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  • Law firm announces promotion of workers

    WORCESTERSHIRE law firm MFG Solicitors, which has offices in Worcester, Kidderminster and Bromsgrove, has announced a string of partner and associate promotions. Kirsten Bridgewater has been promoted to partner in the litigation division. Property-litigation

  • Interviews after cyclists forced off road

    POLICE will be conducting interviews in connection with an incident in which a group of cyclists were forced off the road by a 4x4 as it overtook them. Some among the group of 14 cyclists ended up with injuries including a broken collar bone, bruises

  • Best for customer service

    THE team at Worcestershire Hub Customer Service Centre has won Customer Service Excellence award for the second year running. The government initiative aims to make sure the customer is always at the heart of public service delivery and to achieve

  • Flatmate burgled former employer

    A cleaner took part in a burglary at the firm where he had worked up to a month before the raid. Sean Taylor and his flatmate broke into A and E Services on an industrial estate in Hampton Lovett, near Droitwich. They stole two laptop computers valued

  • New fruit trees at famous hill climb track

    WORCESTERSHIRE’S famous Shelsley Walsh hill climb track is getting a green makeover for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The Midland Automobile Club is marking the anniversary by planting more than 60 new fruit trees in the old orchard that adjoins the

  • Single punch knocked victim out

    A £28,000-a-year transport manager knocked a man unconscious in a Worcester fast-food restaurant after drinking up to eight vodka and cokes. Dominic Pearce lashed out at Adam James then broke the finger of Christopher Andrews, a doorman at

  • Tributes paid to tragic crash victims

    • Please leave your tributes below. Statement from West Mercia Police: Tributes have been paid to three members of the same family killed in a collision that occurred near Pershore this weekend. At around 12.35am on Saturday (

  • Pair up in court after police seize drugs haul

    A MAN and a woman have appeared in court after a large amount of illegal drugs was seized by police in Worcestershire. Michael Vella, aged 46, of Highfield, Callow End, near Worcester, was accused of possession with intent to supply a controlled class

  • British Camp - Malvern Hills

    THE large area of access land available to the public in the Malvern Hills is complemented by Eastnor Park, just to the west, where there is further public access. There’s no actual right of access (except on public rights of way, which are scarce

  • Equine entries break records

    EQUINE classes at Malvern’s Three Counties Show are proving more popular than ever. There are a record-breaking 2,975 horse entries at this year’s three-day event – 50 more than last year. Organiser, the Three Counties Agricultural Society, is

  • English and proud

    SIR – Re your Comment ‘It’s time to be proud of our country’ (Worcester News, June 4). I am proud to be English, Mr Editor. One thing I particularly value is freedom of speech – in your letters column in particular. GEORGE COWLEY Worcester

  • Hats off to show

    FOR the first time in its 214-year history, posh frocks and pretty hats will be as much a part of the Three Counties Show as prancing ponies, mooing heifers and shearing sheep. The three-day event is being held on its spectacular showground at

  • Adult social care has to be protected

    SIR – The news that Worcestershire County Council is proposing to put a cap on all new and updated applications for adult social care is extremely worrying, particularly as the council’s own consultation process highlighted that social care was

  • Our cathedral has so much to offer this city

    SIR – I would like to answer the letter by J L Reynolds (Worcester News, May 29) in which he asks which building would be chosen by the people if either the Hive or Worcester Cathedral had to be demolished. How could you compare our beautiful

  • It just doesn’t add up, Mr Leatherdale

    SIR – As a member of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, I have attended the early matches of the season. And guess what? The scoreboard has broken down again. May I ask Mr [David] Leatherdale (chief executive) what measures are being taken

  • Let’s focus on bankers, not the tax on pasties

    SIR – After commenting on the Worcester News letters page about councillors up and down the country awarding themselves big salaries, it occurs to me that the bankers are another lot. They award themselves big bonuses. It’s so easy for them because

  • We need more trains, not a station facelift

    SIR – The article concerning aspects of the Worcester Transport Strategy ‘Rail station gets £500,000 facelift’ (Worcester News, June 7) is both timely and interesting. Far be it for me to criticise such knowledgeable planners but it does appear

  • It’s simple, Chelsea are an English club

    SIR – There appears to be a bit of sour grapes going around on the Worcester News letters page regarding Chelsea’s Champions League triumph last month. Firstly, let’s remember this is an English club winning the trophy and they now stand alongside

  • Look, it’s an illness

    SIR – I wholly agree with Sheila Harris, of Harvington, who wrote to your sister paper the Evesham Journal about mental illness (May 31) . I have a long history of bipolar disorder (manic/depression) and as Ms Harris writes: “Mental problems

  • Why are we paying to keep warlord in jail?

    SIR – Why must Britain be used as the world’s dustbin? How is it that Liberian warlord Charles Taylor finds himself serving his 50-year sentence in our jails? Well, blame the previous Labour government for this madness as it agreed in 2006 to

  • Politics should be all about communities

    SIR – I’ve come under a barrage of criticism from all corners in recent weeks since my letter about the Lib Dems power share in Worcester ‘Lib Dems doing the same as independents’ (Worcester News, May 23). Firstly, I must say I am no supporter

  • Bogus official targets 90-year-old

    AN elderly woman had £700 stolen from her home during a distraction burglary in Worcestershire. The 90-year-old woman was at home in Bewdley Street, Evesham, when she was visited by a man claiming to be from the water board on Saturday. The man arrived

