PLACES for Worcester's Race for Life 2005 have been filled in record-breaking time, with more than 2,000 snapped up in just one week. Five thousand women and girls have signed up for the 5km event to raise funds to help Cancer Research UK find preventions
SECOND World War veterans will this weekend march through the streets of Worcester to the Cathedral to mark the 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe. On Sunday, members of the Royal British Legion will retread the route to the cenotaph they have followed
A PRIZED collection of teddy bears is set to go under the hammer in Malvern to raise cash for a fund set up in memory of two victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. John and Annie Hofton, of Wichenford, near Worcester, were holidaying in Khao Lak, Thailand
THE Conservatives took overall control of Worcestershire County Council by the narrowest of margins after it gained vital extra seats at the polls. The council had been 'hung' - no party having a majority - until yesterday's results gave the Tories 29
A MALVERN school is celebrating 75 years of going underground as it marks a special anniversary of a unique tunnel to improve road safety for pupils. Alice Baird, founder of St James's School in West Malvern Road, decided, back in 1930, that drastic measures
IT must be a remarkable experience to reach the age of 100. Take former teacher Richard Clay. Born in Hallow, near Worcester, he was nine when the First World War broke out, and 21 the year of the General Strike. In fact, he was no spring chicken when
ANDY Preece labelled warhorse John Snape a "shining example" to Worcester City's young players. Released midfielder Snape, 35, left St George's Lane in mid-week after three years of tough tackling and commitment to the Worcester cause. Player-boss Preece
JOHN Bickerton just missed the cut after the second round of the Telecom Italian Open in Milan. The Droitwich Golf Club member recorded his second succesive par round of 72, but he still fell one short of the cut-off mark. Yorkshire golfer Richard Finch
JOHN Trewick hailed Hereford United's away supporters as 'absolutely fantastic' for their efforts following the club. Around 1,400 fans made the trip to Stevenage on Bank Holiday Monday for the Nationwide Conference play-off semi-final first-leg. Supporters
CHRIS Horsman is expected to make his Worcester Warriors return in pre-season after undergoing a successful shoulder operation. Tighthead prop Horsman, 27, a key figure in Worcester's revival in the second-half season, missed the club's final four Zurich
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers' on-pitch plans should become clearer next week, despite the cloudy picture behind the scenes at Aggborough. A big power struggle is on the cards with club owner Lionel Newton's majority shareholding seemingly up for grabs this
Friday, May 6, 2005 ANDY Keast admitted it was a "game too far" for Worcester as their Heineken Cup hopes ended last night at Vicarage Road. The Warriors' head coach saw his side go down 28-10 at Saracens in the Zurich Premiership wild-card play-off clash
A HANDFUL of Worcestershire's younger squad members are poised to make their first-team bow tomorrow. The County begin a three-day university fixture against Loughborough UCCE, being held at Kidderminster CC, on Chester Road North, and several rookies
D E Margrett seems to think that I don't take the threat of international terrorism or domestic crime seriously (Letters, Monday, April 25) simply because I don't wish to live in a police state. I am aware of the attack on the twin towers. I am also aware
RECENTLY, Tony Blair initiated a cost-cutting offensive against people in receipt of Incapacity Benefit. He thinks that some sick people are whinging, skiving, hypochondriacs who scrounge off the taxpayers. On a recent Radio 4 programme, You and Yours
I TRAVELLED on the No 37 bus service on Wednesday as did a man carrying out a survey. Passengers thought that this bus route could be axed. This route includes one of the steepest hills in Worcester. If this is so, free travel is of no benefit whatsoever
WHOEVER coined the phrase "From little acorns mighty oaks do grow" certainly wasn't thinking of Malvern Spring Gardening Show, but they could have been. Because the green metaphor describes exactly the outstanding success of this springtime event on the
WHEN writing on country matters for this newspaper, you don't often come across the phrase 'chic to chic'. More like sheep to sheep or maybe chicken to chicken. But into the grand maelstrom of country life steps garden designer Lindsay Stanton from Bromsgrove
WORCESTER'S Muslim mayor has given the thumbs-up to disgraced former Kidderminster Harriers football star Lee Hughes over his decision to convert to Islam. The 29-year-old one-time Premiership striker - who is serving a six-year jail term for causing
A golf course is 'virtually unplayable' this weekend after vandals struck for the second time this year. They dug divots out of the lovingly manicured surfaces on the third, sixth and eighth at Tolladine Golf Club, in Worcester. Head greenkeeper Rob Shaw
