WORCESTER City Football Club's bid to move to a new ground has received a timely boost after the leader of Worcester's Labour group gave it his backing. Councillor Adrian Gregson said elements of a Government inspector's critical report into City's plans
KIDDERMINSTER: Police have warned people to be on the look-out for potentially lethal painkillers missing from a Worcestershire nursing home. The 50mg Tramadol tablets are issued on prescription only and could prove fatal if taken "inappropriately", according
WORCESTERSHIRE will be heaving with tourists this weekend for what could be one of its most successful Easters ever. Hotels and attractions in the county have confirmed that they are in for an extraordinarily busy time. And it looks as though this could
A SCHEME to expand a driving range at a hotel and golf club in Bransford has moved one step closer after planners agreed to the project in principle. The application - to erect a two-storey driving range building at Bank House Hotel Golf and Country Club
THE two detachments of Worcester's Army Cadets are holding a special recruitment day in the city tomorrow. The city has two groups of cadets - the Worcester Troop, based at Worcester TA Centre and St John's Troop, at Henwick Road. The recruitment day
MOTORCYCLE enthusiasts preparing to dust down their machines in preparation for a summer of riding have been warned to follow safety tips. In preparation for the summer biking season, The Department for Transport's THINK! Road Safety campaign is urging
CITY: Chicken toys will be hidden in Worcester shop windows in a children's Easter hunt. Staff from Nando's restaurant, in Friar Street, will place around 30 miniature Barcis - the chain's cockerel mascot - in High Street shop fronts on Easter Sunday
AN intrepid fireman hopes to raise £25,000 for charity trekking and cycling across New Zealand. Dave Smith will raise funds for the Fire Service National Benevolent Fund, a charity dedicated to preserve the quality of life for serving and retired Fire
Curtain Up! The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Ball, Jose Carreras, Mary Carewe and others. Warner Classics 2564 61330-2. IF you enjoy the musicals and your choice of venue would be Broadway or Leicester Square for a night on the town, then this
SOME of the hottest new musical talents from Worcestershire and Herefordshire have been chosen to battle it out in a new television series for ITV called Music Uncovered. Pop rock bands, Volta from Pershore and Frantik from Hereford, and acoustic folk
THE concept of an "enabling" development alongside the Nunnery Way stadium has long since been approved by city council planning officers. Their acceptance of the principle, indeed, has been underlined by talks about what that enabling development might
THE lights go down and a tall dark haired white jump-suited figure strides to the centre of the stage, grabs the microphone and lets loose with an unmistakable growl. Uh, huh. It must be another Elvis tribute. But not so fast. Although the king is due
THEY walked the slow, studied, theatrical walk through Malvern's Priory Park for the benefit of the television cameras. Heads slightly bowed, as though in earnest conversation, like a couple discussing an impending divorce. Happily when Michelle Collins
Former wild child, now Hollywood power babe Drew Barrymore is renowned for her quickfire love life. And in her latest screen role in 50 First Dates, opening on Friday, April 9, she gets to fall in love every day. Playing Lucy, she has a rare neurological
WORCESTER believe that Trevor Woodman is keen to come to Six-ways. The England prop, who will be out of contract at Glou-cester in the summer, is weighing up his options at present and has made it clear through third parties that he would like a move
NEWCOMER Nadeem Malik is in Worcestershire's side for their three-day friendly against Car-diff UCCE which starts at New Road tomorrow (11am). The young seamer signed a two-year deal in December. The match is part of a busy pre-season programme which
WORCESTER City go into the weekend's Easter programme knowing it could be make or break for their hopes of a top three finish. Rivals Stafford Rangers and Nuneaton Borough are snapping at third-placed City's heels and, after back-to-back defeats, the
DIRECTOR of football Jan Molby faces several selection problems ahead of Kidderminster Harriers' crunch Nationwide League Division Three trip to bottom-of-the-table Carlisle United tomorrow. A number of key players, including leading scorer Dean Bennett
LEON Kelly is in a race against the clock to chalk up 20 league goals for the season. The Worcester City striker has just five games to reach his target, starting with tomorrow's clash at home to Chippenham Town. Kelly already has 16 goals but has set
WORCESTER St John's Cycling Club have returned to their original home, the Bell Inn, St John's, after 66 years. The club were formed in 1888 at the Bell Inn, with George Williams, proprietor of the Berrows Worcestershire Journal becoming the first president
HORSE RACING: The Easter Bank Holiday weekend is a busy time for point-to-point followers with meetings all over the holiday period. The Ludlow Hunt hold their fixture on Saturday (1pm) at Bitterley, near Ludlow, and highlight of their meeting is the
50 FIRST DATES (12A): Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler get it on in the romantic comedy featuring memory loss. (See main feature.) Odeon, Worcester (11.40, 1.55, 4.10, 6.25, 8.40 Fri & Sun-Thurs) (1.55, 4.10, 6.25, 8.40 Sat). UCI Merry Hill 12.40,
