RESIDENTS and councillors in Worcester have welcomed tough new measures to combat anti-social behaviour in the area. Police officers were out on the streets last night as the force introduced its new enforcement powers, which includes dispersing gangs
RADIO One has signed up a former Worcestershire school pupil to help lead its campaign to halt falling ratings. Jason King, a former pupil at Tenbury High School, and his DJ partner Joel Hogg, have been described as Manchester's answer to popular television
A HUSBAND tried to strangle his wife with a piece of rope as their marriage crumbled, Worcester Crown Court heard. Alan Clarke became emotionally distressed when he learned of her divorce plan. After drinking alcohol, he returned to the Live and Let Live
A WOMAN lay trapped in her car for 45 minutes after suffering serious pelvic and leg injuries when her vehicle crashed into a tree in Worcestershire. The 30-year-old, who has not been named and is thought to be from the Evesham area, was air-lifted to
RADIO One has signed up a former Worcestershire school pupil to help lead its campaign to halt falling ratings. Jason King, a former pupil at Tenbury High School, and his DJ partner Joel Hogg, have been described as Manchester's answer to popular television
A LONG-serving Worcester city councillor and former mayor has announced that she will stand down at the local elections later this year to spend more time with her family. Popular Coun Mary Drinkwater (pictured) has represented the St Stephen ward since
A COUNTY politician is backing a special week aimed at raising awareness for those suffering with bowel cancer. Peter Luff, Conservative MP for Mid-Worcestershire, has pledged his support for the charity Beating Bowel Cancer's fifth Loud Tie Campaign
WORCESTER badminton ace Simon Archer and his partner Donna Kellogg lost in the semi-finals of the Thailand Open. After beating fellow English pair Robert Blair and Natalie Munt 15-8, 15-12 in the quarter-finals, Archer and Kellogg lost 15-6, 13-15, 15
CASH-strapped Exeter City's vendetta against the Nationwide Conference is hitting Hereford United in the pocket. The Devon club are pursuing the league in the High Court to get a 12 point deduction overturned and a rule imposed by the FA and Conference
DUNCAN Roke is still 'weeks away' from playing for Worcester Rugby Club. The full-back, who has been dogged by injury this season, has had fluid drained off his knee to ease the movement but he is still a way off a playing return. Roke underwent surgery
DIRECTOR of football Jan Molby has dropped a strong hint that he wants to carry on being in charge of Kidderminster Harriers next season. When the former Liverpool star took over from sacked Ian Britton in October it was on the understanding he would
n JANET Cummings (You Say, Saturday, January10) writes how foxes are killed by hounds and of injuries to horses. All animals involved in hunting and coursing are likely to suffer in various ways. Horses, essentially plains animals, are forced to jump
DAVID Foy has been given the go-ahead to step up his fitness programme. The Worcester City midfielder recently had surgery on a non-football related groin problem but is hopeful of a return to action, possibly in as little as a fortnight. Foy has made
THE proposal by Worcestershire County Council to relocate Christopher Whitehead High School is the subject of a forthcoming inquiry, starting on Tuesday, May 18, at County Hall. Submissions can be received up to six weeks in advance. The volume as well
YOUR correspondent, Mark Brunner (You Say, Saturday, January 10) apparently fails to perceive the revenue-raising potential in having headteachers fine parents for the failure of their offspring to attend school. Once the principle is established it could
n THE Director of Educational Services, Julien Kramer, refers on the front page of the Evening News to the "critical report" that has recently come out concerning Elbury Mount School. I cannot comment yet on the report, since I have not seen it. However
ALL nations and races predominantly consist of good, honest and loyal people. All nations and races have a small minority of morons who want to malign everything that is good for whatever reasons. Robert Kilroy-Silk, unfortunately did not stress these
MELANIE Hall writes with enthusiasm of the IPOD (Counterpoints, Thursday, January 15). My mind boggles. GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester.
