BEWDLEY will be better protected against flooding after a new scheme was unveiled in the town. Wyre Forest MP Mark Garnier opened the Queensway estate flood risk management scheme, which has an L-shaped embankment, combined with a control structure to
AN action group fighting a controversial £120 million incinerator planned for Hartlebury, near Kidderminster, is having one last push for support before a public inquiry this month. Worcestershire Residents Against Incineration and Landfill (WAIL) will
HEREFORD United and Yeovil Town are two of the greatest FA Cup giantkillers of all time. During their non-league days, they accounted for some of the biggest names in the game, such as the Bulls’ victory over Newcastle United in 1972 and Yeovil’s defeat
DIVERS in Worcester will be swapping their air tanks for two wheels to take part in a land-locked charity challenge. Members of Worcester Divers, their family and friends are aiming to cycle 100 miles in five hours on Saturday, November19,
UNDERWEAR, toys, cutlery, traffic cones and shopping trolleys are just some of the bizarre items which have been blocking drains and sewers in Worcester. Other more common items Severn Trent Water has found causing blockages in the city include cotton
Thieves ransacked a house and stole items of sentimental value while a family was at a mother’s bedside as she died. Vernon Smith, of Honeybourne, near Evesham, was at Bricklehampton Hall Care Home on Tuesday with his father Dennis, aged 82, and sister
ONE of the biggest positives to come out of Worcester’s 23-14 Amlin Challenge Cup defeat to European powerhouse Stade Francais was the mature, beyond-his-years, showing from Matt Kvesic. The barnstorming back-rower caught the eye despite being faced
WARNDON Villages Cougars played out an entertaining 4-4 draw at Areley Kings in Stourport and District Youth League Under 11s Division Two. Both sides held the lead during the match with Cougars, who scored through Luke Cooper-Sargent (2), Joshua Baker
LEE Hendrie still has what it takes to make an impact for Kidderminster Harriers, according to assistant manager Gary Whild. The 34-year-old former Aston Villa and one-cap England midfielder has agreed non-contract terms at Aggborough in a bid to reignite
A DENTIST who was jailed for defrauding Worcestershire patients and the NHS out of thousands of pounds has been struck off the dental register. Ikhlaq Hussain and Jaspal Bachada duped patients by telling them they were being treated on the
POWER tools worth £2,000 have been stolen from an industrial unit prompting a police warning over Christmas gifts. The unit at Evesham Shopping Park was burgled between midnight and 6am on Wednesday, November 9. The rear of the premises were entered
PLANS for a new state-of-the-art GP surgery on the outskirts of Worcester were unveiled to the public for the first time yesterday. Designs for the new St John’s House Surgery went on display at a consultation event at the University of Worcester’s Riverside
THE driver of this truck is believed to have had a lucky escape when it careered off a Worcestershire road. The vehicle ended up nose-down in the garden of a nearby property after it ploughed through a road sign and cleared a hedge just as a 60mph zone
GPs in Worcestershire earn less than their colleagues elsewhere in England but still earn, on average, more than £100,000 a year. A report called GP Earnings and Expenses 2009/10 published by the NHS Information Centre this week shows county GPs earn
SEVERAL skeletons have been turned up during work on new flood defences in Upton. The remains, which date from the 18th and 19th century, could be part of a burial ground known to have existed in the area around Waterside. Archaeologists are recording
SIR – Re the letter ‘Orange card plan has to be a good idea’ (Worcester News, November 8). Why bring more rules and regulations into the game of football? Surely the best thing to do is to get the players and staff to support the referees more
SIR – With Christmas just around the corner, Marie Curie Cancer Care is appealing to businesses to support them, and to help provide care to terminally ill patients over the Christmas period. Rather than sending Christmas cards to your coworkers
SIR – Wouldn’t it be great if the Olympic torch’s route from Malvern to Worcester could be along the A449 footpath (a proposed cycle path too) all the way via the historic Powick Bridge and the new award-winning Diglis Bridge? This would mean
SIR – The British taxpayer has forked out more than £25 million on crown court translators in just six years. This is an outragous amount. It works out at £11,437 a day for providing interperaters for foreign criminals, witnesses and victims
SIR – I woke up on Sunday morning and was listening to BBC 4 and there was a news item about the number of children dying of starvation in East Africa. I then opened my door, looked outside and saw a large box of breakfast cereal in my porch.
