TORY MP Peter Luff will today begin taking evidence on how his proposals for a "middle way" on hunting can be resurrected. The Mid-Worcestershire MP wants hunting with dogs to continue under strict licensing. He argues it is a compromise between the outright
YOUNGSTERS can look forward to an "active" time ahead after a grant of almost £70,000 to provide after-school activities. Bromsgrove District Council is co-ordinating a partnership of local schools to set up and manage a new Active Learning Centre, based
A HEROIN user made a "trolley dash" for the doors of a Worcester supermarket laden with unpaid goods as part of a 10-month shoplifting spree. Jacqueline Burbridge's supermarket sweep ranged from clothes to tea bags. The mum-of-one admitted stealing five
PEOPLE interested in physical fitness and well-being may want to attend a fitness day at Nunnery Wood High School, in Spetchley Road, Worcester. The day, to be held on Saturday, July 7, is to demonstrate The Fitness League (TFL) exercise technique. Part-dance
WORCESTER workers from a national gas pipeline company stuck their oars in for charity at a rowing competition. The Transco staff joined oars with offices and depots in Birmingham and Wolverhampton to raise money for cerebral palsy sufferers. Drummer
STAFF from Offerton Farm Nursery held a raffle to help raise funds for Acorns' new children's hospice, despite disaster striking at their farm. The raffle took place on the site where the new Acorns Children's hospice is to be built. Nursery owner Sarah
VIOLENCE erupted in Yates's Wine Lodge in Kidderminster when three drunken men began attacking customers, Worcester Crown Court heard. Six people were injured, including three who needed hospital treatment, and a chair, table and glass were thrown, said
Thieves stole a Toyota Corolla car in a £4,400 haul from a Blakedown home. They also took a television and golf clubs during the raid at the house in Hackmans Gate off the Belbroughton road. They forced entry to the house through a rear bedroom window
A FINE 79 by trialist Steve Moore failed to save Worcestershire from an 88-run defeat in yesterday's Second Eleven Trophy clash against Hampshire at Southampton. Opening batsman Moore hit 11 fours off 114 balls before the County were dismissed for 169
WORCESTERSHIRE will be without injured Steve Rhodes, Paul Pollard and Matthew Rawnsley for tomorrow's Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy third round clash with Hertfordshire at Hertford. All three are continuing to receive treatment after missing Sunday's
WORCESTERSHIRE will be without injured Steve Rhodes, Paul Pollard and Matthew Rawnsley for tomorrow's Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy third round clash with Hertfordshire at Hertford. All three are continuing to receive treatment after missing Sunday's
A FINE 79 by trialist Steve Moore failed to save Worcestershire from an 88-run defeat in yesterday's Second Eleven Trophy clash against Hampshire at Southampton. Opening batsman Moore hit 11 fours off 114 balls before the County were dismissed for 169
WORCESTER Rugby Club are winning the battle to sign Fijian international Niki Little. The fly-half, who is out of contract after two seasons at Sale Sharks, looks set to snub offers from French clubs Dax and Biarritz to stay in England. The 24-year-old
WORCESTER City are set to unveil their new home and away strips later today. Carnival queen, Jenni Francis, will model the new-look City kit at a launch with manager, John Barton, at St George's Lane. Club players and officials will then take part in
JUST a year ago she was ready to give up the sport - now Worcester race walker Wendy Bennett has the Commonwealth Games in her sights. The mother-of-three has just made her England debut, finishing 15th in a world-class field over 20 kilometres at the
WORCESTER Rugby Club are winning the battle to sign Fijian international Niki Little. The fly-half, who is out of contract after two seasons at Sale Sharks, looks set to snub offers from French clubs Dax and Biarritz to stay in England. The 24-year-old
JOHN Brain believes he can find a winning team formula before Worcester Rugby Club go head to head with promotion rivals Rotherham just four weeks into the new season. The new Sixways chief, who was yesterday joined by assistant Stephen Townend, was pleased
WORCESTER City are set to unveil their new home and away strips later today. Carnival queen, Jenni Francis, will model the new-look City kit at a launch with manager, John Barton, at St George's Lane. Club players and officials will then take part in
A DOCTOR tells a male patient: "I'm very sorry, but you've only got three days to live. Is there anything I can do for you?" "Yes", replied the man. "Let me see another doctor". GEORGE COWLEY, Warndon, Worcester.
