THE cost of car parks run by Wychavon District Council will go up. The hourly charges will be £1 – up from 70p – although the council has agreed to no more increases for four years. A new half-hour charge of 50p will be introduced in
A CHANCE meeting led to a kindly gift for an Acorns boy and a donation of thousands of pounds to the hospice. Acorns’ supporters Roy Bacon and John Collins were walking across an aqueduct in Llangollen, Wales, as part of a fund-raising Bumble Cruise,
WORCESTER Canoe Club paddlers took to the water in sweltering conditions in Hereford for a string of marathon races. International junior William Bird recorded a first place alongside Simon Williams. Other winners were James Abbott, Andy Nevitt, Julian
ROBOTS from Star Wars, cinema and television form part of a buzzing new exhibition. Worcester City Art Gallery in Foregate Street, is hosting a take-over by robots between Saturday, July 16 and Saturday, September 3. The exhibition brings together
AN engineer from Worcester is set to embark on a “life-changing” round-the-world yacht race. James Gordon, who lives in Barbourne, was selected from thousands of applicants across the world to take part in the first leg of the Clipper Round the World
THE hectic season at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb continues with an even busier month, starting this weekend. The Reg Phillips Memorial Trophy meeting is on Saturday, incorporating championship rounds of the Toyo Tires Midland Speed, Lotus Seven
A LANE of the M5 northbound has been shut following a smash between a car and a lorry. The accident happened between Junction 5 and Junction 6 at Worcester at about 4.35pm, today. All other lanes are open.
A HOLIDAY-maker returned home to find that his car windscreen had been smashed by vandals. Now Serkan Koruk is appealing for anyone with information about the incident to come forward after police told him there was nothing they could do without eye
A COUNTY hospital which was slammed for its treatment of elderly patients has a 'good foundation' for improvement, a report has said. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has a genuine commitment and desire to ensure improvements put in place following
HEREFORDSHIRE played out a thrilling draw with Shropshire in the Minor Counties Championship Western Division at Bridgnorth. With three balls remaining in the three-day contest, the result could have gone four different ways but a share of the spoils
VETERAN campaigner Ivor Ballard’s 5-6-0 catch more than doubled the weight of his nearest rival and easily won the latest Swan club contest on a difficult canal at Shernal Green. Heat wave conditions significantly reduced catches but Ballard
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce is supporting this newspaper’s ‘100 Apprenticeships in 100 Days’ campaign and is encouraging and supporting its members to get on board. On top of this, the organisation is recruiting an
WORK was carried out overnight to repair a burst water main. As we reported yesterday, water flooded onto Cotswold Way in Warndon, Worcester, after the eight- inch water main burst on Monday night. Nicki Payne, who works for an IT company just off Cotswold
SIR – Years ago, in the early 1960s, I was at a little prep school in Little Malvern and we could see Bredon Hill in the distance from our classroom windows. I always remember catching the Cathedrals Express steam train from Paddington in May
A body painter is hoping for a brush with success when she tests her skills at the world championships in Austria. Sarah-Ashleigh Attwell is jetting off to compete in the Body Painting World Championships which run from today until next Tuesday after
SIR – Further to the article ‘Letdown for son of fantasybook great’ (Worcester News, June 22) and the letter from Bev Collins (Worcester News, June 24) saying how much she enjoyed the talk about the Life and Work of Mervyn Peake, the Worcestershire
ROB Austin Racing are looking to put a nightmare few months behind them and make an impact in the second half of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season. The Pershore team have been beset by technical difficulties in their debut year to
SIR – Re the South Worcestershire Development Plan. I would like to understand how local planners are able to support the continuing expansion of West Mercia Police headquarters and of Worcester rugby ground and yet reject well-constructed plans
ALMOST one in five 10 and 11-year-olds in Worcestershire are obese while a quarter of adults in the county are dangerously overweight. According to the latest figures about 18.9 per cent of year six children in Worcestershire are classified as obese
