MOURNERS due to pay their respects at a Wor-cester man's funeral could be the vital link in catching the dealer who gave him the drugs suspected of killing him, it has been claimed. A woman who contacted the Evening News, but did not want her identity
AN employee who stole £34,000 from the doctors' practice where she had worked for 13 years has been jailed for nine months. Dorothy Hewitt, deputy manager at the Abbotswood surgery in Pershore, used the cash to pay household bills and credit card debts
A WORCESTER garage owner has rallied to victory in a classic European race. Steve Wilson and navigator Nigel Smeal fought through ice, blizzards and freezing fog high in the Alps to arrive in Cannes on Thursday to clinch the top spot in their class. The
AN olive branch could be offered to protesters upset at plans to impose traffic calming near their Worcester homes. The city council angered residents before Christmas with its proposals to include Red Hill Primary School in the Safer Routes to School
THE Worcestershire Football Association is about to get its second full-time official. The association made history last month when Mervyn Leggett took over as full-time secretary -- the first such post post in its 108-year history. Now they are looking
WORCESTER Athletic Clubs men's cross-country team continued their good performances in the Birmingham Cross Country League, Division Three in the third match of the season at Sparkhill, Birmingham. The first Worcester athlete to complete the 10K course
THE word sport must be dropped from all forms of hunting with dogs. To me, a sport is when the opposing sides are of equal number. JOAN SHOVELTON, Malvern.
BELL MP in Bruno sights (Evening News, January 12). Former boxer Frank Bruno said he may stand for Parliament at the next election. Is this one of his jokes out of Goldilocks, the pantomime that he is now appearing in? Frank, you're just one big laugh
IN Tony Blair's own words, the first two years of his government stayed with Tory policies. This allowed New Labour to languish in the inherited stable economy, and take stock on what to sell, or where to impose windfall and stealth taxes, thereby filling
AS a non-driver and a vegetarian, I would say that people who chase a little fox or any animal to its death are committing a very barbaric deed. I will never understand the cruelty of Mankind. Mike Foster is only doing what the majority of decent, God-fearing
IN March, Gordon Brown will try to bribe us with our own money, accrued by taking more in tax than he has spent, to try to secure the next election. Meanwhile his "hired assassins" at county hall will impose on the people of this county a tax increase
HOW dependent we have become on your paper and other media channels to create a debate on what is happening in Worcestershire in local government and health provision. Since the county council has virtually abolished itself at the behest of Tony Blair
A WOMAN was spotted by police with "her trousers and pants around her ankles" as she urinated in public - yards from the toilets in Worcester's Angel Place. Magistrates heard yesterday how Marie Davidson was spotted by officers as they patrolled the city
PEOPLE living in a Worcester street claim they "smell a rat" after BT Cellnet said it had "no record" of wanting to put a mast near their homes - despite being alerted to the proposal by council chiefs. Families in Medway Road, Ronkswood, formed an action
ROMAN Catholic priests in Worcestershire are being vetted to weed out perverts and thugs. The move comes as the Diocese of Birmingham, which covers the county, tries to clean up the Church's image. All 350 priests in the diocese have been asked to agree
A DEAF woman was robbed by masked attackers in Hereford, hours before another female was struck in the face for her cash. The deaf woman was pounced on by three masked youths as she walked along the footpath between the swimming bath in St Martin's and
ANGRY residents campaigning to save Droitwich Lido were today due to launch a petition to force Wychavon District Council into a funding U-turn. Graham Gopsill compared protesters' cause to the fight against downgrading Kidderminster Hospital. He said
CHERRY Orchard, Warndon Villages, St John's are three areas of Worcester with one thing in common - last year, residents in each of them protested about plans for mobile phone masts to go up close to their homes. Residents in Ronkswood have spent the
JAN Molby is looking on newcomer Daire Doyle as a player with the kind of star qualities capable of making him a dazz-ling success with Kidderminster Harriers. "He's most definitely one for the future," said the Aggborough boss, who snapped up the talented
Greg Rusedski continued to ride the crest of a wave today at the Australian Open in Melbourne. He demolished German Lars Burgsmuller to join fellow Briton Tim Henman in the last 16. In one of the most one-sided matches of the championship so far, Rusedski
WORCESTER Wolves player-coach Rick Solvason is confident his side can now go on and lift the National Basketball League Division Three title. The Wolves moved into joint first place after beating former outright leaders Bristol last week, and should pick
The new-look Nick Faldo was today aiming to take another step towards a first European Tour win for more than six years at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. Buoyed by a new, easy-going attitude, Faldo carded a flawless second-round 65 at
Guyana captain Carl Hooper may have quelled the rumours surrounding his appointment as the next West Indies captain but he failed to stem the flow of runs coming from England A batsman Ian Ward on the first day of the third round Busta Cup match in Grenada
TODAY'S National One clash between leaders Worcester Rugby Club and Henley Hawks definitely goes ahead after groundsmen worked around the clock to beat the frost. The Sixways' groundstaff have used hot-air blowers on the turf and also covered the pitch
Skymen have won a place in the Worcestershire Basketball League's Gettings Cup final after cruising to victory over city rivals Orillo 55-45. Skymen's disciplined set-plays drew their hosts' defenders out time and again to gift forwards Martin Gallagher
ADRIAN Skeggs is backing Cameron Mather to carve out a regular place in the Worcester Rugby Club line-up after the Scottish international won his place back in the first team. Mather started just his second game since October today against Henley Hawks
WORCESTER City boss John Barton has hit out at the lack of reserve team soccer that has affected his recent planning. Thanks to the weather and several other factors, City have played just one match in the Central Conference in the last two months - a
FURTHER to the recent letters published in your newspaper, I have investigated the history surrounding the Worcester Girls' Grammar School and can confirm that the "Girls Secondary School" changed its name to the "Girls Grammar School" starting from the
I DON'T know if James Jackson is nave or misled when he accused the parish of St John's, Kidderminster, of being intolerant towards gay priests (You Say, January 5). These so-called Christians are described as such because they follow Christ. Unfortunately
HEREFORD United Director of Football Graham Turner remains optimistic that there will be two promotion places up for grabs in the Nationwide Conference from next season. Turner is a member of a five-man pressure group of Conference club chairmen, who
MANY a black comedy joke about people falling into vats of beer has been cracked on the stage down the years, but just such a tragedy actually happened at a Worcester pub nearly a century ago. While stirring a popular home brew at the Cross Keys tavern
