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Mystery disease is crippling young mums
MYSTERY surrounds a condition dubbed "The Worcester Disease" which is leaving expectant mothers in excruciating pain during pregnancy. According to some midwives, up to one in 32 mums-to-be are being disabled by Symphosis Pubic Dysfunction, a softening
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Moves to ease hospital parking crisis
MOVES to ease the parking crisis at Worcester's new state-of-the-art hospital have started. Libby Mellor, head of corporate affairs at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, told the Community Health Council that work had already began to create a
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Arnhem veteran dies
THE funeral of one of the veterans of the Battle of Arnhem was due to take place today. The military funeral was celebrating Donald Sallis' contribution to the ill-fated massive airborne operation during the Second World War. He was one of the last surviving
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Rhinos caught up in fire drama
KEEPERS at the West Midland Safari Park had to move rhinos from their enclosure after a blaze broke out during visiting hours. The fire started on land next to the African reserve at the park, near Bewdley, on Sunday. Trees and wooden fencing at the rhino
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Postman who hoarded mail facing prison
A POSTMAN who hoarded post in his bedroom faces being sent to jail. Jonathan Akers, aged 42, of Burcot Lane, Bromsgrove, pleaded guilty to two charges of interfering with mail. He denied two charges of stealing mail, which the Crown Prosecution Service
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Dog left with note - 'put him to sleep'
A DOG who was tied to the gate of an animal rescue shelter with a note saying "put him to sleep, he's no good to anyone" needs a new home. Staff at the Worcester Animal Rescue Shelter, on Hawthorn Lane, Deblins Green, found Spud, a mongrel, tethered to
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Sandwich bar fracas ends in courtroom
A TEENAGER hurled a drink over a man's sandwiches when he refused to hand over his cash in an Evesham snack bar. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and his accomplice, 21-year-old Barrie Forrester, then pinned the man up against the
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Threat to 'character of Diglis'
THE much-loved character and heritage of Worcester's Diglis Basin will be lost under the proposed multi-million pound development claims a city woman. Julia Hones, whose boat is moored at the basin, claims the traditional character enjoyed by thousands
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Burglars pose as water officials
TWO men have carried out burglaries in Herefordshire by pretending they need to turn off the water mains to gain entry to the house. The incidents happened in Hereford and Ledbury, on Thursday, July 25. The first burglary happened at lunchtime in the
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Does your attic hold an antique?
ONE of Britain's best-known auction houses is coming to the region to help the people of Herefordshire and Worcestershire to find out how much their antiques are really worth. Sotheby's will be visiting Herefordshire next Sunday, August 4, to hold an
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Trip into Fantasy Land for talented ballet group
YOUNG dancers from Worcester will be taking part in a trip of a lifetime when they perform on stage at Euro Disney, Paris. The youngsters from Crescents Ballet School will also be taking part in a pom-pom parade after tomorrow's show. The dancers, aged
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Clean-cut, sensitive Swede
n Bobo Stenson Selected Recordings IN the world of serious contemporary music, there are musicians who are technically brilliant and will leave you open-mouthed at the sheer mastery of their instrument and those who conjure up a great deal of emotion
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30/7/02 - Williams joins Bulls
DANNY Williams has earned a contract at Hereford United after impressing during trials. The former Chesterfield midfielder, who made 23 starts for the Second Division club, is set to play at Bromsgrove Rovers tonight (7.45). "He's got a good pedigree
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It's all muck and no magic
IT appears that the Government's long-term strategy of concreting over the entire British Isles is going according to plan, judging from last week's unveiling of options for new airports across the country. Many of you will have also viewed, with alarm
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Pipe set to take on the tourists
RESERVE wicketkeeper James Pipe will make his first appearance of the season for Worcestershire in their four-day match against India which opens at New Road tomorrow. The 24-year-old has been unable to force his way into the side this term because of
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City trialists out to impress
TRIALISTS Grant Pinkney, John Shirley and John Hodge will be given the chance to shine for Worcester City at Willenhall Town tonight (7.30). The trio are set to be included in John Barton's side for the pre-season friendly but wingers Michael Blackwood
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Williams joins Bulls
DANNY Williams has earned a contract at Hereford United after impressing during trials. The former Chesterfield midfielder, who made 23 starts for the Second Division club, is set to play at Bromsgrove Rovers tonight (7.45). "He's got a good pedigree
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McCague stars in chase for victory
