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Bell backs the Taylor campaign
A CAPACITY crowd packed Kidderminster Town Hall last night to hear former BBC man Martin Bell urge support for Health Concern candidate Dr Richard Taylor. Wearing his trademark white suit, the independent parliamentary candidate voiced his support for
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Old man's savings drained by 'leeches'
A PENSIONER was cheated out of life savings of nearly £20,000 by bogus roof repair workmen, a court was told. Seventy-two years-old retired caretaker Eric Farrington was first told that the work on his home would cost only £12. But as the days went by
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Take a gander... farm park's open!
PEOPLE power has saved the animals at a Worcester farm park after the owners pledged to close it down. The popular park at Lower Wick looked set to shut after visitor numbers began to dwindle. John Bennett blamed this on the foot-and-mouth outbreak that
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26/5/01 - Foster fitness boost for Molby
MANAGER Jan Molby believes a fully fit Ian Foster will be like a new signing for Kidderminster Harriers next season. Front-runner Foster was dogged by hamstring trouble during Harriers first term in the Third Division and was restricted to just 16 appearances
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26/5/01 - Seconds slip to defeat
CENTURIES from James Pipe and Dominic Williamson could not prevent Worcestershire from a four-wicket defeat in their Second XI Championship clash with Yorkshire at Scarborough. The pair shared a fifth-wicket stand of 164 as the County declared their second
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Barrow eager for return to big time
SCOTT Barrow is determined to make it back to the big time next season with Worcester Rugby Club. The 20-year-old centre, who was out of contract when the season ended, has agreed to sign a new deal with the Sixways club in a bid to make it into rugby
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Foster fitness boost for Molby
MANAGER Jan Molby believes a fully fit Ian Foster will be like a new signing for Kidderminster Harriers next season. Front-runner Foster was dogged by hamstring trouble during Harriers first term in the Third Division and was restricted to just 16 appearances
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26/5/01 - Barrow eager for return to big time
SCOTT Barrow is determined to make it back to the big time next season with Worcester Rugby Club. The 20-year-old centre, who was out of contract when the season ended, has agreed to sign a new deal with the Sixways club in a bid to make it into rugby
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TV BLOW FOR MERCY CREWS
POPULAR TV hospital dramas like BBC's Casualty could be to blame for spiralling 999 calls to Worcestershire's ambulance service. Over the past 10 years emergency calls have shot up by a massive 84 per cent, ambulance bosses revealed. Now they are concerned
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26/5/01 - Barton has City transfer targets in his sights
WORCESTER City boss John Barton hopes to sign up to three players on his return from holiday next week. Speculation on the club's web site suggests that Burton Albion full-back, Allan Davies, could be one of the players. Barton refused to be drawn on
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Value of all life
I REFER to J Wood's letter (Evening News, May 16). If, as J Wood says, 97 per cent of farmers support barbaric sport of killing our wildlife with dogs, then can I just ask if they have they learnt nothing from the evils our animals face due to a lack
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Voting for the aged
AGE Concern urges older people to make full use of the new arrangements for postal and proxy voting. Voters can now get a postal vote for the General Election on demand, at any time up to 5pm on Tuesday, May 29, by asking at the Elections Office at their
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Cheap jibe at campaigner
I'LL bet H Ray and the rest of his/her "animal funsters" had a darn good laugh at the cheap jibe aimed at Anita Knittel, (You Say, May 15) referring to her as "A Woman of No Importance" over her views and endeavours to ban hunting with dogs. I know nothing
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What about Tories' failure list?
