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  • Crash at Jubilee Drive on Malvern Hills

    EMERGENCY services were called out to Jubilee Drive, Upper Colwall, just after 8am on Saturday after a crash involving one vehicle was reported. A fire engine and paramedics attended the scene, but there were no people trapped and no report of any

  • Win a family ticket for the Mello Festival

    THE Mello Festival will thrill music lovers at the Severn End Country Estate in Hanley Castle, from May 24 to May 26. Details of a star line-up are already being announced, and the Worcester News has joined forces with the Festival for a great fun

  • MAYOR'S COLUMN: Running, talking and honouring in a busy week

    You may be pleased to note that true to my word, I joined more than 700 runners for my first 5k Park Run last Saturday, which I completed in a respectable time of 28 minutes and 22 seconds. My sights are set on bigger and better goals, with one eye

  • Snow may be coming, says Met Office

    Disruptive snow and plunging temperatures may hit the UK next week, forecasters have said. The current cold spell will continue over the weekend, with largely grey, gloomy conditions and patches of rain and sleet in southern areas on Saturday,

  • Snow may be coming, says the Met Office

    Disruptive snow and plunging temperatures may hit the UK next week, forecasters have said. The current cold spell will continue over the weekend, with largely grey, gloomy conditions and patches of rain and sleet in southern areas on Saturday, according

  • Crash closes Bath Road on Friday night

    A SERIOUS collision involving a car and a pedestrian led to the closure of Bath Road, Worcester, on Friday evening. The incident happened at about 7.55pm, and the road remained closed until about 1am, with drivers urged by police to avoid the area

  • Fire on motorway extinguished

    FIRE crews from Worcester and Upton were called out to a vehicle on fire on the M5 southbound between junctions 7 and 8. The call came at 12.28am on Saturday and crews used breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet to put out the fire.

  • Radio DJ Jo heads celebrity line-up at Spring Garden Show

    GREEN-fingered DJ Jo Whiley and Gardeners’ World favourite Monty Don lead a star-studded line-up at this year's RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Whiley, confirmed as a first-time guest in the week she launched her new BBC Radio 2 show, will be talking

  • Worcester News Camera Club

    Worcester News Camera Club members have captured these beautiful pictures. To join our camera club, send your photographs to photo@worcesternews.co.uk or visit Facebook and search for Worcester News Camera Club.

  • Warriors ready for Stade revenge mission

    PROP Callum Black insists Worcester Warriors will be ready to combat a “raging” Stade Francais side in the European Challenge Cup at Sixways today (1pm). A stunning 38-27 victory over the Top 14 outfit in Paris in October laid the platform for

  • FOOD FEATURE: Ella Risbridger on the joy of mini pasta shapes

    Ella Risbridger is many, many hours into waiting for her plumber to arrive. "I live in hope," she says wryly. The food blogger-turned-cookbook writer, journalist and tweeter extraordinaire has many things on the go, in fact. Besides the interminable

  • NOSTALGIA: Sammy's – upright and thorough motto for school

    THERE have been several well known Worcester school names disappear within living memory, St Mary’s Convent and Alice Ottley spring easily to mind. But few will have been missed more by their former pupils than Samuel Southall Secondary Modern.