HEREFORDSHIRE are on the brink of victory in their Minor Counties Championship Western Division clash with Berkshire at Finchampstead -- thanks to more heroics from Martin McCague. The Kent and former England paceman, making his Herefordshire debut, followed
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Bewdley Regatta proves a sizzler
SCORCHING temperatures accompanied Bewdley Rowing Club's 125th annual regatta with crews competing from across the country. The top club was Reading who won the Victor Ludorum Trophy for most wins (19) but the host club also enjoyed a successful weekend
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Steaming ahead with full agenda
THE Worcester Three Choirs Golden Jubilee Fringe Festival takes a break today ahead of a stream of events later in the week. From tomorrow Worcester Cathedral will be decked with flowers in celebration of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The festival of cathedral
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Phone drama will keep you engaged
n Francesca's Party by Patricia Scanlan (Bantam, £5.99) Mobile phones - a curse or a blessing? Francesca is about to find out the answer. Sharing a comfortable home with one of Dublin's foremost bankers, Francesca Kirwan has had a comfortable marriage
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No one ever dared to play up city's Butt End Annie
I MUST reply to your story in the Evening News regarding Quay Memories of an old Worcester quarter. On leaving school at just turned 15, I started work for a local furniture removals firm - Lambs Removals - and I remember very clearly moving the last
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Why EU's similar to Nazi Germany
WHILE Mr Griffiths rightly observes that the European Union and the Third Reich are not identical, there are important parallels. Hitler intended to introduce a single currency and a new economic order and planned a programme of regionalisation almost
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30/7/02 Trialists find the net in Stourbridge win
SWIFTS returned to winning ways with a 3-2 friendly victory at home to Stourbridge last night. Player-manager Tim Langford was pleased with the performance but blamed sloppy defending for the goals. "I was quite pleased but defensively we were not as
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Factfile:
What your donation will buy for southern Africa? - £2 could provide two boxes of high energy biscuits - a week's supply for a malnourished child - £25 will provide enough therapeutic feeding for 350 children - £27 will buy 1 nutrition kit containing oral
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Don't book anything for the 10th, Peter
IT may be a few weeks off, but September 10 is already looming large in the diary of Peter Luff. The Mid-Worcestershire MP was already due to be back in Westminster much earlier than his colleagues' return on October 15, to help chair a consultation session
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Time for a visit, Prime Minister
WORCESTERSHIRE could have a special visitor during Parliament's long summer recess - Tony Blair. At least, that's what Tory MP Peter Luff is hoping. He has tabled a parliamentary question urging the Prime Minister to include Throckmorton on his list of
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Floored by success story
AN EVESHAM company, Karndean International, has been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in the flooring industry - the Independent Flooring Distributors Association Supplier of the Year (IFDA). The award follows two other major accolades collected
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Coming of age for city consultancy
A WORCESTER marketing consultancy celebrated 21-years recently with a party at Worcester Racecourse. More than 50 staff and clients attended the party for Market Link, which was set up in 1981 by co-directors David Pickering, Peter Lacey and Steve Hynds
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Lie jail terms not are enough
MORE than one third of Britain's financial directors believe the proposed two-year prison sentence for company directors who lie to auditors is insufficient punishment. According to the Big Question survey, conducted by Reed Accountancy Personnel and
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Record orders for county construction firm
A WORCESTERSHIRE construction company is celebrating a record three months, having secured £20m in orders since the start of the financial year on April 1. Thomas Vale Construction, of Stourport-on-Severn, is now on track to achieve a turnover of £60m
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24/6/02 - Sixways spree delights Brain
JOHN Brain today hailed Worcester Rugby Club's summer shopping spree "very successful" after capturing his final post-season signing. The Sixways director of rugby was delighted with the 14 new signings brought to the club since the end of the season
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30/7/02 - Pipe set to take on the tourists
RESERVE wicketkeeper James Pipe will make his first appearance of the season for Worcestershire in their four-day match against India which opens at New Road tomorrow. The 24-year-old has been unable to force his way into the side this term because of
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Landlady cleared of torching 16th Century pub
A LEDBURY licensee, accused of torching the pub she ran, causing £1m damage, has been cleared of arson. The jury of eight women and four men took just two hours yesterday to deliver the not guilty verdict to the charge levied at Janet Kaye at Hereford
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Drinking driver's failed suicide bid
A DROITWICH man who crashed his car after blacking out at the wheel had attempted to commit suicide just minutes before, a court heard. Mark Griffiths drove to a lay-by on the A38 and drank a bottle of wine while he pumped exhaust fumes into his car.