POLICE are carrying out 'anniversary checks' at the scene of a serious sexual assault on a girl. The incident is believed to have occurred in the Briar Mill area of Droitwich some time between 9.15am and 10.45am on Thursday. Uniformed officers and detectives
AN extra 10,000 listeners have tuned their radios to BBC Hereford & Worcester in the last three months, independent research has shown. This means that 126,000 a week - about a quarter of the population of the total radio listeners in Hereford and
INTREPID Atlantic rower Richard Wood has been highly commended after being nominated for the prestigious Beacon Prize for his charitable achievements. Beacon is an initiative to raise the profile of philanthropy in the UK, awarding the Beacon Prize to
WE have halfwits turning residential streets into racetracks, 4X4 fanatics ploughing up woodland walks... and now river hooligans in powerboats. I saw one such inadequate on Sunday as I walked by the river on the way to Severn Stoke. The craft announced
THE Bishop of Worcester has called on a district council to show greater understanding for the plight of gipsies. Dr Peter Selby was referring to the case of the Romanies thrown off land they had bought on the outskirts of Eckington, near Pershore. Bishop
ANDY Keast admitted it was a "game too far" for Worcester as their Heineken Cup hopes ended last night at Vicarage Road. The Warriors' head coach saw his side go down 28-10 at Saracens in the Zurich Premiership wild-card play-off clash but was not too
A HANDFUL of Worcestershire's younger squad members are poised to make their first-team bow tomorrow. The County begin a three-day university fixture against Loughborough UCCE, being held at Kidderminster CC, on Chester Road North, and several rookies
HEREFORD must face another season in the Nationwide Conference after their play-off campaign ended in bitter disappointment for the second successive season. The Bulls again discovered that finishing second in the table is no guarantee of a passage even
ANDY Preece labelled warhorse John Snape a "shining example" to Worcester City's young players. Released midfielder Snape, 35, left St George's Lane in mid-week after three years of tough tackling and commitment to the Worcester cause. Player-boss Preece
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers' on-pitch plans should become clearer next week, despite the cloudy picture behind the scenes at Aggborough. A big power struggle is on the cards with club owner Lionel Newton's majority shareholding seemingly up for grabs this
CHRIS Horsman is expected to make his Worcester Warriors return in pre-season after undergoing a successful shoulder operation. Tighthead prop Horsman, 27, a key figure in Worcester's revival in the second-half season, missed the club's final four Zurich
Established and cultivated as a luxury vegetable even in Roman times, gardeners have long prided themselves on growing large fine sticks of asparagus. The Romans presented these velvety, purple-headed spears at their feast tables and it is hardly surprising
IF D E Margrett finds the replies to his frequent unsubstantiated views extolling the virtues of the EU "tiresome", he should except that other correspondents, with different views to his own biased thoughts, could just, occasionally, be right. After
I AGREE entirely that our first-past-the-post electoral system, which is similar to that in the USA, is rotten. We should adopt proportional representation similar to those they have in France and Germany and other well administered EU states. More than
THE Lib-Dem manifesto stated they would scrap council tax in favour of a local income tax. At first this sounded wonderful but on further consideration it became obvious that this was just another form of the old and hated poll tax. This local income
I NOTE with amazement the recent letters from Mark Starr and Nick Chance claiming that MEPs get an extra £2,000 per month if they write a few letters to newspapers extolling the virtues of the EU. This is just not true. I write letters to set the record
JUST who then is to blame for the rise in crime, Mr Cowley? How many years does it take a Labour Government to deal with the problems of crime? They've had eight years and people still do not feel safe, according to the Fear of Crime Survey. I feel sorry
I SUGGEST, N Taylor, that the money it would cost to change the city over to wheelie bins, would be better spent wiping out the MRSA bugs at our new hospital. I dread the thought of being admitted there. GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester.
"ONE day I was bringing in the cows to milk and the next day I shot them all dead. It was terrible. I never want to go through that again." These are the words of Philip Smith-Maxwell, of Phepson Manor Farm, Himbleton, as he recalled the foot-and-mouth
YOU won't find access to Lower Thrift Farm, near Whitbourne, marked on Ordnance Survey maps, so it's unlikely you'll meet other walkers. It's a Countryside Stewardship site, where the farmer receives payments in return for practising sound environmental
YOU won't find access to Lower Thrift Farm, near Whitbourne, marked on Ordnance Survey maps, so it's unlikely you'll meet other walkers. It's a Countryside Stewardship site, where the farmer receives payments in return for practising sound environmental