Sorry, but I have to get it out of my system... cumarnnnnnnnnn! Yes we are there - the Warriors are in the Premiership. What a great day (and night) Saturday was. Honestly, it was really memorable. I saw a lady on Tuesday who was still recovering - no
WORCESTER City go into the weekend's Easter programme knowing it could be make or break for their hopes of a top three finish. Rivals Stafford Rangers and Nuneaton Borough are snapping at third-placed City's heels and, after back-to-back defeats, the
Ancient Mariner: The Englishman who Walked to the Arctic Ocean, by Ken McGoogan, (Bantam Press, £16.99) SAMUEL Hearne certainly wasn't someone who shirked a challenge. He could have had a comfortable life as a rural vicar in his West Country home town
Annabel: An Unconventional Life. The memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith (Widenfeld & Nicolson, £20) Annabel Goldsmith very quickly learned when she married her long time lover Sir James that in doing so, she created a vacancy... And it wasn't something
PHILIP Bushill-Matthews, Conservative member of the European Parliament, counters the claim by a previous correspondent that "Labour and the Conservatives have the same agenda on Europe". I would say that their agenda on our membership of the EU is very
THE House of Commons vote to approve variable tuition fees was achieved by arm-twisting and blackmail, using the threat of withdrawing the whole Education Bill if variable top-up fees were thrown out. It was yet another example of the way the House of
1804: The new edition of Dr Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language is now being published in monthly parts and weekly numbers, to be comprised of four volumes which will certainly be the most convenient, if not the most correct version that has
April 9: Worcester Rock 'n' Roll, featuring Phil Hayley and the Comments at Christopher Whitehead School, Worcester. Please bring your own drinks. For further details telephone Gerry on 01905 21313. April 9: Live singer 'Gemma' in Arches Lounge, Westside
April: Art Exhibition running at Art House, Huntingdon Hall. Lovely work available for viewing at any time and all the work is for sale. For further details telephone Judy Foulsham on 01905 426360 or Wayne Rogers on 01905 617161. Until Apr 7: Heart and
April 9: The Fever, The Marr's Bar, Worcester. April 10: Pazazz, Sketchley's Social Club, Worcester; Karl Stafford, Barbourne Ex-Services Club; Emma Louise, Heenan & Froude Social Club, Worcester; Diego Garcia, The Marr's Bar, Worcester. April 11:
EYE-CATCHING headlines rapidly drew my attention to a Berrow's Journal report of a century ago telling of high drama in a doctor's surgery. The edition for this week of 1904 carried these headlines: "Worcester Surgery Scene - Lunatic Stabs Himself." The
WORCESTER believe that Trevor Woodman is keen to come to Six-ways. The England prop, who will be out of contract at Glou-cester in the summer, is weighing up his options at present and has made it clear through third parties that he would like a move
Stourport is famous as the only British town to have come into being solely as a result of the canal system. What is not so well known is that the little town is surrounded by a cluster of small but important nature reserves which provide a glimpse of
SATURDAY WORCESTER AND DISTRICT LEAGUE Premier Division: Upton Town v Hallow WMC (P Harding); Langland Sports v Tolladine Sports (S Allbutt). Division One: Pershore Manor Rovers v All Blacks (B Nyatanga); West Malvern v Fernhill Heath Spurs (S Harness
FIRE has ravaged a block of flats in Callow End, Worcester, leaving around 30 people homeless at Easter and some of their pets dead. Miraculously, everyone was evacuated safely from the inferno at Wheatfield Court in the early hours of this morning. Residents
DRUG addicts have been blamed for a massive blaze that put the lives of firemen and residents at risk in Worcester. Firefighters were called to the old Labour Club building in New Street in the city centre at 11.15am yesterday. Four appliances and one
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after two unrelated attacks in Worcester. In the first incident a man walking down Newtown Road was asked by a stranger to hand over his MP3 player, and when he refused, he was assaulted but not seriously injured. The
A WILDLIFE pond is being built at a Worcester primary school as a community project by the Prince's Trust. The pond, which is 7ft by 12ft is being built by nine people aged 16 to 23, called Prince's Trust Team 68. They began the project at Dines Green
The boss of pub chain giant JD Wetherspoon, Tim Martin, has this week called for an Irish-style smoking ban in the UK. The latest statistics reveal only one in four Britons smoke and Mr Martin is calling for the Government to kick the habit into touch
A FORMER Japanese prisoner-of-war was reunited with his long-lost brother in Holland - after being spotted in a television documentary about the infamous Bridge over the River Kwai. Fred Seiker returned from Holland yesterday evening after seeing his
A MAN who was disqualified from driving was caught by police as he tried to dump an old photocopier in a van Worcester Magistrates Court heard. Gary Houghton was disqualified from driving for nine months in December, but was seen by police on Wednesday
A KIND-hearted teacher is overjoyed after a scheme she set up to help schoolchildren in Tanzania has already proved a success. Emma Brice, from St Peter's Primary School in Bromyard, set up the charity SEED (Secondary Education to Encourage Development
A MAN who has admitted common assault and grievous bodily harm, has had his case adjourned for a special hearing, so that magistrates can decide if he was provoked. Robert Deacon appeared before Worcester Magistrates Court after the incident, which took
