PLANS are well under way to break out the bunting in Malvern for a fabulous Queen’s Diamond Jubilee week at the beginning of June. Community groups and businesses are joining for-ces to stage a wide variety of events to mark the 60th ann-iversary of
Worcester City won for the fourth game running as they launched themselves to within touching distance of the Blue Square Bet North play-offs at St George’s Lane. Two goals in the space of two scintillating second-half minutes from Mike
TWO of Worcestershire’s biggest charity events are unfortunately due to take place on the same day this year. Cancer Research UK’s 5k Race for Life in Worcester and the Acorns Triple Run, which takes place at the Three Counties Showground in
90+7 mins: Full-time. 90+6 mins: Godden's free-kick is headed behind for a corner. It comes to nothing. 90+5 mins: And still we play on. 90+3 mins: Frantic finish here at the Lane. 90 mins: Godden's free-kick is floated
BURGLARS targeted a Stourport garage after 15ft-high brambles which “protected” the back of the business were cleared off Hartlebury Common. Autocraft, in Heathfield Road, on Sandy Lane Industrial Estate, was broken into at about 11.35pm last Monday.
A FIRST aid course will give people in Worcester the chance to become life savers. The British Red Cross courses will take place on Monday, April 2; Friday, May 5 or Thursday, June 7, at the Red Cross centre in Worcester. The courses take two hours
CLAINES racehorse trainer Dr Richard Newland will fly the flag for Worcestershire at this week’s eagerly-anticipated Cheltenham Festival. The spotlight falls on the Prestbury Park circuit tomorrow with the four-day meeting building to Friday’s crescendo
ADRIAN Lucas, who has been conductor of Worcester Festival Choral Society (WFCS) for 15 years, will pick up the baton for the last time for the society’s spring concert in Worcester Cathedral on Saturday, March 24. Mr Lucas, who has been
LEGEND Marco Antonio Barrera has praised the efforts of Worcester City Amateur Boxing Club coaches after visiting the gym. The 37-year-old Mexican, two-time world super bantamweight champion and the only fighter to beat Naseem Hamed during his career
A CANCER sufferer who was burgled in the middle of the night is hoping Worcester News readers can help him get his car back. Thieves broke into Peter Chadwick’s home through a patio door while he slept during the early hours of Tuesday morning
A TODDLER suffered coffee burns at a supermarket and had to be flown to hospital. The air ambulance was called out to Morrisons supermarket in Four Pools Road, Evesham, just before 10.30am on Saturday after an 18-month-old boy suffered 20 per
LEDBURY darts ace Terry Jenkins reached the quarter-finals of Saturday’s Players’ Championship in Reading. The 48-year-old beat Co Stompe 6-4, Matthew Edgar 6-3, Michael Smith 6-3 and Mark Webster 6-3 before losing 6-2 to Simon Whitlock.
IT was nearly 30 years ago that Craig Jones’ parents returned home from a celebration to mark the end of a conflict in which he was fighting, only to be told he was killed in the final hours before the ceasefire. This year, as the country marks the
SIR – Like John Phillpott (3/3) I am wary of new equipment. I am still unsure of my mobile phone and I have only a vague idea of what ‘Twitter’ and ‘Facebook’ are. I am a bit of an Ostrich – ignore it, and it will go away. GEORGE COWLEY Worcester
SIR– The British Medical Association (BMA) – founded by Charles Hastings in Worcester in 1832 – recently said that the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill would be “irreversibly damaging to the NHS”. It denounced the Bill as “complex, incoherent
AMY Smith stormed to a third London 2012 Olympic spot after a mouth-watering 50-metres freestyle performance in the British Swimming Championships. The Kidderminster swimmer was forced to play second fiddle to Great Britain number one Fran Halsall in
The Two Week Wait by Sarah Rayner is published as a paperback original by Picador, priced £12.99. Available now. Finding an addictive page-turner for that long commute or holiday can be difficult. But Brighton-based author and former copywriter Sarah
The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend is published in hardback by Michael Joseph, priced £18.99. Available now. Award-winning author Sue Townsend has given the diaries of Adrian Mole a well-earned rest, and has released her latest literary
SIR – Re: the letter from R Wilkins on March 1. I for one agree with John Phillpott regarding windmills. If only the wind forever emanating from the Worcester Green Party could be harnessed, it would be sufficient to supply the whole of Worcestershire
ABOUT 50 people were able to meet two Palestinian farmers at a public meeting held by the Worcester Palestine Friendship last week. They heard from Riziq Abu Nasser, an olive farmer from Deir Istya on the West Bank and Taysir Arbasi, director of Zaytoun
SIR – As a resident of Shap Drive, I felt I wanted to voice my opinion on the article in last Saturday’s Worcester News concerning the diversion route. Everyone would agree that the safety of the school children is of paramount importance. I
SIR – FIFA reports that the average annual salary of footballers is £153,815. The average transfer fee is just under £1million. In 2011 a total of £1.9billion was spent on transfer fees. Yet most clubs have a struggle to survive or go into liquidation
SIR – I was not surprised by your news story about the high number of expulsions and suspensions from Worcester schools. As a county councillor, I often receive calls from worried parents whose children have been either expelled or suspended,