ALL the MPs who voted against capital punishment are responsible for the innocent victims of murderers convicted and released from derisory life sentences to murder again. There have been many such victims since a Labour government ended capital punishment
JANET Harvey, of house spider bite fame, graphically illustrates one of the main causes for long waiting times in A&E departments. And that is inappropriate visits to A&E with conditions that are neither serious accidents or serious medical conditions
ONE has to admire Mark Simpson's letter headed "The Tories will be back." There is something alluringly noble about fighting a lost cause. Mr Simpson obviously can't comprehend the profound loathing the people have for his party. Has the Tory party forgotten
INDEPENDENT butchers in Worcestershire and Herefordshire are being urged to enter the Excellence in Meat Awards. The Midlands heat, the largest of the regional competitions in British Meat's nationwide search for excellence in independent butchers, takes
BROMSGROVE civil engineering student Helen Bovey is all set for the trip of a lifetime to work on environmental projects in Belize, Central America. The 20-year-old will be spending 10 weeks in the country - including eight weeks on a Trekforce expedition
A REDUNDANT cider mill in Herefordshire is to become a showcase facility for the area's award-winning Wye Valley Brewery. Symonds' Cider Mill owner Peter Amor has bought the village centre property from Bulmers and will next month transfer brewing from
A £30,000 project to bar cars from a Worcester street is "embarrassingly" behind schedule due to a mystery hitch. Transponders have been installed in buses and emergency vehicles so that bollards buried at the mouth of Angel Place can be lowered remotely
FIRE crews had to smash their way into a Worcester optician's during the early hours today after a fire left a couple trapped. Ten firefighters wearing breathing apparatus broke into Spec Express after the pair, who were in their second-floor flat above
A MAN taking his first flight in a microlight aircraft died on Saturday, when it crashed just after take-off. Eamonn Hampsey a 41 year-old father-of-two of Cralves Mead, Tenbury Wells, was killed when the plane ploughed into a field at Nash, near Tenbury
A WORCESTER hotel owner devastated by the November floods has criticised the Environment Agency for ignoring mud banks forming along the River Severn. And he is concerned that rising silt levels on the riverbed will mean that the Severn will soon burst
A VILLAGE postmaster told detectives how he feared for his life after being threatened with a sawn-off shotgun by two masked raiders. Richard Watkins described how he tried to wrestle the gun from one of the men and then struck out with a lock knife after
FARMERS affected by the foot-and-mouth outbreak are being urged to record their experiences of the agricultural crisis to make sure they are not forgotten. Mid-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff has written to all farmers who contacted him during the crisis
A TIME-strapped beat bobby is answering rural policing worries with a new series of community surgeries in the Ledbury area. Residents living in Keith Eyles' 22 parishes can now quiz the busy PC about crime issues in their neighbourhoods on a one-to-one
TV celebrities and film stars will be turning up at a Worcestershire village fete this Friday evening. The event at Birlingham, near Pershore, will kick off with a children's fancy dress parade, with a "television and film characters" theme. Prizes will
HISTORY came alive at Witley Court when head gardener Richard Squires gave tours around the grounds and gardens. Included in the tour of the ruined Italianate 19th Century mansion were the Ornamental Walk and the remains of the Victorian parterres that
WHEN the sun reflects off the Severn on days like today, the floods of 2000 may seem a distant memory. But people like Severn View Hotel landlord Ian Johnston have very vivid daily reminders and even greater worries about what the remainder of 2001 has
JOHN Brain believes he can find a winning team formula before Worcester Rugby Club go head to head with promotion rivals Rotherham just four weeks into the new season. The new Sixways chief, who was yesterday joined by assistant Stephen Townend, was pleased
TEST spin-king Phil Tufnell and England one-day international batsman Owais Shah are set to play for Middlesex in their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy clash with Herefordshire at Luctonians tomorrow (10.45am). The duo have been included in the Lord's
ROGER Charlton has a fine strike-rate at Salisbury with a quarter of all his runners scoring at the track and he can enhance his fine record by taking the £20,000 Tote Trifecta Bibury Cup tomorrow with Arrive. The choicely-bred daughter of Kahyasi is
I WOULD like to reply to D E Margrett (You Say, June 20). If, after the extensive Press and TV coverage, he is still unaware of the London Mayoral elections and the Welsh Assembly leader election fiascos, both orchestrated by control freak Tony Blair's
TODAY'S picture was sent in by Mrs C Barker, of Astwood Road, Worcester, and goes back to 1964. It shows The Pheasant Skittle Team of that year. Back row, left to right: Connie Barker, Jess Sears, Sylvia Roberts, Lil Easthope, Rose Pengelly, Joyce Barrett
I COULD not agree more with recent letters regarding the two teenage girls who caused so much trouble to the caretaker and police as reported in the Evening News. I appreciate, to some extent, the difficulty for one of the girls' fathers, who stated that
MR D E Margrett (You Say, June 20) forgets - deliberately? - the survey last summer by the Japanese External Trade Relations Organisation which established that nearly 85 per cent of Japanese firms either don't want the UK in the euro or don't care either
PROPERTIES in Evesham are in demand, according to research by a top building society. They are selling twice as quickly as the national average - changing hands in just five weeks, compared to 11 - Bradford and Bingley has found. First-time buyers are
