IT was a busy weekend right across Worcestershire with battle re-enactments, church processions and lessons in being green. A crowd gathered in Worcester yesterday to celebrate 100 years since the founding of St Martin’s Church in London Road. At 9.30am
THIEVES may be targeting rural post boxes, removing them from the side of the road and selling them on for their scrap value. This is the theory of police after three boxes disappeared from the Alfrick area near Malvern. Overnight on Friday, Seprember
ADAM Dix has only just started the second level of his young masters training programme at the Russell Adams Golf Academy and has just managed the feat all golfers dream of — his first hole-in-one. Dix, from Droitwich, is 13-years-old and only started
WORCESTER Wolves opened their home British Basketball League season at the University of Worcester with high hopes when they entertained Sheffield Sharks. However this optimism was shortlived as they were hammered by 29 points. The Sharks point guard
BEWDLEY Pines Golf Club saw off a host of local teams to win the Bewdley Cup. A team from the town club saw off stiff competition from Little Lakes GC and Wyre Forest GC. The winners of the annual Waltz competition between the ladies’ and seniors’
LEICESTER were indebted to a try from England flanker Lewis Moody and 14 points from the boot of Jeremy Staunton for preserving their year-long unbeaten home record. But they were made to scrap for victory by a gutsy Worcester, who have failed to win
DIRECTOR of rugby Mike Ruddock hailed the heart and passion of his Warriors side after a narrow 19-14 defeat to Leicester Tigers — but felt his gutsy troops should have been celebrating a famous victory. “We went ahead and possibly will look back and
A WOMAN who has had two liver transplants is fighting to have prescription charges for sufferers from her disease covered by the NHS. Charlotte Worton, aged 19, of Ash Grove, Stourport, has auto-immune hepatitis and has to take three different
IT was ‘finals day’ for the Evesham Golf Club knock-out competitions with seven matches taking place. The club’s knock-out matches are always keenly contested and it was fitting that the finals took place on a sunny day with the Craycombe Links course
BENIGN weather attracted a large entry for the Worcestershire Golf Club’s Len Phipps Trophy. The silverware commemorates the life and work of Len Phipps who, with his father Bert, served the Malvern Wells course as greenkeepers from 1883 until the former
EVESHAM extended their unbeaten run in the Zamaretto Premier Division to four games, but had to settle for a point in a scrappy encounter. A blustery wind and dreadful pitch contributed to both sides struggling to put their passing game together and
JAMES Walker’s fierce strike 10 minutes from time seemed to have given Hereford their third successive home win. But substitute Wesley Thomas headed home three minutes later as the Bulls switched off in defence. Manager John Trewick recalled skipper
IMPRESSIVE Kidderminster Harriers made it back-to-back wins in the Blue Square Premier with a determined smash and grab victory at fellow play-off hopefuls AFC Wimbledon. With just one away win all season prior to the match, the odds were perhaps against
WORCESTER City stunned league leaders Dover Athletic with their best result of the season. Few would have believed a shock was on the cards following City’s start to the campaign but Richard Dryden’s side were more than worthy of their victory
THE son of Worcester’s former mayor has been found guilty of stealing electrical goods and spitting at a police officer. Azad Hussain, aged 25, was accused of stealing £490 worth of items from a house in Worcester where he had been collecting rent in
MALVERN Hills Conservators have unveiled new plans to develop St Ann’s Well – but have told the present tenant to leave. John Redman, who has been running the popular cafe on the hills for nearly 20 years, learned last week that his lease will not be
PARENTS who have lost babies before, during or after birth are invited to a babies’ memorial service in Worcester. The service will take place at St Peter’s Baptist Church, Eden Close, St Peter’s Drive, on Saturday, October 17, at 2.30pm. This short
COMEDY, fireworks, singing and dancing is set to boost a Worcester suburb’s bid to hold an annual event. The three-day St Peter’s Festival running from Friday, October 23, until Sunday, October 25, will “put St Peter’s on the map”, according to organisers
A MAN switched his car number plates before stealing petrol from a Worcester garage. Craig Robertson, 25, twice filled his car and drove away from petrol stations without paying. But the number plates he used were registered to his father’s address
A LEADING legal poll has ranked Worcester solicitors Harrison Clark in the top category for family law. The Legal 500, a worldwide review of legal services providers, ranked Harrison Clark as a first tier provider for Worcestershire. The survey results
