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Katrina sprints ahead with Olympics dream
PERSHORE schoolgirl Katrina Hart is certainly quick off the mark. Just a year after taking up sprinting she has run away with a top honour in European athletics. Katrina, aged 15 and a pupil at Pershore High School, has cerebral palsy and came third in
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Council set for review on planning
A REVIEW of city planning procedures is due to be rubber-stamped this week after an Ombudsman reported 'maladministration' in the system. The scathing report followed a case in September 2003, when a Claines resident who objected to plans for a nearby
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Picnic party raises funds in the garden of manor
THE laid-back sounds of swing and jazz rang out across the village of Bransford on Sunday as the Jack Daniels Big Band entertained the crowds at a charity picnic event. Hundreds of people packed a picnic basket and turned up in force at Bransford Manor
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I celebrated my 75th birthday at the wheel of double-decker bus
A 75-year-old thrill-seeker fulfilled a lifelong ambition when her family organised a special birthday present - for her to drive a double-decker bus. Lena Ryan, of Hallow Road, Worcester, had wanted to take the wheel of an Aston's coach since her early
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Malvern RFC - Club facts
The Clubhouse, Spring Lane, Malvern Link, Worcs. WR14 1AJ. Telephone: (01684) 573728. Founded 1934. Members of the RFU, NMFU, W&HRFU. First XV competing in Midlands Division Two (West). Getting to MRFC. From M5 Leave the motorway at Junction 7 and
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Katrina sprints ahead with Olympics dream
PERSHORE schoolgirl Katrina Hart is certainly quick off the mark. Just a year after taking up sprinting she has run away with a top honour in European athletics. Katrina, aged 15 and a pupil at Pershore High School, has cerebral palsy and came third in
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Top guitarist heads bill
Worcester Concert Club's new season is approaching with the promise of a varied and interesting programme including one of the world's most acclaimed guitarists. John Williams is the starring attraction for the autumn programme and will play on Sunday
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Can you help historic attraction?
AN historic site and tourist attraction in Worcester's picturesque Friar Street is appealing for more volunteers to keep it up-and-running. Tudor House is run by Worcester Heritage & Amenity Trust (WHAT), which was formed in 2004 in order to keep
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Motor buffs turn out for window memorial
MORGAN motor cars were immortalised in unusual fashion at the weekend - when a stained-glass window picturing the Malvern firm was unveiled in a Herefordshire church. Motoring enthusiasts congregated at St Peter and St Paul's Church, in Stoke Lacey, near
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I'm not quitting says Hick
GRAEME Hick has no intention of retiring this season despite experiencing the lea-nest spell of his 21-year career with Worcestershire. Hick started the current campaign in fine form and registered his 127th hundred when he hammered the Lancashire attack
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Pace pair battle to be fit for Essex test
FAST bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Nadeem Malik are racing to be fit for Worcestershire's final Frizzell Championship clash with Essex at New Road. Pakistani Shoaib was ruled out of the County's totesport League defeat to Essex last Sunday with a fever. Malik
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Neal facing last round title shoot-out at Brands Hatch
DROITWICH track star Matt Neal is still on course to win the British Touring Car Championship despite failing to win any of the three races at Silverstone. Neal's closest challenger, Vauxhall's Yvan Muller, kept his title dream alive as three drivers
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Bulls are charging at Fleet
JOHN Trewick is banking on another miserly display from Hereford United to see off Gravesend and Northfleet at Edgar Street tonight (7.45). The Bulls chalked up their sixth clean sheet in the Nationwide Conference on Saturday following their 1-0 win over
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Rampant West Malvern flood Plumbers Arms
THE floodgates were opened at West Malvern where the home team took advantage of a leaky Plumbers Arms defence to sink them 16-1 in a Worcester Football League Saturday Division One match. Phil Jenkins netted five times for West Malvern, while Anthony
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20/9/05 - Pace pair battle to be fit for Essex test
FAST bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Nadeem Malik are racing to be fit for Worcestershire's final Frizzell Championship clash with Essex at New Road. Pakistani Shoaib was ruled out of the County's totesport League defeat to Essex last Sunday with a fever. Malik
