A YOUNG Droitwich firefighter was among those to be honoured at an awards ceremony. Megan Pugh, aged 16, who lives in Bromsgrove but attends the Droitwich branch of the Young Firefighters Association, was presented with the High Sheriff’s Award after
A DRUG addict who threatened to stab two men in Worcester city centre has been jailed for 20 months. Matthew Martindale approached Robert Dutson and warned he would attack him in five seconds if he did not go to a cash machine to fetch money
AMERICAN students have been given a tour of Worcester’s Guildhall. The 27 students from the University of Minnesota Duluth are attending the University of Worcester on a one-year Study in England Programme. They were treated to the tour by the city’
SMOG clogging up a Worcestershire street could put the brakes on £13 million plans to replace a key bridge, according to a legal expert. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has now intervened over poor air quality levels in
RIOTING, looting and civil disorder cost West Mercia Police and the taxpayer £250,000, a report shows. The unprecedented national demand for extra police officers working 12-hour shifts without rest days in August boosted the cost of tackling problems
A CHARITY which helps youngsters going through the tragedy of losing mums, dads and close relatives has announced it will have to cut back on the services it offers or risk total collapse. Noah’s Ark Trust, which covers south Worcestershire
SATURDAY MIDLANDS MEN’S LEAGUE Premier Division: Edgbaston v Stourport. Division One: North Stafford v Worcester (noon). West Midlands Premier Division: Droitwich Spa v Shrewsbury. Division One: Bloxwich v Redditch; Evesham
TENBURY’S mistletoe season will be celebrated with a “bigger-than-ever” calendar of events to highlight the winter harvest of the celebrated plant. Mistletoe season celebrates Tenbury’s 100-year tradition stretching back to when Queen Victoria named
DESPITE a bone-dry summer, flower, fruit and vegetable growers turned out a bumper crop of award winners. There were flower shows in both Claines in Worcester and at Droitwich, with thousands of entries between both the shows. Entrants had spent days
SIR – My family and I are trying to find out more about our grandmother Lucy Fell Hughes. She was born in Lower Howsell in 1873 and died at 1 College Precinct, Worcester, in 1948. We know that she moved to Bristol in 1907 as a matron of the
SIR – Yet again we read of another harrowing case of an immigrant rapist who can’t be deported due to his human rights and social ties to the UK.The 24-year-old Nigerian, who raped a 13-year-old girl, was due to be deported, yet the European Court
SIR – Full marks and many thanks to Worcester MP Robin Walker for raising the long-standing problem of the unfair school funding postcode lottery with the Schools Minister, and also taking a delegation of Worcestershire headteachers to make this
SIR – Peter Luff, writing his guest column in the Worcester News (September 22), is quite right to warn us all to take notice of the Boundary Commision’s involvement in the proposed reduction of 50 MPs in the House of Commons. Anyone with suggestions
SIR – I felt compelled to comment on the letter ‘Getting to grips with immigration is the key’ (Worcester News, September 14). Immigration is a good thing, but mass economic migration? All countries need the best; they need the best scientists
SIR – Several letters have appeared in the Worcester News recently criticising parking charges for the disabled at local hospitals. While their concern for this section of society is to be admired I would like to point out that being disabled
SIR – Once again a key player in helping develop local health services has shown his ignorance. This time its Councillor Marcus Hart in the firing line, claiming that he can see no reason why disabled people shouldn’t be charged for parking (
IGNORANCE may be bliss but it can also prove fatal and a man reading this article could be walking around with a medical time bomb ticking inside them. Fortunately, thanks to a new screening programme, the bomb may never go off and lives that were
A SPECIALIST mobile employment centre is to provide support for disabled and disadvantaged jobseekers in Worcestershire. Operated by Remploy, the JobsMobile will provide highly personalised back-to- work services including CV writing, interview coaching
A KARATE instructor who seduced a vulnerable 13-year-old pupil and had regular sex with her was starting an eight-year jail sentence today. Jaspal Riat met Dana Baker when she was a 13-year-old pupil at his Birmingham karate school.
LOCAL and national organisations have teamed together to provide new apprenticeship training for three young people to work in the Wyre Forest. More than £130,000 is being provided to train the apprentices over a three-year period. As well as learning
A CENTRE which looks after disabled children and provides respite for parents in Worcester raised money through a sponsored walk. Children, parents and staff from New Hope in Ronkswood walked over Sabrina Bridge and the main Worcester Bridge before joining
FOUR fire engines were called to a house fire in Worcestershire which completely gutted one of the bedrooms. Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service tackled the blaze in School Lane in Middle Littleton, near Evesham, just after 7am on Tuesday
THE Herefordshire and Worcestershire Senior County Closed Tennis Championships took place at Manor Park in Malvern. Singles and doubles in both the open and veteran events saw competitors arrive from all over the two counties. The men’s open singles
A COUPLE from Worcester are looking forward to taking their baby girl home for the first time after spending the last five months visiting her at hospital in Birmingham. Chris and Lorna Wyse are now raising money to thank the charity that allowed them
WORCESTERSHIRE will play host to the touring South Africa in a two-day match at New Road next summer. With England’s summer schedule announced, where they will play West Indies, Australia and the Proteas, Steve Rhodes’ men, who maintained the LV= County
THE sentence handed down to Worcester businessman Brandon Weston has been dismissed as a “kick in the teeth” for tenants. Steve Harriott, the chief executive of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, said the suspended sentences given to Weston and his
AFTER a summer of comings and goings at Worcester Wolves, one of the few returnees from last year’s squad has been awarded the captaincy of the side. Last season, guard Callum Jones, 25, played fewer minutes than he’d have liked but is confident
AN accident which closed a major route in to and away from Worcester has reopened. The A443 was shut both ways at Great Witley earlier while emergency services dealt with the incident and cleared debris. Meanwhile an accident on the A44
STAC’s latest offering is a bit like a combination of all the best bits of Sunday viewing from the early 90s - and I mean this in a good way. Murdered to Death combines the traditional murder mystery - think Agatha Christie - and a good, old fashioned
STRIKER Lee Smith is looking to continue his goal-scoring form with Worcester City after joining from rivals Nuneaton Town. The 28-year-old, who can also operate on the right wing, has signed a contract until the end of the season with an option
A WOMAN who died of a paracetamol overdose was behaving “bizarrely” the day before she died, an inquest has heard. Witnesses told an inquest that Donna Bishop had been forgetful and hallucinating before she was admitted to Worcestershire Royal
BEING successful on your home ground is vital for any team intent on doing well. Winning fixtures at headquarters provides a solid foundation on which to build a good campaign and eases the pressure on needing points from away games.
FRIDAY’S Premiership clash with Northampton Saints already falls into the ‘must-win’ category, according to Warriors boss Richard Hill. Both sides have made a faltering start to the campaign with just a win apiece from their opening four games. Following
VILLAGERS are in the dark about whether a new pharmacy is still in the pipeline. Your Worcester News previously reported that plans for a chemist in Kempsey, near Worcester, close to the crossroads of Main Road, Church Street and Old Road
PRISONERS at two Worcestershire prisons are being kept in cells without flushing toilets. The Prison Service is currently fighting a legal bid which could force the Government to spend millions of pounds upgrading the jails. Convicted
A BARMAN has been fined for selling alcohol to two 16-year-old girls. Thomas Morgan, barman at the Prince of Wales in Church Lane, Ledbury, admitted selling bottles of Smirnoff Ice to two 16-year-old girls when he appeared at Hereford Magistrates Court
