CONGRATULATIONS to the football and netball teams of Callow Muriel thanked Mr Wildsmith and Amy and the Fellowship were presented with a delightful birds nesting box for the raffle. Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs M Houldey and Mrs E Solesbury.

The annual meeting of Redmarley Senior Citizens will be held on April 26 at 2.30pm at Tiercels, Redmarley.

A trip has been arranged to the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, to see Me and my Girl on Wednesday, April 28. All senior citizens in the parish are welcome to join this and any other organised events. Contact Brian Barnes or any member of the committee for more information. The coach will leave outside the school at 6.30pm.

At a recent meeting of Redmarley Parish Council it was reported the war memorial re-dedication service will take place at 2.30pm on July 10. Arrangements are well in hand, research is ongoing and invitations will be sent out in late April and there will be a meeting shortly to start work on the contents of the booklet to be produced. The Rector, Redmarley School, the Women's Institute and the Women's Fellowship are helping out with various other facets of the day. The parish council is very grateful for their input which is much appreciated, four donated roses will be planted in the near future.

Upton Motocross will be holding an event at Lintridge Farm on September 25 and the Severn Valley Schoolboy Scramble club will be holding an event in April 2005.

Pendock Road closure. The road will be closed from its junction with the A417 to its junction with the B4208 Malvern Road from April 13-17 for carriageway resurfacing. These are the given dates as at March 8 but from past experience they are often altered nearer the time!

You may have noticed the cast iron milestone leaning crookedly opposite the Playely Green junction with the A417, well it is a Listed object and the parish council is arranging to have it repainted and properly set in the ground together with another Listed milestone just past the Lowbands turn if you see them being removed in the near future they are being taken for renovation.