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  • County ease to Essex victory

    WORCESTERSHIRE carved out an emphatic seven-wicket victory against Essex in their Clydesdale Bank40 Group ‘A’ battle at Chelmsford when, replying to a total of 190-9, they reached the winning post with 37 balls to spare. Moeen Ali took the major honours

  • Heart attack service boost

    HEART attack patients who need life-saving care will soon be able to be treated at Worcestershire Royal Hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients will no longer have to travel to a heart attack centre in Birmingham, Coventry or Wolverhampton

  • Yobs rip up plants and lie down in front of traffic

    A woman has condemned the intimidating antics of a group of “yobs” who went on the rampage. Helen Donovan said she saw the group of about 12 to 15 men running around like a pack, ripping up planters on the Merstow Green in Evesham roundabout

  • Concern over school sports pitch proposal

    PEOPLE living near a Malvern high school are banding together to oppose plans for a new sports area. Dyson Perrins CE Academy has applied for planning permission to create an artificial grass pitch, surrounded with a fence and lit by floodlights in the

  • County hold on thanks to Pardoe

    WORCESTERSHIRE’S ninth-wicket pair of Matt Pardoe and Richard Jones survived 45 balls to prevent Surrey from pulling off what would have been a remarkable victory at New Road. The visitors came close to triumphing after following on for only the second

  • Improvised folk-pop with cult following

    AN evening of close-harmony pop-folk comes to Herefordshire’s centre for the arts. Girlyman visit The Courtyard, in Hereford, on Wednesday from 8pm with their acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, djembe and electric baritone guitar in tow. The three

  • Half a Sixpence hits the jackpot for WODYS

    WORCESTER Operatic and Dramatic Society Youth Section's (WODYS) staging of Half a Sixpence has been named the best youth production in West Worcestershire in 2011. The group's win was announced at the National Operatic and Dramatic Association

  • Crews battle fire at Worcester nightclub

    FIRE crews were called to tackle a fire at a Worcester nightclub this morning. Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service was called to Bushwackers, in Trinity Street, at 7.40am to find the fire in a basement toilet. Two crews from Worcester were

  • Sleep Easy night helped homeless

    TWO more people have been granted a reprieve from a life on the streets thanks to the kindness of people in Worcester. More than 30 people helped raise £3,268 by bedding down in the Cathedral Plaza shopping centre for night for Worcester YMCA’s Sleep