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  • Fire in village home

    FIREFIGHTERS had to remove tiles from the roof of a home in Grafton Flyford after a fire broke out in a bedroom on Friday. The blaze started in a rear bedroom just before 4pm and spread to the roof. Four fire crews were needed to tackle

  • Hughes fills his boots as County ease home

    PHIL Hughes’ third half-century in four Friends Life t20 matches steered Worcest-ershire to a 19-run victory over Glamorgan at New Road last night. The former Australian Test batsman timed his innings superbly to finish unbeaten on 87, which

  • Premier League brothers to attend opening

    PREMIER League brothers Craig and Gary Gardner are due to attend the opening of Meadow Park’s new £360,000 sports pavilion near Bromsgrove tomorrow. Craig and Gary, who play for Sunderland and Aston Villa respectively, will be in Stoke Prior for the

  • Three men are arrested over petrol bomb attack

    THREE people have been arrested in connection with the petrol bombing of a Droitwich charity office. West Mercia Police have confirmed that three men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson following three fires at Charles Henry House

  • Man denies Betty Yates murder

    A MAN has denied murdering retired teacher Betty Yates at her Bewdley home earlier this year. Stephen Farrow, aged 47, pleaded not guilty to murdering Mrs Yates at her home on the edge of Bewdley between January 1 and 5 this year. Mrs

  • City club net award

    WORCESTER City are up for national honours after winning the regional outstanding netball club accolade. They collected the gong at the Goalden Globe awards for the West Midlands at Walsall Village Hotel. The event recognises achievements on the court

  • Crash biker is airlifted to hospital

    A BIKER was airlifted to hospital after he was involved in a crash with a car. The accident happened in Evesham Road, Norton, near Evesham, at the junction with Church Walk, at about 7.35pm on Wednesday. A senior paramedic, ambulance, the Midlands Air

  • Man found dead after car fire

    Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was found dead following a car fire near Ombersley. At just after 11am yesterday, Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service were called to a new-style BMW Mini Cooper on fire in a field off Woodhall

  • Parents face difficult choice over schooling

    PARENTS at a school which is fighting its way out of special measures have been urged to back a new leadership model or risk ‘privitisation by the back door.’ The governors at Warndon Primary School, Worcester, revealed more details about proposals

  • Police seek witnesses to attempted arson

    Police are appealing for witnesses to an attempted arson at a home in Worcester. At around 9.45pm, someone put a lighted piece of paper through the letterbox of a property on Cranham Drive, Warndon, on Monday. The paper was pulled from the letterbox,

  • Bragg gets Olympics call

    VOLLEYBALL player Rachel Bragg has today been named in the Great Britain squad for the Olympics. The 26-year-old, from Kidderminster, is part of a 24-strong group for London 2012, made up of 12 women and 12 men. For an interview with Bragg

  • Shabir bidding to earn City chance

    SHABIR Khan will be among a host of players bidding to earn deals with Worcester City in the coming weeks. It is nearly two years since the 26-year-old left-back suffered the cruciate ligament injury that forced him out of the game. But, following a

  • Terry sets a record in 95-mile marathon

    LONG-distance Worcester runner Terry Conway set a new course record as he stormed to victory in the West Highland Way Race. The 32-year-old, originally from Tolladine, covered the 95-mile trail, the longest athletics event permitted in Scotland, in 15

  • Protest over plans to close town A&E

    A PUBLIC rally is being held against proposals which could result in a Worcestershire hospital losing its emergency department. The Save the Alex campaign is organising the peaceful protest on Monday and is urging as many people as possible to

  • Crews prevent serious shopping centre fire

    SHOP sprinklers and the fire service stopped a serious fire developing in a city centre shopping arcade. Firefighters were called to Ryman Stationery store in Friary Walk, the CrownGate Centre, Worcester, in the early hours yesterday after reports

  • Cycle ride in baby George's memory

    A MOTHER who lost her newborn son after he was born prematurely is planning to cycle the journey he never made home from hospital in his honour. Nikki Bourne and her partner Paul Lewis, from Upton-upon-Severn, were devastated when their “beautiful baby

  • Storm causes flash floods havoc

    THUNDERSTORMS turned the sky black and dumped more than an inch of rain on the county causing chaos in little more than an hour. Flash-flooding cut off roads and inundated some homes and businesses across Worcestershire after a huge storm moved across

  • Jake drops in at his school

    A YOUNG fundraiser cycling 2,012 km around all the UK’s Olympic venues stopped along his way to pay a visit to his own Vale of Evesham school. Jake Phipps, aged 12, of Kersoe, near Elmley Castle, was around halfway through his gruelling five-week challenge

  • Councillors are permitted to tweet while they meet

    POLITICIANS have been allowed to post on Twitter whilst council meetings are unfolding in Worcester – despite one councillor branding its use “extremely rude, discourteous and disrespectful.” The ruling was approved during a full council meeting

  • Worcester: City with a heart

    THIS was the moment Worcester spelt out its intention to wear its heart on its sleeve by signing up to a new scheme. Worcester City Council has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to become a heart city as part of the Mending Broken Hearts

  • Shape up for summer beauty

    BAD news for all those planning a slinky swimsuit regime - the longest day of summer has officially been and gone. So if you haven't already started thinking about your beach body, now's definitely the time to mark your bikini SOS plan on the

  • Warriors backroom team gets tour of new centre

    MEMBERS of the Worcester Warriors backroom team were given a sneak preview of the soon-to-be-completed National Football Centre at Burton-upon-Trent. Sixways head coach Richard Hill, head of strength and conditioning Stuart Pickering and head of medical

  • Depressed man said he would jump off bridge

    A DEPRESSED man claimed he had taken an overdose of 64 paracetamol and threatened to throw himself off a motorway bridge near Worcester. Carl Myatt, who had made previous prank calls to the police, broke the terms of his anti-social behaviour order (

  • School celebrates its 300th anniversary

    PUPILS past and present joined forces to celebrate the tercentenary of a Worcestershire school. A day of celebrations took place on Saturday at Hallow CE School to mark its 300th anniversary. About 130 former pupils arrived from all over the

  • Health bosses in battle to plug £2m black hole

    HOSPITAL bosses in Worcestershire are battling to plug a £2 million black hole just two months into the financial year. To make matters worse a two month delay is also expected to a £21 million Government loan to shore up their finances so Worcestershire