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Perdiswell approval
PERDISWELL Young People's Club is being extended, but Worcester City Council planners have said there will be no more room for expansion after this. The club won approval for a two-storey extension from members of the planning committee, who sang its
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Pub's ready to rock once again
PEOPLE living in a Worcestershire village were celebrating a job well done after re-opening their only pub, which was earmarked for closure. The Rock Cross Inn closed its doors in August last year after plans to sell it off for housing. But people living
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Call goes out for charity climbers
WORCESTERSHIRE people with a head for heights are needed to join a team climbing Ben Nevis to raise funds for a national charity. The National Kidney Research Fund has organised the event, which will take place on Friday, October 25. The climbing of Britain's
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Shooters have a blast for charity
CLAY pigeon shooters will be aiming high when they help raise money for Cancer Research. A special shoot is being organised by Barbara Williams, who has been drumming up funds for the charity since she lost her husband Andrew to a brain tumour two years
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A pint and five pounds of your potatoes, please
FARMERS and growers may soon be given the opportunity to set up market stalls in the gardens of an historic Evesham pub. Regular farmers' market are planned at the Fleece Inn, in Bretforton, where anyone can sell their own grown, caught or processed produce
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Alcoholic spat at PC
A SELF-CONFESSED chronic alcoholic who spat in the face of a policeman has been jailed for five months. Paul Green, aged 57, of Teme Road, Tolladine, admitted assaulting a police officer and being drunk and disorderly when he appeared before Worcester
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30/7/02 - City trialists out to impress
TRIALISTS Grant Pinkney, John Shirley and John Hodge will be given the chance to shine for Worcester City at Willenhall Town tonight (7.30). The trio are set to be included in John Barton's side for the pre-season friendly but wingers Michael Blackwood
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Armed duo face a life in prison
TWO members of an armed gang which robbed a Worcestershire post office of more than £3,000 are facing mandatory sentences of life imprisonment. Philip Berry and Theo Steadman, along with a third accomplice, Damien Gordon, targeted the Blakedown premises
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28/6/02 - Hick blasts new record County total
GRAEME Hick admitted to being delighted by his return to high scoring form after burying Durham under an avalanche of runs. His record-busting New Road triple century has set Worcestershire up for an emphatic Frizzell County Championship Division Two
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Bank bashing in silly season
YOU can tell it's the silly season when politicians turn on the indignation at institutions normally safe from attack. Today, it's the turn of the national banks to be savaged in a report that brings them to account for various matters. The Cruikshank
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Lyman misses Sixways clashes
NEIL Lyman has been ruled out of Worcester Rugby Club's forthcoming Sixways friendlies with a knee problem. The tighthead prop has been struggling with tendonitis in his knee and has been ordered to rest by doctors. Lyman will definitely miss Saturday's
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Killeen lays down marker for future
LIAM Killeen established his credentials as a future Olympic contender with a Commonwealth bronze in the men's mountain biking. Killeen, London-born but living in Malvern, is just 20 and is the British Cycling Federation's big hope for the event at the
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Hereford star Hill vaults to bronze
HEREFORD'S Irie Hill finished equal third to grab bronze in a pole vault final missing British record holder Janine Whitlock who is facing a two-year ban after testing positive for steroids. The German-born vaulter cleared 4.10m along with Australia's
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WODYS Annie for Fringe
FORGET about tomorrow, Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society's Youth Section are performing the smash hit musical Annie today, as part of the Three Choirs Fringe Festival. The sell-out production includes 70 youngsters, aged between eight and 18, plus
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WIN! One of 30 first day cover sets of Commonwealth Games stamps
ROYAL Mail is going to great lengths - with its latest collection of stamps - to celebrate this week's Commonwealth Games, hosted by Manchester. Designed to capture the speed and excitement of competition, which runs until Sunday, as sportsmen and women
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WIN! One of 11 pairs of weekend passes to the Minardi Thunder in the Park 2 at Donington Park, Augus
Formula 1 fanatics are in for a treat on Sunday, August 11 at Donington Park when the European Minardi Formula 1 team stages Thunder in the Park 2 - a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the world's most glamorous sport. The Shuttle/Times and News has joined
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This is WRFC
The new season starts soon - in the meantime you can check out previous seasons coverage browsing the 'archive' section.
