Stories for 14 October 2006

Latets

Seven arrested in one-day operation

SEVEN people were arrested during a one-day operation in Wythall called Operation Doughnut.  more...

Letters

Wheelie bins are big improvement on bags

SIR - What a totally inept argument against wheelie bins by Joyce Rose (Letters, October 3). Her argument against them is that they're just unsightly. What? More unsightly than the black bin liner, ripped open by the neighbourhood cats in their pursuit of a disgarded chicken carcase?  more...

Culling badgers just spreads TB

SIR - I'd like to draw readers' attention to new research which should finally bring an end to the continuing myth surrounding badgers and the spread of bovine TB.  more...

High jinks in the Old Palace Cellars

SIR - Mike Pryce's article about the Old Palace, Worcester rekindles for me memories of a party hosted by the Dean, Dr A W Davies, and his wife for boys of the voluntary choir.  more...

Recycling claims just don’t wash

SIR - I notice how we get a reminder regarding the council tax when it comes to a further increase. This time the excuse is to do with the collection of recycling and how we have not reached the target.  more...

Sandwich that cost a week's pension

SIR - We currently read that the record for the most expensive sandwich is held by The McDonald' sold by Selfridges, London at £85.  more...

Chrissies is such a wonderful school

SIR - The subject of Christopher Whitehead Language College and its supposed problems appear to be a regular topic in this paper. I would like to put forward a different view of the school which I know is shared by the majority of parents and pupils.  more...

Spread message

SIR - With reference to the report in the Worcester News that scientists have discovered a way of ensuring buttered toast is ejected butterside up 29 times out of 50, I must be a genius. Mine always fall right side up.  more...

Suffering of fish

showed poor taste (September 29) in making a flippant remark about the suffering of fish, which, as an angler, he helps inflict.  more...

Opinion

There is no need for firm to move on

A good compromise, they say, leaves everyone mad. But it is exactly such a compromise that is required in the current case of Worcester's super-library', which is pitting local government against a local business.  more...

Phillpot Files

It’s up to us to save the planet

THE jury's out on the wheelie bins. That's the only certainty at the moment - any talk about the success or otherwise of the scheme would be far too premature, to say the least.  more...

Royal approval for the good folk of Kempsey

*THERE are many interesting nooks and crannies to be found in Kempsey, Worcestershire's largest village.  more...

Get back in the car and out of my way, woman

HERE'S a classic scene that has probably been enacted ever since Izaak Walton became the first man to make the mistake of taking his wife on a fishing expedition.  more...

HERE’S a classic scene that has probably been enacted ever since Izaak Walton became the first

ON three occasions in as many months, I have almost been run over on pedestrian crossings.  more...

Come on, UKIP calm down now

NOT since the great Swan Theatre crisis letter-writing campaign has there been such a flurry of furious scribbling.  more...

The right tone

LAST weekend, I was drawn to College Green by the sound of Worcester Cathedral's bells.  more...

Change that name and ease those spirits

* IT'S such a pity that the Ketch is no longer trading under that name. Of course, the owners have every right to "re-brand" it as modern parlance would have it, yet I can't help think organisations rush to judgement occasionally.  more...

Round-Up

Priest’s vision of new hall has come to pass

ONE day in September 2004 Father Paul Fitzpatrick of St George's RC church in Worcester had a vision.  more...

Long lost recipe is bread and butter to the locals

ANOTHER long-forgotten Worcestershire dish has been resurrected by the Worcester News with the help of the residents of White Ladies Aston, near Pershore.  more...

Big increase in price of homes

HOUSE prices in Worcester increased last month at the quickest rate since June, according to figures that have just been released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).  more...

Fund-raiser Mark thrilled by result

A WORCESTER fund-raiser says he's delighted with the conservatory built at a charity care home with money he raised from his annual series of sponsored walks.  more...

Weight problems cause Neal concern

Matt Neal will be aiming to seal the British Touring Car Championship title at Silverstone tomorrow (Sunday) but he has worries over the weight of his Honda.  more...

Top award

AN artistic pupil has won a top award for her creative writing.  more...

Police issues

A PUBLIC meeting on policing issues will be held in Droitwich Spa on Thursday, October 19. The meeting will take place at the council chambers at St Richard's House from 7.30pm.  more...

Group meeting at village venue

A REDDITCH wildlife group is looking to get more people interested in conservation work.  more...

First school’s Ofsted praise

ASTWOOD Bank First School children receive a good all-round education, according to Ofsted.  more...

Storytelling and suspense

FUN and laughter awaits children at the Palace Theatre during half term this month.  more...

Roundup

New TV role for Philippa

A KIDDERMINSTER educated television presenter has quit the Midlands to host one of ITV's top regional news programmes.  more...

Businesses reap rewards

SIXTY companies should soon be reaping the rewards of specialist advice they received at the first Small Business Solutions Fair held at the Wyre Forest Comm-unity Housing Group offices.  more...

Pulling together in sponsor hunt

BRASS band players are pulling together in a search for £500 sponsorship to buy curtains to help soften the sound in their new home.  more...

Give blood

STOURPORT'S Civic Centre hosts a blood doning session on Wednesday between 1pm and 3.15pm and from 4.30pm to 7pm.  more...

River rescue boost

A FUN day at a Blakedown pub raised more than £700 for a River Severn rescue charity.  more...

Andy’s 79 mile mission

A KIDDERMINSTER fitness fanatic is on a mission to run the gruelling distance of three marathons in just one day, all in the name of charity.  more...

Running: Runs in the family

AMAZING Feet Running Club's mother and daughter duo of Marie Byrne and Cassie Belcher did themselves proud in Sunday's Kenilworth Half Marathon.  more...

Running: Runs in the family

AMAZING Feet Running Club's mother and daughter duo of Marie Byrne and Cassie Belcher did themselves proud in Sunday's Kenilworth Half Marathon.  more...

Westminster Column

Christ Moncrieff at Westminster

Lawyers, like vultures, their beaks dripping with blood, are already descending on the the new Act of Parliament designed to outlaw ageism.  more...