SIR – As we approach the annual budget statement, I do despair regarding what we are about to hear from our current chancellor? It would appear those currently in power and their predecessors have been attempting to turn back the clock! During
SIR – The last few days have seen yet more stories raising concerns about the UK’s open borders policy. The NHS is under severe financial pressure, yet it can find resources to treat foreign HIV patients, and spend millions on translation services
SMILING at work. Who does it? Hopefully all of us sometimes, although maybe not every day. So pity the nurses and doctors at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals who have have been asked to smile more at patients. To be fair it’s not just smiling, they
BIG balloons helped some keen photographers get a bird’s eye view of Worcester. The sky was the limit for a group of enthusiastic photographers as they fixed their beloved cameras to balloons filled with helium and set them loose in the skies
MANAGER Carl Heeley has played down the significance of tonight’s clash against Gainsborough Trinity on Worcester City’s play-off quest (7.45). Following a six-game unbeaten run, including three consecutive victories for the first time since
LONDON-based metalcore outfit Rise To Remain released their highly anticipated debut album City of Vultures in September 2011 after winning Kerrang! Magazine’s Best British Newcomer award in 2010. The band’s UK Progression tour kicks off in Birmingham
THE existence of UFOs (or unidentified flying objects from another planet) is one of those topics that’s always likely to divide opinion – be it down the pub, at a dinner party or, increasingly these days, as comments to a story posted on the
MOST of this beautiful walk is on access land so you can vary the route to suit your own requirements. It includes a short, steep climb to the top of Midsummer Hill, where twin tops are enclosed by the earthen ramparts of a 30-acre Iron Age hillfort
SPIRITS are high among staff on a family farm as they celebrate a successful first year in the drink trade. Celtic Marches was founded in March last year and produces high quality liqueurs from the Wyer Croft farm in Bishops Frome, between Hereford
HORSE-mad pupils at the Chase School, Malvern, have organised teams to represent the school at local showjumping events, spurred on by PE teacher and keen rider Dani Diment. The youngsters got off to a flying start to begin the new 2012 season
AFTER being a fixture on our television screens for nearly 10 years a flamboyant quartet return to the live circuit in Worcester this weekend. 4 Poofs and a Piano bring their new comedy show, Business As Usual, to the Huntingdon Hall on Saturday, March
SPRING is one of Monty Don’s favourite times of the year – when primroses, daffodils, fritillaries and tulips emerge in his beautiful garden at Longmeadow. It’s a sight he won’t enjoy alone, as two million viewers who tune into Gardeners’ World
THE first urban race event in Worcestershire has proved a big hit with athletes who love to challenge body and mind. About 450 took part in the first ever Great Malvern Race on Saturday as athletes tried a new type of orienteering which swaps
SATURDAY FOOTBALL Npower League Two Morecambe 0 Hereford United 1. Blue Square Bet North Corby Town 2 Worcester City 3. Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division: Evesham United 1 St Albans City 1; Redditch United 1 Chippenham Town 0.
WORCESTERSHIRE-based Evenproducts is joining a network of experts which the Government can call on in times of international crisis. The new facility will mobilise life-saving support from Britain’s best businesses in times of famine, floods and earthquakes
ANTI-WAR protesters held a vigil to mark the deaths of more than 400 troops killed in Afghanistan and made a fresh call for the withdrawal of British forces. Members of Worcester Stop the War gathered by the war memorial at Worcester Cathedral
WORCESTER City manager Carl Heeley has challenged Tom Thorley to reach double figures in the goalscoring charts this season. Thorley scored his fifth penalty of the campaign as City recorded a 3-2 victory at Corby Town on Saturday, taking his overall
A BRAVE girl who has had more than 50 brain operations is about to see her dream come true with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Disneyland. Georgia Bristow, aged 10, wants to have breakfast with Cinderella at the resort in Paris, and thanks to the generosity
TWO friends from Malvern proved they have a keen sense of adventure by completing a 24-hour challenge. Dyson Perrins CE Academy pupils Alicia Fallows, aged 15, and Jessica McManus, 16, were tied at the wrists and ankles for 24 hours to raise money for
FAMILY and friends packed out Pershore Abbey to pay their final respects to a well-known farmer. People gathered to bid a fond farewell to Edwin ‘Eddie’ Day, who died suddenly on February 19 at the age of 86. The father-of-two, of Conningsby Drive,
PEOPLE living in St Peter’s in Worcester have been invited to get involved in future plans and activities at their local park. They can give their opinions and ideas about the future use and facilities in Power Park, off Broomhall Way, at a meeting
A TRAVELLING gang of criminals may have been responsible for the death-defying theft of copper wire from live power cables. Police believe gang members must have scaled three poles supporting overhead lines at Eastnor, near Ledbury, before making off
