NIGEL Clough's Burton Albion hung on to a point as they held Kidderminster Harriers in a Nationwide Conference stalemate at Aggborough. Harriers were hoping to extend their unbeaten Conference run to five games against third-placed Albion to maintain
WORCESTER City boss Andy Preece insists his side's dream of making the Nationwide North play-offs is not yet dead. Friday's impressive 3-0 defeat of Barrow has renewed confidence at St George's Lane, but Preece knows there is no margin for error left
IT has been confirmed that Kidderminster Harriers' FA Trophy final clash with Steve-nage Borough will take place at the new Wembley stadium. Uncertainty had surrounded the location for the Saturday, May 12 final, but the FA have announced that both the
WORCESTER'S Saracens wrapped up their West Midlands Regional Netball League season with a 41-32 win away at Walsall-based side Yendys. With two players unavailable for this game, the Worcester team made a couple of changes from their usual starting line-up
THE title race took another twist in Divsion One of the Birdseye Sports Evesham Sunday League as champions Ambassador crashed to a three-goal defeat at second-placed Upton Snodsbury. Zujovic bagged a brace and Spencer was also on target to give Upton
LITTLETON and Tenbury United contest the Worcestershire FA Saturday Junior Cup final at Worcester City's St George's Lane Ground tonight (Wednesday 7.30pm). It will be Midland Combination side Littleton's third appearance in the final and they will be
A GOLDEN goal from Nathan Hobday gave Oldbury Park victory in the RGS Shield for primary schools. A 1-0 win against Perdiswell secured success in the six-a-side competition after they battled it out with 11 other teams at Flagge Meadow - the Royal Grammar
Two British tourists trampled to death by an elephant in Zimbabwe have been named as mother and daughter Veronica and Charlotte Parker. Mrs Parker, 47, and her 10-year-old daughter were killed when they were charged by a bull elephant during a walking
HUNDREDS of people from across the county gathered in Worcester Cathedral for a special ceremony on the history of the slave trade. Students from Bishop Perowne High School, Merriman's Hill Road, Worcester, played African drums during the service organised
THE dangers of mixing drugs with alcohol have been highlighted by a coroner following the death of a Worcester man. Worcestershire coroner Victor Round made the warning during an inquest into the death of Colin Manton. The 33-year-old had a history of
A WORCESTER man has been fined £3,000 after admitting two charges of operating an illegal waste management business in Worcestershire. Donald Box - who featured in the Worcester News in January after placing a skip on top of his car to advertise his
AN impassioned plea to save Malvern's outdoor education centre landed a 12-year-old Worcestershire schoolgirl a slot on prime-time TV. The BBC was so impressed with Charlotte Powell, who wrote protesting at the threatened closure, she was asked to take
YOUNG swimmers have risen to the challenge and raised more than £1,700 for charity. Worcester Swimming Club took part in the Severn Swim, a sponsored event in which they swam the length of the river Severn, and raised cash for international charity Wateraid
UP to 20 hospital staff in Worcestershire face an uncertain future after it was announced their jobs are being outsourced to Southampton and Portsmouth. Certain Worcester-based finance roles at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, such as creditor
DAVIDSON Peter Passed away suddenly at home on March 21st, 2007, aged 67 years. A beloved husband of Alwyn Mo and he will be dearly missed by all the Family. Funeral Service to take place at Worcester Crematorium on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 3 p.m
CHATER Clement Arthur Former employee of Royal Worcester Porcelain. Passed away peacefully at home after a long illness, on March 22nd, 2007, aged 83 years. Beloved husband of the late Joyce, much loved father of Nigel and Paul and their respective partners
BURTON Anthony John Tony Of Shrubhill Fabrication,after a brave fight against Cancer on March 24th, 2007, aged 61 years. Much loved husband of Joan, beloved father of Trudy and Darren, father in law to Neil and a proud grandad to Danny, Reece, James and
JONES Ann nee Roden Of Droitwich. Peacefully on March 25th, 2007, aged 79 years. Beloved wife of Gerald, dear mother of Andrew, Christopher and Peter and a much loved mother in law, grandmother and sister. Cremation private. Service of Remembrance at
ORGEE Frederick James Passed away on March 18th, 2007, aged 58 years. Dearly loved son of Fred and Stella and brother to Edgar, Alan and Pauline. Goodnight.God bless. We will alwayslove you. Funeral service at Worcester Crematorium on Friday, March 30that
COX Ivor Passed away on March 21st, 2007, after a short illness, aged 78 years. Beloved husband of Brenda, dearly loved father of David and father in law to Pat, much loved grandad of Becki, Vicki, Michael and Lee. Will be sadly missed by Family and Friends
WENMAN Peter Beloved husband of Jacqui and father of Nick and Paul, died peacefully at home after a long illness on March 22nd, 2007. A memorial service will be hald at St Peter's Church, Martley on Friday, March 30th at 1 p.m. Family flowers only please
WILLIAMS John Frederick Of Longley Green, Suckley, aged 86 years. Beloved and devoted husband of Rosamund, father to Stephen, father in law to Beverley, caring and loving grandad toSimon and Stephanie. He will be sadly missed. The funeral service will
LEIGHTON Ted Of Hanley Swan. Peacefully at home on March 23rd,aged 81 years. Darling husband of Ivy, father of Len and the late Linda, step dad to Betty, David, Pam and Anne, grandad and great grandad. The funeral service will take place at St Gabriel's
JONES GRAHAM Passed away on Saturday, March 24th, 2007, with great dignity after an illness courageously borne, aged 53 years. A much loved husband to Sue, devoted father to Jeremy and Kevin and father in law to Ali and Sara. We will miss you greatly.
