COACHLOADS of county protesters were due to take part in today's anti-war demonstration in London. Organisers were predicting that up to a million protesters would join the march in the capital this afternoon - the biggest crowd since VE Day - to demonstrate
WITNESSES are being sought after a man was attacked outside a Worcester nightclub. Police say the man was the victim of an unprovoked attack near the Bamboo nightclub, in the city's Tybridge Street. It happened around 2.30am this morning, when the man
YOUNGSTERS from a Beaver Scout group have been visiting a pet superstore as part of working towards their Animal Friend badge. About 20 boys and girls from the Third Worcester Beaver Scouts group visited Pets at Home this week. The six to eight year-olds
NEW powers have been handed to councils to shut down alleyways and footpaths if they are being used by criminals to sell drugs and escape from police. Under the powers, councils in Worcestershire can also close rights-of-way or footpaths that cross school
THE lucky streak at Worcester Rugby Club, who are at the top of National Division One, is not just down to the strength of the squad. The Warriors, who are vying for promotion, claim it is also down to resident cat Little Ern. He turned up at the Sixways
MINORITY ethnic groups in Worcestershire have nearly doubled in a decade from 1.4 per cent in 1991 to 2.4 per cent in 2001. This was just one of the statistics revealed by the April 2001 Census released by Worcestershire County Council's Research and
ALL the theatre, music and living history on offer in Worcestershire has been crammed into a leaflet designed to entice more tourists into the county. Worcestershire Spring Events features more than 100 activities taking place between now and Easter and
MODERNISATION of the fire service should not be a smoke-screen for a crude cost-cutting exercise, claims one of the region's MP. Bill Wiggin, MP for Leominster, will raise concerns that a risk-based review of the service will lead to station closures
An excellent ninth goal of the season from Melligan put Harriers ahead on 20 minutes. The midfielder benefited from good link up play between Henriksen and Shilton by drifting a precise 25 yard lob over the head of keeper Dearden.
Kidderminster Harriers will aim to sign off the Cowshed with a win as the stand closes after today's match to be replaced by a new 2,040-seat structure. Harriers have not been beaten by Torquay since gaining promotion to the Football League and a victory
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers have parted company with record signing Andy Ducros and defender Abdou Sall. The duo have left by 'mutual consent' as Harriers manager Ian Britton prepares to build a squad for the future. Ducros, who had a spell on loan at Nuneaton
WORCESTER Wolves player-coach Rick Solvason is backing his side to upset National Basketball League Division One leaders Derbyshire Arrows tonight (7pm). The University College Wor-cester clash pits fifth-placed Wolves against a side who beat them 101
WORCESTER Swimming Club finished second in round two of the Wyvern Junior Swimming League at Monmouth. They got off to a fantastic start with a win courtesy of Lydia Williams, Laura Maguire, Rebecca Cox and Samantha Payne in the first race the girls 11
Torquay made a change at half time, their second of the match, when midfielder Wills was brought on for Hill who had been struggling on the left hand side. There was little action of note in the early stages of the second half with Harriers defending
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers have parted company with record signing Andy Ducros and defender Abdou Sall. The duo have left by 'mutual consent' as Harriers manager Ian Britton prepares to build a squad for the future. Ducros, who had a spell on loan at Nuneaton
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers midfielder John Melligan has certainly had a week to remember. On Tuesday he celebrated his 21st birthday and marked the occasion with a second half substitute appearance for the Republic of Ireland in their 2-0 defeat against Scotland
PETER Nielsen writes (You Say, February 8) "people want to see proof that Iraq is a threat to them". Tony Blair himself said on Newsnight recently that Iraq is no threat to this country. GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester.