SIR – I now live abroad but as an ex-citizen of Worcester I love to visit my old county. But on arriving in Worcester by train the other weekend I had the misfortune to be hit by the sight of the new building in The Butts. At first I thought
A LOCAL inventor had the ultimate seal of approval when his award-winning product received the biggest order ever seen on The Apprentice. Derrick Barker’s booster back pack – Boostapak – was pitched by contestants on the BBC reality show last
SIR – The case for the strikes highlighting the proposed alterations to public sector pensions appears particularly unreasonable when final salary pensions in the private sector are now almost non-existent. When the general economy was strong and
SIR – The mainstream media and politicians say that public opinion is against today’s pension strikes. However, they don’t seem too concerned about public opinion when the majority are against a war or NHS privatisation. The Government is complaining
A HOTEL in Worcestershire has been labelled the “Ritz for rovers” because of the five-star treatment it gives to its four-legged guests. The Riverside Hotel on the river Avon in Evesham is offering pampered pooches a place to relax in its three special
IN August Scottish Power will raise gas prices 19 per cent and electricity by 10 per cent – hitting 2.4 million customers. They almost certainly won’t be alone. British Gas has already hinted it plans increases, and the Bank of England has said
ANEESH Kapil had that ‘Thank Crunchie’ feeling after his man-of-the-match display at Northamptonshire Steelbacks last night in the Friends Life t20. The all-rounder, who only finished his ‘A’ Levels last week, produced a stunning performance at Campbell
WORCESTER’s retailers have turned to Queen of Shops Mary Portas to help them survive in the tough economic climate. A new academy will help the traders by teaching them the TV shopping guru’s principles of successful retailing. The academy
STRIKES are set to cause chaos across Worcestershire today as public sector workers down tools in a row over pensions. Teachers, lecturers, civil servants and other workers are all planning to walk out and join marches and rallies after talks
ONE of the city’s keenest sporting rivalries ended in a 47-run victory for Royal Grammar School Worcester over King’s School. RGS batted first with opener Andrew Curtis in sparkling form as he notched a flawless 124 not out, reaching his century
A SCIENCE teacher at a Worcester school who “disturbed” her Year 8 class by showing them an “inappropriate” video has been suspended from the classroom. The General Teaching Council’s Professional Conduct Committee found Rebecca Leighton guilty of “
WORCESTER Warriors will mark their return to the Aviva Premiership with a home clash against perennial strugglers Sale Sharks on the first weekend in September. The season then roars into life with a local derby clash against Gloucester at
A MOTORCYCLIST has been killed in Wales while out training with West Mercia Police. The man, believed to be in his 30s and from Worcestershire, died after his blue Honda motorbike was in a collision with a white campervan and a blue Vauxhall Insignia
TOM Oakley is hoping his season’s best score of 148 will be enough to restore him to the Ombersley first team. After managing just 40 runs in four games for Arti Fiaz’s Birmingham League Division Two side this season, the 24-year-old was dropped into
WORCESTER Warriors will jet off to Geneva for an intensive pre-season training camp in August as they step up their Aviva Premiership preparations. Head coach Richard Hill has already been out to the Swiss city to run the rule over the state-of-the-art
HAVING hung up his bowling boots for the final time last week, Matt Mason believes that Worcestershire players have everything they need to succeed. The 37-year-old will now concentrate on mentoring the bowlers at New Road as one of four full-time
CLOSE the tourist information centre, increase some car parking charges and open Worcester’s museums and art gallery less often – that is what people want if the city council has to make cuts. People want councillors to do all that they can
A NEW collection of material by one of Worcestershire’s most famous songwriters and drummers has been released. The four-CD boxed set Dear Mr Fantasy featuring the work of Evesham-born Jim Capaldi is out this week, with previously unreleased tracks by
A WINDOW cleaner who kept Worcester businesses and homes sparkling for four decades has died. Brian Bidwell died in hospital on June 19 after falling down the stairs at his home. Mr Bidwell, known as ‘Biddy’, was a well known Worcester character, primarily
A GROUP of 11 friends are cycling 50 miles through Worcestershire to raise money for Sight Concern Worcestershire. Paul Handy, of St Peter’s, Worcester, has organised the bike ride and will be cycling through Worcestershire and north Gloucestershire
