A man who pushed his partner off a wall and swore at a passerby who tried to help has been sent to prison. Martin Tandy, aged 53, admitted assaulting Kathryn Causton and causing harassment, alarm and distress to Stuart McNichol. Worcester Magistrates
A NEW development of affordable homes could be built in Bransford under plans submitted to Malvern Hills District Council. Festival Housing Group hopes to build 10 houses for local people on land adjacent to the Bank House Hotel, opposite The Fold Cafe
ONE of Britain’s finest business brains made an appearance at Worcester Warriors’ Sixways Stadium to help raise money for a new county breast unit. Lord Digby Jones, a House of Lords crossbencher, promoted his first book Fixing Britain – The Business
A PROFESSIONAL cricketer is now a patron of a campaign to create a dedicated breast unit in Worcester after his friend bravely battled the disease. Worcestershire county cricketer Matt Mason will be celebrating his testimonial year this year and has
DESPITE missing the services of suspended forward Tommy Freeman, and managing for most of the clash without centre Richie Gordon due to foul trouble, Worcester Wolves still had too much firepower for lowly Mersey Tigers, winning 82-61. Gordon scored
PEOPLE in Worcestershire will be greeted by a familiar face next time they go to look up a telephone number. Tessa Sanderson, the only British woman to win an Olympic javelin gold medal, is the new face of BT’s Worcester Phone Book. She has teamed up
A WINTER diarrhoea and vomiting bug did not take hold in community hospitals because of excellent standards of hygiene, health chiefs have said. Health bosses said there was only one case of norovirus across Worcestershire’s five community hospitals
A NEW device can help people lose weight and stay healthy, say the Worcestershire women who invented it. The Key Change, launched this month, is a nutritional tool that slots into a trolley in the same way as a token. Shoppers can check labels on food
MANAGER Carl Heeley is confident he can make a success of Ellis Deeney at Worcester City. The former Aston Villa academy left-back has signed for the Blue Square Bet North club and could make his debut in today’s match at Halifax Town (3pm). Deeney
THIS is the first sight of how a 120-bedroom hotel, restaurant and redevelopment of Worcestershire County Cricket Club’s picturesque ground will look once work is complete. We reported on Thursday how the multi-million pound scheme will see Premier Inn
YOUNGSTERS have celebrated the end of pantomime season with their own version of a wrap party at a Worcester restaurant. The girls aged from seven to 15 from Academy Dance met at Detroit’s, in Castle Street, to celebrate the end of Jack and the Beanstalk
PLAYING two games in 24 hours is difficult but that is the current challenge facing Worcester Wolves. Last night we travelled to Liverpool to take on Mersey Tigers before tonight welcoming Durham Wildcats to the University of Worcester (7pm). It’s tough
RICHARD Hill insists he will continue to pick his out-of-contract stars, even if they do decide to leave Warriors at the end of the season. The head coach has already revealed he is not optimistic wingers Marcel Garvey and Miles Benjamin – who could
MORE than a third of the number of manhole covers stolen across Worcestershire last year have been taken by “monstrous” thieves in just 12 days. The wave of metal thefts that swept the county last year is showing no sign of letting up, with
DIRECTOR of basketball Paul James has warned his Worcester Wolves team against complacency when they entertain Durham Wildcats tonight (7pm). While Wolves are challenging for the British Basketball League title, the Wildcats are bottom of the table with
MANAGER Jamie Pitman insists he is happy with the current state of the Hereford United squad. Following the opening of the January transfer window, the Bulls have been able to ship out players eating up their budget and make some loan deals permanent
A SOCIAL disaster – that is the assessment of child poverty figures by a councillor who represents the city’s most impoverished area. City and county Labour councillor Alan Amos said there should be moral outrage and widespread anger that 549 youngsters
MANAGER Steve Burr is relishing the opportunity to renew old acquaintances when his Kidderminster Harriers team host Droylsden today (3pm). The sides lock horns at Aggborough in an FA Trophy second-round clash with a last 16 place at stake. Dave Pace
THOUSANDS of pounds of stock was taken when thieves raided a supermarket in Pershore – and then fled in a stolen van. The incident took place at the Co-op in Racecourse Road, part of the town’s trading estate, between 9pm on Wednesday, January 11, and
LOCALS are used to seeing swans swimming about on the river at Upton-upon-Severn, but a few heads were turned when this rare black swan floated into town this week. The striking species is native to Australia and, despite being popular with wildlife
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a gipsy site in a small village between Malvern and Powick will be going before a planning inspector later this month. An application by Edward Smith to site touring caravans on a field between the A449 dual carriageway and the
A 41-year-old man described by his solicitor as “Wyre Forest’s worst cannabis cultivator” fell asleep as he was boiling plants on a stove, a court was told. The fire alarm went off at Paul O’Leary’s flat in Maureen Aston Court, Broad Street, Kidderminster