LIKE many MPs over the years, Richard Taylor has a skeleton in his closet. The difference in his case is that the skeleton is real - and worth the princely sum of £240. He made the confession during a debate on the long-awaited Bill on organ retention
SCHOOL campaigners will be walking into a firestorm when they visit Westminster on Tuesday. Their only goal is to get Schools Minister David Miliband to accept the case for Worcestershire to be given improved funding, including the Area Cost Adjustment
POLICE were on the streets of Warndon last night in the first stage of a campaign to tackle anti-social behaviour in Worcester. But bad weather thwarted officers' bid to use new powers to tackle troublemakers around the Lyppard Grange Community Centre
MORE and more people in Worcestershire are leaving their cars at home and choosing a more environmentally friendly way to get to work, according to new figures. A study carried out by the GMB union shows that 13.2 per cent of workers in the county either
DIRECTOR of football Jan Molby has dropped a strong hint that he wants to carry on being in charge of Kidderminster Harriers next season. When the former Liverpool star took over from sacked Ian Britton in October it was on the understanding he would
WORCESTER Wolves Basketball Club have been boosted by the news that Keith Jarrett will be available for the rest of the season. The 6ft 6in forward had been due to return to college in the United States in the coming weeks but has now put off his flight
HEREFORD'S David Park slipped out of contention for the Dunhill Golf Championship at the Houghton Golf Club in South Africa. After a five under par first round of 67, the Burghill Valley club member could only manage a level par 72 yesterday. This left
DAVID Foy has been given the go-ahead to step up his fitness programme. The Worcester City midfielder recently had surgery on a non-football related groin problem but is hopeful of a return to action, possibly in as little as a fortnight. Foy has made
BOSS Jan Molby believes Adam Murray is just 'scratching the surface' of what he will be capable of in the future for Kidderminster Harriers. Midfielder Murray has battled back from having his career put on hold due to alcohol-related problems and is starting
A DISABLED husband caused £17,500 damage by ramming his estranged wife's home with his car. Michell Powell, paralysed from the chest down, smashed through the garage door and knocked her Seat Toledo through the back wall into the neighbour's property.
BOSS Jan Molby believes Adam Murray is just 'scratching the surface' of what he will be capable of in the future for Kidderminster Harriers. Midfielder Murray has battled back from having his career put on hold due to alcohol-related problems and is starting
A HUSBAND tried to strangle his wife with a piece of rope as their marriage crumbled, Worcester Crown Court heard. Alan Clarke became emotionally distressed when he learned of her divorce plan. After drinking alcohol, he returned to the Live and Let Live
WITH its distinctive logo, the huge haulage fleet of Taylors of Martley now enjoys almost as much public recognition on the highways of Britain as Eddie Stobart's cargo carriers. It's a remarkable success story of an enterprise which has blossomed from
n AS the Right To Ride representative for the South Worcestershire area and a cyclist who rides in excess of 10,000 miles a year, I am responding to the story headlined "Cyclists should stick to own lanes" (Evening News, Monday, January 12). Richard Bull
JUST a thought on speed cameras and their justice. A friend of mine works as a rep for a machine tool manufacture. Eighteen months ago, he was caught on a camera on his way to meet a client. Several days later, he was caught by another hidden camera van
READING Sundeep Kumar's article (Evening News, Wednesday, January 14) confirms my opinion that Worcester's first fixed safety camera at City Walls Road has been set up as a nice little earner to safeguard the continuation of our existing Safety Camera
WITH regards to the speed cameras in and around Worcester, I believe people are forgetting the reason they are there in the first place. E A Franklin writes: "Is it legal for fixed signs to be up when it is a mobile van clocking the 'speeding' traffic
D E Margrett is wrong again (You Say, Saturday, January 10). Had he done his homework, he would know that I have criticised both major parties. With his knowledge, of the long history of representative democracy, being usurped by governments, elected
MR E F Showell, in a flurry of letters to the Evening News, asks me to state my Party's views on some very important subjects. Most people tell me that the Conservative Party's views could not be clearer on these questions, but as they are in tune with
DURING more desperate moments at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, football and rugby fans have been heard cursing the smoking ban. With extra-time and even penalties becoming a regular occurrence in football play-off finals or domestic cup finals, anxious
LAST week, I predicted Peter Luff would be unhappy with the contents of his latest letter from Mike Foster on the thorny issue of school funding. I was right - he had already written to a small group of parents, governors, teachers and councillors expressing
DUNCAN Roke is still 'weeks away' from playing for Worcester Rugby Club. The full-back, who has been dogged by injury this season, has had fluid drained off his knee to ease the movement but he is still a way off a playing return. Roke underwent surgery
