city folk, via the Worcester Round Table group. Set up by Jean Wilson and Sallie
Worcestershire Royals (target 143) Jaques c White b Hoggard 32 Jayasuriya c Hodge b Henderson 25 Moeen c and b Hodge 15 Kervezee c Benning b Hodge 4 Mitchell not out 7 Cameron not out 7 Total 91 (for
TWINS from the University of Worcester will be representing England at the British National Karate Championships in Scotland on Saturday. Lee and Steve Heath, aged 19, from Warndon in Worcester, were recently selected as part of the English national
EMERGENCY services were called to a fire on a busy Worcester trading estate. Two fire crews from Worcester and one from Droitwich attended a fire at Smith and Deakin Plastics, Blackpole Trading Estate, at 12.15pm today. Firefighters
DROITWICH Dolphins booked a place in the finals of the Nuneaton Junior League with a convincing win at Rugby Leisure Centre. A confident team competed against five other clubs to try and improve their current position of third in the division.
WORCESTERSHIRE law firm Harrison Clark is celebrating after gaining both Investors in People and Lexcel accreditation for outstanding client and staff management. Awarded only to solicitors who meet the highest management and client care standards, Lexcel
WORCESTER’S Old Elizabethans staged the Asda Kwik cricket girls’ county final with all the district winners involved. Wordsley-based Fairhaven School won after being put up against Worcester’s Perdiswell Primary, Malvern’s Wyche School, Stourport
ROYAL Grammar School Worcester and Bromsgrove School proved the cream of the county crop. RGS won the Sport Structures Ltd Worcestershire Schools Cricket Association Under 13s Cup by 79 runs, while Bromsgrove claimed the under 15s equivalent
JUBILANT Herefordshire are toasting their first Minor Counties Championship three-day win since beating Wales in August 2005. They notched a conclusive five-wicket Western Division success over Devon at Eastnor. Steve Adshead followed up his first innings
IN a pulsating international basketball match at the University of Worcester last night, the hosts England nearly pulled off a huge shock when they entertained Lithuania in the first of two games. The visitors, who have finished in the top four in each
THE bands are booked, the brochures are out and Worcester’s official summer festival is just around the corner. The city’s annual extravaganza will start on Saturday, August 14 with the sound of Worcester Territorial Army’s 214 Battery gun salute and
PRIMARY school pupils celebrated as their new “super” playground was finally unveiled. Pupils of Hanbury CE First School, near Droitwich, played a major role in the playground’s £5,900 makeover. The transformation was part of the Royal Bank
TRAVELLING thousands of miles for radiotherapy while fighting for your life against cancer is a burden that, in an ideal world, nobody should have to bear. Patients, their families and medical staff hope NHS Worcestershire’s draft cancer strategy
THE Johnny Cash Roadshow rides back into town later this month. The respected tribute band, fronted by Worcestershire singer songrwriter Clive John, will perform at Malvern Theatres on Saturday, July 17. John as the Man in Black will be joined by Nick
IT’S been years since I watched Hayley Mills in the 1961 film version of Whistle Down the Wind. And while Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage adaptation of Mary Hayley Bell’s novel is an altogether different beast, transporting it from rural Lancashire
WORCESTER’S MP walked 31 miles in a day to raise money for the city hospice that cared for his father just before he died. Just two days after the death of Lord Walker of Worcester, his son Robin, who has followed in his father’s footsteps to be elected
PLANS to give Worcester’s flagship academy school a £15.4 million revamp could still go ahead despite the axe falling on building projects elsewhere in the county. We reported in yesterday’s Worcester News how the Government had pulled the plug on £120
LIFE-saving volunteers from across Worcestershire gathered yesterday to demonstrate their skills. Members of the County Volunteers Emergency Committee, representing organisations such as St John Ambulance, Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) and the
POLICE hunting alleged killer Raoul Moat have offered a £10,000 reward to speed up his capture. Speaking today at a news conference at Northumbria Police Headquarters in Ponteland, Newcastle, officers also said they had recovered a second letter
NO action will be taken against Conservative party members for their actions in the run-up to and during a chaotic political visit to Malvern during the election campaign. Just six days before the country went to the polls, tempers spilled
A 26-year-old man posted pictures of Adolf Hitler on Facebook in revenge for being dumped by his girlfriend for an Asian man. Zack Timms posted messages on the social networking site amounting to threats of violence. He wrote: “Can’t wait to have it
BUILDING work on Worcester’s latest river crossing is going according to plan and it should be finished by the end of the month. The main structure of the new Diglis Bridge, including the main steel work and deck sections of the footway, are up and builders
STUDENTS from the health and care department of Worcester Sixth Form College put their skills to the test in a special food-tasting event. More than 200 students and staff attended the Around the World food-tasting event and raised nearly £250
A BUDDING Worcestershire actress is all set to perform in front of royalty. Emily Spacie, a former pupil of the Chase High School in Malvern, will take centre stage when a new play about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 opens in London tonight. None But
SIR – Jon Burgess (Letters, June 29) uses the excuse for eating cows, pigs and sheep that it is our “culture and belief” (it certainly isn’t mine!). It was once our “culture and belief” to flog children for minor misdemeanours, flock to bear-baiting
sir – I really hope that the council’s expensive Newtown Road bus lane project will improve the flow of traffic in the area, but I doubt it. At best, it might knock a minute or two off the time it takes the buses to get from the top of the Newtown
SIR – Several years ago I attended a meeting at County Hall, held by the consultancy that had been called in to “consult” over various schemes for the improvement of traffic flow into the city (for consult read we will ask, but if we don’t like the answer
A SCHEME aimed at preventing parents from parking dangerously outside primary schools in one area of Worcester has been hailed a success. Spontaneous patrols took place outside two primary schools in Warndon on Thursday, June 10, to encourage
DEFENCE firm QinetiQ has a special place in the hearts of Malvern people – and not just because it is the town’s single biggest employer. The firm – and more importantly its civil service predecessors – has been part of the fabric of life in Malvern
WORCESTERSHIRE Royals head to Leicestershire Foxes this evening (5.40 pm) requiring snookers if they are to stand a chance of qualification for the quarter-finals of the Friends Provident t20. While the New Road side can overhaul everyone in
A DEFENCE firm is axeing 230 jobs from its site in Malvern – a reduction of the workforce by a fifth at the town’s biggest employer. QinetiQ said a total of 391 jobs will be cut nationwide under a restructuring of the business and has blamed
A MAN was airlifted to hospital with serious burns after an aerosol spray exploded. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to Ledbury Community Hospital at 11.30am yesterday where they found a man being cared for by hospital staff in
A 22-year-old who breached a court order within weeks is “turning his life around”. Christopher Wallis, of Marlborough Gardens in Malvern, is banned from going within 100 metres of his girlfriend’s mother’s house, but on Saturday, June 19 - just three
RUNNERS are being encouraged to limber up for the second Worcester Half Marathon in aid of St Richard’s Hospice. The 13-mile half marathon will be held at Top Barn in Holt on Sunday, September 5, on a multi-terrain, off-road course Hospice fundraising
A MAN smashed crockery and broke a bannister when his ex-partner refused to give him money to buy alcohol. Father-of-three Scott Cowles pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal damage when he appeared before district judge Bruce Morgan at Worcester