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I fell for this book hook, line and sinker
n Coarse Fishing by Mansfield and Clifford (Foulsham, £5.99) ONE of the problems with most books on fishing is that you can't take them with you on that waterside expedition. The majority of guides are too big, too glossy and posh-smelling to drag along
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There's no point in killing foxes by any method
STEVE Reed (You Say, July 13) is typical of apologists for bloodsports who try and justify its existence by emotionally blackmailing the general public into believing that fox "control" is necessary and that other forms of control rather than hunting
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Parking at hospitals
FOR many years, voluntary community transport groups, some registered charities, have been provided with passes to assist when taking patients to hospital appointments at Castle Street, Ronkswood and Newtown sites. Such groups have been informed that
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Poor countries wait to join gravy train
D E MARGRETT (You Say, July 17) has done a complete U-turn, for he now says: "The time is coming when the UK will become a net beneficiary of EU funds." Has he done his homework following my letter of May 20 and now discovered that his previous assertions
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This is WRFC
The new season starts soon - in the meantime you can check out coverage of previous seasons by browsing the 'archive' section.
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1/5/02 - Sixways switch for Bath forward
POWERHOUSE forward Mark Gabey is the latest recruit to join Worcester Rugby Club's promotion challenge. The 28-year-old has swapped Bath for Worcester as head coach John Brain continues his Sixways revolution. Gabey, who played at Sixways three years
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Beacon of hope in midst of misery
UNICEF'S UK executive director, David Bull, speaks exclusively to the Evening News about one ray of light in an area where despair is the norm. "We visited Salima Aids Support Organisation, in Eastern Malawi, near to the beautiful shores of the Lake.
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The twin torments of hunger and HIV
IN a region already bearing the full brunt of the HIV/Aids pandemic, the current food crisis across Southern Africa is putting at risk the survival of an estimated six million children. The six countries affected in the current crisis - Zimbabwe, Lesotho
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Seeing the point of protecting your eyes
OUR eyesight, arguably the most precious of the senses, is all too easily strained and fatigued by the long office hours and polluted cities of modern life. Yet, most of us take our vision completely for granted and our eyes remain among the most neglected
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'Bangs for our bucks'
PAUL Keetch coined an interesting phrase in the latest defence questions session in the Commons: "Bangs for our bucks". It could have meant a good many things, but was actually a reference to the way Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon spends his cash. He believes
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Tory gain is just perfect
THE timing of Paul Middlebrough's election to Wychavon District Council could not have been better for Peter Luff. It allowed him to break the news of a Tory gain from the Liberal Democrats to Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith first hand. Said the Mid-Worcestershire
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There's no floods here!
n THERE were puzzled faces at Bromsgrove District Council this week as they came under fire from the Government for failing to draw up a floods strategy. The district has no river worth the name and has never flooded!
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Trading estate business boom
A WORCESTERSHIRE trading estate is proving that business is booming in the county, with the recent letting of a further 40,000sq ft of industrial space. Three recent deals have gone through on the 180-acre Hartlebury Trading Estate, near Droitwich. The
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18/7/02 - Club cricket fixtures for this weekend
SATURDAY BANKS'S BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE Division One: Bromsgrove v Kidderminster; Shrewsbury v Worcester. Division Two West: Pelsall v Redditch; Penn v Kington. Second teams, Premier Division: Kidderminster v Moseley. Division Two West: Kington v Bromsgrove