AS millions of revellers gathered across the country to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last week, one man remembers very well her Coronation year almost 60 years ago. This school photograph shows Michael Lancaster’s class at St John’s Junior School
A MAN drove into two cars after taking eight painkillers and drinking a bottle of beer after his wife told him she wanted a divorce, a court was told. Grzegorz Kardas, aged 38, of Spinney Grove, Evesham, ad-mitted driving without due care and attention
THE weekend’s meetings at Worcester Racecourse attracted more than 10,000 visitors over two days. Commercial manager Jenny Cheshire said the racecourse – and the punters – had got lucky with the weather for ladies’ day on Saturday, and the countryside
VOLUNTEERS from the West Bromwich Building Society in Worcester got the brooms and paintbrushes out to help with a spring clean at the city’s Acorns Children’s Hospice. A 10-strong team spent a day painting and decorating, gardening and cleaning at
STUDENTS showed they care for the city by carrying out litter picks near to their places of study. Two groups took to the streets and parks near their educational establishments to highlight the importance of caring for the city in our Take Pride campaign
A TAXPAYER-OWNED school books supplier sold for £6.74 million offered best value for the public, county council chiefs say. West Mercia Supplies (WMS), quarter-owned by Worcestershire County Council, was sold in April. WMS, which supplied stationery
A WOMAN has offered a £5,000 reward for the safe return of a box of family treasures taken from her porch in Cleeve Prior, near Evesham. Angela Hurd, of Mill Lane, mistakenly left the box filled with mementos from her childhood and her parents’ lives
TWO keen runners from Worcester, Bosch Group, have beaten their target of raising £5,050 for St Richard’s Hospice by running 50 miles at the gruelling Malvern Ultra. Worcester’s managing director Carl Arntzen and customer services director Shaun Mansbridge
SIR – Thanks, Dave Bower (Worcester News, June 6) for putting me right regarding Anthony Newley and the lyrics of the musical Oliver! We live and learn. Rose Hill Primary School in Windermere Drive, Warndon, did indeed give a really good concert
SIR – So the Government has announced a number of Uturns with regard to the recent Budget and the socalled pasty tax and the like. I was wondering if these Uturns are a result of the recent poor results that the Tory party had in the local elections
SIR – I wonder if Worcester News readers can identify the photo, above? It appears to be a young girl with a lamb in harness pulling a small cart laden with flowers. None of our family have any links with this photo, nor know anything about
SIR – It is good to see that airport-style security will be used at the 2012 London Olympics to combat terrorists causing havoc at the Games. Not so good is that the public will be ripped off at the food and drink outlets inside the stadiums.
SIR – We would like to express our huge thanks to the villagers of Hinton-onthe- Green who turned out in the pouring rain on Sunday, June 4, to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Despite there being no village hall, more than 70 people came
SIR – Re the letter by J L Reynolds (Worcester News, May 31) about the pedestrian who used the ‘keep Worcester moving’ lights on the bridge and held up 37 cars and a bus in the morning rush hour and had walked halfway across the river bridge before
SIR – Ambient hospital noise for inpatients is not conducive to a restful, stressfree stay. Therefore, on one of my not too rare stays at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, I was quite surprised and quite frankly relieved that after two days and
WITH uncertain weather forecast for the foreseeable future, the organisers of the weekend’s Three Counties Show are taking no chances. Hundreds of tons of straw are on standby on the Malvern showground in case mopping-up operations are needed
TALKING, breathing, eating, drinking, swallowing and speaking are things we all take for granted on a daily basis. But all these abilities, each of them incalculably precious in itself, can become an ordeal for people recovering from surgery
TWO Worcestershire cyclists have been named in the Great Britain team for the Olympics. Bromsgrove's Jess Varnish is among the sprinters, while Malvern's Liam Killeen is included in the mountain bike discipline for London 2012.
THE sound of new bells could be heard ringing out over a Worcestershire village for the first time in nearly 200 years. St Mary’s Church in Kempsey, near Worcester, has recently received two new treble bells which were cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundary
A WOMAN has described how she watched in horror as flood water tore through a Welsh caravan park where she owns a site. Lynda Jarvis, of Whitbourne, near Worcester, had only returned home from her caravan in Glanlerry Caravan Park, near Glanwern
A motorist with 10 convictions for driving while banned caused a police car to crash in Worcester, a jury was told. Craig Wright was at the wheel of a Ford Focus in Avon Road, Tolladine, when he did a handbrake turn and slewed across the carriageway
NICK Wright has become the second former Kidderminster Harriers player to join Blue Square Bet Premier rivals Mansfield Town this summer. The striker, who was top scorer at Aggborough during 2011-12 with 17 goals, has agreed a deal with the Stags for
FIREFIGHTERS were called to tackle a burning van in Claines, Worcester. Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service was called to the blaze outside the Raven pub in Droitwich Road just after 11.20am yesterday. A spokesman said
THE speed limit on the road where three members of the same family lost their lives in a car accident at the weekend is to be reduced. Luke Morris, aged 22, and his 24-year-old partner Elizabeth Stanley, both from Kidderminster, died when the
TWO hundreds in his first four Clydesdale Bank 40 outings and an average of 77 certainly represent a blistering start to Phil Hughes’ Worcestershire one-day career. However, while Steve Rhodes has been massively impressed by his Aussie recruit’s form
THE three people killed in a car crash near Pershore were all loving parents, members of their families have said in emotional tributes. Luke Morris, aged 22, and his 24-year-old partner Elizabeth Stanley, both from Kidderminster, died when
OVERSEAS signing Sohail Tanvir will miss at least the first two games of Worcestershire’s Friends Life t20 campaign after being kept longer than expected by Pakistan on their tour of Sri Lanka. The left-arm quick was initially just with his country for
A NIGHT time bus service will return to the west side of Worcester for the first time since funding was withdrawn. City and county councillor Richard Udall has secured the return of weekday evening bus services to St John’s and Dines Green