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20/9/05 - I'm not quitting says Hick
GRAEME Hick has no intention of retiring this season despite experiencing the lea-nest spell of his 21-year career with Worcestershire. Hick started the current campaign in fine form and registered his 127th hundred when he hammered the Lancashire attack
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20/9/05 - Rhodes hits out at Batty's snub
STEVE Rhodes has slammed England's selectors for snubbing Worcestershire's Gareth Batty from the forthcoming tour to Pakistan. Batty, 27, the premier spinner at New Road, was yesterday omitted from the 17-strong Test squad de-spite featuring in England's
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20/9/05 - Watkiss hopes Halifax will be the quick cure
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers boss Stuart Watkiss admits he is relieved to have a game tonight. Harriers host Halifax Town (7.45) with Watkiss desperate to make up for Saturday's horror show as soon as possible. They lost 3-1 at home to Forest Green Rovers in
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Politicians never seem to learn ecological lessons
YOUR front-page story headlined Petrol Panic Hits City (Tuesday, September 13) brings back memories - it could have been written in the 1970s, during the OPEC oil crisis, or either of the decades between then and now. The Green Party has been urging both
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Punishment
WHAT a negative view of Christianity from Tom Wareing (Friday, September 9). Christianity isn't primarily about "punishment for wrongdoing," but about love and compassion towards our fellow human beings, whoever they are and whatever they do. Christ said
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Not cricket
"CRICKET is the national sport again," trumpeted the BBC. Is there, in this declaration, a tacit acceptance that the UK as such, is rapidly breaking up? In Scotland, Association Football is the national game, Old Firm battles and all that, while in Wales
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Unsightly
AT last a councillor with some intelligence! All that Richard Udall says about unsightly and smelly wheelie bins rings true. Have we no other councillors with the brains to get this hare-brained scheme thrown out? Or are they all too busy congratulating
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Firm's all set for a lead part in future
AN automotive parts manufacturer has turned developer to fund its future growth. Barton Cold-Form, of Kidderminster Road, on the Berry Hill Industrial Estate, Droitwich, has been given planning permission to redevelop its factory in to three non-food
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Business as usual for learning organisation
THE Learning and Skills Council, the organisation responsible for making England better skilled and more competitive, has announced a major transformation that will mean the loss of 1,300 jobs. The aim, according to the body, is to "make it smaller, more
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All change at chateau
THE Chateau Impney Hotel, near Droitwich, wants to create an annexe, remove some of the modern hard landscaping and take down a small house providing staff accommodation. An application for planning permission to make the changes has been submitted to
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Raconteur Freud tells a few tales
WELL-known wit Sir Clement Freud will entertain hundreds of Worcester people when he appears at The King's School this week. The writer, broadcaster, chef and politician will tell amusing tales and anecdotes from his life during the one-night show in
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Pershore sisters see controversial statue unveiled
TWO Pershore High School pupils were special guests at the official unveiling ceremony in Trafalgar Square of a sculpture of their cousin Alison Lapper. Sisters Alexandra and Rosie Mason were invited to the event on Thursday by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone
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Now you'll pay on bus
AFTER a free fortnight's trial and a record-breaking start last weekend, the new Worcester Express bus fares have started this week. Last Saturday saw 3,146 passenger journeys on the new 'W' buses - the highest ever number on a non-Christmas Saturday
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Still no love for lonely Edna, 86
LOVE for lonely Edna has still not materialised, despite the Worcester News' campaign to find her a man. The 83-year-old's family put lonely heart adverts in shop windows and newspapers, but no Romeo has appeared. Edna Roberts is tired of being alone
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We're at Downing Street to stop cuts at town's hospital
CAMPAIGNERS against planned cutbacks at Evesham Community Hospital took their concerns to Downing Street yesterday. A delegation from the Save Our Hospital campaign presented Number 10 with the views of 30,000 people who are opposed to the cuts. Among
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Will big mean it's better?
