AN urgent fund-raising appeal has been launched to keep the largest haul of treasure found in Worcestershire in the county. Museums Worcestershire has just four months to raise the £40,000 needed to acquire and conserve nearly 4,000 Roman coins
A WORCESTER man has penned a book about his experiences of living with a debilitating brain disease. Jeff Wallis, of Warndon Villages, Worcester, has Parkinson’s disease. He has written and published Jeff’s Jolly Jamboree Bag, a quirky outlook
A WORCESTER supermarket has donated £175 worth of food items to the city’s new foodbank to help those who cannot afford to buy food. Suzy Roberts, Tesco community champion for the store in Mill Wood Drive, Warndon Villages, visited the Worcester
WORCESTER’S Louise Marden has qualified for the South Essex Insurance Brokers (SEIB) Racehorse to Riding Horse Championship at the prestigious Horse of The Year Show. She finished second in the SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse Show Class at Vale
A MAN stole a mobile phone from an unconscious drug addict and sold it for cash because he did not have any money for food, Worcester Magistrates Court was told. Ben Kreisler also stole alcohol from the Co-op in St John’s, Worcester, in a bid
Phil Hughes’ first LV= County Championship century for Worcestershire placed another obstacle in Warwickshire’s path at Edgbaston in their bid to regain momentum in the title race. After five games without a win, the Division One leaders would
THE summer holidays got to a smashing start for youngsters in St Peter’s, Worcester, who enjoyed games of tennis and other sports. Children followed in the footsteps of their sporting heroes as they attempted a variety of activities at St Peter
EVESHAM club coach Keith Rafter revealed watching Alex Gregory win Olympic gold was the proudest moment of his life. Having worked with the Great Britain rower when he arrived at the Abbey Road club as a teenager in 1999, Rafter never doubted he
HARD-working hospital staff in Worcestershire have hit a tough NHS emergency waiting time target for the first time in over a year. Patients are supposed to be seen, treated, discharged, admitted or transferred within four hours of coming to a
A WORCESTER footballer who punched an opponent during a match and fractured his jaw after a bout of “handbags at dawn” has been given a suspended jail sentence. Jamie Insall, aged 20, of Lichfield Road, Ronkswood, Worcester, punched another player
THE timeless classics of the Carpenters will be brought together in a show at the Roses in Tewkesbury next week. Voice Of The Heart will feature numbers such as Yesterday Once More, Goodbye To Love and Only Yesterday on Saturday along with medleys
WORCESTER’S Josie Farrow returned with a silver and bronze medal from the Kimura Shukokai Karate International World Championships in the USA. Farrow, a member of the Shukokai Karate Federation national team, was on top form with a silver in the
NEW parking charges introduced in three city centre car parks have caused confusion among some drivers. Readers contacted the Worcester News to raise concerns about having to pay full price for a stay in the Cattle Market car park on Wednesday
A WOMAN barricaded herself in an upstairs room at her Worcester home after she had been raped following a night out in the city centre, a court was told. But Simon Walters-Melville, aged 26, who is accused of rape, told police his alleged victim
AN award-winning Worce-tershire businesswoman is having to cut back on her work for health reasons. Jo Rammell, who owns JDR Leisure, a provider of corporate and self-catering accommodation, is closing the company’s apartments in Wor-cester from
WORCESTER MP Robin Walker has supported gay marriage – despite admitting it might lose him votes at the next general election. He revealed the debate over it is dominating his inbox at the moment, with the response from people in the city overwhelmingly
SIR – Re the story ‘MP wants to see fast trains to the capital’ (Worcester News , August 2). I would like to lend my support to the campaign. My husband and I have just been to Brussels for a few days. It took us nearly three hours on
SIR – Bob Norfolk seems to think I’m wrong in believing same sex marriage is out of order (Worcester News , July 27). Well, Bob, I’m not anti-gay. A cousin of mine who died last week was gay and I lived near two men who were gay and they were
SIR – How annoying and embarrassing it was to see about 50,000-60,000 people a day not turning up for the Olympic events. We put on a magnificent opening show only to show the world we couldn’t fill the stadiums. Why were so many
SIR – The past few days have truly lifted the country above the dark clouds of economic gloom, a shambolic Europe, unfettered and indiscriminate immigration, those in work anxious for their jobs and many of those without work losing hope
SIR – The article on the front page concerning a crackdown on council tax dodgers by council chiefs, rightly mentioned by your comment page (Worcester News , July 30) was followed by another article on the supposed abuse of the single persons 25
SIR – I suppose you know you’ve hit the big time when readers start arguing with you in the letters page of the Worcester News . Nonetheless, I must take issue with the letter by Steve Davis ‘It’s still very cushy in the public sector’ (Worcester
THE family of a Ledbury Rugby Club player who died after a golf buggy he was in overturned have paid tribute to him. Jack Segust, aged 21, was in the buggy at Herefordshire Golf Club in Wormsley when it rolled down an embankment and collided with
FIRE chiefs in Worcester-shire have ruled out any plans to follow their counterparts in the West Midlands by charging people for callouts. Members of the Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority told the Worcester News that the idea would prove to
WHEN a still wet-behind-the-ears Alan Richardson made his first tentative steps into the Derbyshire dressing room nearly two decades ago, he probably struggled to see all of his fellow team-mates through the clouds of cigarette smoke. Cricket
THE sounds of a bygone era can be recaptured by an audience at Malvern Theatres later this month. The Nick Ross Orchestra presents an evening of music and song in the form of the classic big band sounds of the Glenn Miller era in the Forum Theatre
A TOP Worcestershire sports physiotherapist witnessed first-hand the Olympic magic of the “magnificent” British team winning the country’s first gymnastics medal in a century. Mary Barnes, a sports physio based at Malvern College sports centre,
THE idea that hospitals may be bad for you seems a peculiar one because they are supposed to be where patients get better. Often it is NHS leaders themselves who display the most zeal about the clinical benefits of care outside hospital, be that
A TALENTED music writer originally from Evesham has died in a crash in south Wales. Tributes have been pouring in for former Prince Henry's High School student James McLaren, who had worked as an assistant producer for BBC Wales for the past
A MAN from Malvern is in a stable condition in hospital in after suffering serious injuries in a crash near Stroud. The 25-year-old was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after a Volkswagen recovery truck crashed into a Cotswold stone wall
STEVE Rhodes has taken an axe to his Worcestershire side in a bid to arrest the New Road club’s stuttering four-day form. The County director of cricket has cut batsman Jimmy Cameron and bowlers Richard Jones and Jack Shantry from his squad to
A MAN who fell from a Worcester footbridge yesterday afternoon has died. Paramedics battled to save the life of the 42-year-old who plunged from a footbridge over City Walls Road at about 3.40pm. The man, named as Christopher Handley from Dines
A WORCESTER man’s life was potentially saved when an optician spotted he had a cancerous tumour in his eye. Derek Pullen, aged 59, of Blackpole, Worcester, visited Specsavers in Broad Street for his annual eye examination in November last year.
