GUESTS at a Jubilee celebration in Worcester could have been forgiven for thinking they were seeing double. The event, at the Lavender Children’s Centre in Warndon Primary School, was organised by the Worcester Twins Group, which is celebrating a huge
A WORCESTERSHIRE artist has scooped a prestigious art award and hopes it will raise the profile of her bespoke business. Bewdley design and décor artist Karen Parody, who specialises in abstract paintings for restaurants, offices and hotels, has won
A DRUNKEN teenager arrested while brandishing a knife in Worcester city centre in the early hours has narrowly avoided being locked up. James Smith had over-indulged while drinking at Tramps nightclub on May 8 and felt he was threatened when he went
A NEW interactive website could offer people at risk of flooding a timely lifeline with the fifth anniversary of the devastating floods of 2007 this month. The Flood Protection Association has launched an online hub of flood-related matters
A WOMAN with health problems who has suffered a series of falls is urging people to look into whether technology can help them keep their independence in their own homes. Jean Keeble, aged 83, was issued with a Chubb lifeline and a wrist-worn falls detector
A CITY convenience store and petrol station has shut for a week for an overhaul. The Tesco Express in London Road, Worcester, closed its doors over the weekend for a planned “re-model and refurbishment” of the layout in-store, said a spokesman
EVESHAM United manager Matt Clarke has swooped to sign former Worcester City striker Luke Corbett. The 27-year-old started his career at Cheltenham Town and went on to play for Gloucester City and Leamington among other clubs. Corbett scored five goals
BUYING tickets for Worcester Warriors’ home games in the forthcoming Aviva Premiership campaign will cost fans up to £5 more per match than last season. As usual, it is cheaper to purchase tickets in advance from the box office or via the club
A DISTRAUGHT family kicked out of their home after the landlord fell £6,000 behind on mortgage payments are sleeping in a caravan. Margaret and Eddie Tout, of Ronkswood, spent yesterday packing up their belongings as bailiffs changed the locks
I CONFESS I never much liked Cherie Blair during her time as Britain’s ‘first lady’. It was an irrational dislike based not so much on her personality as on her image. Whether she intended it or not, she came across as rather simpering, always
SIR – Britain is a leading shareholder in the world bank, which has given Argentina £10.4 billion in loans. Argentina has been flexing its muscles over the Falkland Islands again recently As long as Argentina continues to act in this way we
SIR – Seventy per cent of Worcester News readers responding to your online poll would only pay one per cent tax if they could get away with it. Can we assume that these readers would prefer to make their own arrangements for health and social
SIR – There appears to be an ongoing debate about gay marriages and I come out strongly with the Church’s view that marriage is for a man and woman. It is definitely not for a man and a man or a woman and a woman. It destroys the whole sanctity
SIR – The case of Tussie and David Myerson’s fight against Wychavon District Council should prompt increased scrutiny of the criteria used in instigating legal proceedings ‘Severely disabled woman wins court fight to stay in her annexe’ (Worcester
A PERSHORE blacksmith has followed in the footsteps of his ancestors and achieved his farrier permit. Steve Cooper, of SE Cooper Blacksmiths, said he had to pass the five-year course for his wife who has stood by him throughout the gruelling
SIR – It is outrageous that the number of people in Worcester facing homelessness has risen by 25 per cent in a year (Worcester News, June 19), while other citizens complacently drive our streets in expensive cars. “And the rich he [God] hath
SIR – You reported that Worcester homelessness was up 25 per cent in one year and 1,250 people are trying to avoid homelessness (Worcester News, June 19). Then you reported on your front page that ‘City splashes out on new £13m pool’ (Worcester
UP-and-coming Worcester discus prospect Adam Damadzic gained valuable experience in his burgeoning career in the Aviva 2012 Olympic trials. The former Royal Grammar School Worcester pupil, who is now targeting a 2016 Olympics place in Rio de Janeiro,
SIR – I have been reading with interest about the plans for an NHS shake-up which could lead to one of Worcestershire’s A&E units closing (Worcester News, June 14). Hospital bosses say there is a shortfall of £50 million but if they do close
SIR – We read that there is to be a radical overhaul of healthcare in Worcestershire, leading to services being lost or downgraded due to a “£50 million shortfall” in the future because of the growing elderly population (Worcester News, June
Chancellor George Osborne has scrapped August's planned 3p rise in fuel duty and frozen the tax for the rest of the year. The £500 million boost to motorists can be paid as a result of departmental savings across Whitehall, the Treasury said
POLICE have issued an e-fit of a man they wish to trace in connection with a distraction burglary in Droitwich. On Wednesday, May 30, a woman in her 70s, who lives in The Dale, was visited by a man claiming to be from the water board. He asked her
NEW rules are expected to come into force allowing politicians to use Twitter during council meetings in Worcester. Last year members of Worcester City Council were banned from using it during one meeting after concerns they were conducting conversations
WORCESTERSHIRE officials are cautiously optimistic overseas signing Sohail Tanvir will finally join up with his New Road team-mates this week. Unforeseen international call-ups and visa red tape have delayed the Pakistani all-rounder’s County arrival
AN HISTORIC hotel will provide the backdrop for a Worcestershire based theatre company’s unique adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays. The Little English Theatre are staging an open-air production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A CRASH between a lorry and two cars has closed a busy Worcester road. Emergency services were called to Bromwich Road, St John's, at 12.10pm today. The crash between a Scania lorry, a Fiat Stylo and a Ford Focus happened at the junction
A grandfather who throttled his granddaughter on the pretext that he was giving her a necklace has been released from prison by a judge. Michael Brookes dumped the unconscious body of 18-year-old Jodie Oliver in his garden shed in Wey Place, Droitwich
DARYL MITCHELL COLUMN WE play Glamorgan at New Road in the Friends Life t20 on Friday night and it will be our first game with them in this year’s competition after the SWALEC Stadium clash was postponed following the tragic death of Tom Maynard
IN 1998 measles was pretty much eradicated in Britain until a man called Andrew Wakefield got a research paper published in the medical journal The Lancet. To call it research is stretching it a bit. Indeed, it has been described as “the most damaging
WORCESTER’S Ki Health and Beauty salon in Lowesmoor is launching a new training company for nail technicians and beauty therapists. The Nail Training Company Worcester is the first of its kind in Worcestershire and has been set up to run both
A mother has urged parents to give their children the MMR jab after her twin daughters caught measles. Zoe Hayes said she was shocked at how ill the virus made her twins Niambh and Maisy Dale, aged five, and now bitterly regrets refusing the
PERSHORE-based Honda Yuasa Racing picked up two victories in the MSA British Touring Car Championship at Croft with Matt Neal now topping the table. Neal, who heads the standings by just one point, team-mate Gordon Shedden and rival Jason Plato shared
INSPECTORS have withdrawn an improvement notice over safeguarding children’s services in Worcestershire after hailing the turnaround as “rapid”. Ofsted bosses say the service, which was given a failing status in 2010, has made “significant progress”
