A heroin addict has been given a second chance after pleading guilty to stealing four bottles of alcohol from Aldi. Andrew Peckham, of Back Lane South, Barbourne, Worcester, appeared before city magistrates charged with stealing alcohol worth £38.96
THE boss of a Worcester car firm who swapped engines for pedal power has completed an epic bicycle ride across New Zealand. John Bentley, dealer principal of Startin Honda in Bromyard Road, Worcester, cycled just under 1,000 miles and hopes his journey
A LIFETIME of travel and adventure are recalled in a new book by a Worcestershire man who toured the world as both a soldier and a diplomat. Still in the Game, by 80-year-old Antony Hornyold, of Hanley Swan, near Malvern, details his travels over 70
EXPANDING firms looking for a cash kick-start are running out of time to bid for Government money aimed at boosting jobs and growth. The great and good of Worcestershire’s public and private sectors were reminded at a business meeting that the Government
SUSPECTED child abuse was reported 111 times in only six months in Worcestershire but a children’s charity warns that more people need to report suspicions. In the last six months, 981 people from the West Midlands contacted the NSPCC with concerns
HOLIDAY vouchers, £500 cash and binoculars are just some of the prizes on offer in a raffle being run by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. The local conservation charity has launched the raffle to help raise funds for local wildlife. Becky Bradshaw-King
A LEGAL appeal is due to be heard over a troublesome rural stench which villagers claim is making their lives hell. Lawyers for cattle farmer and land-owner Henry Rodenhurst, of Wadborough Park Farm, Stoulton, near Worcester, will join their opposite
A PLEDGE to give practical help to Worcestershire’s soldiers, military families and veterans has received the backing of councillors. Members of Worcester City Council’s cabinet supported the development of a Worces-tershire Community Covenant for the
THE talents of budding snappers from across the county were recognised in a competition held by a county camera club. The Malvern-based Beacon Camera Club’s Worcestershire Young Photographer of the Year Award attracted some 500 entries from almost 50
A man pleaded guilty to growing cannabis in his home after police found a number of plants in his house. Philip Shorthouse, aged 44, of De Wyche Road, Wychbold, near Droitwich, was found to have cannabis valued at £300 to £400 in his home on March 7
A WORCESTER chaplain will be swapping her dog collar for running shoes when she takes part in the London Marathon. The Bishop of Worcester’s chaplain, Rev Lizzie Shipp, is running the marathon on Sunday, April 22 to raise money for Maggs Day
SIR – I would like to congratulate Worcester City Council’s scrutiny committee for its recent review of residential parking (Worcester News, March 16). The committee members listened to residents’ complaints and understood just how difficult
EXPERTS are painstakingly cleaning the Guildhall’s ornate ceiling as part of preparations for it once again becoming a venue where couples can tie the knot. Work is being carried out at the historic building until June – nine years since it
SIR – I know it’s up to the union leaders to get the best results for their members, but what Bob Crow, the RMT leader, has been demanding – extra money for the tube drivers over the Olympic period – is nothing more than blackmail. Considering
SIR – A recent Quality of Life survey placed Worcester among the worst five per cent of local authorities for traffic flows in the UK. Most of the few places worse off for traffic flow are in London. The response to this major quality of life
SIR – Re the article in the Worcester News on March 20. I am appalled to read that hospital bosses are to be fined £500 for every patient who develops a bedsore – surely taking essential cash from overall funding for patient care. Bedsores are
SIR – Re Richard Farrell- Adams’s letter (Worcester News, March 20) regarding the fiasco surrounding PJ Proby’s acquittal from allegations of benefit fraud. It gives ever more credence to my long believed contention that the Department of Works
SIR – Mike Ashton, chief executive of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce, sees plans to relax Sunday trading laws during the Olympics as a trial to see if a permament change would provide a boost to the economy. It may well
GINGER Rogers and Fred Astaire set the standard in 1935 the RKO film Top Hat was the biggest smash of the 30’s earning $3.2 million at the box office – with no preconceived idea I was looking forward to how Tom Chambers as Jerry Travers and Summer Strallen
