Stories for 17 January 2006
News
A FURIOUS golf course manager has vowed to catch mindless vandals who wrecked a green on the grounds. more...
A RELATIVE of three children brutally murdered in Worcester has appealed for their killer never to be released - and has revealed the devastating impact of the crime on the family. more...
MORE people than ever called 999 and asked for paramedics across the two counties in December. more...
TWENTY-seven Worcester households were evicted in the last 12 months because they failed to pay their rent. more...
WEBBS of Wychbold has launched a recruitment campaign to increase its workforce by 94 staff as part of its £5m expansion. more...
THOUSANDS of workers in JobCentres and benefit offices are to stage a two-day strike in a row over job cuts, it was announced. more...
CHANNEL Tunnel operator Eurostar revealed that a surge in demand for business class tickets helped boost passenger numbers in 2005. more...
BIRMINGHAM kitchen equipment maker Aga Foodservice said success in selling its iconic cookers overseas helped itreturn a strong set of results. more...
Wage chasm more...
THE benefits of walking or cycling to school instead of travelling by car were spelled out to Worcester schoolchildren. more...
SIR - I write in response to Brian Hunt's recent letter headed "Threats to public are unacceptable." more...
SIR - To your recent correspondents, Jennifer Lloyd et al, I wholeheartedly agree that we all should be responsible for sorting our refuse into the requisite grades for recycling. more...
SIR - Jack Kinsman of Grimsby, (Letters, December 31), is quite right when he implies that Tony Blair waits to be told when to jump and how high. more...
SIR - As a recently retired West Mercia officer of 22 years' policing experience, I entirely agree entirely with everything Stanley D Parr says in his recent letter. Locally, we have already seen the shambles arising when many rural stations were closed and police section boundaries redefined. Police resources were moved to the centres of population, making police presence in the countryside largely a thing of the past. I vividly recall that the pleas of Upton-upon-Severn and Kempsey were ignored, reactive policing resources being concentrated on areas such as Worcester and Malvern. That, it now seems, was just the thin end of the wedge. more...
SIR - The city council's Worcester Waterfront Lottery bid is very welcome, not least because it includes many of the features of the Worcester H2OOO Millennium Lottery bid made by the last Lib Dem-led administration at County Hall. However, one aspect gives me cause for concern. Some of the Newport Street car park has already gone for housing. If the Croft Road car park is at last to be given over to riverside gardens, if the Cattle Market car park becomes a civic square, and if the Copenhagen Street car park is similarly beautified, it could entail a significant drop in revenue for the city council. Ironically, if this bid to improve the city is successful, Worcester citizens may be asked to accept a new multi-storey car park within sight of the Cathedral, just to make the sums add up. more...
SIR - I'm not surprised, Paul Denham (December 31) that the Tory-led city council voted against affordable housing in Brickfields. They probably want to build swanky hotels for their caviar-guzzling pals. more...
THE post-Christmas period is a bad time for debt. To a greater or lesser extent, most of us will have given those plastic cards a hammering during the festive period and will now - theoretically, at least - be paying the price. more...
EDNA Wilkes thinks she has the secret to living long - and she would know, having hit the 101 mark yesterday. more...
CONFUSION surrounding a stretch of riverbank on the River Severn, which collapsed last June, has hindered progress on it being repaired. more...
SMOKERS trying to kick the habit are being invited to get advice and support from a city pharmacy. more...
A FUND-raising healthy eating evening is being organised at Droitwich's Waitrose store, thanks to the county's Businesswoman of the Year. more...
THREE young people in Worcester have moved in to brand-new homes thanks to a partnership between Worcester City Council and a housing group. more...
A WOMAN who has always been a keen recycler says she is furious that her green wheelie bin for recyclable waste was not emptied when the dustcart came round. more...
THE man who worked "eight days a week" transforming the "posh" Worcester Three Choirs Festival into something that could be enjoyed by everyone has stepped down. more...
FURIOUS residents of Warndon, Worcester, have rallied in support of a couple suspended from running a community centre amid bullying allegations. more...
THE idea of a public forum for people living in Worcester - so that people can question local authority leaders and police chiefs - is being proposed by council bosses. more...
THE motorist killed after his car left the road and crashed into a tree has been named as 32-year-old Aaron Booth, of Clevelode Road in Guarlford, near Malvern. more...
REALITY TV programmes such as Channel Four's Big Brother and The X-Factor on ITV are breeding a generation of schoolchildren who think that becoming famous is more important than any other ambition. more...
Sport
GRAHAM Hyde is expected to miss Worcester City's next two crucial Nationwide North fixtures following his latest setback. more...
ADAM Knight bagged four tries for Hereford as they racked up an astonishing 80-0 victory at Pershore on Saturday. more...
EVESHAM United will leap three places in the Southern League Premier Division if they pick up a point at Grantham Town tonight (7.45). more...
SOCCER: Hereford United's reward for dumping Halifax Town out of the FA Trophy is a third round home tie against holders Grays Athletic on February 4. more...
THE Midlands were held to two draws in their Under 16 Division Festival matches. more...
WORCESTER badminton ace Simon Archer says he is "95 per cent certain" this week's Yonex All England Championship at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham will be his last. more...
REACHING the final of the National Trophy is the biggest achievement in Worcester Wolves' history, according to director of basketball Mick Donovan. more...
GRAHAM Hyde is expected to miss Worcester City's next two crucial Nationwide North fixtures following his latest setback. more...
PHIL Murphy is set to return for Worcester's vital European Challenge Cup match at Montpellier on Friday night. more...
REACHING the final of the National Trophy is the biggest achievement in Worcester Wolves' history, according to director of basketball Mick Donovan. more...
IT was a brave move by Andy Preece to pin his faith in youth at Crawley -- but a correct move nonetheless. more...
PHIL Murphy is set to return for Worcester's vital European Challenge Cup match at Montpellier on Friday night. more...