CARSON-BROWN Paul Stuart Of Droitwich, peacefully at home on March 24th, 2007, aged 56 years. Beloved husband of Sylvia, dear father of Kelly, Carl, Brett and Sean and loving brother of Daphne, Lyn and Rachael. Funeral service at Worcester Crematorium
WALKER Kathleen Passed away on March 20th 2007, aged 90 years. A much loved mother, grandmother and sister. She will be sadly missed. Funeral service will take place at Worcester Crematorium on Monday, April 2ndat 3.30 p.m. Family flowers only please.
BOURNE Lilian MayNan Of Droitwich, peacefully after a short illness on March 22nd, 2007, aged 92 years. Widow of Tom, dear mother of Sheila and the late Marion and much loved nanof Christopher. Funeral service atSt Nicholas Church, Droitwich on Monday
JONES Ian and Annette Congratulations on the safe arrival of Edwin Alexander, born March 13th 2007. A brother for Aidan and Calum. Love from Mum and Dad Jones and all the Family.x Published in paper 27/03/2007
BAGGUS Len Treasured memories of a special dad and grandad. Passed away four years today. Your smile has gone forever,And your hand we cannot touch. We have so many memories, Of our dad we loved so much. God bless. Karen, Pauline, Martyn, Steve, Dan,
BRIDGE Jessie May Treasured memories of a dear mum and nan. Passed away March 27th, 1975 Always near. Maureen, Fred and Stephen Published in paper 27/03/2007
A THIEF who found himself stuck for a lift home stole an 84-year-old woman's car from outside a doctor's surgery. Mark Spragg admitted stealing the Nissan Micra from outside the Malvern Health Centre in Victoria Park Road. Appearing at Worcester Magistrates
HEALTHY pupils have been munching their way through a mound of fruit and vegetables to raise £677 for St Richard's Hospice. Youngsters from Kempsey Primary School, in Kempsey, near Worcester, took part in the hospice fund-raising initiative by being
STAFF at two Worcester sports centres are trained and ready to use new life-saving equipment - thanks to training by county ambulance officers. Nunnery Wood and St John's sports centres have been presented with portable defibrillators, which can be used
SIR - Regarding the river Severn flooding (Worcester News, March 7) - why not get the diggers out and re-divert the Severn back into Wales - that's where it originates. GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester.
