YOUNGSTERS are being asked for their views on changes that could see some youth centres close. Worcestershire County Council wants to know what young people, parents, carers and other interested parties think about plans to stop providing a traditional
A LASTING memorial has been dedicated to a former Worcester city councillor who died last year. A bench was placed on South Quay, beside the river and near the fountains, in memory of Councillor Barry MacKenzie-Williams. The Right Reverend
DO you fancy winning £500 just for receiving your council tax bill online instead of in the post? Wychavon District Council has teamed up with Worcester City Council and Malvern Hills District Council in a bid to get rate payers and benefit claimants
PEOPLE have been invited to learn how to live on their money rather than to just survive. A new free course will offer people advice on how to manage their budgets better. Charity Two Pennies Money Advice, previously called Community Advice Support
THREE high profile Worcester business people are to be arrested – and they need your help to get bail. David Lloyd, landlord of the Coach and Horses in the Tything; Michelle Sanders, managing director of Very Red PR; and Colin Foxall, commercial director
A NEW store which had 360 applications for just 13 jobs has opened to the public. The Tesco Express in Pick-ersleigh Road, Malvern, opened its doors with a charity cheque hand-over for £500 to Community Action Malvern and District. Jacci Phillips, the
A MAN was convicted of racially abusing a hostel worker after he refused to explain his actions. Three witnesses said that they clearly heard David Amies make offensive remarks to Peter Lindsay, a staff member at St Paul’s Hostel, while has
SIX-WICKET hero Alan Richardson was quick to praise James Cameron’s fine innings as Worcestershire wrapped up a stunning 10-wicket victory over title-chasing Lancashire inside two days to boost their own chances of survival in LV= Championship Division
NEW operators have been found for all of the Worcestershire care homes that were once run by Southern Cross. Workers’ union GMB has released the names of 30 companies that are expected to take over 691 of 755 homes across Britain in the next two months
CLASSIC motorcycle scrambling comes to Middle Hill, Park Farm, Hanbury, near Droitwich Spa, on Sunday. The meeting is a trip down memory lane for both enthusiasts and families. Riders compete on British machines from the 1950s to the early 1970s such
THE mother of four Worcestershire children left orphaned after both parents died on holiday has been repatriated to the UK. Mathilde Lamb – known as Tilly – and from Pensham, near Pershore, had been holidaying with her husband Roger and their four boys
SIR – Would the thief who took my two hanging baskets please bring them back. E RATCLIFFE Worcester
A PENSIONER has been threatened with destruction of his dogs after they attacked another dog. Anthony Silvester pleaded guilty to two counts of allowing his rotweillers to be dangerously out of control in a public place when he appeared at
SIR – As predicted, npower is following the other energy companies and putting up their prices even though they made a fat profit last year and the price of oil and gas has fallen on the open market. How can they justify these increases? I’ll
SIR – Various theories have been expressed in the Worcester News letters page as to what really caused the riots. Chris Cheeseman (Worcester News, August 18) said that for 50 years socialists have been telling their offspring that if in trouble
ANIMAL drugs, some of which are dangerous to humans if taken, have been stolen from a vet’s car. The drugs were taken from a silver Audi A4 estate parked in Drake Street, Welland, near Malvern, on Tuesday night. A Stanley tool box and a lock-up safe
SIR – After another successful Pershore Plum Festival, it’s sad that the proposal to name streets on a new Pershore development after local plum varieties has been rejected. It was also sad to see the proposal described as “banal and boring”
A CITY-WIDE parking probe will hear evidence from residents who have had to put up with problems for years. A group of Worcester city councillors are talking to people to find where the issues are, and trying to work out how the problems could best be
SIR – The fireworks at the culmination of the Worcester Festival on Monday were fantastic. Many people living in St John’s could even enjoy the display from the comfort of their own homes. It was colourful, entertaining and fun. However, this
FANS of leading Midlands clubs are being urged to adopt Worcester City as their second team. The St George’s Lane outfit are throwing their support behind national initiative Non-League Day on Saturday in a bid to attract more people through the gates
A CAMPAIGN to keep a popular city bobby on the beat is gathering pace after police chiefs said he could not stay on. PC Vince Treagus is local policing officer for Cathedral ward and he has been patrolling the city centre, Arboretum, Diglis
JAMES Percival is hoping to live up to his nickname and make a bang now he is back in Worcester Warriors colours once again. The former Harlequins second row has returned to Sixways six years after leaving the club’s academy to join Northampton Saints
SIR – Worcestershire County Council cutbacks in local bus services will hit the elderly, the young, the disabled and the disadvantaged especially hard. Not just my view but that of an all-party parliamentary select committee which has expressed
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WORCESTER’S farmers’ market has been forced to leave its city centre site because it does not have enough stallholders. Its numbers have dwindled to just four traders and leaseholders Brays Associates has asked the group not to return to Angel
STUART Fleetwood has left Hereford United and joined Luton Town for an undisclosed fee. The deal went through late yesterday ahead of the transfer deadline. The striker was Hereford's leading marksman last season with 18 goals but is yet to hit the
WHEN Dannie Rees sent a text to his captain predicting he would score a century and claim a five-fer, little did he know his prophecy would come true. Not only did the 31-year-old Worcester Nomads player deliver, he ended up producing surely the best
IF YOU go down to ... Hallow this week you’re in for a big surprise. For (nearly) every bear that ever there was has gathered in the village for this year’s Teddy Bear Competition. More than 30 teddy bear scarecrows have appeared around the village
MIKE Symons says he is looking forward to being reunited with fellow hot-shot Lee Smith at Worcester City. City’s seven-goal leading marksman is no stranger to the latest addition to the St George’s Lane squad having played with fellow striker Smith
FLY-TIPPING is costing taxpayers in Worcestershire and Herefordshire thousands of pounds. Figures released by the Countryside Alliance showed how much local authorities spent on clearing rubbish dumped illegally between April 2010 and March 2011. Locally
IT may be early days but it is nice to see Worcester City sitting fifth in Blue Square Bet North after the first month of the season. We would rather be there than in the bottom five, that’s for certain, but there’s a hell of a long way to go and the
HONDA Racing Team duo Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden head to Brands Hatch today with the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship title in the balance. The Pershore-based pair both have 204 points at the top of the leaderboard and are in pole position
A HOSPICE in Worcester is considering ditching its kerbside charity bag collections after seeing a huge fall in donations. Fund-raisers at St Richard’s Hospice say they feel people are losing faith in the scheme, after seeing donations more
THERE will be a nostalgic trip back to the big hair days and disco nights of the 1980s as the life of a charity fund-raiser is celebrated. Pauline Pestridge, her husband Alan and a handful of other volunteers ran a children’s disco on Wednesday evenings
A BRIEFING on the refurbishment on the Teme Bridge is due to take place later next month. Worcestershire County Council is holding an event at Tenbury High School on Wednesday, September 21. The briefing will start at 7.30pm in the main hall and will
