AN event aimed at addressing men’s responsibility to stamp out domestic and sexual violence has been hailed a success. Two hundred people attended A Call to Men UK at Worcester Warriors’ Sixways stadium, where speakers included American Tony Porter,
visitors to a food fair sampled a range of sumptuous seasonal delicacies on Saturday. Evesham Festive Food Fair was held in the town hall between 11am and 6pm, with a wide range of foods available and demonstrations taking place.
A JILTED 45-year-old man pestered his ex-girlfriend with a string of text messages, phone calls and uninvited visits as he told her “I love you”, a court was told. Gary Sinnett could not accept his relationship with Tracey Jeavons was over.
GENEROUS shoppers at two Worcester supermarkets have helped to bring 4,000 meals to people facing food poverty this Christmas. Customers of Sainsbury’s in St John’s and Blackpole answered a call for donations to the national FareShare One Million Meal
MALVERN was transformed into a winter wonderland as about 4,000 people packed into the town centre for the official Christmas lights switch-on. The festive fun began on Saturday in the morning with workshops, stalls and street entertainers offering plenty
SHERRAD Prezzie-Blue has once more been named in the BBL Team of the Week in recognition of his 35 points and 12 assists in Worcester Wolves’ victories over Mer-sey Tigers and Guildford Heat. While taking this plaudit for the third time this season is
WORCESTER women’s firsts climbed off the foot of the Midlands Premier League table with their opening win of the season. Having lost 2-1 at Aldridge earlier in the campaign, the city side claimed a 1-0 victory at the University of Worcester. Worcester
LOW wages combined with high house prices, rising rents and a lack of affordable housing is causing a crisis in Worcestershire, according to a new report. Research shows the average county home costs nearly £212,000 which is nearly 11 times
SATURDAY ENER-G MIDLANDS MEN’S LEAGUE Midlands Premier Division: Stourport v Harborne. Midlands Division One: Worcester v Stone. West Midlands Premier Division: Old Silhillians v Droitwich. Division One: Evesham v Bloxwich; Redditch v Kidderminster
A MAN suffered chest, head and facial injuries when he became trapped under a bus. As we reported briefly yesterday, the accident happened as the single-decker crashed through the fence between the First Worcester bus depot and Staples in George
Christmas is fast approaching, and we are now into the party season. Whilst I want everyone to have a good time, please keep yourself and others safe. I am often asked how much someone can drink before they exceed the legal driving limit. My answer
Throughout their career, Deep Purple - who formed in Hertford in 1968 and released their debut album “Shades Of Deep Purple” that year - have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. They are one of the UK’s greatest rock exports, and have gone through
SIR – How crazy can you get? Diglis Bridge, completed three months ago, has been closed because Worcestershire County Council is at loggerheads with British Waterways about who is responsible for maintenance. I understood that the bridge was
SIR – You recently published an old photograph of a works outing for employees of JC Baker Ltd of 48 Foregate St. This has prompted several of us who are still in touch to organise a reunion of former employees. Can I please ask your readers
SIR – With Christmas fast approaching, I am appealing for people to volunteer for Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Great Daffodil Appeal and help make it a success. Although the appeal doesn’t take place until March, planning for the local collections
SIR – While I appreciate that Worcester is not unique with the problems of drunks on the street, it does appear to be rapidly earning the tag of “vagrant capital”. I literally tripped over more folk imbibing along the canal today than I saw in
SIR – Many letters, including mine, appear in this paper, mostly with complaints but not many with praise, so to try to address the balance, on Sunday, December 4, I noticed that a cover for the telephone cables and junctions for at least 50 flats
SIR – I write in response to Kathy Wallbridge and Lisa Stevens’ (Staying Green in Rural Areas) letter entitled “How can we have faith in this process?” that appeared in the Worcester News on Thursday, November 24. In their letter, the authors