A NEW £5 million hotel development is set to put the spa back into Malvern. Colwall developer John Williams is set to build the 34-bedroom complex, featuring indoor and outdoor swimming pools and world class spa-facilities, at Grovewood Road, off Townsend
SIR - Regarding the question of McGreavy's release. As a life long resident of Worcester and the father of seven children, it is my opinion that he should remain in jail until his death. A lot has been made of the fact that he has served 34 years in
SIR - Have you been affected by cancer and had trouble getting travel insurance? If so, Macmillan Cancer Support would like to hear from you. Perhaps you have been quoted a very high premium? Or maybe you were refused travel insurance outright? Were
HAIR stylist Nick Long is swapping his comb and scissors for a microphone and jetting off to sunny Spain for the start of a new career in showbusiness. Mr Long, who runs Pershore hairdressing salon Colours, has snapped up the chance of a lifetime by
HUNDREDS of shoppers added their names to a petition against NHS cuts in Worcestershire. Worcester's Conservative parliamentary candidate Robin Walker had stalls in the city centre and Barbourne on Saturday to call for an end to government interference
SIR - Brown and Blair have trodden on their own feet with their policy of education, education, education. Now many more people are sufficiently educated to see through their watery plan to con the country with the 2p off the basic rate of income tax
THE clocks may have gone forward for most people at the weekend, but for hundreds of visitors to a Worcester museum they went back - all the way to 1746. Tudor House in Friar Street held an 18th century theme day on Saturday which organisers hailed
SCHOOLCHILDREN from south Worcestershire teamed up to sell the fruits of their labours as part of a national enterprise scheme. Schools including Droitwich Spa High, the King's School, Worcester and the Chase at Malvern, gathered for an annual trade
A WORCESTER shopping centre was filled with the sound of music in a bid to raise money for charity. Shoppers walking through CrownGate Shopping Centre's Bell Square watched as the Worcester Volcano Community Choir joined Marie Curie Cancer Care volunteers
THE PEOPLE of Worcester may not be told if notorious child killer David McGreavy has been allowed out of prison. The Home Office has refused to comment on reports that McGreavy, who killed three young children and impaled their bodies on railings behind
SIR - I read with interest the Worcester News headline about scrapping section 106 agreements (Worcester News, March 14). This can only be a positive step, certainly for the Christopher Whitehead Languages College site. These sweeteners or inducements
A RED-carpet Oscar-style ceremony has been held to award staff at a Worcestershire garden centre. The WAFTAs - or Webbs Awards For Training Achieve-ments - was a celebration of staff and their hard work over the last year. The centre was recently crowned
PRIMARY school children showed off their dance moves at a festival led by dance prefects' at Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College. After a rigorous We Love to Boogie warm-up, Blessed Edwards students performed a Grease medley, taken from their recent
Abberley Hall School pupils showed off their talents in West Side Story - the school's most ambitious production to date. A cast of children aged up to 13 were backed by a professional orchestra to perform the classic love story at the school, near Great
A GROUP of enterprising students from a Worcester private school are off to Bucharest to represent Young Enterprise at an annual European Student Travel Fair. The group of seven students from the King's School, who formed Young Enterprise company Vision
ON March 16, the latest in the Beryl Chempin Piano series was held at Kidderminster Library, and featured Jill Slater and Alan Woodfield. Each of the artists played solos - Jill included Scarlatti sonatas in C major and C minor, Schubert's sonata in
Members and visitors were welcomed to our well-attended March meeting by Shirley Miles. Attention was drawn to the county campaign and debate day, when, apart from learning more from Dr Richard Taylor MP about the resolution deploring the closure of
Standing-in for president Patricia Ash who is away in Australia to celebrate her golden wedding with her family, vice-president Alison Reynolds welcomed all to the March meeting, including a new member. She reported on an interesting visit in February
THE following is extracted from minutes of the meeting of the council held in February. District Councillor Hannah Doyle reported that Malvern Hills District Council was actively looking at climate change and had completed its round of budget consultation
IT'S 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a time when most pupils in Worcestershire are on their way home. But a group of children is sitting round tables, eagerly typing to finish a project that has kept them enthralled for an hour. These children have been
TRY as I might, I have not seen anything in the papers about Bridging The Gap at Warndon Community Centre this week. Youngsters from the centre and residents of Brookthorpe sheltered housing scheme put on a play to show how young and old can get on together
THOUSANDS of Worcestershire children could now be entitled to free school bus travel thanks to a change in Government policy. As part of a national drive to reduce car use, cut pollution and improve pupils' health, the Government has told Worcestershire
SIR - Has anyone else noticed the big increase recently in bus traffic in the residential Battenhall area of Worcester? The new service to replace the Bromyard bus has arrived with a lot of bus stop signs and a new timetable. It tries to drive along
Anyone who remembers what Worcester's High Street used to look like will agree that it badly needed a revamp. The surface was starting to look tired and tatty, with bumpy block paving that would have looked shabby on someone's patio, let alone one of
STAFF and governors at a Worcester high school are still anxiously awaiting the results of a Government inspection. Elgar Technology College has still not received the final version of its most recent Ofsted report. Until it does, education bosses are
THE family of a Malvern teenager found hanging dead in his prison cell believe he had been the victim of bullying. Father-of-three Christopher Johnson was discovered at HM Young Offenders Institution Brinsford, near Wolverhampton, on Friday evening.
PAVING stones in Worcester's High Street have had to be re-laid after cracks began to appear. The £1.3 million project to refurbish the city's main shopping street has been dogged with problems since it began in May 2004. Now a section of the attractive
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers will be without both their captain and top-scorer for tomorrow night's visit of Burton Albion in the Nationwide Conference (7.45pm). Aggborough skipper Stuart Whitehead was dissmissed late on in Saturday's 1-1 draw at St Albans
AN area of wasteland in Worcester is being transformed into a little corner of peace and tranquillity. A small patch of land behind the Tolly Centre, Rowan Avenue, Tolladine, will soon be opened to community centre visitors. Work on the £4,500 community
