Stories for 13 March 2006
News
YOUNG people often receive a bad press these days. The biggest headlines are invariably devoted to an unrepresentative minority that persistently gives the two fingers to the rest of society.
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SIR - Your front page (Worcester News, March 6) shows a perfectly "sustainable" debating chamber.
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SIR - On Wednesday, March 1, I attended a production of Into The Wood at Christopher Whitehead Language College as a guest of one of their students, Brynley Jones. The show brought to the stage children's characters such as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella and combined them all into a new story.
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SIR - I have seen Tony Blair on the television saying God will be his judge about his decision on the Iraq War. Rather strange - I thought Parliament made the decision to go to war, based on the lies he told about weapons of mass destruction being ready to be deployed in 45 minutes.
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SIR - Congratulations, Marilyn Peachey (If I Ruled The World, Thursday, February 23). Your question "would you be a dictator, or a benevolent leader?" with its underlying premise that the two basic concepts cannot co-exist, has rankled me since the feature began. At last someone has challenged this premise. Marilyn's response was that she would be a benevolent dictator.
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SIR - I have no ambition, Miss Meadows (March 3) to "stand shoulder-to-shoulder" with Bob Geldof - I just wrote a few letters and won a few literary competitions. I have no direct connection with The George Cowley Experience Band, though its leader, Pete Unwin, aged 53, a lecturer at Worcester University, is now a good pal.
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SIR - The intention of David Cameron to cut `Punch-and-Judy' style politics does not seem to have filtered through to local Tories, given their recent condemnation of Mike Foster for taking a break with his family.
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SIR - There have been more bizarre comments by some of your readers regarding my politics. First, the quaint notion that I was a Tory voter - and all because I wished a plague on New Labour, Liberal Conservatives and the chaotic Lib-Dems.
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SIR - Why do the governments of the world do nothing about the drug problem? They can send aeroplanes loaded with bombs to bomb Iraq and Afghanistan, so why can't they spray the poppy fields with weedkiller?
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TENBURY people have slammed Malvern Hills District Council for closing the town's public conveniences in the face of overwhelming public opposition.
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THEY say the early bird catches the worm and this is certainly proving true for businessmen and women who attend the business breakfasts organised by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce.
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HANG on a minute, said the passers-by, those wedding "belles" looked real - and they were. Because for a day the gowns in the window of Cathedral Belles bridal shop in Worcester were modelled by real live girls.
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A LECTURER at the University of Worcester is hoping to carry on Jamie Oliver's transformation of children's eating habits by encouraging county caterers to continue the food revolution.
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A WORCESTER couple have found their dream holiday hideaway after starring in a television programme.
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A DEPRIVED Malvern estate has been given a £10,000 cash boost by housing and council chiefs as part of a project aimed at regenerating the area.
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About 40 guests who enjoy spicing up their lives helped to raise more than £500 for charity when they went along to the official opening of a restaurant near Worcester.
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THE wife of former Worcester-shire county cricket captain Phil Neale has received a special thank you for all her tireless charity work in helping cancer victims.
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BRITISH Red Cross chiefs have revealed detailed drawings for their new £1m environmentally-friendly regional headquarters in the city.
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HANDBAG hoarders are being urged to spring clean their collection and turn their unwanted accessories into lifesaving research and equipment for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
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THERE is massive opposition to the proposed parking scheme for the heavily congested Arboretum area of Worcester - and just one supporter, according to a new report.
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Youngsters from a city playgroup had a big push to raise money to pay for their equipment to be restored.
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CROCUSES in a memorial garden for breast cancer victims were in full bloom as council chiefs unveiled a plaque in their memory.
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A NEW "super" library for Worcester University right in the centre of the city is nearing reality now county council chiefs have endorsed the project.
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BLIND youngsters from the South African town of Worcester are to learn the best of British literature, thanks to the city's RNIB New College and Rotarians.
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A LUCKY retired Worcester doctor has driven a shiny new Honda Jazz off the garage forecourt for the sum of just £1.
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A YOUTH football team is being prevented from building much-needed community and sporting facilities - even though its proposed site is lying empty.
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LEAVING Foregate Street railway station the other day, my eyes beheld a truly mind-boggling sight. Just as I reached The Cross, three park-and-ride buses hove into view. Two were empty and the other contained a single passenger.
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THIS newspaper has never lost sight of the fact that the past holds a fascination for many readers. Memory Lane, the Nostalgia page and Flashback photographs have always sustained their appeal.
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YOU don't have to be a future Einstein to realise that the Government's management of the NHS has become a shambles.
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SPRING is not far away now and so the Severn's banks are alive with activity. Flocks of small birds perform impossibly acrobatic feats among the alders, while even the occasional mink can be observed skulking among the willow roots.
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AN independent Worcestershire delicatessen has been named top of the shops in a national contest.
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Sport
WORCESTER'S director of rugby John Brain was delighted with his side's emphatic win against Wasps in what he described as "one of the most important games since I have been here."
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
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DELIGHTED boss Andy Preece has issued a rallying call to Worcester City supporters ahead of tonight's re-arranged crunch clash against Moor Green (7.45).
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SATURDAY
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
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Friday, March 10, 2006
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WORCESTERSHIRE captain Vikram Solanki and his County team-mate Gareth Batty have been called up to England's one-day squad for the forthcoming series against India.
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THE University of Worcester basketball team defended their BUSA Championship crown in Sheffield over the weekend.
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GOAL-shy Kidderminster Harriers certainly did not like to be beside the seaside as Morecambe comfortably picked up all three points in the two sides' Nationwide Conference clash.
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DESPITE an heroic fightback which saw then recover from two-goals adrift after 55 minutes, Hereford's chance of promotion by winning the Nationwide Conference title seems to have gone.
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WORCESTER demolished one of the dominant forces in English rugby with a sensational performance on an unforgettable night at Sixways.
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WORCESTER'S director of rugby John Brain was delighted with his side's emphatic win against Wasps in what he described as "one of the most important games since I have been here."
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WORCESTERSHIRE captain Vikram Solanki and his County team-mate Gareth Batty have been called up to England's one-day squad for the forthcoming series against India.
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FROM villain to hero in a week, Mark Danks used his feet in more productive terms to put the boot into poor Barrow.
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DELIGHTED boss Andy Preece has issued a rallying call to Worcester City supporters ahead of tonight's re-arranged crunch clash against Moor Green (7.45).
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FIXTURES
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MIDLANDS TWO (WEST)
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