SIR – As one of two people who have criticised the selection of Councillor Joy Squires as Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Worcester in your paper, and since John Shearon refers to “male bigots” in the plural (Worcester News, November 30)
WORCESTERSHIRE-based law firm Harrison Clark has celebrated the season of goodwill by sending gifts to the troops in Afghanistan. More than 200 shoe boxes have been filled by a team of volunteers from the firm’s paralegal trainee team, led
STAFF at a school in Malvern have been growing moustaches over the last month to raise funds for men’s health. They were taking part in Movember, which was launched to raise money for the the Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research
A WORCESTER family has heard how their one-year-old daughter died of natural causes despite everything appearing as normal the same morning of her death. Minal Qamar died as a result of an inherited metabolic disorder of unknown origins on
Health chiefs have been likened to Ebenezer Scrooge after they introduced car parking charges for disabled patients and visitors to Worcestershire’s hospitals just in time for Christmas. With little to no publicity, the NHS has implemented its controversial
IT’S only a small town today but for centuries Shipston-on- Stour was a major sheep market and commercial centre for the rich agricultural area of south Warwickshire. Known as the Feldon, it was actually part of Worcestershire until boundary changes
WHILE many of us will be turning up the central heating and closing the curtains as shorter nights draw in, others will be doing some serious pottering in the greenhouse. Indeed, the greenhouse – heated or unheated – can provide a haven for
STRESSED Christmas shoppers are having a hard time getting a parking space in Worcester, a new survey says. But Worcester City Council’s economic chief Marc Bayliss said he was unconvinced by car insurer AXA’s findings on how long it takes
THE construction of a new supermarket in Worcester that will create more than 350 jobs has been completed. The Asda superstore is the centrepiece of the £75 million St Martin’s Quarter retail and leisure development in Lowesmoor. The
A FORMER Worcester Warriors player has escaped a driving ban because he said it would stop him getting treatment for a brain injury. James Collins, the former Warriors flanker, was clocked speeding on the A449, taking the total points on his licence
KNOWING you have a safe pair of hands in goal must provide peace of mind for managers. Not only does it stop you wondering when the next mistake will arrive but it also brings stability in defence. For years, Worcester City had that
ROB Elvins could be facing six weeks on the sidelines for Worcester City with shoulder ligament damage. The versatile midfielder suffered the injury in last Saturday’s 2-2 draw against Hyde at St George’s Lane and turned up for Monday’s 3-2 win at Hinckley
AFTER last weekend’s victories against Mersey Tigers and Guildford Heat, Worcester Wolves occupy a clear second place in the British League championship. However, attention is now switched to the BBL Cup as Paul James’ men prepare for their
WORCESTER City ABC super-heavyweight Ashley James was unsuccessful in his bid to win the Class ‘B’ national novice champion-ships in Liverpool. Boxing at the semi-final stage for the third year running, he was up against Ben English of Carlisle Villa
A TEENAGER whose “stupid” comments on Facebook could have sparked a riot in Worcester has been locked up for three years. Matthew Morris posted on the social networking site: “7 tonight – it’s all going on.” And he added later: “Who
WORCESTER Warriors forwards coach Phil Davies says he is hopeful that top academy products Matt Kvesic and Matt Mullan will be back from injury early in the new year. England Under 20s international Kvesic had to be stretchered from the field
IN my time following Worcester City, I have been to Hinckley United on no less than five occasions. You would think by now, therefore, that finding the Greene King Stadium would be a simple task. Yet, despite having no issue with any of the other Blue
A BUSKER was locked up because he refused to move during the Victorian Christmas Fayre, telling police “I’ll be back.” Marco Volasco, aged 40, of The Hopmarket, Worcester was arrested in New Street at around 3.40pm on Saturday when he was busking
FESTIVE tree hangings will decorate a park in Worcester this month. The Friends of Cripplegate Park, with the help of the city council’s parks team, have been hanging decorated pictures on the trees made by school and nursery youngsters from St John’