A MARATHON runner is hoping to raise enough money for his teenage daughter, who has cerebral palsy, to swim with dolphins. Colin Turnbull ran his first London Marathon in 2001 for Scope, a charity aimed at raising awareness of, and supporting those with
WORK on the unfinished sports pavilion at Callow End, near Worcester, could soon start after the parish council agreed it had a moral responsibility to complete the work. The pavilion on the village playing fields had only one completed meeting room,
The General Medical Council has suspended a Hereford doctor for 12 months after he was convicted of possessing an indecent photograph of a girl under the age of 16. Dr Darryl Watts, a consultant adult psychiatrist, from Handley Cross House, was told by
GEOLOGISTS from across the nation will be converging on Ledbury next week as the area is recognised as one of Europe's most important geological landscapes. The official launch of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark - which covers 1,250 square miles
A WHOLE host of activities will be taking place at Bromsgrove's Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings over the Easter period. Special events will be taking place across the whole site on Easter Sunday, April 11 and Monday, April 12, including a craft
PEOPLE in Worcestershire taking a break abroad this Easter, are being warned to buy adequate insurance. Sainsbury's Bank Travel Insurance estimates that as many as 750,000 people will travel abroad without insurance this Easter, and it warns that many
A NEW agricultural chaplain for the Worcester diocese, the Rev Robert Barlow, is to be licensed by the Bishop of Worcester, the Rt Rev Dr Peter Selby. The event will take place at Worcester Livestock Market on Monday, April 19, at 7.30pm.
DJ Pin-Up, a former model, will be making a welcome return to a Worcester club when she plays at Caesar's, Westside, next Friday. Lisa is world famous among fans of her favourite dance genre, hard house, and is also a respected producer, who writes and
THE ninth Cheltenham International Jazz Festival will be bringing some of the hottest names in jazz to town, as well as providing a platform for some of the best new talent. Ranging from international legends to home-grown British stars, artists to hit
AS far back as 1997, we reported that the city council was striving to make Worcester a smoke-free zone by 2000. Clearly, it never happened. But that doesn't mean that it can't - and even the stoutest advocate of snout being puffed away in a public place
DIRECTOR of football Jan Molby faces several selection problems ahead of Kidderminster Harriers' crunch Nationwide League Division Three trip to bottom-of-the-table Carlisle United tomorrow. A number of key players, including leading scorer Dean Bennett
GRAHAM Turner has hailed his Hereford United side ahead of their biggest weekend of the season. The Edgar Street team go into a Bank Holiday double-header against Barnet and Aldershot Town with praise ringing in their ears from United's manager. "Our
NEWCOMER Nadeem Malik is in Worcestershire's side for their three-day friendly against Car-diff UCCE which starts at New Road tomorrow (11am). The young seamer signed a two-year deal in December. The match is part of a busy pre-season programme which
LEON Kelly is in a race against the clock to chalk up 20 league goals for the season. The Worcester City striker has just five games to reach his target, starting with tomorrow's clash at home to Chippenham Town. Kelly already has 16 goals but has set
Jigs & Reels: Short Stories by Joanne Harris (Doubleday, £15). THE widespread feeling that the short story is dead is obviously premature. Adding to a number of new collections being published this spring comes Harris' Jigs & Reels. For those
WITH reference to M Burcher's letter (You Say,Thursday, April 1) the word "Christ" does not mean "Cross" when translated. It comes from the Latin "Christus" and the great "Khuistar," meaning annointed one. ROBERT COPPINI, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire
HOW on earth did John Rostill, Chief Executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Evening News, Thursday, March 25) obtain his prestigious position if he is now "inviting the residents of Worcestershire to express their views over the way the
Until April 10: Joan Collins in Full Circle at Birmingham Hippodrome. Box office: 0870 730 1234. Until April 10: Charlotte's Web at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. Box office: 01242 572573. April 12-24: Saturday Night Fever at Birmingham Hippodrome. Box
THERE were yet more contradictory remarks from Mrs Large on the subject of hunting (You Say, Saturday, April 3). I was astounded to read her claim that she would not go within a mile of a hunt. On Boxing Day, 2003, at the Worcestershire Hunt meet, she
WE look back 200 years and more for the following selection of amusing or sorrowful tales reported by the Worcester Journal. The edition for this week of 1804 carried this fascinating item: "A singular instance of love at first sight occurred last week
Apr 9: The Magdalene Singers and Orchestra present Requiem by Gabriel Faure, at Saint George's Church, Barbourne, Worcester. Retiring collection in aid of St Richards Hospice. Apr 20-23: The Marriage of Figaro at Malvern Theatres. Box office: 01684 892277
THE war may have been over for nine years, but the Home Guard was still very much in existence at this time half-a-century ago, though there was mounting pressure for it to be given a new name and image. Berrow's Journal for this week of 1954 reported
