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  • Historic hotel is packed for wedding fair

    THE historic Fownes Hotel in Worcester was packed with happy couples on Sunday, as the latest I Will wedding show welcomed more than 100 brides and grooms-to-be plus their families and friends. This Victorian venue in the heart of the city hosted more

  • Missing OAP found safe in Worcester

    A Droitwich pensioner who went missing from his home in the town at around 4.30pm was found safe and well on Tuesday evening. David Bowe, aged 75, was found in the Claines area of Worcester. He is believed to have got there on foot.

  • Enjoy a night out with radio stars

    FOOD lovers are invited spend a night with the stars of local radio and help raise funds for a Worcester charity. Pasha Indian restaurant in St John’s, Worcester, is hosting an evening of entertainment on Wednesday, March 21, in aid of Acorns Children

  • Seven up for star Gordon

    RICHIE Gordon continues to set himself out as one of the players of the season after being named in the British Basketball League team of the week for the seventh time. A tower of strength for title-chasing Worcester Wolves, Gordon was his typically

  • Service at city cemetery will be first of its kind

    A service of remembrance and commemoration dedicated to mothers at a Worcester cemetery will be the first of its kind. Worcester City Council’s crematorium chapel in Astwood Cemetery will host the Mothering Sunday event on Sunday at 3pm to allow people

  • Different perspective on fund-raising

    AN English teacher will turn fund-raising on its head when he makes an unconventional journey across the Malvern Hills. Jon Smallwood, deputy head at Bredon School, near Upton-upon-Severn, is planning to perform 100 headstands in the sponsored eight-mile

  • Alcoholic hit out at officers in station

    A STREET drinker who has 97 offences on his record has been arrested shortly after leaving prison. Peter Swinbourne, aged 40, of the YMCA in Henwick Road, Worcester, pleaded guilty to breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).

  • Piecing together a plan to save church

    VISITORS to the beautiful Baroque Church at Great Witley can now take home a very special souvenir. To raise funds for the church’s restoration and repairs, three jigsaws have been produced each focusing on a different aspect of the church

  • It's a woolly mammoth!

    A GIANT ram lamb has weighed in at a massive 10.75kg (23.7lbs). The ram lamb, born at Great Lodge Farm, Hanbury, near Droitwich, has been called ‘the Hulk’ because he is twice the size of a normal lamb, which is about 5kg. Katie Brian said: “His mother

  • Massive increase in city home prices - ballot

    HOUSE prices in Worcester have seen some of the highest rises in the UK because the city is now such a nice place to live, according to an expert. The city has experienced the eighth biggest rise in average house prices in the country from

  • Please don’t let Tesco ruin our lovely town

    SIR – While the decision about whether Tesco should build a supermarket in Tenbury Wells looms over us, this is a plea to district councillors to turn this application down. Tenbury retail businesses have had two major hits recently – the devastating

  • One day, Kate will be a wonderful Queen

    SIR – I agree with John Phillpott (Worcester News, March 3). Queen Elizabeth II is an ace monarch. I also believe that Kate Middleton will make a splendid Queen one day (although not for quite a while, I hope). GEORGE COWLEY Worcester

  • Mr Cameron, stop these health reforms

    SIR – It appears David Cameron is still going ahead with plans which will mess up the health service. I really can’t understand him, we’ve got something good and he wants to spoil it. On Wednesday at Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House

  • Why Britain must pull out of this war

    SIR – In October 2007, members of Worcester Stop the War were told by police to move on from the High Street for having a table. The story was featured on the front page of your newspaper. Last month, the activist Maya Evans was jailed for

  • If you’re artist friendly, you could help me

    SIR – I am due to perform a piano recital at the Elgar Birthplace Museum on Sunday, April 1, at 3.30pm. I am looking for someone who is ‘artist friendly’ to host me for two evenings, March 31 and April 1, or a small hotel/guest house who will

  • Where is the saving with this privatisation?

    SIR – West Midlands Police Authority, with its conterparts from Surrey, has invited bids from companies to contract out some elements of police work such as litter and speeding fines, patrolling neighbourhoods and some investigation work. It

  • It was the Tories who privatised BR, Justine

    SIR – I recently had the somewhat unsettling experience of watching Secretary of State for Transport Justine Greening talking on television about sorting out the “inefficiencies in our [privatised] railway system”. Was this some kind of joke?

