Stories for 3 January 2006
Leisure
TONIGHT: Birmingham: Marriott Hotel - Lupa. Hibernian - Sleezon's Greetings. Symphony Hall - Tchaikovsky Gala. more...
News
A DEDICATED employee was so determined to hit his half-century at his place of work that he put his retirement on hold for two weeks. more...
AMAZING Amy has celebrated seeing in 2006 in remission from leukaemia, overcoming the odds. more...
THE final touches are being put to a bid to transform the face of Worcester's riverside. more...
AMBLING along in the winter sunshine, a shopping carrier in his gloved hand and listening perhaps to music through his earphones, this seemingly ordinary middle-aged man is David McGreavy, the evil monster who slaughtered three Worcester tots and impaled them on garden railings. more...
EXPRESS delivery giant TNT, which has a base at Hartlebury, near Kidderminster, has been recognised as one of the UK's most generous and caring companies, following its inclusion in a list of the country's most charitable businesses. more...
Unions are launching a campaign later today to encourage the UK's 28 million workers to check their hearing. more...
Company bosses have been told to be on their guard after figures showed that employee fraud has risen by 81 per cent in the last two years. more...
Entrepreneurs are starting the new year in a confident mood with 88 per cent expecting their business to be better off or remain the same during the coming 12 months. more...
Banks have beaten building societies to offer the best value mortgages during 2005. more...
Tony Billingham, president of the West Midlands Care Association, shakes hands with John Noott, president of the Registered Care Homes Association of Hereford and Worcester. The two groups struck a deal over Christmas which will make them one of Britain's biggest lobbying bodies on behalf of care and nursing services. more...
Our photographer Sarah Jeynes caught these swans getting in the act at Bewdley's duck race. more...
SIR At a time when Charles Kennedy is being strong-armed out of office by our American controlled national media for standing against the Iraq war, let's face some facts about our independent `democracy' in Britain. It's dead. more...
SIR Great news just before Christmas! Maggs Day Centre receives continuing funding from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. more...
SIR - In reply to C Penzer (Letters, Wednesday, December 21), his confusion is due to the previous correspondence on bus passes being incorrect. more...
SIR - John Shearon, (Letters, December 16) enquires whether the introduction of wheelie bins will help to reduce council tax. This correspondent's question is irrelevant. more...
SIR - The council hopes when the wheelie bins system is up and running it will save them thousands of pounds. more...
SIR I am writing to say thank you to Asda for kindly donating 270 Christmas hampers to Marie Curie Cancer Care. These were given out to 270 of the Marie Curie nurses who gave up their own family Christmas to make someone else's special. Our nurses care for cancer patients at home over the Christmas and new year period every year but it makes a huge difference to know that it is appreciated. more...
SIR - There are four attacks a week at Worcestershire Royal Hospital by drunken and drug-fuelled cretins. more...
SIR Regarding your leader (December 14) on attacks on hospital staff, I reckon anyone drunk or under the influence of drugs should be refused treatment until they have sobered up. That might teach them. more...
DAGGER-thin shafts of winter sunlight probed the scarlet curtains of the master bedroom of No 10 Downing Street, shimmering across the black satin sheets and casting into sharp relief the mysterious valleys of the First Lady's crimplene dressing gown. more...
Droitwich Ladies Circle raised £350 for St Richard's Hospice, Worcester, after holding a barn dance in the town. The hospice's director of fund-raising Marilyn Peachey thanked Janet Watson, Hazel Hawkes, chairman Leanne Day and Justine Cosson when they delivered the cash, to go towards the hospice new building near County Hall, Spetchley Road, Worcester. more...
THE Gillam Street murders sent a shockwave through Worcester that reverberates to this day. On Friday, April 13, 1973, David McGreavy committed a crime of unparallelled savagery when he murdered, then impaled, the bodies of three young children on the spiked railings of their home. more...
ELLA is just one more dog who has been left without a home over the Christmas period. more...
POLICE are warning people to keep a lookout for bottles of potentially hazardous medication lost in Kidderminster. more...
A NEW patient appointment system has been introduced to cut waiting times. more...
NEW bylaws regarding the regulation of acupuncture, tattooing, piercing, electrolysis and skin colouring could soon come into force in the Malvern Hills. more...
TOURISM staff in Worcester have stocked up on a new publication which is aimed at guiding visitors in the right direction to the city's attractions and accommodation. more...
A SCHEME to replace two farm buildings at a village near Droitwich are likely to get the thumbs-up from Wychavon councillors. more...
A FORMER huntswoman who turned saboteur has rubbished claims that a Worcestershire hunt was threatened by protesters who vowed to come back with guns and to burn down kennels. more...
CHRISTMAS comes but once a year and when it does it brings good cheer... and an awful lot of mobile phones. more...
SOME of society's most vulnerable women are being urged to make 2006 the year when they take hold of their lives. more...
A KIND-hearted film maker and a Worcester shop joined forces to raise more than £9,000 for a branch of the Air Ambulance. more...
THERE are still rumours that Carrie was expelled from school. Or that she left because she had become pregnant. more...
Sport
Monday, January 2, 2006 more...
MANAGER Andy Preece admits his Worcester City side must deliver Stafford-esque displays every week. more...
Monday, January 2, 2006 more...
ARCHDALES '73 recorded another impressive result, defeating county rivals Littleton 3-2 in Midland Combination Division One on Saturday. more...
MALVERN Town's 100 per cent Midland Alliance record at the Langland Stadium ended with a 2-0 defeat to Tipton Town yesterday. more...
STRUGGLING Evesham United slipped to a third Premier Division defeat in a row, falling 2-0 at Bath City. more...
A COMPETITIVE end-to-end derby saw Stourport Swifts and Bromsgrove Rovers share the points from a 1-1 draw at Walshes Meadow. more...
THE relegation trapdoor is looming closer for Kidderminster Harriers but Martin O'Connor tried to take the positives out of yesterday's 3-0 defeat at Altrincham. more...
HEREFORD United ended their festive period with five points from three matches after Guy Madjo's second-half equaliser earned visiting Forest Green Rovers a deserved point at Edgar Street yesterday. more...
ANDY Preece must wish Stafford Rangers are on the menu each and every week. more...
MANAGER Andy Preece admits his Worcester City side must deliver Stafford-esque displays every week. more...
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