A MAN armed with a 3ft-long samurai sword turned up at a neighbour’s front door late at night to complain about her children’s behaviour, a court was told. It so terrified Ellen Loveridge’s family that her 15-year-old son climbed into the loft and called
A WOMAN is running a marathon to raise money for a local charity which supports young carers and families. Louise Carter, aged 41, is running the Dublin Marathon on Monday, October 31, to raise money for the Worcestershire Young Carers project. Mrs
THIS picture shows a rural barn as it was engulfed in flames over the weekend. Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service was called to the scene at Nunnery Cottage Farm, on the A4133 at Droitwich, at 7.35am on Saturday. At the scene they found
VIOLENCE broke out when locals clashed with a visiting shooting party at a Worcestershire village pub, a court heard. There was pushing and shoving outside the Bridge Inn, Stanford Bridge, near Worcester, in the early hours of December 29,
A TOP cricketer rode into Worcestershire County Cricket Club in New Road, Worcester, to raise money for leukaemia and lymphoma research. Surrey manager Chris Adams, along with his brother David, are aiming to raise £100,000 by cycling 868 miles
MERCIAN FESTIVAL JUNIOR LEAGUE U9s Division One: Evesham United 1 Droitwich Spa Vipers 3; L&B Badgers Hornets 0 Westbury Celtic Warriors 1; St John’s Colts United 0 Cradley Sports Club 0; Warndon Villages Dragons 1 Welland Juniors Colts 2; Worcester
A MAN has been charged with causing grevious bodily harm following an assault at a railway station earlier this month. The 33-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in Martley Road, Worcester, in connection with the assault at Droitwich railway station
A HYDRO-power generator has won council support and a £300,000 loan backed by the taxpayer. Proposals to build the renewable energy station at Pershore weir on the river Avon have been circulating for some time, and the Environment Agency has granted
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers are targeting an overdue run in the FA Cup after being paired with Corby Town in the fourth qualifying round. The Aggborough side, who enter the competition at this stage along with the rest of the Blue Square Bet Premier clubs
AN Evesham reporter has come top of her class. Sarah Taylor – who joined the Worcester News’ sister paper the Evesham Journal in the summer – achieved top marks in her NCTJ exams, which is the industry standard for reporters to work on a
WORCESTERSHIRE’S Jess Varnish is in the Great Britain squad for this weekend’s European Track Cycling Championships. The 20-year-old from Bromsgrove will race in the women’s sprint with Victoria Pendleton in Apeldoorn, Holland. Varnish
A PLANNING application for a gipsy encampment between Malvern and Powick has been rejected by councillors, but an appeal hearing against the decision will take place. At a meeting of Malvern Hills District Council’s southern area development control
A MAJOR new facility for older people with mental health illnesses such as dementia is to be built at a community hospital in Worcestershire. Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust plans to modernise services for older people with a £6.9
DEBUTANT Tom Reynolds came off the bench for Northside and fired a stunning hat-trick to put his new club into the second round of the Worcester League Bernard Finnigan Cup. Reynolds’ treble, in the final 30 minutes of the match, helped his team to a
SIR – What on earth is the matter with the councillors? They are so wrapped up in their own feathers, they haven’t got a clue what’s going on about them. First they rewarded the taxi drivers who were illegally parking on the Cross in Worcester by taking
SIR – My brother John and myself are ex-pupils of St Martin’s School in Worcester attended the reunion of old boys on October 6 at St Swithun’s Insitute. It was a very enjoyable and pleasant evening. Our thanks to Geoff Bennett for organising the event
SIR – I was surprised to see the Worcester News running a competition to win a fish pedicure (October 4). The poor Garra Rufa fish are kept in small barren tanks. Many of the fish have been caught from the wild. In many parts of Turkey where the Garra
Sir – Regarding Alan Norcott’s reply (Worcester News, October 10) to my comment on disabled parking in Pershore (Worcester News, October 3). Those cars parked on yellow lines during the working day are entitled to do so provided a blue badge is displayed
Sir – Last week’s ITV1 programme Exposure – Heart Hospital showed the wonderful work done at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by Professor Bonser and his cardiac surgical team. I can vouch for this myself. I am not a transplant patient, but
Sir – 70,000 people who do not live in the UK receive a winter fuel allowance. This is absolutely ridiculous. I understand that UK citizens can live where they like. However, I would suggest that very few of these payments are going to people in countries
SIR – Can we dispel the myth that economic recovery will take place when private sector employment compensates for public sector cuts? The assertion is made to mask the reality that private business is seeking to replace the public sector as a provider
100 YEARS AGO: ARCHIBALD Bevan, a 13 years-old schoolboy of Summer Street, Worcester, was charged at the City Police Court with trading without a licence and also with stealing from near the Grandstand Hotel a gent’s bicycle, value £2, the
THIS WEEK IN 1991: NO river traffic will be able to pass through Worcester for about a month for the first time since 1844 due to vital repair work about to start on the Diglis Locks. Both the small and large locks on the Severn at Diglis are
THE long nights are drawing in, and the temperatures are slowly dropping. Soon the veil between the living and the dead will be at its thinnest...so why not celebrate? Halloween is the perfect excuse to indulge in some supernatural delight
Sir – I am flattered that a cabinet member of Worcester City Council has taken time out of their busy schedule to reply to my letter in the Worcester News (September 29) about apprentices. It is a pity that Councillor [Marc] Bayliss has chosen to attack
