TWO-thirds of people in Worcester prefer the taste of tap water to bottled or cannot tell the difference, a survey has revealed. Severn Trent Water carried out a taste test in CrownGate Shopping Centre in the city while asking participants for
A FRAUDSTER who stole more than £6,000 from the public purse has been ordered to carry out unpaid work. Benefit cheat Joanne Shepherd received overpayments of £2,099.13 in income-based jobseeker’s allowance, £273.85 in income support and a total
WORCESTER’S MP has waded into the Southern Link Road debate - by saying there has to be “extra urgency” over dualling the entire route. Robin Walker has pledged to raise the future of the A4440 in parliament after a major developer pledged to pay
A NEW inspector has fulfilled one of her career ambitions by taking over as the head of local policing in Wychavon. Inspector Janet Heritage, who is now leading the 12 Safer Neighbourhood Teams in the borough, has transferred from Worcester after
WORCESTER’S Richard Illingworth has been promoted to cricket’s Elite Umpiring Panel, placing him among the top 12 officials in the world. The former England and Worcestershire left-arm spinner was appointed to the England and Wales Cricket Board
A DRIVER was cut from a car following a road traffic collision in Holt Heath this evening. Two cars were in collision near to Cottage Stores at about 4.20pm. The driver was medically trapped and needed to be cut from the car by fire crews.
SIR – Whenever I think about the Lib Dems, I remember they recently had less votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party. GEORGE COWLEY Worcester
TAXI drivers have dismissed calls for them to be forced to buy new vehicles in a bid to cut confusion for customers – at a cost of about £30,000 each. Councillor Richard Udall wants all hackney carriage licence holders in Worcester to revert to
SIR – I started taking the Worcester News again recently after a long break. Unfortunately I will not be taking it again in the near future because I notice that you still include any ramblings penned by one George Cowley. Some of them are so banal
A MAN was arrested today on suspicion of a street robbery which happened in Kidderminster earlier this month. The victim, who is in his 20s, was walking through the alleyway which connects Stoney Lane to Springfield Lane when he was attacked and
NOT many young artists can boast a superstar singer as one of their customers. But a 21-year-old painter from Worcester can confidently list chart-topping international celebrity Rihanna as one of her biggest fans. Artist Aymi Duignan, of Laugherne
A MAN missing from the Wirral is believed to be in Worcester. Robert Gallimore, aged 59, was reported missing on Tuesday, June 18. He was last seen at his home on Pasture Road in Moreton, Wirral, on Friday, June 14. Mr Gallimore has not
SIR – I see we had some trouble in London earlier this month with someone attacking an Islamic school. I think there should be no religious schools. They do more harm than good. We only have to look over the water to Ireland to see the
A CANCER survivor has attacked a potential merger which could see a Birmingham NHS trust take over a Worcestershire hospital. Two senior consultants have expressed their fears for the future of key services at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS
SIR – Norfolk County Council has decided to hold an inquiry into its incinerator contract. It will be truly independent as those against the burner will have a role in choosing the QC and financial experts to conduct the review. As we wait
TWO Asian women were subjected to a "vile tirade" of racist abuse outside a supermarket. The two women were subjected to the abuse, which was accompanied by swearing and aggression, outside Asda, St Martin's Quarter, at 10.30am on Monday, June
HEREFORD United have signed keeper Daniel Lloyd-Weston on a one-year deal. The 21-year-old former Port Vale player, who once had a trial with Manchester United, has been drafted in following the departures of James Bittner and Dan Hanford.
NEW light is set to be shed on an ongoing revamp of Worcester’s High Street after work on the latest phase began yesterday. Contractors started work installing new lighting columns which involved digging a narrow trench in the centre of the pedestrianised
TWO men offering gardening work distracted a homeowner and stole his mobile phone on Saturday morning. The men knocked on the door of a house in Himbleton Road offering to do some gardening work between 10am and 11.30am. One of them was taken
SIR – I was appalled to see that there is an application for a pole dancing club being made on The Butts, right by the Hive, in the former Funk Club. It proposes being open for seven days a week, all night long, where men can go for sexual gratification
SIR – Jonathan Holloway (Worcester News, June 19) says he never sees anyone challenging cyclists riding on pavements (and they are not all youngsters). I have and the foul-mouthed retaliation expressed is unprintable. When I was young, a policeman
SIR – Last week Worcester City Council’s planning committee decided to defer a final decision on the proposed redevelopment of the former Heenan’s Social Club site in Sansome Place into accommodation for 16 homeless people. There were no planning
WHETHER university degrees are worth the thousands of pounds they cost has been a regular topic of conversation recently. I must admit, I would struggle to summon up an argument in defence of the three years of my life I spent racking up a debt
A PROBLEM pensioner hurled lewd abuse at a woman and called her ‘ugly-looking’ which breached the conditions of his anti-social behaviour order. Richard Dawe, aged 79, of Hollybed Street, Castlemorton, near Malvern, admitted two breaches of an
WARRIORS star Ben Howard has described his achievements over the past 12 months as a “whirlwind year.” The winger has gone from Sixways academy prospect to being a World Cup winner with the England under 20s in one season. Howard was part of
ATTEMPTS to ‘dual track’ Worcester’s notorious Southern Link Road are back on the agenda – with developers revealing they are prepared to pay to make it happen. Your Worcester News can reveal talks have been held between London-based Welbeck Land
WORCESTER marked the build-up to Armed Forces Day yesterday by raising a special flag at Worcester Cathedral. The ceremony was attended by Worcester Mayor, Councillor Pat Agar, Royal British Legion standard bearers, members of the Worcestershire
