A NEW lawyer team has the aim of keeping children and victims of domestic abuse. Harrison Clark Rickerbys' team led by Mat Waddington will specialises in law relating to children, draws on the specialist expertise of Victoria Pratt, an expert in
FRIENDS of a teenager who died in a car crash raised £1,000 for his family at a football match held in his memory. Liam Ball, from Malvern, died, aged 17, in a crash in Walsall, near Birmingham, last month. Two of Liam’s friends set up a football
A CITY school has been praised by Ofsted as a “happy and harmonious” community. St George’s Catholic Primary School, in Thorneloe Walk, Barbourne, has retained its ‘good’ Ofsted rating following its most recent inspection. In a report, inspector
UNDECIDED Dave Reynolds is enduring sleepless nights over his prospective move to Redditch United. The Worcester City ace has been offered the chance to jump two levels on the back of notching 34 goals in 54 matches in blue and white, notwithstanding
MANAGER John Snape lamented Worcester City's past two displays despite last night's rip-roaring comeback to draw 2-2 with Quorn. Luke English levelled matters with an injury-time brace at the Victoria Ground to follow up Saturday's 3-2 victory
A PLUS-size city youtuber has backed size 24 model Tess Holliday, after she appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. Tanisha Degutis, who has an Instagram page and Youtube channel celebrating plus-size fashion, has called the image ‘ground
House prices in Worcester crept up by 0.6% in July, contributing to a 1.2% rise over the last 12 months. The latest data from the Office of National Statistics shows that the average property in the area sold for £207,922 - below the UK average
DARYL Mitchell insists Worcestershire's relegation "is no disgrace" based on the standard in County Championship Division One. The stand-in skipper argued the county's youthful side had the potential to bounce back after a crushing innings-and-129
A DRUNK fell asleep inside a clothes store after breaking into the property with a giraffe sculpture, a court heard. Edward Galbraith, aged 20, woke up underneath a rack of clothes in the Two Seasons shop in Chapel Walk, Worcester. He then
THE PARENTS of missing teenager Tom Jones are urging Worcester residents to help them as they search for their son. Speaking to the Worcester News, Vicki and Ian Jones said they would welcome the help of the city community as they search the area
WORCESTERSHIRE’S relegation from County Championship Division One was confirmed by an innings-and-129-run defeat at Essex. The return to the second tier comes just five days after grabbing glory in Saturday’s T20 Blast Finals Day at Edgbaston and
A FESTIVAL celebrating Worcester's thriving business community has been hailed as a big success raising vital cash for charity. The fifth annual Festival of Business organised by Worcestershire Enterprise Ltd, the business behind the successful
WORCESTER Warriors are unlikely to issue a further update on the progress of injured back rower Cornell du Preez for another three weeks. Du Preez is being treated at Heartlands Hospital and Birmingham Chest Clinic after fracturing his Adam’s apple
JOINT-MANAGER Dene Whittal-Williams praised the togetherness of his side after Malvern Town thrashed Dudley Town 5-1 at York Road. A Josh Hunt brace and goals from Harry Clark, Louis Loader and Matt Turner saw the visitors storm to victory in the
CONCERNS have been raised over the length of time children and young people with mental health issues are waiting to get support. Vulnerable youngsters across the county are waiting on average seven weeks for a first non-urgent appointment - a week
A HEADTEACHER is ‘extremely disappointed’ about bus service cuts which have affected some of his students. First Bus has stopped taking schoolchildren from Tewkesbury to Worcester in the morning because too few people were using the service.
A CIVIC reception will be held at The Guildhall for cricketers who made history by winning the T20 Blast. The Rapids, Worcestershire County Cricket Club’s T20 team, roared to success after beating Lancashire and Sussex at Edgbaston to lift the
MISSING Worcester man Keith Perry has been found. Police put out an appeal to find the 60-year-old after went missing in Union Walk, Hereford, earlier today (Thursday). Police said this afternoon that he had been found and thanked the public
UNCAPPED tighthead prop Nick Schonert and centre Ben Te’o have been named in England’s latest training camp. The Worcester Warriors duo will meet up with Eddie Jones' 36-man squad after Sunday's clash at Leicester Tigers' for the camp in Bristol
Update: Highways England tweeted traffic has been released on the #M5 northbound at J5. A lane remains closed emergency resurfacing after a collision and vehicle fire. Update: Highways England have tweeted: "Lanes 1 and 2 have now reopened.
A SEARCH of the River Severn has been carried out for a missing teenager who only arrived in the city to start university last weekend. Police say it is totally out of character for Thomas Jones to go missing, and desperate family and friends have
SIR - THERE has been talk of forming a new political party of the centre of British politics. The problem is that any new party of the centre will still be in the traditions of British politics. It would just be a shuffle of the old political deck
CONCERNS have been raised after potentially lethal ‘laughing gas’ cannisters have been found across the city, including a near a primary school. Discarded nitrous oxide cartridges were found in an alleyway nearby the school, believed to be Nunnery
FEARS have been raised again about overcrowding on the platforms at Worcester's Foregate Street Station. A reader sent us a picture of platform two of the station, which was overcrowded on Tuesday morning. The picture, taken at around 8.30am,
CAMPAIGNERS are looking for a fence or wall where anti-bullying messages could be spray-painted. The initiative hopes to combat bullying through wall art and raise awareness in Worcester. The idea originated when a woman’s fence was vandalised
More than one in seven nurseries in Worcestershire have closed since 2015, according to data published by Ofsted. The Pre-school Learning Alliance has called for “urgent action” to address a funding crisis, which it says is caused by a government
A GOOD Samaritan who tidied up a churchyard is “livid” after being barred from disposing of the rubbish at a Worcester tip. Pippa Balch, aged 65, was visiting the graves of her parents, Paul and Jean Houghton, at St Bartholomew’s Church in Grimley
WORCESTERSHIRE is now home to Britain's oldest person, and she just celebrated her 112th birthday. Grace Jones, of Pegasus Court in Broadway, known to her friends as Amazing Grace, celebrated her birthday on Sunday (September 16). Mrs Jones,
BOSS Paul Collicutt wants fans to create a partisan atmosphere as Evesham United bid for their best winning league run since November 2016. The table-topping Robins seek a sixth straight Southern League Division One South victory at home to Yate
A TEENAGE girl was raped in the car park of County Hall in Worcester as three men used her as their sexual 'plaything', a court heard. The girl, aged 16 at the time, says she was raped at two different locations, including in a car behind a skip
PATIENTS who fail to turn up for appointments have cost the trust that runs Worcestershire Royal Hospital £1.6million so far this year. Data from NHS England shows that, between January and June, 13,936 people either did not show up for an outpatient
GIRLS from a youth group that meets at Worcester Mosque have helped spread the message about the work done by a local hospice. St Richard’s Hospice community engagement officer, Alice Spearing visited the girls’ youth group at Tallow Hill Mosque
WING Perry Humphreys is back to full speed but utility back Scott van Breda has yet to return to maximum power according to Worcester Warriors boss Alan Solomons. Injuries have caused the duo to miss the start of Warriors’ season with Humphreys
