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Cheating rail passengers are shamed in public
MORE than 120 people in the West Midlands have been named and shamed by train bosses after being convicted for fare evasion. Central Trains - which runs services through Worcester and Malvern - has put up posters naming the 127 offenders who have had
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Tell them if you can't pay for water
HOUSEHOLDERS angry at a 15 per cent increase in water rates are urged not to bury the bill and hope it goes away. The message comes from consumer watchdog WaterVoice, which said it was very disappointed at April's steep price hike, but now it was introduced
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Help a child thrive in 2005
A DOUBLE-decker bus hit the road to recruit more foster carers under the slogan: Help A Child Thrive In 2005. Adults who look after children not living with their biological parents joined forces with Worcestershire County Council social workers to promote
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Trail guides tell all on geological wonders
A SERIES of new guides have been published to help trekkers find out more about the picturesque countryside they are walking in. The Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust's booklets are the latest in a series of guides part funded by LEADER
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Rally gets MG lovers revved up after Rover
CLASSIC car enthusiasts gathered at Webbs of Wychbold for the start of the Welsh Rally at the weekend. A variety of MG models took part in Saturday's event, organised by the MG Car Club Midland Centre, including Midgets, MGBs and the more modern MG TF
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16/5/05 - Top coaches are in the limelight
MANAGERS make good gossip as far as football clubs are concerned. The same is not always true of cricket but when you're a six-feet six-inch Australian with a big smile and reputation on your side then the headline writers get busy. Tom Moody came second
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Royal takes ducklings under its wing
PATIENTS, staff and visitors at Worcestershire Royal Hospital have been going quackers over 12 babies - but they're not in the maternity unit. A duck has set up home in the courtyard outside the Rivercourt Restaurant and a dozen ducklings have now hatched
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Tributes to 'lovely' teenager - Crash claims life on way to football match
PUPILS and staff at a Kidderminster school are mourning the death of a "key and valued" student following a fatal accident outside the ground of Wolverhampton Wand-erers Football Club. The death of 16-year-old Kate Freeman has sent shockwaves throughout
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Rebirth of our great city
WORCESTER is on the up - that's the message from the city council's leader in today's page two story. Most of us have become used to taking politicians' pronouncements with a large pinch of salt, but in this case it's hard not to share Stephen Inman's
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A CITY REBORN
WORCESTER is in line for a renaissance that will make it a tourist magnet to rival Chester and York. That was the message from city council leader Councillor Stephen Inman when he spoke of Worcester's bright future at a summit involving more than 100
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Have your say in the future of site future
RESIDENTS are being urged to have their say on outline plans for a major office development on Worcester's former Ronkswood Hospital site. Worcester City Council planners are preparing to give initial approval for an outline scheme on the land and, over
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Half the streets are full of holes and need repairing
MORE than half the pavements in Worcestershire need urgent repairs, an official survey has revealed. A report drawn up for the Department for Transport found that 60 per cent of the county's footways are crumbling. Among those who have first-hand experience
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Elderly living in fear of knock-and-run terrors
ELDERLY residents on a Droitwich estate are living in fear of youngsters who are knocking on doors and generally making a nuisance of themselves. The children, aged mainly between nine and 13, are ringing doorbells in Chawson and then running away. The
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Sweet smell of success
MALVERN Spring Gardening Show blossomed in the weekend sunshine with a record 98,000 attendance. This was 5,000 more than last year and reassured organisers who believed the three-day event may have reached saturation. "In both 2003 and 2004 we had around
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New surgery gives patients better deal
A MULTI-million-pound surgery was due to open for business today, giving patients and staff more space. The £3m Elbury Mount Medical Centre - the latest major piece of building activity in Fairfield Close, Brickfields, is the new accommodation for Dr
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Children have the chance to change world
A MAJOR initiative to help transform the lives of children in Worcester is being piloted by the Children's Society and the Church of England. Running throughout May, Leaves of Life challenges five to 11-year-olds to unlock their creativity by asking them
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School saviour set to speak at women tribute
THIS year's Worcestershire Women of the Year event will be headed by a remarkable person whose experiences were turned into a television drama. Lady Marie Stubbs will speak at the awards luncheon which will be held at Madresfield Court, Malvern, on Wednesday
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Pace ace battles to take on the Tykes
KABIR Ali is set for a late fitness test before taking on Yorkshire tomorrow. The Worcestershire pace bowler, who missed yesterday's totesport win over Notts, has a knee problem. David Leatherdale, who pulled up during the Notts clash with an Achilles
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City to stay in northern section
WORCESTER City chairman Dave Boddy believes the club's Nationwide North status is secure following Altrincham's play-off success. The Robins gained promotion to the Nationwide Conference yesterday after defeating Eastbourne Borough 2-1 in the Nationwide
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Bay prospers in titanic struggle
TOTLAND Bay, owned by Worcester doctor Richard Newland and ridden by Tom Weston, came up trumps at the Golden Valley Hunt point-to-point. But the odds-on favourite had a titanic struggle with valiant runner-up Go Go Gallant to take the Welsh Border Area
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16/5/05 - Pace ace battles to take on the Tykes
KABIR Ali is set for a late fitness test before taking on Yorkshire tomorrow. The Worcestershire pace bowler, who missed yesterday's totesport win over Notts, has a knee problem. David Leatherdale, who pulled up during the Notts clash with an Achilles
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Vitamin jar is useless
I QUOTE the first paragraph of letter from David Barrie (Your Letters, May 5. "There probably aren't many households in Worcester area who don't possess a jar of vitamins". If this is so it is a sad reflection on present day living. These "vitamin medicines
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Give a dog a bad name
TALKING of voting (We Say, Thursday, April 28) when I was in Powick Hospital in the 1960s, we inmates weren't allowed a vote. The authorities assumed we didn't know what we were doing. This stigma still sticks to me today, to a certain extent. There's
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Why let him leave job?
