A TALENTED Worcestershire teenager’s debut single also doubles as a national charity’s first-ever Christmas single. Lauren Alexandra, of Bewdley, has pledged all profits from the sale of her cover of American country singer Faith Hill’s Where Are
A MYSTERY man with connections to Worcester is being sought by police following a £5,000 raid on a house in which jewellery and war medals were stolen. Officers believe the man may have vital information on a burglary at a house in Copthorne Road
A YOUNG Scrabble player received an early birthday present after earning a place in the top 50 in the popular board game’s World Youth Championships. Josh Irvine, who turned 14 yesterday, won 10 of his 22 games in the three-day tournament held
THIS year’s X Factor winner’s single has smashed the reality show’s sales records, which is good news for a Worcester hospice. James Arthur’s debut single Impossible has become the fastest-selling winner’s single at this point in its release, having
COSTA is set to open its fourth Worcester city centre-based coffee shop at the start of next year. The chain coffee company will be opening up a new store at the newly built St Martin’s Quarter, near to Asda, in mid-February. It will employ
A PARTNERSHIP between Worcester’s council and university which more than doubled recycling rates among students in its first year has been commended for a second time. The University of Worcester and Worcester City Council received gold in the
HOMES and businesses were evacuated after a huge blaze swept through a major recycling centre today. The fire broke out in recycling material at Lawrence Recycling, near Stourport, at about 10.50am, leaving a plume of thick smoke billowing in the
A SALAD grower near Pershore has won planning permission for 35 caravans to be installed for his seasonal workers. Wychavon District Council’s planning committee approved the re-submitted plans for the site at Sandfields Farm, Wyre Piddle Bypass
KIND-hearted staff at Stock N Lock Self Storage, Lower Wick, Worcester, have come to the rescue of the Daisy-chain Benevolent Fund by offering the charity free storage for donated items at short notice. Daisychain was on the point of turning donations
Visitors from Germany saw Worcester at its festive finest. The party from Kleve, the city’s twin town in the north-west of Germany, were welcomed by the City of Worcester Twinning Association and Mayor Roger Berry. During their stay, Kleve’s bürgermeister
KING’S School Worcester are in the midst of their Daily Mail Schools under 18s Cup last-32 clash with Norwich School. The city school had opened up a 19-0 advantage by half-time and will be hoping to book a place in the prestigious competition’
THE region's police and crime commissioner Bill Longmore has appointed Barrie Sheldon as his deputy, defying public opinion. In the last few minutes Mr Longmore has published a statement saying his former election campaign publicity manager's role
THE motorcycle being ridden by a young Stourport man when he crashed and died is still missing, an inquest heard. The bike being ridden by Kieran O’Sullivan disappeared moments after he was killed on the town’s Bewdley Road at about 6.30pm on August
WAITING times for callers trying to speak to a person at Worcestershire’s one-stop hub for council services have almost tripled, according to new data. Bosses at the Worcestershire Hub, who have been swamped with unprecedented demand in 2012, say
A LANE was closed in Worcester city centre following a crash involving two cars. The smash happened at the junction of Grandstand Road and Croft Road in Worcester at 12.40pm and involved a silver Vauxhall Corsa and a green Peugeot 206, both of
A SERIES of iconic album sleeves have been re-created for a charity calendar. Carnival Records, in Church Street, Malvern, has gathered together a series of snaps staged by some of their creative customers with all the proceeds going to Acorns
SIR – Worcester News readers may be interested to learn that Worcester Operatic Youth Group’s annual cabaret is about to hit the road. Our young performers aged from 13 to 18 will entertain and delight community and charity groups in and around
A YOUNG girl’s birthday celebrations will certainly not be a dime a dozen as she turns 12 today. Natasha Snee, of Beechfield Road, Malvern, will be celebrating the anniversary with a family tea after a day at school on 12.12.12. The Chase pupil
SIR – Hitherto, I have often wondered if Worcester City Council wants to discourage visitors, but after reading the views of Simon Geraghty (the council leader), I feel things could well improve. The proposals on parking are well worth reading.
