- An appeal goes out for bedding and furnishings for 30 residents who lost everything in a fire at a block of flats in Callow End. Residents were evacuated, some in their nightwear, as up to 60 firefighters battled the blaze, in which several pets died.

- Talks over funding for new surgery projects in Malvern and Upton were described as "constructive" by the leader of Malvern Hills District Council. However, it has emerged that plans for new surgeries in South Worcestershire alone would more than swallow up the £2.9 million available for the whole West Midlands region.

- More than 100 residents attended a public exhibition called by Severn Trent to outline its £3.5 million engineering project to resolve problems with overflowing sewers in Malvern.

- Callow End residents are not in favour of a major development of Stanbrook Abbey, according to a survey by MP Sir Michael Spicer. The Benedictine order is planning to leave the abbey for a smaller and cheaper-to-run home after 170 years.

- Author and former King's School, Worcester headmaster David Annett has died. Mr Annett, of the Beauchamp Community, Newland, was a key figure in the Herefordshire Historic Churches Trust and author of books on the Saints of Herefordshire and St Leonard's Church in Newland.

- A Malvern factory is having to spend thousands of pounds on mesh guards for windows after suffering damage at the hands of stone-throwing vandals.

- Campaigners opposing plans for a mobile phone mast at Stiffords Bridge, Cradley are planning a demonstration.

- A plan to refurbish Alfrick Village Hall has been stalled by a suggestion that it should be replaced by an entirely new building on a different site.

- Hundreds of gravestones deemed unsafe by Malvern Town Council will remain taped up indefinitely as the authority struggles to contact relatives to request that remedial work is carried out.

- Age Concern is holding trials of a home-working scheme for people willing to offer help to elderly people in the Malvern area. If successful it could go countywide.

- Two fishing lakes stocked with £70,000 worth of specimen carp will be ready for use by fisherman in Birtsmorton next year.

- One of the longest Morris dance processions in the country is promised by the organisers of the Upton-upon-Severn Folk Festival. We preview events during the four day extravaganza.

- Malvern's May Day celebrations will fill Priory Park with magic, mystery, music and fun.

All these stories can be read in detail in this week's Malvern Gazette, available from Friday, April 16. They will also be posted on this site in full next Friday, with details of what to look forward to in next week's paper.