AUTHORS will be signing books and chatting with readers as part of an Evesham festival event. Evesham Festival of Words is in its second year with organisers calling on fans across the vale to attend the formal opening of the official festival bookshop
HEALTH chiefs are warning county residents to only visit A&E departments if necessary this bank holiday. Emergency services are placed under extra pressure during bank holidays with many people choosing to visit A&E unnecessarily. There will be a change
HEAD coach Paul James says he is looking to persuade a “nucleus of players” from last season to stay at Worcester Wolves. Contract talks are under way at the University of Worcester Arena and James insists some offers will be made immediately to members
A FLOOD campaigner from Worcester has been honoured for nearly two decades of hard work protecting people from the perils of flooding.Mary Dhonau, chief executive of the Know Your Flood Risk campaign, has been awarded with an honorary fellowship of the
A FORMER drug addict tricked her way into the home of a man whose life she once saved, stealing his wallet during a 'nasty, mean' distraction burglary.Stacey Billington committed the burglary with an accomplice before the pair fraudulently used
A WORCESTERSHIRE home builder has announced it will be launching four new sites in the county this year.The homebuilder David Wilson Homes Mercia, which already has a number of sites in Worcestershire, will be bringing a total of 372 new homes to the
ANOTHER season for youth football and rugby sides is drawing to a close. Here we celebrate youth sport with a second set of team photos featuring teams from Worcester and beyond. Is your team pictured?
TWO bins were stolen from outside a house in Fairfield Road, Evesham.The bins were emptied into a play area nearby before they were taken by thieves.Anyone with information, contact police on 101 quoting incident number 0180S220517.
THE new assistant chief constable for West Mercia Police has begun his work. Martin Evans, who joined the police in 1987, has experience as head of the Central Motorway Policing Group (CMPG), head of local policing, head of serious and organised
KEEN amateur gardeners from Worcestershire have won a silver gilt medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.The county's group of the Hardy Plant Society (HPS) was chosen to fly the flag for hardy perennials by the national society, which is celebrating its
A HEARTBROKEN family has been overwhelmed after a big-hearted animal lover offered to pay towards their vets bills when two of their beloved dogs had to be put down after being mauled by a larger dog.As previously reported in the Worcester News, Tina
FIREFIGHTERS came out on top in two categories during a competition.Two teams from Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS) showcased their life-saving skills in the Irish National Rescue Challenge.The service was an overall winner in both
WITTON Middle’s year six and seven teams celebrated Worcestershire Schools’ Cup football victories. The year six final saw the Droitwich pupils beat a strong outfit from Alvechurch Middle 3-1 to become under 11s champions. The deadlock was
RAIN couldn’t dampen the spirits of visitors to a school’s summer fete. Hundreds of families braved the showers for the event at Pitmaston Primary School last Saturday. Pupils from the school performed a series of dances to fit in with the fete’
FIVE employees from a Redditch recruitment firm have raised £1,000 for a hospice which offers support to cancer patients and their families. The employees from Workforce Recruitment, based in Church Green West, took part in the 12-hour Yorkshire Three
POLICE want to speak to a man in connection with a bin fire in Evesham. A bin was set alight in Brick Kiln Street at around 3:33am on Sunday March 5. The man in the image is believed to have been in the area at the time of the fire and might
OFFENSIVE graffiti was sprayed over a popular park for the second time in the last month.Wychavon District Council are seeking witnesses over the vandalism in Abbey Park, Pershore on picnic benches and other surfaces.It was sprayed near the play park
A PHOTOGRAPHY project aims to capture what life is really like for people sleeping rough on Worcester’s streets through the eyes of those who have experienced homelessness.The Creative Group at St Paul’s Hostel in Worcester has embarked on a photography
WORCESTER Triathlon Club held their second race of the season at the University of Worcester Lakeside Campus. Competitors had the choice of two distances and more than 150 athletes took part with most opting for the longer option. The male
