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  • Pupils have designs on new ideas for mobiles

    YOUNGSTERS from a Malvern school turned inventors and plucked up the courage to step into the Dragons’ Den. Year one and two pupils at St Matthias Primary in Malvern Link have been learning about famous inventors and were challenged to come up

  • More inquests to be held into hospital deaths

    HOSPITAL bosses in Worcestershire expect an increase in the number of inquests held into patient deaths as part of a drive to improve standards of death certification. The Department of Health has written to coroners about reforms expected to take

  • Teddy bears help the cause

    GOOD CAUSE: A couple who raise money to support a poor community in Uganda are holding a teddy-bear raffle for the second year running. Denise and Richard Ditchburn, from Upper Welland, have spent the last five years raising money after visiting

  • Happy couple's date to remember

    THE marriage of a couple in Worcester yesterday was a once-in-a-lifetime occasion for more than one reason. Samantha Addison and Daniel Roberts tied the knot at the Whitehouse Hotel, Foregate Street, in front of 46 family and friends. It was

  • ‘No wages loss’ call as services hive-off looms

    WORCESTER’S Liberal Democrats say they are willing to back controversial plans to hand over council services to new providers as long as it does not mean staff lose pay. Councillor Liz Smith, Lib Dem group leader, told your Worcester News she “

  • Report due on failure of village's £1.7m flood defence

    FLOODING experts are to look at an emergency warning system for Kempsey, near Worcester, to prevent future problems after a key defence failed. Consulting engineers Arups has been appointed to carry out an independent investigation to understand

  • Spice Girls share Lucy's stage for Viva Forever!

    AFTER months of rehearsals, a local actress made her stage debut in the West End this week as one of the lead roles in Viva Forever! which features the music of the Spice Girls. Lucy Phelps, aged 25, of Callow End, near Worcester, stars as Diamond

  • Cummins gets life for Jackie Harrison's murder

    WILLIAM Cummins has been jailed for life for murdering his friend Jackie Harrison at her Worcester home. Cummins, aged 51, of no fixed address, was given the 17-year sentence after being found guilty by an unanimous jury decision at Worcester Crown

  • Keith the Severn seal is still ducking and diving

    KEITH the Severn seal has reappeared in Worcester days after she seemed to be making her way home. The seal, who experts believe could be a pregnant female, was spotted in the Diglis area of the city last week. She was previously seen in Upton-upon-Severn

  • Leader: It’s nonsense to suggest council tax rise

    THE leader of Worcester City Council has labelled calls to increase council tax as nonsense and says he will not go cap-in-hand to the public to help ease the financial woes. Councillor Simon Geraghty said he would resist any attempts to get proposals

  • Can you help me find Dr Peter Mayner?

      SIR – I am trying to get in touch with Dr Peter Mayner, who I worked with in Ronkswood hospital in Worcester in the 1970s. I moved to Canada and he became a cruise ship doctor, and we lost touch. I believe he lived at Cherry Orchard.

  • Christmas in Falklands to remember Craig

    THIS is going to be a very special Christmas for Tenbury Wells couple Richard and Pam Jones. On Christmas Day, Mr and Mrs Jones will be 8,000 miles from home in the Falkland Islands where they will spend the holiday on an island they have bought

  • Please do your bit to help the homeless

    SIR – In Worcester alone, 45 homeless households will be spending this Christmas in temporary accommodation without the safety and security of a home to call their own. The good news is that there is a simple way in which each one of us can make

  • Privatisation? It’s never done any good

    SIR – Worcester City Council is going to try and get private companies to deliver their services – ie, privatisation (Worcester News, November 30). Is it just me or am I missing something here? Are there any examples of privatisation of public

  • School’s top marks are well deserved

    SIR – It’s great to see the staff and pupils at St Clement’s CE Primary School getting the recognition they deserve in their Ofsted (Worcester News, December 5). I’m sure the whole community in St John’s, Worcester, will celebrate their success

  • How did building get into such poor state?

      SIR – The fate of the former hospital building in Silver Street, Worcester, has recently attracted attention on the Worcester News letters page (Nevill Swanson, November 28; and councillors Geoff Williams and David Wilkinson, December 5) and

  • A host of fun and frolics is on offer this Christmas

    A HOST of fun and frolics is on offer at Cheltenham Town Hall this season to get the whole family into the Christmas spirit. The social festivities include the toe-tapping and knee-slapping Christmas Barn Dance on December 28 and, for serious sequence

  • Crews battle huge fire at waste depot

    HOMES and businesses were evacuated after a huge blaze swept through a major recycling centre. The fire broke out in recycling material at Lawrence Recycling, near Stourport, at about 10.50am yesterday, leaving a plume of thick smoke billowing

  • Worcester women keep their perfect premiership record intact

    WORCESTER maintained their 100 per cent record in the Women’s Rugby Premiership with a hard-fought 21-3 victory at home to Bristol. The visitors were clearly keen to gain revenge for their early season mauling at the hands of Worcester and started

  • Three fires prompt new warning on chimneys

    FIREFIGHTERS have tackled three chimney fires in only 24 hours as homeowners are warned to keep their chimneys clean. The first of the fires was at a 500-year-old cottage in Little Hereford, near Tenbury Wells, at 11.45am on Tuesday. The fire

  • Williams predicting top four finish for Worcester Wolves

    NEW Worcester Wolves recruit Kai Williams believes a top-four finish in the British Basketball League is within the team’s capabilities. Wolves are brimming with confidence after beating champions Newcastle Eagles 88-73 last Saturday, in which

  • Eagles success has Wolves soaring to new heights

    VICTORY over Newcastle Eagles was huge for Worcester Wolves — people need to come out and see this team because it’s going to be better than last year. I can’t describe how massive last Saturday’s 88-73 win was. I knew we would compete with

  • The deputy job's yours, old pal

    POLICE and crime commissioner Bill Longmore has appointed his former election campaign manager as his deputy, defying public opinion. Mr Longmore, who was elected last month, has sparked outrage – and infuriated leading figures across Worcestershire

  • Drivers should use their common sense

    SIR – Why do we have to paint yellow lines to tell drivers where they should not park (Worcester News, December 6)? What has happened to the regulation of ‘causing an obstruction’? On a bus route, if two buses in opposite directions cannot

  • Thin Lizzy / Colston Hall / Bristol

    THE classic rock music of Thin Lizzy has survived forty-odd years and numerous line-up changes. So, with a number of their 15-date UK tour shows sold out – I am surprised to see Colston Hall only three parts full tonight. Perhaps not enough Bristolians

  • Police operation launched in bid to trap burglars

    AN operation has been launched by police after a string of burglaries in and around Pershore over the past month. There have been seven break-ins in Pershore, Drakes Broughton and Wyre Piddle since November 5. Detectives say they are concerned

  • Christmas grotto is a big hit with shoppers

    A MAGICAL Christmas grotto helped mark the start of Christmas for children in St John’s, Worcester. Santa and his four helpers, along with his two reindeer, spent the morning in the British Red Cross shop in King Charles Place on Saturday.

  • Nature's beauty inspires photographer in line for an award

    A PHOTOGRAPHER from Malvern is in line for a top award in Scotland. Pictures taken by Sue Dudley are shortlisted in three categories in the Scottish Seabird Centre’s seventh annual Nature Photography Awards. There were 437 entries across the