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Worcestershire grandad's pledge to help tot with muscular dystrophy

DEVOTED: Ron Amphlett is organising a charity event to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign after his grandson Harvey, aged three, was diagnosed with the debilitating disease. Picture by Linda Butler. (11mar10040a)

4:10am Friday 19th March 2010

A WORCESTERSHIRE grandfather has pledged to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign after his grandson was diagnosed with the disease last year.

I’m walking 35 miles barefoot for charity

FEAT OF ENDURANCE: Kalantha Brewis’s charity walk.

2:50am Friday 19th March 2010

A MOTHER from Worcestershire will undertake a 35-mile barefooted walk to help Ethiopian women afflicted by a horrific post-childbirth condition.

Cash campaigners welcome news

Rigged bids could have hit taxpayers

1:30am Friday 19th March 2010

CAMPAIGNERS calling for more money to be given to schools in Worcestershire have welcomed the start of a consultation.

Get your bids in for cash grants

Rigged bids could have hit taxpayers

12:40am Friday 19th March 2010

COMMUNITY arts groups are being offered grants of up to £1,000.

Calling those who served Queen and country

12:10am Friday 19th March 2010

VETERANS who served with the Worcestershire Regiment during the 1960s are invited to a reunion in Gibraltar.

NHS shake-up plans rushed, say protesters

UNHAPPY: Protesters, from left, Malcolm Meikle, Coun Judy Pearce, Coun Paul Tuthill, Pat Merrick, Harriett Baldwin and Coun Ralph Madden outside County Hall on Wednesday.

10:50pm Thursday 18th March 2010

HEALTH campaigners protested against a “rushed” shake-up of the local health service before a crunch meeting to decide the future of the NHS in Worcestershire.

Tell us where you can find a very warm county welcome

Company directors Will Tooby, Jane Cox and David McCaw, who is also head chef at The Fold in Bransford, near Worcester.

9:30pm Thursday 18th March 2010

NOMINATIONS are still pouring in for the brightest and best stars in the Worcestershire tourism trade.

£10,000 for teacher hurt in sports hall

INJURED: Julie Belcher.

7:50pm Thursday 18th March 2010

A GRANDMOTHER who was injured while protecting schoolchildren from falling wall bars, has received £10,000 in compensation.

Tributes paid to father of Stourport family band

FAMILY: Musician Michael Billington, who formed a band with his wife and children, was mourned by family and friends at his funeral in Stourport.

6:30pm Thursday 18th March 2010

TRIBUTES have been paid to a father-of three who formed a popular family busking band and was found hanged in Stourport.

60s reunion invitation for Gibraltar veterans

OLD TIMES: Veterans are heading back to the Rock.

5:10pm Thursday 18th March 2010

VETERANS who served with the Worcestershire Regiment during the 1960s are invited to a reunion in Gibraltar.

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