THREE people from Worcester have walked away with crime prevention tips and prizes after entering a police competition. They were honoured after attending West Mercia Police’s Love Your Home shop in CrownGate shopping centre, Worcester, which
HOSPITAL chiefs would like to meet patients face-to-face to discusss their complaints rather than just writing them a letter. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which includes Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester, received 67 complaints
OUT-of-form Worcestershire batsman Alexei Kervezee has been dropped from the squad that will tackle Middlesex at Lord’s in Division One of the LV= County Championship tomorrow. The Dutch international has been having a tough time with the bat
THE son of the Yorkshire Ripper’s first victim has visited Worcester College of Technology. Richard McCann’s mother Wilma was killed by Peter Sutcliffe in 1975 when Richard was just five years old. He is now a motivational speaker and bestselling author
A FAMILY was threatened with legal action after they voiced their displeasure at a relative’s sentence. Relatives of Gary Biddle, who sat in the public gallery in Court One at Worcester Magistrates Court, erupted in anger on Monday when he was jailed
FASTER broadband is on the way to Worcestershire with the county being handed a £3.3 million boost. The Government has awarded the cash to the county council after the authority put together a plan called Connecting Worcestershire. Under
A former director of the world-famous Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew has opened a Lottery-funded pond at a Worcester school. Professor Ghillean Prance, one of the UK’s most prominent botanists and ecologists, opened the pond at the River School
THE Unthanks succeeded in making the Forum feel much more intimate and cosy than its 1,000-plus capacity would suggest by bathing it in swathes of lush folk and Geordie charm. Billed as an opportunity to witness sisters Rachel and Becky close
SIR – Recently, 128,000 families in Britain have been given free food – they are desperate. This is ‘Great Britain’ in 2012, not a starving Third World country. What is happening to us? Our MPs do not starve, do they? GEORGE COWLEY Worcester
SIR – Being an orderly at Worcestershire Royal Infirmary for nearly six years, I feel I must protest against some of the comments about the hospital catering. I respect everything about Worcestershire Royal Hospital, they certainly do a fantastic
SIR – we are calling on Worcester News readers to get behind Marie Curie Cancer Care and take on a vital role for the charity. We are currently looking for a volunteer in Pershore to look after the collection tins we have in the area. This role
AN inspirational youngster has been honoured by a charitable campaign and a global wrestling federation for his hard work and support of others with muscle-wasting conditions. The tag team of WWE and the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign named Murray Field
SIR – Through your letters page I am trying to trace some old school chums, who I have not seen for many years. We all went to Blackminster School from 1955 to 1960. I am looking for Pete Cresswell (Offenham), Chris Burrows (Broadway) and Andy
SIR – As their season comes to an end, I would like to congratulate Carl Heeley, Matt Gardiner and their Worcester City squad on what has been an excellent campaign in Blue Square North. Despite all the off-field uncertainty surrounding the
SIR – Once again employers’ organisations are jumping on the bandwagon by saying that their members would be taking on many current unemployed workers if only they did not have to face draconian employment protection legislation. What a myth.
A WORCESTERSHIRE firm has received one of the UK’s top business accolades. Droitwich-based Winsted has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise by showing outstanding achievement in the international trade category and an overall growth of 82 per cent in the
A LASTING reminder of today’s world has been hidden away inside Upton-upon-Severn’s new flood wall. With work on the Environment Agency’s flood scheme nearing completion, children from Upton Primary School were invited to join West Worcestershire
DUE to the recent inclement weather and the resulting flood of New Road, Worcestershire CCC has made the decision to switch the venue of the CB40 match against Netherlands, on Monday, to Kidderminster. Netherlands Cricket have been informed of the decision
A man from the West Midlands was seriously injured and another man killed in a motorway crash on the border with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire involving five vehicles. Two lorries, two vans and a car were involved in the incident between junctions
A LEADING Irish instrumental band play Herefordshire’s centre for the arts on Friday. Lúnasa perform their traditional music at The Courtyard from 8pm and tickets are £16 (concessions £15). Since forming in 1996 the group has toured extensively throughout
• For full profiles of all of the candidates visit our Election Section here. D-DAY is almost here for Worcester’s political parties - with thousands of voters across the city set to cast their votes in the local elections tomorrow.
COMING within touching distance of the play-offs represents a fine season for Worcester City, no question about it. Now they are faced with improving on that next term in what will be their last campaign at St George’s Lane. The bar of expectation has
A COMMUNITY-minded shop assistant in Worcester has had her hair shaved off to raise money for Cancer Research. Laura Brant, aged 33, of Swaledale Court, had her locks chopped during a fund-raising day at Home Sense in the Elgar Retail Park, Worcester
THE Upton International Music Festival returns with more features and a long list of household names. Now in its third year, the three-day party on Fish Meadow runs from Friday to Sunday, August 24-26 and promises to keep all the family entertained.
No matter how many times musical fans have walked down the street of My Fair Lady before, going hand in hand with WODS at the Swan theatre in Worcester this week will make it seem a fresh experience. Waiting round every corner are big familiar
PUB landlords have lambasted controversial proposals for a new tax on their trade – saying it would be “another nail in the coffin”. The Home Office is considering introducing a late night levy on places which sell alcohol to help councils with their
WORCESTER City’s season may have finished but that’s not the end of football at St George’s Lane. As well as the assortment of local league cup finals, Friday sees the 10th annual staging of the club’s ‘Big Match’. It will pit two teams of fans against
DON'T leave your hair loose and lacklustre this season. With so many accessible trends to tap into, it's easy to give boring hair the brush-off with a few simple styling tweaks. From mermaid-inspired wet looks to retro bouffant beehives, there's
WHILE the destructive effects of too much alcohol are widely reported and binge drinking is a very real problem in the UK – there is evidence to suggest that in moderation, alcohol can be of some benefit. Scientists in the US discovered that
THE river Severn remains on a flood warning this morning following record rainfall levels. The Environment Agency issued flood warnings on Monday night at Kempsey, Callow End,Clifton and Severn Stoke near Worcester, meaning flooding is expected
FEWER people are now dying in Worcestershire hospitals after concerns last year about higher than expected deaths. The mortality rate at county hospitals including Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester is now within what NHS bosses call the “normal
