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  • Charity needs bags of help

    BIG hearted people are needed to ensure an appeal for donations gets off the ground. The Mayor of Worcester Councillor David Tibbutt helped launch the British Heart Foundation’s BIG Donation campaign at Cathedral Plaza yesterday by giving

  • Purchase defends doubles world title

    THE medals continued to stack up for Great Britain on the final day of competition at the World Rowing Championships in Slovenia. Olympic champions Zac Purchase, a former King’s School Worcester pupil, and Mark Hunter successfully defended their lightweight

  • The victory was totally deserved

    RICHARD Hill insisted Worcester Warriors should have beaten Sale Sharks by more than the five-point winning margin they secured in the Aviva Premiership opener at Sixways. While the head coach was delighted to begin the campaign with a four-point haul

  • Worcester City 0 Corby Town 2

    WORCESTER City saw their unbeaten run come to an end as they struggled to deal with bogey side Corby Town. Saturday’s defeat, secured by two goals in nine second-half minutes, was the fourth successive meeting when City have failed to beat the Steelmen

  • Cricket results

    WORCESTERSHIRE LEAGUE FIRST XI DIVISION ONE Astwood Bank v Romsley & Hunnington Romsley 84 (0) (J.Summers 6-7), Astwood Bank 87-2 (24). Astwood Bank won by eight wickets. Droitwich Spa v Bromyard Bromyard 224-5 (24) (G.Leighton 83), Droitwich

  • Worcester Warriors 17 Sale Sharks 12

    AN overturned caravan on the M5 southbound meant the Sale Sharks team bus didn’t arrive at Sixways until 2.15pm and, it soon transpired, the visiting front-row forwards might as well have stayed on it. The performance of the Stockport-based outfit’s

  • Anniversary is a high note

    A WORCESTER society is celebrating 150 years of making music. Worcester Festival Choral Society (WFCS) has chosen to perform The Dream of Gerontius for its gala concert on Saturday, November 19, as part of its celebrations. Chairman Mark Ellison said

  • Fruity fun at activity day

    CHILDREN and their parents marked the last week of the summer holidays with a Harvest Family Activity Day at Hanbury Hall, near Droitwich. About 400 people took part over two days at the National Trust property. Families were able to follow a harvest-themed

  • Kays in the spotlight as a call goes out for film

    DO you have film of Kays in the 60s languishing in the attic? Doubleband Films are looking for people with home movies of the famous Worcester catalogue to come forward to help with a new hour-long documentary for UKTV. Entitled The

  • The jewel in city's crown is restored at last

    IMPOSING seven-centuries-old monastic ruins at Worcester Cathedral have emerged from their scaffolding and sheeting encasement of three years, impressively refreshed after a £250,000 restoration, all masterfully undertaken by the Cathedral’s own