SIR – I wish to thank the very kind and honest gentleman who handed my handbag to the bus driver on December 3. Honesty can be very rare and the gentleman must have had an excellent upbringing. We all as parents try to teach our children right
SIR – Recently, I experienced a trip by ambulance to the A&E department at Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester. Within three days my initial diagnosis of a possible heart attack had changed to confirmed E.Coli toxins in my bloodstream
SIR – The Worcester News and everybody in the West Mercia area are rightly outraged by the newly elected police and crime commissioner’s appointment of a friend to be his deputy at a cost of £75,000 (£50,000 salary plus perks and costs). Given
SIR – I was so angry to see your front page of a rottweiler with British bulldog teeth. To portray those lovely dogs as you have looking so aggressive is out of order. More than three-quarters of the material used to make today’s paper came
SIR – I agree with the councillors that the appointment by police and crime commissioner Bill Longmore of his chum certainly smacks of cronyism (Worcester News, December 6). Mr Longmore’s election shows that the system itself is flawed. He
NEXT month’s potentially crucial British Basketball League clash between Worcester Wolves and Newcastle Eagles has been postponed. The sides were due to meet at the University of Worcester on Friday, January 11, for a match to decide who wins the
The man accused of Jackie Harrison’s murder in Worcester was “a nasty piece of work” who had been trained to kill with his bare hands, the prosecution barrister told Worcester Crown Court yesterday. Richard Atkins QC said heavy drinker William
NUNNERY Wood Colts have been named FA Charter Standard Development Club of the year in Worcestershire. The club scooped the prestigious accolade for its work with junior players in the region and were presented with the award by Worcestershire
There's no better feeling than spending hours pampering and preening to look beyond glam for a party. But let's be real. If it's a weekday bash you're heading to, chances are you'll be freshening up in the office loos, or attempting a makeover-on-the-move
AN ambitious scheme to sell season tickets for just £100 could be launched by Worcester City in a bid to attract more supporters. City are considering the cut-price tickets to generate as much money as possible for when they leave St George’s Lane
GREG Mills believes being at Worcester City is helping him return to his best. In recent weeks, the speedy winger, pictured left, has shown just what he is capable of with goals against both Guiseley and Chester. He was also City’s main attacking
MORNING commuters may have thought they were in for an early white Christmas today. But what looked like a short flurry of snow before 8am was nothing more than rime - frozen water droplets in fog that have a similar appearance to small snowflakes
SCOTLAND'S finest tenors Caledon will be donning their kilts and taking to the stage for Caledon: Christmas in Kilts at Pershore’s Number 8 on Saturday. Caledon have honed their skills over a decade of touring the world as one of Scotland's proudest
MORE than half of expectant mothers in Worcestershire have had a vaccination to protect their unborn babies from whooping cough. There was a 55.6 per cent uptake for the vaccine by pregnant women after it was introduced at the end of September
WORCESTER company New Hope, which has its headquarters in Wells Road, has scooped a major business award. It has won the adversity business of the year categiory in the Startups Awards 2012. The winners were announced in a ceremony at Kensington Roof
BEING a local lad I’ve always kept an eye on the letters pages to see what matters to our readers. There’s a great variety of musings, some of which are interesting and others not so, but there is one subject that is guaranteed to cause me much
SIR – I gave up driving about seven years ago, and hitherto, thankfully, have not even been a passenger on the notorious new layout at the Whittington roundabout. I do think that Janice Parry (Worcester News, December 6) may have a point that traffic
SIR – There is no doubt that the two additional pedestrian crossings on St Peter’s Drive in Worcester have gone a long way to providing safer pedestrian passage across the road at the respective sites of Norton Road and Farne Avenue. However, together
SIR – Re the story about the outsourcing of city council services (Worcester News, November 30). My question is this: How do I vote for Serco, G4S or anyone else? And if there is no internal provision, then surely no councillors are needed.
SIR – I do not know how many people voted for Bill Longmore in the recent election for police and crime commissioner. Not many voted anyway for any candidate. But this was supposed to be a new start, a fresh post where ordinary people’s concerns
SIR – Congratulations to the Worcester News for exposing the new police and crime commissioner’s plans to appoint a deputy at a cost of £50,000 a year (Worcester News, December 4). This was not in the new commissioner’s election manifesto and neither
SIR – I’M delighted to see the progress of the new University of Worcester arena and I’ve got my fingers crossed that Worcester City Football Club will finally get a new stadium. But I can’t but feel that there’s a missed opportunity here.
A BOOK by a Worcestershire author about the part played by RAF Defford during the Second World War is proving so successful it is already on its second print run and being released in America. Top Secret Boeing by Dr Bob Shaw, of Broadway, near
