TWO kind-hearted youngsters organised a three-hour walk to raise funds for Acorns Children’s Hospice. Droitwich Spa High School pupils Lucy Taylor and Sophie Harrison, both aged 14, walked from the town’s Acorns charity shop to the Acorns hospice in
ALEXEI Kervezee was delighted to reach his 1,000 runs for the season when he blitzed a magnificent 144 against Surrey. The 20-year-old Holland international is in his first full season with the senior side at New Road and is pleased to have achieved
ALEXEI Kervezee’s high-class batting display ensured Worcestershire took complete control of the LV= County Championship Division Two match against Surrey. The Holland international fired a wonderful century — his third of the season — off just 103 balls
A GIANT snake that can crush a man to death has made her debut at a Worcestershire safari park. The 17ft (5m long), 50 kg beast – a female reticulated python – has slithered her way into a starring role at West Midland Safari Park in Bewdley after being
HEREFORD United will receive an initial £60,000 for winger Marc Pugh, a transfer tribunal decided today. The Professional Football Compensation Committee have set additional payments of £10,000 due after 15, 30, 45 and 60 games with a 10 per cent sell-on
NEWS that reverting to weekly bin collections would cost taxpayers nearly £1 million extra has been greeted with concern by Worcester News online readers. We reported that the city’s bin bosses had said that if the Government insisted on bringing back
DRINKERS failed to drain every drop of ale following the close of Worcester’s annual beer festival – but they had a good try. Out of 4,500 gallons of ale and 1,840 gallons of cider and perry, about a tenth was left when organisers called time on the
HEREFORDSHIRE sealed their most successful Minor Counties Championship season for eight years. An 83-run win over Wiltshire at Colwall was their second three-day Western Division success of the summer. The victory over Devon at Eastnor earlier in the
A PERSHORE businessman is to play a major role in the battle against landmines. Edward Cross has been appointed chief executive of Mineseeker Operations, a company based at Wolverhampton Business Airport, which develops landmine detection technology.
WORCESTERSHIRE recruitment agency Hewett Recruitment has been shortlisted at an industry awards event. Owner Louise Hewett has been selected for the finals of the ‘best contribution to the community’ category at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation
FOUR Worcester children have thrown down the gauntlet to grown-ups by raising more than £200 to help alleviate the flooding disaster in Pakistan. Ali Ahmed, aged 10, Maria Ahmed, 13, Romana Ali, 10, and seven-year-old Sami Riaz, all of Red Hill, were
ROLLER-bladers will be showing off their skills at a Worcester skate park. Inline skaters are invited to the Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club, Droitwich Road, on Saturday, August 28. Prizes are on offer for the best tricks, most improved skater
THE Norbury Theatre in Droitwich will take audiences to China this Christmas. With only four months to go until pantomime season, the Norbury Players is looking for people to the stage in their production of Aladdin. The second auditions, which are
WORCESTER Warriors captain Chris Pennell this morning underwent surgery on his dislocated right ankle and fractured right fibula. The Sixways skipper suffered the injury with less than ten minutes of the game remaining the pre-season friendly
A WORCESTERSHIRE brass band has launched an urgent appeal for more players to join its ranks. Malvern Hills District Brass Band is one of the most respected groups of musicians in the area. However, a number of members have left recently and this means
Synopsis: IT is the Christmas holidays and fairy Twink has her friend Bimi to stay. To their horror they see a human walk into the forest where Twink's parents live and start to cut a tree down! Twink is horrified and as she desperately tries to stop
A WORCESTER businessman fears parking could become a “free for all” after the Government announced plans to ban wheel clamping on private land. Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone said the move will end the “scourge” of so-called cowboy clampers
THE proposed ban on wheel clampers operating on private land is long overdue. Quite why it has taken England and Wales almost 20 years to catch up with the law in Scotland is difficult to fathom. But the government’s decision to bring in a
Synopsis: MADDY has always wanted a cat, but now she's got something even better - three small ceramic cats which come to life and give her magical powers! Maddy is thrilled to see Nibs again. But Nibs is NOT happy about their new problem: it involves
SIX people involved with a clamping firm which operated in Worcester appeared in court charged with making unwarranted demands for cash with menaces. Simon Barry, aged 36, of Lilac Close, Evesham; Christopher Cartwright, 30, of Salisbury Drive
A MANAGING director who was clocked by police travelling at 124mph on a high-powered motorbike has blamed his actions on a “moment of madness”. Jonathan Sugden, managing director of Simply Lets, in the Tything, Worcester, was travelling so fast on a