  • Fanciful florals are back in a big way

    A SPRING season is never in full bloom until florals start to emerge on the high street rails. But this year designers must have sprinkled some potent fertiliser on their catwalk creations because flower power is bigger than ever. Head-to-toe

  • Desire to win pleases City boss

    MANAGER Carl Heeley praised the determination of his Worcester City players after their 2-1 triumph over Gainsborough Trinity. Trailing to Ryan Kendall’s first-half strike, City hit back after the break to claim a vital victory in their Blue Square Bet

  • Painter Of Silence by Georgina Harding

    Painter Of Silence by Georgina Harding is published in hardback by Bloomsbury, priced £14.99. Available now. Georgina Harding's third novel is set in Romania in the early Fifties. Working as a nurse, Safta comes face to face with a man

  • What to do with £10k shelter?

    YOUNG people in the Warndon Villages area of Worcester are to be consulted about whether or not they wish to keep a £10,000 youth shelter. As we reported last week, there have been calls for the youth shelter at Lyppard Grange to be removed after it

  • Vintage look more popular than ever

    THE song might go Clare has got a business, it’s strictly second-hand, everything from toothpicks to a baby grand. Except you can forget the toiletries and the furniture, because Clare Bridge’s shop in Worcester specialises in clothes – and there is

  • "I dropped dead from booze" - PJ Proby

    POP star PJ Proby “dropped dead” from drinking in 1992 and going on stage was part of his medical treatment, a jury has been told. Proby, appearing at Worcester Crown Court under his real name of James Marcus Smith, told a benefits fraud investigator

  • A disaster too big to comprehend

    IN my living memory, tsunamis didn’t exist. Okay, that’s not true. They must have been there but you just didn’t hear much about them. Even if you did they were referred to as the considerably less exotic sounding tidal wave. It was only after

  • Coffee morning at dialysis unit

    A FUND-RAISING coffee morning at the kidney dialysis unit in Worcester held for World Kidney Day raised £500. The morning was organised by Andreas Mougis, a patient at the unit at Great Western Business Park, and his wife Androulla. They provided

  • Warriors swoop for Toulon enforcer

    ENFORCER Dean Schofield is set to add more firepower to Richard Hill’s Worcester Warriors boiler-room after agreeing to join the Sixways club for next season. The twice-capped England international, who turned 33 in January, is currently playing for

  • Martley WI

    AT the February meeting we were transported to Orkney by Val Patrick with a fascinating tour in words and pictures. She transmitted her love of the area, the history and with descriptions of the numerous excavations. It is surprising that earlier

  • Martley Ramblers

    FOR the February walk, the Ramblers were once again lucky to have a dry, sunny day, although there was a little mud underfoot as could be expected at this time of year. David Wilkes led 15 Ramblers and one dog around Suckley, a lovely walk with

  • Oakapple WI

    THE president welcomed members to the February meeting and the minutes were then read and agreed. There were a number of notices given, including invitations from Broomhall and Pump House WIs, a day visit to Denman College, a trip to Winchester

  • Sixways trio in England under 18s

    THREE Sixways starlets have been included in the England under 18 squad to take on Scotland in Hawick on Sunday (2pm). The Warriors-based trio are back-rower Josh Buggea (Hartpury College), scrum-half Oliver Claxton (Adams Grammar School) and

  • Worcester Anglo-Hellenic Club

    THE speakers at the February meeting were Tony and Liz Poole, formerly from Pershore. Over the last 15 years, they have restored and extended a derelict cottage in the hills of Naxos, far away from the coast and tourist areas. Their property,

  • New faces will be a huge boost

    I HAVE been really impressed with our recruitment so far and Sixways will certainly be an exciting place to be next season. Some of the names who will be coming in, like Nikki Walker, are real quality players and it is important to replace those leaving

  • Biker hurt after crash

    A MOTORCYCLIST has been taken to hospital after a car crash. The accident happened at about 8.40am today in Belmont Street in Rainbow Hill, Worcester. ...more follows... • Click here for the latest traffic and travel news.

  • Dad in dock over pervert fears

    THE father of an 11-year-old girl has told of his horror when he discovered his ex-wife was marrying a sex offender. His daughter was living in the same house as a man convicted of two attempted rapes on women and sex assaults on two 12-year-old

  • Worcester U3A

    WITH the start of Cheltenham Festival (March 13 to 16) now here, the jewel in the jump-racing crown, Worcester U3A was lucky to hear Peter McNeile with his talk ‘Behind The Scenes At Cheltenham Racecourse.’ Flat racing originated in the 1600s,

  • Game over?

    A COMPANY which sells video games and manages two stores in the centre of Worcester is on the verge of collapse. Game admitted it is in danger of collapse yesterday after several suppliers refused to provide it with new products. The