I would like to ask Worcestershire Royal Hospital why they are allowing possibly the best Gastroenterology genius to leave ? Dr Webberley has treated me since being diagnosed with Crohns in 1999, and made my life livable again, on the surface and with
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God's love for mankind
Regarding the letter by Malcolm Meikle responding to the Bishop of Worcester and his support for the gipsies. I offer the following. Christian teaching must always transcend the laws of any national state and point to God's love for all mankind. In this
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VE Day must be honoured with holiday
May 8 was probably one of the most significant dates in recent history. Yet why is it then that 10 years ago we were given a bank holiday, in 2002 we were given two days for the Queens Jubilee and for the millennium we had an extra bank holiday as well
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16/5/05 - Moody --Hick's back to his best
TOM Moody hailed the genius of Graeme Hick after he helped Worcestershire to a quick Frizzell County Championship weekend victory. The County took only 65 minutes at New Road to achieve a 100-run target and complete a Division Two double over Derbyshire
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United concede four goals in final quarter
Tenbury United 0 Great Wyrley 4 AFTER holding their own for the first hour, Tenbury conceded four goals in the final third of the game to leave the West Midlands League Division One leaders, winners by a flattering margin. After a shaky start the United
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Half of firms expecting to lose staff, reveals study
EMPLOYERS have become more pessimistic about job prospects, with half expecting to have fewer staff next year, a new report has revealed. A survey of 1,200 firms found the public sector was particularly gloomy about the employment outlook. The Chartered
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Discover a pair of Norman treasures
HERE'S a lovely walk for a late spring day, full of burgeoning vegetation, luxuriantly green almost every step of the way. The River Severn adds its own abundant charm to the first part of the walk, after which a truly delightful green lane heads eastwards
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Double birthday joy for council records
A CUSTOMER service centre has celebrated its first birthday with two records - smashing the 100,000 barrier and counting 1,012 customers in a single day - its highest-ever tally. Yet despite the weight of numbers at the joint city and county council centre
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Tea-bag death a 'genuine tragedy'
A WORCESTER man who died after choking on a teabag at a social services day centre was the victim of a genuinely tragic accident, said a council spokesman. Worcestershire County Council's social services department was criticised for ad hoc lines of communication
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Forty laptops stolen from college
FORTY laptop computers valued at more than £25,000 have been stolen from University College Worcester. A police spokesman said the Dell computers were still in the original packaging, which could make them an attractive proposition for people looking
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Staff still missing Barney the parrot
A WOLF-whistling parrot stolen from a Worcester-shire garden centre has yet to be traced. Staff at St Peter's Garden Centre at Norton, near Worcester, arrived at work on Thursday, May 5, to discover that Barney, an African Grey, had been taken. The bird
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Trees felled for teenager's rescue bid
TENBURY fire fighters were forced to chop through trees and undergrowth to rescue a 15-year-old girl trapped in a car near Upper Sapey last Sunday. The girl was one of four passengers in a red Peugeot 406 which ended up on its side, with the tail end
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16/5/05 - City to stay in northern section
WORCESTER City chairman Dave Boddy believes the club's Nationwide North status is secure following Altrincham's play-off success. The Robins gained promotion to the Nationwide Conference yesterday after defeating Eastbourne Borough 2-1 in the Nationwide
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Champions of canine charm
WAGGING tails are set to greet shoppers at a garden centre. Ex-racing greyhounds will be using all their doggy-charm to persuade shoppers at Webbs of Wychbold that they make the perfect pet. The dogs will be taking part in a Greyhound Awareness Roadshow
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Join us as we try to ride round the world
CYCLISTS are being urged to get on their bike and join the Meningitis Trust to 'Wheelie Round the World'. The challenge, to collectively cycle the equivalent of the earth's circumference, takes place from June 20 to July 3 Kate Baines, event organiser
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Eckington gipsies on the move again
TRAVELLERS ordered off land they owned in Eckington have been moved on yet again. The group is believed to have moved on to private land off the A44 at Hampton, near Evesham, at the weekend after being ordered off land near Bredon, near Tewkesbury. Previously
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Trego ton the key factor for Hereford
