ONLY six matches were started out of a scheduled programme of 72 Worcestershire Cricket League fixtures as the weather again took its toll. The overall percentage of abandoned games for the season is now nudging 40 per cent. Tireless
MIKE Symons scored twice as Worcester City eased into their pre-season programme with a comfortable victory at Stratford Town. City’s player-of-the-season struck both goals in the first-half at a soggy Knights Lane before Phil Green completed their
TRIALLIST Lloyd Macklin grabbed a late equaliser for Hereford United in their opening pre-season friendly 1-1 draw at Edgar Street after Ed Upson had fired visiting Yeovil in front. The new season got under way in typically confused fashion with no team
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers kicked off their pre-season friendly programme with a victory and defeat. Steve Burr’s side were invited to play a West Brom side on Saturday morning, which they won 3-2 thanks to goals for Ryan Rowe (2) and James Vincent at Albion
RAMNARESH Sarwan hit a brilliant century to steer Leicestershire Foxes to a thrilling last-ball victory against Worcestershire Royals in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Group ‘A’ clash at Grace Road. In a match reduced to 31 overs a side because of
A MAJOR new bid to publicise council cash for emerging businesses is about to kick off – amid worries not enough firms realise the help is available. Worcester City Council is to contact 1,000 companies to try to engage them with the various ways the
ABOUT 250 people strode out on the annual St Richard’s Hospice Midnight Walk, with men joining the fun for the first time. The ladies’ midnight walk and men’s fancy dress drag walk set off at midnight on Saturday, July 7, on five and 10-mile
A CITY centre street was closed after fire ripped through a sandwich shop. Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service were called to Daisy’s Kitchen in Pump Street in Worcester at just after 10.10am yesterday to reports of smoke issuing
A SUPERFIT runner who competes with an ironing board strapped to his back is taking on the UK’s hardest ultra-marathon in aid of a charity helping those with terminal illnesses. Paul Roberts from Ockeridge, near Worcester, is a practitioner of extreme
A YOUNG rugby player who collapsed while watching a match at Worcester’s Sixways Stadium died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled. Dominic Cullen, of Matson Rugby Club in Gloucester, was in Worcester on Sunday, May 6, to watch his club’s under-17s
CENTRE Jon Clarke reckons international experience will count for nothing ahead of the new Aviva Premiership season at Worcester Warriors. Richard Hill’s new-look Sixways squad continue to work hard on the training pitch in preparation for
A WOMAN has been airlifted to hospital after coming off a horse in Worcestershire. The woman, who is in her 30s, was reportedly knocked unconscious for a short time after reportedly falling from the horse during a jump in a field off Abbey View Road,
THE wife of a man who died after diving into the river Avon urged him not to go into the water, an inquest was told. Carl Schmidt was walking along the riverside at Hampton, Evesham, with wife Jacqui and two of their friends shortly before