HOW do you cover sharing, caring and teamwork in 14 words? The answer – with bright and bold illustrations vividly capturing a couple of appealing characters – an orange bear and a blue boar, who go on a learning journey together. Bear
A CHARITY campaign to create a new breast unit in Worcester has reached an historic milestone. The campaign, supported by your Worcester News since its launch in 2009, to create the unit at 220 Newtown Road on the site of Worcestershire Royal Hospital
WORCESTER Wolves closed the gap on British Basketball League leaders Newcastle Eagles to just two points after thrashing Cheshire Jets. Sherrad Prezzie-Blue hit 20 points, while Richie Gordon registered a double-double of 17 points and a massive
MORE than 4,000 people turned out to enjoy a day of dance in Worcester as part of the county’s largest-ever dance project. About 500 shoppers watched dance groups perform in CrownGate shopping centre, Angel Place and outside the Guildhall on Saturday
Dormand: Had virtually nothing to do on his first start in two months but deserves credit for not reacting to Craig Hobson’s first-half challenge. 7 Weir: Another swashbuckling display from the right-back but his withdrawal through injury will
LET’S just say my son has a very male attitude to shopping. As a baby he invariably took one of two approaches to a trip into town – screaming or sleeping through it. It meant I very quickly perfected the art of the mum’s dash. Run in, hurriedly
THE days of worrying about rising prices at the pumps will soon be over for one lucky driver. Worcester’s two main Tesco stores at St Peter’s and Warndon – both of which have filling stations – have teamed up with the Worcester News for a
THEY probably kept the incident quiet at the time, which wouldn’t have happened if the fertiliser had hit the fan all those years ago. Because the ensuing blast would have left a fair sized hole in Middle England and Martin Jones would certainly
DYMOCK Woods is the collective name for a group of 17 woods in what is sometimes known as the Golden Triangle. This is an area of north Gloucestershire and south Herefordshire where wild daffodils still occur in some profusion, though they’
HORSE owners in Worcestershire and Herefordshire will soon be able to get free advice on horse security and equine health, writes Sara Pawsey. Following the success of a pilot, the Equine Link Project is to be expanded throughout the West
MANAGER Carl Heeley reckoned a point was the least his Worcester City side deserved from the home stalemate against Stalybridge Celtic. Despite playing against 10 men for more than a third of the contest, after Callum Warburton had been sent off, the
THE Woodland Trust has sent out a rallying cry to help protect the county’s woods. In the face of proposed Government legislation, the trust wants to know of any woodland under threat from loss or encroachment. Nearly a dozen county woods have
HUNDREDS of eager shoppers are expected to descend on Worcester’s newest supermarket when it opens today. Asda will open its doors in Lowesmoor to customers at 10am, offering them a full shopping experience including food, drink, homeware and clothing
FOR a man making his debut at the Chelsea Flower Show this year, TV gardener Joe Swift seems remarkably relaxed, even though advice is being thrown at him from all directions, writes Hannah Stephenson. “Titchmarsh has been asking me for years
IF you like your Easter Day lunch to taste sweet, delicate and full of flavour, then plump for some lamb, says Sarah O’Meara. For fans of tradition, now is the time to order your spring lamb for Easter. At this time of year, lamb meat is succulent
WORCESTER Wolves won their seventh game in a row as they beat Sheffield Sharks to maintain the pressure on the Newcastle Eagles at the top of the British Basketball League. Although it was a comfortable final margin of victory, the Wolves struggled to
THE SWAN WITH TWO NICKS 28 New Street Worcester WR1 2DP Tel: 01905 28190 I REALLY wanted to enjoy our Saturday lunchtime visit to this city centre inn. In these days of the gastropub and having to watch out for small children clutching
FLANKER Neil Best will face his former club as Worcester Cavaliers play Northampton Wanderers in a friendly at Sixways tonight (7.30pm). Best steps up his comeback from a broken arm as the Cavaliers again look to impress on home soil. Lock Craig Gillies
FIREFIGHTERS are still at the scene of a fire which tore through a Worcester nursery last night. ONE person had to be rescued from a fire which tore through a Worcester nursery last night. Crews from Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service
A MAN detained on suspicion of being drunk at the wheel after stopping his car on the city’s main railway line has been questioned in relation to other offences. As we reported on Saturday, police arrived at the level crossing with Henwick
