TAKING the rough with the smooth is the secret to a long and happy marriage, according to a couple who have just celebrated their diamond wedding. Arnold and Dorothy Townsend, of Tetbury Drive, Warndon, Worcester, celebrated 60 years of married bliss
COMPETITION was fierce but friendly for the city flower festival as green-fingered growers battled it out for the plaudits of their peers. The Worcester City Flower Festival is growing steadily with each summer and the crowds gathered in force at the
THE end is in sight for a stink villagers say is driving them from their gardens in a corner of Worcestershire. People living around Stoulton, Hawbridge and Wadborough, near Worcester, started smelling what one person bluntly described as “urine and
A 39-year-old man who downloaded child pornography and other offensive sexual images has been given a three-year community order. Andrew Davis was found to have 530 images on a laptop taken from his home in Church Road, Malvern, last year, Charles Hardy
SIR – I see a third energy company made record profits last year which enabled them to pay the four top bosses £8 million in salaries and bonuses. Isn’t it obvious from the fact that they are able to pay themselves vast sums that they are over-charging
SIR – On Wednesday, July 27, at about 11.20am in St Swithin’s Street, Worcester, I witnessed what perhaps was the most blatant discrimination against the Disability Equality Act 2010. With the legal amount of vans, trucks and illegally parked
SIR – Liberty and Reprieve once again behave like petulant children, stamping their feet and walking away because they don’t get everything their way. These groups are not representative of the majority, in fact they are very much only representative
100 YEARS AGO: On Sunday a plucky rescue was effected by a young man named Albert Harrison, aged 22 years of Hylton Road. A little boy named Harry George, aged six of 2 Court, Tybridge Street, was playing at The Pinch when he fell off the wall
THIS WEEK IN 1991: LOCAL waterways in Worcestershire are once again polluted with the poisonous blue-green algae which can make adults seriously ill and has killed animals. Early reports from the National Rivers Authority show that the algae
SIR – Re your write-up about the St John’s area ‘Worcester shoppers urged to buy locally as traders suffer’ (Worcester News, July 30). When I was a young lad back in the 1950s we used to catch the Marks’s Blue Bus Service from Wadborough and
SIR – If, like me, you love the sight of our beautiful local countryside, you may be shocked to learn that the Government has published a new set of planning rules which could give an automatic green light to any new development in the countryside
SIR – Early on the morning of Tuesday, July 26, before a lot of people were up, contractors with several vehicles started on the long awaited resurfacing of St George’s Square, Barbourne – about some 25 years since the last one. By 10am the old
SIR – Take a walk around Worcester and except for a few banners in College Street you would not have known that from August 6 it was our turn to host the Three Choirs Festival. This prestigious festival is the oldest of its type in the world
FROM throbbing basslines and lasers to soothing acoustic rhythms – this year’s Big Chill lived up to its reputation as the essential festival for eclectic tastes. About 40,000 music-lovers were expected at Eastnor Castle’s Deer Park, near Ledbury
A DRUNKEN man racially abused a security officer when he was told to leave a supermarket. Martin Haywood was told by the officer to leave Sainsbury’s in Worcester because he was banned from the supermarket but he protested. Haywood,
THE Worcester News 100 in 100 Apprentices campaign has secured a most influential backer. Worcester’s MP Robin Walker has thrown his weight behind the initiative by offering to take on an apprentice to work in his office. “We are looking
A PACKED festival “for all the people of Worcester” has got under way with a bang – and a quack. The Worcester Festival was declared officially open by organiser Chris Jaeger on Saturday, starting a month of events through August including the Worcester
A WOMAN who slapped a police officer has damaged her career prospects, a court was told. Katrina Eaves, aged 23, of Foregate Street, Worcester, admitted assaulting a police constable in the execution of his duties when she appeared before magistrates
A FAMILY dispute resulted in a man pushing a pregnant woman in “self-defence”, a court was told. A row errupted while defendant, Mark Harborne, his partner Julie Martin and her daugher Jade Smith were out at the Camp Inn, Grimley, on Saturday
A MAN who shouted “come out monkey boy, I want to fight you” to his wife’s new partner while brandishing a five inch kitchen knife is almost certain to face custody after magistrates decided their powers were not sufficient. Anthony Brophy, who lives
BUILDING contractor Speller Metcalfe has scooped the development team award at the inaugural South Worcestershire Building Excellence Awards. The company, in Malvern, won the award for its substantial re-development work carried out under challenging
CRIME levels at this year’s Big Chill festival were “significantly” down on last year, police have confirmed. West Mercia Police say that the Big Chill festival, which took place at Eastnor Castle’s Deer Park, near Ledbury, over the weekend, went off
A MOTORCYCLIST has been badly hurt after he came off the bike he was riding on a main road. The 30-year-old man had been riding a powerful green Kawasaki Ninja ZX 750cc bike along the A4103 Worcester to Hereford road at about 6am on Sunday,
HAVING seen the much acclaimed musical Jersey Boys in Canada three years ago, I was determined to see a production of Big Girls Don’t Cry - an opening event in this year’s Worcester Live Festival at the Swan Theatre. The show pays tribute to the story
JAM and Jerusalem are generally the first words conjured by most people at any mention of the Women’s Institute. But it seems this image of preserves and reserve is far from deterring a whole new generation from signing up to their local branches
SINGAPORE RESTAURANT 29 Friar Street, Worcester Tel: 01905 612005 HAVING picked up a couple of decent takeaways from the Singapore over the summer, it was high time to have a sit down meal. The restaurant occupies a prime spot
WORCESTERSHIRE director of cricket Steve Rhodes is hoping seamer Richard Jones can force his way back into the first team after spending time with the England team. The 24-year-old bowler helped England warm up for their 319-run victory over India in
GERONTIUS concerns the journey of a sinner, going towards Judgement and Purgatory. Saturday night's rendering of Elgar’s mighty work at Worcester Cathedral demonstrated this struggle (from before the death of Gerontius) with great feeling. This was
WORCESTER City manager Carl Heeley is hopeful new signings Mike Symons and Emeka Nwadike will be fit for the Blue Square Bet North season kick-off. With five days until the opener at Hyde, there are doubts over the pair who picked up injuries in Saturday
CHER Lloyd has landed the number one spot in the charts with her debut single. The 18-year-old from Malvern, who rocketed to fame after appearing on last year’s X Factor ITV1 talent show, has taken the number one position with her first single Swagger
AS England prepare themselves for a match which could install them as the world’s leading nation in Test cricket, Andrew Flintoff has called on pundits to give the county circuit the credit it deserves. During the late 1990s when England went from series
AS the new English football season got underway over the weekend a recent survey has shown just how much it costs for a day out watching our national game. It can cost as much as £100 to watch Premier League giants Arsenal, but luckily for football followers
WORCESTERSHIRE director of cricket Steve Rhodes says that young wicketkeeper Ben Cox is showing signs of improvement in the second team. The 19-year-old had a tough start to the campaign in the first team and Rhodes brought in Ben Scott on loan. The