THERE is no need for Matthew A Clarke to announce publicly to being an "unashamed fundamentalist" (You Say, January 27). This is already blatantly apparent. Unfortunately, "religious fundamentalism" is a direct product of severe and unremitting brainwashing
NOTHING comes as a surprise any more with regards to Tesco and what they believe to be the best for the people of Worcester. How it must have come as a shock to Tesco when last October, city planners revealed they would be recommending refusal for Tesco's
I AM writing in response to the article headlined "Council misses target" (Evening News, January 28). I am concerned that the article could have left your readers with the wrong impression. The District Auditor reported that, if we had a fault, it was
Torquay made a substitution on 25 minutes with former Arsenal youngster Kuffour on for Bedeau and they changed to a format similar to Harriers' 3-5-2. A good diving save from Dearden prevented Melligan adding a second on 32 minutes after the midfielder
THE chief executive of a troubled Worcestershire hospital trust has announced she is leaving to take up a new post. Ruth Harrison will leave the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust to work on the merger of two different trusts. Worcester City Councillor
HOSPITAL chiefs have hit back at claims that Worcestershire Royal Hospital is a "poor imitation" which blatantly disregards its staff. And they have dismissed calls for management to resign. City and County Councillor Richard Udall said yesterday that
AN energetic man is organising a running event in Worcester to help raise funds and awareness for testicular cancer. Michael Skilbeck has been inspired to stage the event by his stepfather who survived the disease 10 years ago. He hopes the men-only event
PEOPLE in Worcestershire are being urged to tune into a BBC series which aims to break domestic violence taboos. The county council's social services department is supporting the BBC's campaign to raise awareness of domestic violence. The Hitting Home
A BURGLAR who raided the home of a Stourport sailor three days after he left to serve in the Gulf has been jailed for nearly four years at Worcester Crown Court. Beau Broadhurst and accomplice Lee Sandford stole goods worth £795 after getting in through
COMPUTER users throughout the entire city will be surfing the net a whole lot faster, thanks to people power in Worcester. Broadband campaigner, Dr Brian Gladman (pictured), was determined to break the city's technological divide, which had left St John's
A PRIMARY school in Warndon has taken on the services of a safety officer to ensure children are cared for when entering or leaving the school. Warndon Junior School has employed Ray Hanson to instruct pupils on safety and encourage parents to park further
An excellent ninth goal of the season from Melligan put Harriers ahead on 20 minutes. The midfielder benefited from good link up play between Henriksen and Shilton by drifting a precise 25 yard lob over the head of keeper Dearden.
Dr Martens League Western Division AUGUST SAT, 17 GRESLEY ROVERS 1-0 Scorer, Bullock Att, 111 Mon, 19 Solihull Borough (a) 2-2 Lutz, Pinkney 216 Sat, 24 Taunton Town (a) 2-3 Bullock, Preedy 358 MON, 26 CINDERFORD TOWN (H) 3-1 Jukes, May (2) 134 Sat, 31
A SECOND successive own goal at Common Road by full back Andy Smith earned Redditch a last-gasp winner today (Saturday). Smith, though, knew little about the goal as the ball struck the Evesham defender on the knee after Alex Cowley's cross had been diverted
WORCESTER Wolves player-coach Rick Solvason is backing his side to upset National Basketball League Division One leaders Derbyshire Arrows tonight (7pm). The University College Wor-cester clash pits fifth-placed Wolves against a side who beat them 101
JOHN Brain has warned his side that Orrell have the firepower to shoot down Worcester's title dreams. The Sixways director of rugby is gearing up for what he believes will be one of their toughest tests of the season at Edge Hall Road tomorrow (2pm).