MADDIE is a 12-year-old Somali Red pedigree female hoping for her retirement home.She is a lovely cat, who is shy at first, but is friendly and affectionate once she knows you. Maddie enjoys having her beautiful long coat groomed and even lets you brush
THIS is Belle and Pepper, two lovely year-old rats who have come into the care of RSPCA Worcester & Mid-Worcestershire Branch through no fault of their own. They are very sweet natured sisters, inquisitive and playful, who are looking for their forever
RESIDENTS have questioned why a fire engine from outside Worcester was sent to deal with a blaze in the city. A crew from Droitwich responded to a car fire outside Lidl supermarket in Newtown Road, Worcester, on Saturday, May 20. Many locals
DROITWICH Men’s B won two matches to leap to the top of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Summer Tennis League Division Four East. They prospered 5-1 at Stourport B as John Moran and Ben Steel won 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 and 6-2, 6-1 and Joe Maidment and Ian
TODAY’S picture from the archives takes us back to St John’s in 1979, and how free of traffic it is, compared to an average day in the present. Many of the once-familiar businesses have now vanished; a case in point is the supermarket Fine Fare
THE honour of being crowned the top sporting side in Droitwich will be decided on the cricket pitch on Sunday when the town’s promotion-winning football and rugby teams go head-to-head in the Clash of the Champions. Midland Football League Division
A RESIDENT received a bogus phone call from someone claiming to work for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. The caller demanded payment from the resident, of Newport Street, Worcester, and threatened them with arrest. The call came from the number
WORCESTERSHIRE SUNDAY LEAGUE FIRST XI SOUTH DIVISION Barnt Green v Old Elizabethans. Old Elizabethans conceded. Bromsgrove 104-8, Halesowen 107-6. Halesowen won by 4 wickets. Feckenham v Worcester CC. Worcester conceded. Astwood Bank
THERE was home success for Worcester Athletic Club runners at their Bulmers Bash contest. Following heavy overnight rain and a short cloud burst 10 minutes before the off it proved an ideal day for running the annual race around Bulmers orchards
A CARE home support worker from Worcester has raised over £700 for the city's hospice.Karl Worthington, who works at Shaw Red Hill care home, raised the funds for St Richards Hospice with a 13,000 foot skydive at the Hinton Skydiving Centre in Brackley
A TERMINALLY ill teenage boy is finding life a little easier thanks to new, specially designed bed which can give him a safe night's sleep.Isaac Hall, aged 16, is in the advanced stages of the rare and debilitating condition, Hunters Syndrome. His
PROMISING Worcestershire paceman George Scrimshaw is making a good recovery from a serious back problem. Scrimshaw was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his lower back after returning early from a Young Lions training camp in the UAE in December
VANDALISM to nine young trees at a Worcester park is being investigated. The London Plane trees, which are spread around the park along the path at the King George Playing Fields, have been snapped in half, with the tops of the trees laid out on the floor
DIRECTOR of cricket Steve Rhodes says Worcestershire "played the game exactly how we wanted to" after overwhelming Derbyshire by an innings and 42 runs to maintain their 100 per cent record in the Specsavers County Championship. Worcestershire
A SUSPECTED drug dealer has been arrested following a raid in Malvern. Police in Malvern executed a drugs warrant on Monday afternoon at a property at Yates Hay Road. A 36-year-old-man from Malvern was arrested on suspicion of being concerned
BOB and Shirley James from Badsey near Evesham were huge fans of Second World War vehicles, memorabilia and buildings. They had their own collection of military vehicles and saved a number of Nissen huts from being destroyed. They also enjoyed steam engine
TWO restaurants have been given a 'one star' food hygiene rating within the space of a week. Voujon, in Lowesmoor, Worcester, and Happy Taste, a Chinese restaurant in Orchard Street, both received the rating after two inspections in a seven day
6:39pm We are closing this live report now. Are thoughts are with those affected by the Manchester bombing. We
WORCESTER City’s hopes of ending their long spell in exile have taken a dramatic twist after a leaked document revealed a proposal to build a ground on the outskirts of the city. After months of secret talks, we can reveal council-owned land off