SIR – Your article ‘Cyclist seriously hurt in collision with a van’ (Worcester News, November 5) tells a sad and disturbing story of a lady knocked off her bicycle and seriously hurt by a van. It also mentions two other cyclists injured by motor
BIRTHDAYS are special for everyone, but one Worcester schoolgirl’s is a little more special than usual today. Lucy Harvey turns 11 on this, the 11th day of the 11th month in the 11th year of the 21st century. It is the only double palindromic date and
ONE of the county’s most successful playwrights has taken a fresh look at a couple of famous puppets - just in time for a major milestone. Elgar and Alice writer Peter Sutton latest work focuses on another couple: Punch and Judy, the bickering husband
CASH-strapped councils have been fleeced out of more than half-a-million pounds over the last 18 months by people wrongly claiming benefits. Whether people deliberately made fraudulent claims for housing and council tax benefit, or simply forgot to notify
IT might take some pizza-lovers by surprise, were your favourite waiter to suddenly appear in the centre of the restaurant singing swing classics. But that is exactly what Jack Montgomery has done: gone from serving people their American Hots to performing
SERVES FOUR Ingredients 300g new potatoes 2tbsp olive oil 6 fresh pork sausages, thinly sliced 8 flour tortillas, each approx 20cm in diameter 4 spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced 1/2 small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
ASSISTANT manager Matt Gardiner insists revenge will not be on the minds of Worcester City when they take on Altrincham at St George’s Lane tomorrow (3pm). City were thrashed 4-1 at Moss Lane in September and will be keen to set the record straight against
YOU may not have seen him on the telly for a while but Oz Clarke is still one of Britain’s best-known and most revered wine experts. Each year, for the past two decades, he has burst into print and published what has come to be a series of invaluable
THE SWAN INN Worcester Road, Upton Warren, near Droitwich Tel: 01905 861213 LIKE an old comfy chair the Swan at Upton Warren, near Droitwich, is a place where you can take pleasure in knowing what you are going to get before you take your seat
I ALMOST dread opening a newspaper or turning the television on these days. Remote control quivering in my hand I wonder, since walking into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee, how much worse the eurozone crisis has got. It’s always
A FAMILY holiday ended in tragedy when a fit and healthy pensioner drowned, an inquest was told. Brian Jupe had been enjoying his second day of a trip to the Parga area of Greece when he died on Friday, August 5, this year. Worcestershire Coroner’s
WORCESTER Wolves director of basketball Paul James has warned his team against complacency as they head to Mersey Tigers tonight in the BBL Cup quarter-finals (7.30). The hosts are yet to win on their Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park court, while the
TODAY, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the century, we bow our heads and fall silent. It is Armistice Day, and we pause our hurly-burly lives for two minutes to reflect on the sacrifice of those who died in two
EVESHAM United manager Paul West hopes to have at least two new faces in his squad prior to tomorrow’s Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division trip to St Albans City (3pm). The Robins have been rocked recently by the sackings of disgraced
CHILDREN everywhere should take note that Santa Claus is coming to town – for a charity fun run. The Worcester-based cancer charity Leukaemia Care is hosting its annual Santathon at Pitchcroft on Sunday, December 4. The event is the charity’s biggest
WITNESSES are being urged to come forward after a man exposed himself to a woman while she walked home from a night out in Worcester. The offender, described as white and in his late 20s with short brown hair, of a very slim build and wearing a grey
POLICE have arrested a man after they seized cannabis plants and equipment being used to cultivate the drug from a Kidderminster flat. Officers executed a search warrant at the property in Witley Close on the Rifle Range estate on Tuesday, where they