OLD Vigornians won a thriller by two wickets off the last ball against The Fossils 'A' in the Worcestershire Cricket Board Monday Indoor League at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester. Led by Kevin Ingram (36), Martin Woodward (31no), Guy Woodbridge (27
A thoroughly professional display from Kidderminster Harriers eased them to a comfortable 2-0 victory over fourth placed Torquay and increased their own play-off chances. Two tremendous goals arrived courtesy of John Melligan on 20 minutes and Bo Henriksen
TWO matches were played in the first round of Worcester Table Tennis League's Team Handicap Knock-out competition. Pavilion Players (80) beat Cripplegate Guild (120) by eight points. Gordon Nicklin was the most consistent player for the 'Guild', but the
MANAGER John Barton believes Adam Webster is on course to score at least 15 goals in his first full season in the Dr Martens Premier Division. The Worcester City striker bagged goal number 10 of the season with an equaliser during last Saturday's 2-1
WORCESTER Rugby Club's pack have to prove themselves every time they take to the field post-Rotherham. That is the verdict from the Sixways director of rugby John Brain who openly admits their showing in the 38-13 defeat at Millmoor back in November left
Henriksen's goal on 69 minutes gave Harriers that vital extra cushion and they looked comfortable for the remainder of the match, watched by 3,039 fans. Torquay made their final substitution on 75 minutes with their top scorer Graham taken off and replaced
Harriers extended their lead on 69 minutes with top scorer Henriksen's 14th goal of the season. The Danish forward turned on the edge of the area to guide a superb shot into the corner of the net passed a stranded Dearden following Broughton's flick-on
REGARDING the story headlined "Pub Mast Approved" I have not seen the papers on the application, therefore can only comment from a general viewpoint. However, where your planners seem to have slipped up is in that while you can have any size flag pole
SIR Michael Spicer is against the idea of a West Midlands regional assembly that would run things from Birmingham as he feels it would undermine local democracy. I disagree, as the experience and leverage of Birmingham City Council could prove valuable
THE article headed "Doctors Mess" in (Evening News, February 1), seems to have been released two months early for it would be more in keeping with April's Fools Day. I wonder whether it's a wind-up, for surely the reason to lose five car park spaces to
WHEN Prime Minister Edward Heath signed the Treaty of Rome in 1972, he told us that Britain was joining a European trading group only. It would be large enough to facilitate the mass production of goods protected from the products of the sweat shops in
SADDAM Hussein is no saint. Which leader of a sovereign state is? The Pope, maybe? Yet Iraq alone must be subjected to inspection and ordered to disarm, it would appear. When India and Pakistan joined the ranks of nuclear powers, there was hardly a protest
A SUPERB example of the work of Worcester gunsmith John Perrins - a master craftsman in the city for 60 years through the Victorian era - is about become a prized local museum piece. It's an eight-inch "pepperbox" revolver made by Perrins more than 160
THE Iraqi Foreign Minister complains that the UK and US are interested in invading and colonising his country. Many share his complaint in that we feel that Bush and Blair are interested in invading and colonising our minds with their repetitive propaganda
WITH the remaining 28 or so nuns proposing to sell up and move from Stanbrook Abbey, Callow End, it's perhaps timely to re-visit a Memory Lane article I wrote almost two decades ago. In 1986, a historian at the Abbey kindly gave me a fascinating insight
I FEEL I must put pen to paper regarding your front page story (Evening News, February 8). Do we really want to know or care for that matter, whether Natalie Denning has slept with Leonardo Di Caprio? With all the state of the world at the moment and
AFTER years of Tory representation, great things were expected of Mike Foster as Worcester's first Labour MP. Alas, it was not to be. Apart from enraging the "get off my land brigade" - those odious creatures who get their perverted pleasures from watching
TO add to the sadness and anger we feel following the closure of the Swan Theatre, we are now, as campaigners for its survival, frustrated as we receive messages of congratulations from people hoodwinked by reports and rumours of its reprieve. Make no
JOHN Brain has warned his side that Orrell have the firepower to shoot down Worcester's title dreams. The Sixways director of rugby is gearing up for what he believes will be one of their toughest tests of the season at Edge Hall Road tomorrow (2pm).
WORCESTER Rugby Club's pack have to prove themselves every time they take to the field post-Rotherham. That is the verdict from the Sixways director of rugby John Brain who openly admits their showing in the 38-13 defeat at Millmoor back in November left
MANAGER John Barton believes Adam Webster is on course to score at least 15 goals in his first full season in the Dr Martens Premier Division. The Worcester City striker bagged goal number 10 of the season with an equaliser during last Saturday's 2-1
The Division Three clash set off at a frantic place with too many over-hit passes but Harriers gradually seized control of the encounter. There was nearly an embarrassing moment for Torquay keeper Dearden on 10 minutes when he misjudged Williams' hanging