A NUMBER of correspondents criticise New Labour, yet strangely never compile a list of the last Conservative government's achievements. For example, they slashed the top rate of Income Tax. How did they fund the loss of revenue? Easy - by abolishing free
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Halt... at the station ahead
ANOTHER Memory Lane reader, Eric Price of Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, is offering confirmation that Henwick was a railway station, not a halt. Paul Thompson of Edgar Street, Worcester, was first to write suggesting that it was wrong of the Evening News
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Chorus of approval
AFTER my recent Memory Lane feature on the Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society, reader Granville Jackson was in touch with vivid memories of a night at the Theatre Royal, in 1931. As a boy of nine, he was up in "the Gods" of the Angel Street auditorium
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Fashion cash to help out hospice
A WORCESTER nightclub promoter hopes to make a fashion statement when a charity fund-raiser hits the dance floors. Tramps nightclub, in Angel Place, is organising a fashion show to raise cash for Acorns Children's Hospice's city project. On Wednesday,
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Warning over bank fraudsters
BUSINESSES in Worcester are being targeted again by crooks posing as high-ranking officials in the Nigerian government. The fraudsters write to businesses with elaborate stories of needing a "safe" bank account in this country to transfer vast sums of
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Invest some dream-time in Acorns
WHEN you spend your £1 on a line of Lottery numbers tonight, and again when you dream of what you'll do with the millions it might generate, it might be worth pausing. Heaven knows, there are thousands of charities which have benefited from the good causes
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Weston battles back to form
PHILIP Weston enjoyed a welcome return to form with his highest championship score for two years as Worcestershire made steady progress against Gloucestershire at Bristol. The tall left-handed opener hit a solid 83 after his side had won the toss, sharing
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Seconds slip to defeat
CENTURIES from James Pipe and Dominic Williamson could not prevent Worcestershire from a four-wicket defeat in their Second XI Championship clash with Yorkshire at Scarborough. The pair shared a fifth-wicket stand of 164 as the County declared their second
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Bickerton six strokes off the lead
JOHN Bickerton was six strokes off the lead going into today's second round of the Volvo PGA Championships at Wentworth. The 31-year-old, from Droit-wich, ended the first round at the West Course on a three under par 69, six behind leader Argentina's
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Injuries hit Herefordshire
HEREFORDSHIRE have suffered a double fitness blow ahead of their opening Minor Counties Championship Western Division clash with champions Dorset, which starts at Bournemouth tomorrow. Skipper Harshad Patel and batsman Rob Hughes have both failed fitness
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No rest this summer for Turner at United
HEREFORD United players may be enjoying a summer break but for director of football, Graham Turner, the work goes on. He is supervising alterations to the pitch, fixtures, contract negotiations and a pre-season training schedule. Turner has re-signed
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Barton has City transfer targets in his sights
WORCESTER City boss John Barton hopes to sign up to three players on his return from holiday next week. Speculation on the club's web site suggests that Burton Albion full-back, Allan Davies, could be one of the players. Barton refused to be drawn on
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26/5/01 - No rest this summer for Turner at United
HEREFORD United players may be enjoying a summer break but for director of football, Graham Turner, the work goes on. He is supervising alterations to the pitch, fixtures, contract negotiations and a pre-season training schedule. Turner has re-signed
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Enough's enough
THE only bright ray of light in the foot-and-mouth crisis was that we were spared the diatribes of Tim Pinney and others of his ilk. Now the crisis is abating he has resumed his vendetta against that humane, caring person Anita Knittel who fights for
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Such sadness
IT is with much sadness that I read about the demise of Worcester Carnival. Between 1978-1999 I was part of the 5th Halifax Boys Brigade and lately the Anchormen Drum & Bugle Corps.Many hundreds of young people from the Halifax area travelled down
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More than once issue
A REECE (You Say, May 19) claims the Countryside Alliance is a one-issue group with no interest other than to preserve hunting. Nothing is further from the truth. During the foot-and-mouth crisis the Alliance has been at the forefront in trying to halt
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Suddenly, it was all the fault of New Labour
UNLESS he practices astral travel, I'm not sure how Tim Pinney thinks he knows so definitely how prospective parliamentary candidate Mike Foster spends his working day. Mr Pinney complains that Mr Foster's work consists entirely of the Hunting with Hounds
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26/5/01 - Weston battles back to form
PHILIP Weston enjoyed a welcome return to form with his highest championship score for two years as Worcestershire made steady progress against Gloucestershire at Bristol. The tall left-handed opener hit a solid 83 after his side had won the toss, sharing
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Chris still on the track of steam
A TREAT for train buffs with a glimpse back to the twilight years of the Steam Age in Worcester - courtesy of Chris Wilkinson. His love of the giant puffing locos began as a schoolboy train spotter, and he was then able to indulge his passion for steam
