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SIR – A big thank you to Nunnery Wood High School for the senior citizen Christmas party, carols, dancing, bingo and lovely food – the pupils were a credit to the school. Well done. MALCOLM POOLE Worcester

SIR – I send my enormous gratitude to the gentlemen and lovely lady that so kindly ran to my aid when I fell and broke my arm in the St John’s Co-op car park earlier this month. Likewise, my huge gratitude to the ambulance team and the staff in

SIR – After a recent stay in Worcester Royal Hospital, I feel I must put pen to paper. I have just spent five days on Beech Two Ward after having a total knee replacement. The care I received was second to none, nothing being too much trouble.

SIR – Since the extension of the Worcester ring road to Crown East, which encompassed the Rushwick bypass, all the traffic from the Hereford direction has been diverted down Bromyard Road into Worcester centre. This, plus recent new development

THE future of a Worcester stationery store is looking bleak after three other stores in the same chain were shut. Osborne Stationers has shut stores in Arnold and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, and Solihull, Warwickshire, after going into administration

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a woman in her 40s was assaulted by a teenager in a seemingly unprovoked attack that occurred in Worcester. At 3.30pm on Sunday, December 29, the woman was walking through Warndon Woods, which run parallel

POLICE are appealing for information about the theft of eight rare breed chickens from a farm near Redditch. The eight brown and gold Welsummer chickens - three cockerels and five hens - had been bred for competition. They were taken from pens

IN just a few short hours, 2014 will be upon us and another sporting year will dawn. With that in mind, here’s my thoughts on the 12 months ahead. Premier League This certainly looks like being the most open and intriguing title race for

JUST three matches survived the weather in the McDonald’s Worcester and District Football League with waterlogged pitches causing the majority of the postponements. In the games played, Powick Reserves won 6-1 at Hangover in Division Three.

FIREFIGHTERS in Worcestershire are to walk out for six hours this evening in the latest strike in a long-running row over pensions. Members of the Fire Brigades Union in England and Wales will down tools from 6.30pm this evening until 12.30am tomorrow

SIR – George Osborne’s slogan is a joke. We are all in it together. It now appears we have 836 members in the House of Lords and it seems some of them only turn up to have a gin and tonic and a subsidised lunch and stay for 45 minutes or so to

SIR – I never fail to be amazed at the idiotic excuses given to us (the electorate of Worcester) by councillors not to complete the Western Ring Road to the M5 at Sixways. Most recently I feel very sorry for Councillor Udall who is manfully trying

CHAIRMAN Mark Serrell has urged Kidderminster Harriers fans to help rivals Hereford United in their financial crisis. The two sides meet at Edgar Street tomorrow (3pm) and the Harriers chief wants a large travelling support to make the short journey

SIR – Jon Burgess (Worcester News, December 24) refuses to accept that an increasing number of people are adopting a more humane diet, but the figures he quotes show a huge increase in this number compared with just 10 years ago. Mr Burgess is

WARRIORS skipper Jonathan Thomas has issued a rallying cry for the Sixways club’s fans to flock to the Madejski Stadium in their droves this weekend. Rock-bottom Worcester travel to London Irish — the side one place and 10 points above them in

FIREFIGHTERS were called to a fire at a pub in the St John's area of Worcester. Two engines were on the scene at The Coppertops in Oldbury Road at 10.16am today. It was not known if anyone was injured. Updates to follow.

THE festive season should be all about giving, but 21st century fund-raising seems to have taken on a whole new life. Although there are plenty of worthy causes out there that rightly get our monetary support, there is definitely something of a

SIR – With reference to Robert Hartwright’s letter in the Worcester News of December 24. I feel his perception of road safety constraints is, to my mind, too idealistic. Indeed, the tacit suggestion that the safe speed at which to drive is

HOMES which were without water this morning should find their supplies are back on. Severn Trent Water said most supplies were back on now or would return within the next hour. People living in Northwick, Barbourne and Claines were left with

WORCESTER City will be without loan rangers Dominic Dell and Niall Thompson for tomorrow’s New Year’s Day home match with Solihull Moors (3pm). Both have returned to respective parent clubs Port Vale and Torquay United and the situation will be

A FORMER district councillor and current chair of a national naval association has picked up an OBE. Chris Dovey, from Tenbury Wells, chairs the Royal Naval Association and has been handed the gong for voluntary service to naval personnel in Worcestershire

NEWS that Michael Schumacher (pictured) is fighting for his life following a skiing accident has shocked the sporting world. The seven-time Formula One world champion remains in a critical condition after hitting his head on a rock while skiing

WORCESTERSHIRE is heading for more unsettled weather as heavy rain and strong winds are set to continue into next week. Despite the dire forecast for Sunday night into yesterday morning, the county saw just a centimetre of rain fall in the early

THE chant of ‘who ate all the pies’ is a common one at football grounds up and down the country. But during Worcester City’s match against rivals Gloucester on Saturday, fans were left asking ‘who threw all the pies?’ after an unsavoury incident

HOMES in Northwick and Claines are without water this morning caused by two burst water pipes on Ombersley Road. Severn Trent water said it hoped to fix the issue by this morning after customers in the area were experiencing a loss of supply or