Worcester News | Mike Pryce

It’s just not cricket! The spy at heart of the abdication

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:24:26 +0000

A new book reveals the mysterious past of Lt Col Robertson – the first man in England to know about Edward VIII’s momentous decision

How county’s elite showed they had real tunnel vision

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:55:57 +0000

When Little Jack Tolley and his dad were working on an estate in the 1950s, they stumbled across a network of underground routes

Move over Lord Sugar, Ced is searching for apprentice

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:59:58 +0000

It may not come with a £1 million contract or five minutes of TV fame, but the role will keep the wheels rolling at county museum

John hopes to build on his talents as a wildlife artist

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:19:38 +0000

What started as a hobby while off sick from his day job is becoming a budding career – not bad for a man who got an F in GCSE art

The motorcycle diaries

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:14:55 +0000

Never let it be said that the years have dampened Simon Gandolfi’s spirit of adventure – as his 35,000-mile road trip on a “pizza delivery bike” and a close shave with a 30-tonne truck show...

Guide to ensure that the best man really does win

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:42:22 +0000

Making a best man’s speech is one of the most nerve-wracking experiences, but help is at hand thanks to Worcester Round Table

Christmas was never full of joy in the Holy Land

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:36:36 +0000

Jim Morrison was part of the British peace keeping force in Palestine after the Second World War. Life was anything but a party

Catches of the day preserved forever

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:18:25 +0000

John Wilesmith used to be a ceramic artist in his native Worcestershire. Now he’s one of the best taxidermists in the whole of Australasia

Blood stained the sand and water of Suvla Bay

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:59:23 +0000

The First World War was not limited to Flanders fields. There was Gallipoli too, where Corporal Victor Godrich fought the Turks

It’s the singing that still fills us with glee

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:49:42 +0000

150 years old this year, Worcester Festival Chorus is celebrating the milestone with Elgar’s Gerontious but members didn’t always approve of their association with the one-time piano tuner

No place to hide if you were an Army deserter

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:57:09 +0000

Filed away and forgotten, lists of soldiers who went AWOL about the time of Waterloo have come to light at the Worcester News

Book of poems is my first...and last

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:19:17 +0100

Cynthia Osborne has moved around Britain a lot and in ‘bleak’ times she put her thoughts on paper

Oh, boy! I’m Buddy Holly’s mystery girl

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:31:11 +0100

My search to discover a girl called Pat who wrote letters to her rock ‘n’ roll hero is ended. She’s Pat Mace and she lives in LA

Sue mixes it up to discover recipe for literary success

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:44:31 +0100

Debut author draws on her own life experiences to create a novel which has won warm praise for its heart, spirit and razor-sharp wit

Pat, if you’re out there, we know about true love ways

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:05:55 +0100

IT is a very long time ago now, more than half a century in fact, but come with me back to Tuesday, March 11, 1958, and the stage of the Gaumont Cinema in Foregate Street, Worcester.

Planting by moonlight may not be such a loony idea

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:37:34 +0100

Chairman of the Biodynamic Agricultural Association Sebastian Parsons believes that lunar cycles play a part in better food production

Farewell to the vicar who turns water into Guinness

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:19:18 +0100

Peter Holzapfel, vicar of Kempsey for the past 12 years, is retiring and parishioners have little doubt that he’ll be a hard act to follow

My round the world trip in plane with one engine

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:39:12 +0100

IF you ever decide to fly Queiroz Airways, a word of warning.

Light-fingered Pepys stole drawings from cathedral

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:36:37 +0100

Documents dating from the 8th century are housed in Worcester Cathedral. Some proved irresistible to England’s most famous diarist

We were probably the first rock ‘n’ roll band in our city

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:23:53 +0100

A familar name on Worcester’s music scene is calling it a day after a career spanning teaching, running a shop – and starring in groups