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Jolly Irene was auntie to generation of youngsters

12:00pm Monday 15th March 2010

THE year 1967 was famous on a number of fronts.

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How to be successful when you complain

12:47pm Monday 8th March 2010

Anna Tims, Worcester chaplain’s wife and consumer expert, has written a book about the art of complaining.

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Music is a real stress buster for a busy life

12:04pm Monday 1st March 2010

Local councillor Tom Wells has Elton John to thank for a lifelong interest that takes him beyond politics.

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Heenan’s Club was my life and it’s very sad it closed

4:08pm Monday 22nd February 2010

IT’S a cry that used to echo through Worcester’s working households for generations: “C’mon, let’s go down to Heenan’s.”

The day our boys joined forces on Salisbury Plain

3:45pm Monday 15th February 2010

It’s 40 years since the Worcestershire Regiment amalgamated with the Sherwood Foresters. A new book tells the history of the regiment

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Mr Perrins without Mr Lea means guns and not sauce

4:01pm Monday 8th February 2010

TO most people the name of Perrins is synonymous with Worcestershire Sauce, the brown stuff in a bottle that has turned up over the centuries in locations as diverse as the Great Plains of America, the refrectory tables of Tibetan monks and the jungles of Borneo.

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Afghans get more money out of onions than opium

12:01pm Monday 1st February 2010

Mike Pryce meets ex-King’s School pupil Paul Turner, a civil servant who is trying to bring normality to a country torn apart by war

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Hunky, chunky firemen’s song is my show’s hot hit

3:15pm Monday 25th January 2010

GUILTY as charged, your honour. We have the smoking gun.

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Our old familiar streets

11:00am Monday 18th January 2010

We may think that everything changes but in his new book Ray Jones proves differences are subtle

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I ran eBay from a room over a furniture shop

9:21am Monday 11th January 2010

Most of us want a bargain and Jen Mowat is the woman to find one through the website she has set up at her home in Worcestershire

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I’ll reach for any star to make this charity shine

11:13am Monday 4th January 2010

Claire Horton is the first chief operating officer of the Variety of Club of Great Britain. Her job is to make people more aware of its work

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Ian’s poignant book tells sad fate of RAF brothers

11:39am Monday 21st December 2009

STRANGELY, for someone who makes a living out of writing, I rarely read books.

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Best follow the rules when you smile and pucker up

4:01pm Monday 14th December 2009

TRUST the good folk at Debretts, that volume of society etiquette all good journalists keep up their sleeve lest the Queen suddenly appears on the editorial floor, to come up with a classic phrase.

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Council got it wrong. It’s Emussfield, not Warndon

1:11pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

THEY were stiff words for a vicar’s wife, but when Barbara Hopper goes on about “an outrage, an assault on our heritage and betraying our ancestors”, you have to concede she has a point.

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I’m the best person to show firms how to improve

3:45pm Monday 30th November 2009

THE easy quip would be that Mary Collin could talk for England, except I can’t really say that because her mother’s Irish. But you get my drift.

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Evacuated to a life of fresh air and fields

1:22pm Monday 23rd November 2009

SMITH’S crisps in cellophane packets with salt in a twist of blue waxed paper, carthorses and hayricks and a galvanised bucket in the cottage bedroom at night, from which came the warm moist smell of urine as the grown-ups tinkled in the dark.

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Milestone for hotel with bawdy history

11:43am Monday 16th November 2009

DANDY highwaymen, drunken soldiers, romps in the bedroom with Tom Jones (the fictional hero not the singer) and sheep driven straight through the building on their way to market... the White Lion Hotel at Upton-upon-Severn has seen them all.