HEREFORDSHIRE advan-ced to the second round of the MCCA Knock-out Trophy after defeating Shropshire by 13 runs at Colwall. Former Worcestershire Second XI all-rounder Pet-er Trego smashed 100 not out, from 80 balls including 12 fours and four sixes, as
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Cashmore fights off illness to claim fourth
KIDDERMINSTER'S Claire Cashmore was just four tenths of a second off a medal at the Visa Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. But Cashmore, who recently started training at the former club of Sharron Davies' in Devon, had a good excuse after her fourth-placed
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Famous climb marks racing century
THE Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb marked its centenary year with two days of action at the weekend. Hereford racer Deryk Young recorded the top times on both in his Gould GR51. Saturday saw 130 competitors start, with special classes for Vintage Frazer Nash
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N Mids are too hot for Durham
NORTH Midlands continued their successful defence of the County Championship Shield with a 20-12 win over Durham at Stourbridge. North Midlands will win the North Pool and progress to the final at Twickenham on May 29 if they beat Oxfordshire at Chinnor
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Derby honours claimed by hosts
PERSHORE claimed their first Birmingham Cricket League Division Three win of the season with a sweet eight-wicket defeat of local rivals Evesham. After winning the toss, skipper Stephen Cooper asked the visitors to bat on a good-looking wicket at The
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16/5/05 - Pakistan loss may be County's gain!
THE Shoaib Akhtar saga may have done little to enhance the image of cricket but the episode could yet turn out to a blessing for Worcestershire. The Rawalpindi Express is due to steam into New Road in July after what was expected to have been a heavy
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16/5/05 - Price is right for Worcestershire win
WORCESTERSHIRE heaped more misery on basement boys Nottinghamshire with their second totesport League win of the season. Ray Price led the County to a 16-run victory in Division One as they successfully defended a flimsy looking total of 190 at New Road
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Spring Gardening Show Growers must wrap up warm
IT wasn't only the crowds that had to wrap up on the opening day of Malvern Spring Gardening show at the Three Counties Showground. The unseasonably chilly weather lead several exhibitors to protect their displays with special horticultural fleece. The
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Show some gratitude
I took my eight year old daughter to watch the veterans parade on sunday, and was very disappointed to see that only a handful of people turned out to give these brave men their support. The people of this city should show some gratitude to these men
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A history of immigrants
n How did we manage before we had "Asylum Seekers" to do the muddy and back-breaking work in this country? I did labouring jobs on farms in this area most years between 1940 and 1955. We had Ukrainian so-called "cossacks", Poles and East-German ex-POW's
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What's wrong with move to our global neighbours?
It was with a degree of sadness and utter incredulity that I read Mr Margrett's letter of May 7 in which he intimated that the UK was in some way inferior to France and Germany. I refer in particular to his comment concerning "France and Germany and other
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Please come back and watch horses
AN equestrian organisation that lost most of its members when it was disbanded is making fresh appeals for them to make contact. Members of Worcestershire Horsewatch were told by West Mercia police that they would have to join forces with the Herefordshire
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Farmers' payment runs true to form
IN some parts of the country it has been called "bureaucratic chaos" - in Worcestershire it might not be quite as bad as that, but there's no doubt the Government's Single Payment scheme for farmers is causing much scratching of heads and some tearing
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Discover a pair of Norman treasures
HERE'S a lovely walk for a late spring day, full of burgeoning vegetation, luxuriantly green almost every step of the way. The River Severn adds its own abundant charm to the first part of the walk, after which a truly delightful green lane heads eastwards
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Visit puts the icing on the cake for cookies and cream workers
STAFF at the Hartlebury-based bakery supplier, Rich Products, celebrated the 60th anniversary of their American parent company this week with a visit from a very special guest. Robert Rich senior, the firm's 91 year old founder, dropped into the UK factory
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Chamber to reward economy boosters
AN annual awards scheme to recognise the hard work and efforts of Worcestershire and Herefordshire businesses has again been launched. The fourth Chamber Awards are now taking place and nominations are being sought before the cut-off date of Friday, June