THERE was a surprise special guest at Stourport Regatta as fivetime Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave called in to watch his son compete. The popular annual event attracted a significant entry with more than 600 crews taking part over an
CRROPTHORNE race ace James Calado claimed his fourth Cooper Tires British F3 International Series win of the season in round eight at Silverstone. Team UK’s Calado negotiated treacherous track conditions in a sodden first race of the meeting in Northamptonshire
IF I’m honest, I’m still not entirely sure why I decided to train to be a community first responder. Speaking to my parents and friends, some say it is one of the last things they would have thought I would have wanted to do. My mum – a nurse
PEOPLE of all ages are getting their hands dirty during the festival thanks to an array of interactive workshops. There are more than two dozen workshops taking place during Worcester Festival 2010. All this week, children aged five to 12 have been taking
Stumps Surrey (2nd inns, target 369) Lancefield c Cameron b Shakib 35 Harinath lbw b Andrew 21 Meaker lbw b Shakib 1 Ramprakash b Shakib 0 Hamilton-Brown not out 3 Davies not out 4 Total 66 (
TREES on a flood defence in Worcester have died less than a year after they were planted. It is not known exactly how many of the 86 trees planted on the Hylton Road bund in November have succumbed to “challenging” planting conditions. The clay-based
THE first sight that greeted my eyes as I entered the gallery was a costume representing a kingfisher. It was a lightning bolt of blue that seemed to shoot across the ceiling, much as the bird itself wings its way along a river. It was a good sign.
THE ‘Big One’ is back at Shelsley Walsh this weekend! Not only will the famous Worcestershire track be playing host to the quickest cars in British speed hill climbing, but the Midland Automobile Club will also be helping the Alfa Romeo Owners’ Club
HUGE musical stars are heading to Upton-on-Severn for a brand new music festival. Upton 2010, being held in the riverside town over the Bank Holiday weekend, will bring last year’s X Factor stars Stacey Solomon and Lloyd Daniels, to Worcestershire,
SIR – How I agree with Simon Vaughan-Spensor (Letters, August 9), about Worcestershire cricket. I know they have not done good in the one day cricket. They have already quadrupled the wins last season in the championship. The thing is they are mostly
SIR – We have been told that we are to go back to 1950s policing. I can’t wait. Firstly, it would save massive amounts of cash for sure. As a young bobby in that period, in the old “city force”, I worked a lot of overtime. It’s different from today
SIR – If the designers of the new Gheluvelt war memorial had meant it to look like a filled in bomb crater with bits of a sunken ship sticking out then they have hit the spot! To me, however, it evokes an image of a tidied up scrap yard where no
SIR – I, no doubt among many others, was delighted to see the cancellation of the Gay Pride Festival which is quite abhorrent to a city such as Worcester. When one considers the original meaning of the word gay, it is demeaned by its recent
SIR – Can anyone give me an official reason why the cost of fuel in our county is, on average, 4p per litre more expensive than in surrounding areas and the rest of the country. Diesel is on average 119.9p per litre while down the road in Warwickshire
SIR – I refer to a letter in the Worcester News, Friday, August 1, from Ms Stevenson over the lack of water bowls for dogs at the Welland Steam Fair. My wife and I went to the fair on the Sunday and took our two border collies. At first I think the
SIR – In reply to Mrs Irene Thompson (Letters, August 7), I was writing about Powick Mental Hospital in the 1960s not 1976-1986, when you were an official. (I left Powick in 1978). Treatments were more hit and miss in the 1960s. I spent six months
SIR – Oh, dear. I have just seen your photograph of the “striking” war memorial in Gheluvelt Park. I still cannot understand why the council felt the need to put up another memorial in a memorial – for that is what the park itself is – and I hope
SIR – As someone who works in the USA on a regular basis I have held a relaxed view on their political stance. But I was outraged at the US Senate foreign relations committee summoning Jack Straw, the former justice secretary, and Kenny MacAskill
SIR – I just wanted to thank the paper, and James Connell in particular, for the marvellous piece you ran about my talk about Dracula, held at midnight on August 7. It was an excellent article which really generated interest in my event, and we had
SIR – I have no idea what faith schools Jed King has visited (Letters Extra, August 10) but I do not recognise his description at all. The ones I know are open to children of different faiths or of none. They take pupils from across the class spectrum
TRAFFIC in Worcester city centre was brought to a standstill as emergency services worked to rescue an injured workman. The man, in his 30s, was working on the city’s new library and history centre in the Butts when he hurt his back.
DRUGS with a street value of more than £1 million have been recovered from the back of a lorry. The find, thought to be one of the biggest ever discovered in Worcestershire, turned up at Ferryfast Produce, Ascot Road, Pershore. It is understood that
