Stories for 24 September 2005

Leisure

Go where the wild things are

IT'S just a suburb of the city today, but Northwick was once the principal manor of the bishops of Worcester. The manor also held valuable property in the city, and had nine dependent rural manors, including Claines, Beverburn (now Barbourne) and Bevereye (Bevere).   more...

News

What's Spanish for get this huge cow off my foot?

IT'S a good job Sara Gutierrez-Ojanguren speaks English, because Henrietta the heifer's command of Spanish is not so great.   more...

Batty behaviour down in Purbeck

A STUDY of the UK's largest rare bat started this week.   more...

When the Raj was all the rage

FURTHER to Alan Cure, P R Addison and all the other correspondents, who regularly describe my views as somehow unpatriotic, In A Short History of the World, H G Wells said the following about the British people:   more...

The CO was left standing

JOHN Coldrick's reminiscence about the real life Home Guard (Letters, September 14) is surely deserving of inclusion in a television episode of Dad's Army. Here is another.   more...

Wheelies will carry on the cause of recycling

n I AM very pleased to read that Mary Billingham is one of our keen recyclers and uses the different coloured sacks to sort her waste (Letters, Wednesday, September 14).   more...

Dorrell heirloom out for railway's big date

This week in 1990:   more...

Owners ride to success in horse centre of excellence

THE owners of the Midland's newest equestrian centre say so many horses and riders are taking advantage of its facilities they hope to expand further.   more...

I'll eat these all myself

A CHOCOHOLIC is whetting her appetite for a mouthwatering challenge - tucking into a giant dish of tasty profiteroles.   more...

Book signing is a result for journalist

WORCESTER'S Radio Five Live sports journalist Chris Green was signing copies of his new football book Matchday at Worcester City's home game against Bemerton Heath Harle-quins today.   more...

Victorian houses will stay after all

PLANS to demolish two "exceedingly good late Victorian" town houses and replace them with flats and modern homes have been unanimously refused.   more...

Severn Days - John Phillpott

THE story sprawled across our columns like a stain across the page. Even in a world where one has become used to the myriad casual cruelties of the age, there was something about this grubby little tale that lowered the faithometer by several degrees.   more...

Ancient areas revealing their secrets

WORCESTER'S past is set to be unearthed as an expert comes to the city to give a talk on the recent archaeological works there.   more...

Seven Days - STRANGER ON THE SHORE

MOVES to merge West Mercia police with a neighbouring force are nothing to do with efficiency. The whole agenda is about regionalisation.   more...

Another bus laid on after demand rockets

ANOTHER Worcester Express bus is being laid on for the school run because the service has proved so popular in the first three weeks.   more...

Seven Days - END OF THE LOVE AFFAIR

SPEAKING of the EU, it rather looks as if its romance with the British trades unions movement is on the rocks.   more...

Parking near new homes will turn into a nightmare

A PARKING nightmare is in store for Worcester people in an area where planners have approved a revised plan for seven houses, a councillor has warned.   more...

Seven Days - WHOSE FINGERPRINTS?

THERE has been a climbdown by Worcester City Council over the closure of the Guildhall doors.   more...

High rent drove me out, says owner of city shop

ANOTHER two businesses have pulled out of a Worcester shopping centre because the rents demanded by its mysterious owner are too high.   more...

Seven Days - A SAD NEW CHAPTER

ONE of the Chapter Meadows noticeboards has been destroyed by vandals. All such acts are invariably depressing. But this case of petty arson was particularly so.   more...

We won't let a car park ruin cathedral

CITY councillors have moved to quash fears raised by MP Mike Foster that a multi-storey car park could soon dominate views of Worcester Cathedral.   more...

Farewell Richard, the greatest big brother in world

HUNDREDS of mourners packed Worcester Crem-atorium to pay their last respects to a Worcester teenager killed in a car crash.   more...

CAN YOU SPOT A SPEED CAMERA?

DRIVERS have been told to "stop complaining and talk to the families of speeding victims" after an irate driver unsuccessfully appealed aga-inst a fine in Worcester.   more...