THERE is no doubt that the role of the British policeman has changed out of all recognition in recent times. Within a generation, the thin blue line has been drastically stretched to cope with a worrying escalation of gun crime and the threat of global
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20/9/05 - Warriors 'A' team suffer Tykes defeat
WORCESTER Warriors 'A' struggled to a 35-18 defeat at Chandos Park against Leeds Tykes last night. The Yorkshire club used the game to give match practice to some of their first team players, including prop Rayno Gerber and scrum-half Mark McMillan. But
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City canalsided plan 'crowded'
EXCITING proposals to transform the Royal Worcester Porcelain site and canalside could be redrafted because planners feel too much is being squeezed into the area. The Worcester News reported in July on a bid to redevelop Royal Worcester Porcelain land
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Police chiefs asked to choose merge partner
WEST Mercia police chiefs have been asked which force they would like to merge with to create a new regional super-constabulary. Home Secretary Charles Clarke yesterday told them he agreed with a report which found forces with less than 4,000 officers
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Someone will snap over the yobs who smashed our cars
ANGRY residents of a Tolladine street blighted by vandalism fear someone will 'take the law into their own hands' to stop the culprits. The warning was issued after a pair of youths smashed 10 car windscreens with a hammer in a spree of mindless destruction
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Rhodes hits out at Batty's snub
STEVE Rhodes has slammed England's selectors for snubbing Worcestershire's Gareth Batty from the forthcoming tour to Pakistan. Batty, 27, the premier spinner at New Road, was yesterday omitted from the 17-strong Test squad de-spite featuring in England's
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Watkiss hopes Halifax will be the quick cure
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers boss Stuart Watkiss admits he is relieved to have a game tonight. Harriers host Halifax Town (7.45) with Watkiss desperate to make up for Saturday's horror show as soon as possible. They lost 3-1 at home to Forest Green Rovers in
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Warriors 'A' team suffer Tykes defeat
WORCESTER Warriors 'A' struggled to a 35-18 defeat at Chandos Park against Leeds Tykes last night. The Yorkshire club used the game to give match practice to some of their first team players, including prop Rayno Gerber and scrum-half Mark McMillan. But
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EU never came into the frame
FURTHER to the views expressed by Messrs Webb, Spencer, Chance & Co, these correspondents will do well to remember that during the recent General Election, Britain's EU membership was never an issue. And in spite of BNP, UKIP and Veritas manifesto
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20/9/05 - It's crunch time for City's season
DRAMATIC it may be but Worcester City's season is at a make-or-break stage with four momentous games in waiting. After frittering away two more points at Moor Green, you wonder how much longer City can go on like this before the hope of promotion vanishes
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Reasons for NI violence
THE recent violence in Northern Ireland and over the past years would suggest to any logical person that peace is not on their agenda. The UK government is hanging on just to create political history by negotiating and hoping to succeed with those who
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Wheelie bin
I AGREE with Councillor Richard Udall regarding wheelie bins. We are one of seven households in a large building converted to flats, four of which are upstairs. There is no room to keep 14 wheelie bins, as required by the new system, and we are too old
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Youngsters get in the mood to party
YOUNGSTERS were in the party mood to celebrate the name change of their nursery. Children of Worcester's Little Hoots Nursery, formerly Bundles of Fun, were treated to a garden party, with a bouncy castle, ball pool and face painting on Friday. Manager
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We're ignoring finances and stacking up bills
AN estimated 27 million bills go unopened when they first arrive as Britons fail to make time for their personal finances, research claimed today. Around 29 per cent of people admit they have bills sitting around at home which need their attention but
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Talks to halt Morrisons strike plan
TALKS aimed at averting a series of strikes by workers at distribution centres which deliver goods to Morrisons supermarkets are to be held on Wednesday. Thousands of workers at several sites, including Bristol, Warrington and Aylesbury in Kent, are due