SIR – The South Worcestershire Development Plan includes a proposal to close Worcester Swimming Pool in Sansome Walk and build houses on the site. Despite talk about retaining green spaces and leisure facilities, the sale of such land for housing
IT was teatime in England, but breakfast in Los Angeles when I made the call, but across 3,500 miles of ocean and from the far side of America the voice of Patricia Mace came clear as a bell and she was laughing. Which is always a good sign. She
YOU’RE unlikely to find Spindle Wood marked on a map – but it’s a wonderful place which is freely open to walkers. It was created by planting trees on several former fields and demonstrates just how successful such woodland creation can be. Its
MALVERN’S Three Counties Showground was once again the venue for the Welsh National Championship show, which brought Welsh ponies and cobs from a wide swathe of Britain to the venue at the foot of the famous hills. The show, which was open to
THE house sparrow – cheeky, chirpy and everywhere. Or at least, that is what we were once lucky enough to believe. For this bird, that for thousands of years has made its home and carved out its fortunes by our side, is in deep trouble. Passer
*THIRD Reich propaganda minister Josef Goebbels was born in Monchengladbach and no doubt often talked-up the place when need be. Of course, there wasn’t a big football stadium there in those days, but it’s still a pleasant, if unremarkable German
GUY Gibson was a public schoolboy who displayed unfailing courage. He was born to lead and possessed all the qualities of a British hero. Commanding the Lancasters of 617 squadron, Gibson led from the front, taking his planes down to 60 feet in
FOR mile after mile, the coach travels across the German plain. It is an expanse so studded by wind turbines that if the Russians wanted to roll their tanks over to the west today, they’d have a real problem on their hands. It’s a prairie landscape
WORCESTER Wanderers claimed a 30-22 bonus-point victory against a tenacious Stratford side, who also took a point from the clash courtesy of a hat-trick from their powerful second row. The Midlands One West game was a scrappy encounter littered with
SUDDENLY, my life has begun to revolve around keys. Two hotels into my journey across Germany, I have wrestled with all manner of the wretched things. There have been keys that insist on being turned several times in a precise sequence that must
THIS year, amid all the hubbub of family life, I’m ashamed to say that I forgot about several plug plants which had been posted to me by Suttons, including the F1 tomato Conchita and the F1 aubergine Scorpio varieties. They remained in their
WORCESTER MP Robin Walker is urging people to Make a Difference and give their time to help the community. Mr Walker has joined pop mogul Pete Waterman and BBC Radio Five Live presenter Rachel Burden in the build-up to CSV Make a Difference Day on Saturday
A MAN grabbed a woman’s bottom and put his hand down her leggings after she refused to give him a kiss, a court was told. Anthony Brookes, aged 66, of Grange Road, Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, approached the woman, who is known to him, while she
NAOMI Folkard admits technically she is primed and ready for next spring’s London 2012 Olympic selection shoots — but has vowed to use the winter to make sure she is mentally prepared too. On paper, it would appear the 28-year-old is nailed on to earn
CALLS have been made for a private school in Worcester to contribute towards the cost of a recent royal visit. The Princess Royal visited RGS Worcester in Upper Tything last month to mark the 450th anniversary of the school’s first Royal Charter
A TECHNICIAN had to be rescued from the TV gantry after becoming ill shortly before kick-off at Worcester’s Sixways Stadium. The LV cup match between Worcester Warriors and London Wasps was delayed for 45 minutes, until 3.45pm, after the man
TWO young horses have been recognised as being among England’s top eventing prospects. Deborah Fielding, from the Picanini Stud in Strensham, was invited to bring her two-year-old Picanini Lizzianthus and Picanini Akoko, three, to the Baileys Horse Feeds
LIBRARY customers will feel pain through reduced opening hours, chiefs have admitted, but claim widespread closures will be avoided. More concerns have been raised about a move towards relying on volunteers to help run libraries but bosses say professionals
WORCESTERSHIRE player-of-the-year Gareth Andrew is set to spend the second-half of the winter overseas. The 27-year-old all-rounder, named the New Road side’s most valuable player at the end-of-season awards ceremony last month, is likely to get a chance
WORCESTER Wolves kept alive their chances of making the semi-finals of the BBL Trophy when triumphing at the previously unbeaten Plymouth Raiders. The hosts came into the game in confident mood having convincingly won at Worcester 85-62 the previous
A STAGGERING 2,000 people went to discover the secrets at the bottom of Worcester’s Diglis Lock this weekend. Visitors were invited down into the lock, which was drained as part of British Waterways annual waterway programme, to see first-hand
THE best things come to those who wait — and Tom Arscott’s second try in the 20-19 LV= Cup victory over Wasps was certainly worth waiting for. The former Bristol full-back or winger had been forced to kick his heels on the Sixways sidelines before Saturday
SATURDAY FOOTBALL Npower League Two Hereford United 2 Bradford City 0. Blue Square Bet Premier Darlington 1 Kidderminster Harriers 0. FA Cup Third qualifying round: Stourbridge 5 Evesham United 0. Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division
AN eight-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after breaking his leg while riding a motorbike. He was airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, after breaking his right leg in the incident yesterday afternoon. West Midlands
TONIGHT Midland Floodlit Youth League South Division: Causeway & Withymoor v Westfields. TOMORROW Blue Square Bet Premier: Kidderminster Harriers v Braintree Town (7.45pm). Evo-Stik Southern League Division One South & West: Stourport Swifts v Sholing
WARRIORS forwards coach Phil Davies was happy to kick-off the LV= Cup campaign with a victory — but insists the team will improve ahead of this weekend’s trip to Bath (2.15pm). While the Sixways side began with a 20-19 victory over much-changed Wasps