  • Give food charities some of the EU cash

    SIR – Re your Comment ‘Charity set up to help feed the hungry’ (Worcester News, June 5). It referred to your story about the setting up of a food bank in Worcester to combat hunger due to poverty in Worcestershire and Britain today. There is

  • The police and coaches – that is all we saw

    SIR – What a fiasco. I read the advice published in the Worcester News (May 23) about where to get the best view of the torch relay. It included a list of locations and a timetable from the city boundary on the Droitwich Road to the city centre

  • Torch was great,but the organisation wasn’t

    SIR – I read your article regarding the blunders that occurred with regard to the Olympic Torch celebrations in Worcester (Worcester News, May 26). My own experience of the organisation was nothing to applaud. In fact, had I arranged such an

  • We, too, were upset by BBC scheduling

    SIR – Like Sylvia Hillier (Worcester News, May 30) my family, I and many more were bitterly disappointed with the BBC 1 programme from New Road, which ended before the Olympic Flame arrived. As a result we did not hear the choir. The members

  • Sometimes we just don’t get it right

    TWENTY pence does not buy you much these days. A third of a chocolate bar or perhaps half of this newspaper. It would, we were told, have bought a victim of a brutal attack the chance to travel home on a bus rather than risk a late-night walk.

  • Jobs boost as computer group set for expansion

    WORCESTERSHIRE’s OGL Computer Services Group is to expand its Stourport-on-Severn site and recruit up to 30 staff over the next two years. The new facilities, which will nearly double the current square footage, will house additional office, stores

  • Bishop backs calls over gay marriage - ballot

    THE Bishop of Worcester is backing the Church of England’s opposition to Government moves calling for same-sex marriages to be legalised. The Rt Rev Dr John Inge said he “whole-heartedly” stood with the Church’s position, and joined them in

  • The day I got to carry Denholm Elliott’s leg

    BACK in 1976, when Sylvester Stallone was playing Rocky Balboa for the first time and John Wayne, dying from cancer, was in his last movie The Shootist, a slightly less well known figure made his screen debut in Worcestershire. Bob Toye may not

  • We want to stop youngsters getting as fat as 63st Georgia

    CHANCES are you will have heard a fair bit about the scandal of Britain’s 63-stone teenager recently. Georgia Davis, aged 19, of Aberdare, South Wales, was unable to stand because of her weight and had to have part of her house demolished so

  • Train station revamp is start of key work, says MP

    A SPRUCE-UP of one of Worcester’s train stations should only be the first stage of a wider push to improve rail passenger services, says the city’s MP. Robin Walker welcomed the announcement of a £785,000 revamp of Foregate Street station in Worcester

  • Missing woman found safe and well

    A WOMAN who went missing from a Worcester hostel has been found safe and well. Police trying to trace Careen Earl found her at a caravan park in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, on Monday afternoon (11). The 24-year-old had previously last been seen at St Paul

  • Car catches fire in Worcester

    FIREFIGHTERS have been called to tackle a burning van on the main road at Claines, in Worcester. Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service was called to the incident, outside the Raven pub on the Droitwich Road, just after 11.20am this

  • Bookies oppose success for City

    WORCESTER City have been priced at 22-1 to win Blue Square Bet North next season. The St George’s Lane side, who finished seventh in 2011-12, are 12th favourites for the title on the list compiled by sponsors Blue Square. Carl Heeley’s team surprised

  • They said it would never last - 72 years ago

    WHEN Steve and Elsie Callow got married in the darkest days of the Second World War, everyone said it wouldn’t last. But they have had the last laugh, because today they celebrate their 72nd wedding anniversary. Now, with their two sons themselves

  • Our t20 displays can be helped by 40-over form

    WEATHER-permitting, we will step up our preparations for the Friends Life t20 today with some scenarios training out in the middle. A few of the first-team lads were down to play in two t20 friendlies at Gloucestershire yesterday, but unfortunately they

  • Lack of letters - an apology

    YOU may have noticed that the letters section of our site hasn't been updated for a little while. This is for a number of reasons including staff holidays and cover but we hope to get things back to normal this week. Please accept our apologies.

  • Crews called to cinema fire

    FIRE crews were called to a Worcester cinema this morning to reports of a fire in one of its screens. Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service were called to Vue Cinema, in Friar Street, at 7.33am. Two crews from Worcester attended the scene and

  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

    NEW FICTION Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is published by in hardback Weidenfeld & Nicolson, priced £12.99. Available now. Gillian Flynn has already impressed Stephen King with her first two thrillers, and he's bound to rave about her third, as chilling

  • County OAP rescued after Snowdon fall

    AN 80-year-old man from Worcestershire has been airlifted to hospital after falling on Snowdon. The man, who is from the Malvern area, was descending from Snowdon's summit yesterday on the steep Snowdon Ranger Path with two other men, when

  • Bad hair day? Raid the larder...

    SIENNA Miller is a style icon and beauty idol - and now she's also an unofficial ambassador for Heinz. When the actress recently revealed that tomato ketchup was her beauty saviour, sales probably soared. Known for her honey-blonde locks, Sienna recalled

  • Phantom of the Opera/Bristol Hippodrome

    TWENTY six years on, a relaunch in 2011 to mark the 25th anniversary of Phantom of the Opera one of London’s greatest ever musical successes is magnificent. By the end of the show there were tears everywhere as the love, passion and drama of lovers

  • Relocation set to bring jobs to area

    A LANDMARK building lying empty on a city canal basin development will finally be occupied by an IT firm, bringing jobs into the area. The internet address service company Postcode Anywhere has paid £500,000 for the building at Diglis Basin and is ploughing