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Farewell Richard, the greatest big brother in world
HUNDREDS of mourners packed Worcester Crem-atorium to pay their last respects to a Worcester teenager killed in a car crash. Eighteen-year-old Richard Harvey, of Helford Close, Ronkswood, died after his Peugeot 106 Quicksilver hit a tree at Crown East
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We won't let a car park ruin cathedral
CITY councillors have moved to quash fears raised by MP Mike Foster that a multi-storey car park could soon dominate views of Worcester Cathedral. The Labour MP had condemned city councillors for considering extending King's Street car park, near the
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High rent drove me out, says owner of city shop
ANOTHER two businesses have pulled out of a Worcester shopping centre because the rents demanded by its mysterious owner are too high. Sheraton Gifts shut up shop in Reindeer Court a couple of weeks ago, and computer store Solutions is leaving at the
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Victorian houses will stay after all
PLANS to demolish two "exceedingly good late Victorian" town houses and replace them with flats and modern homes have been unanimously refused. Planning committee members hope the move will send a message to developers that councillors will not be worn
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Book signing is a result for journalist
WORCESTER'S Radio Five Live sports journalist Chris Green was signing copies of his new football book Matchday at Worcester City's home game against Bemerton Heath Harle-quins today. Chris, who lives in Warndon Villages, watched his first football match
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Owners ride to success in horse centre of excellence
THE owners of the Midland's newest equestrian centre say so many horses and riders are taking advantage of its facilities they hope to expand further. It's just a year ago since Defra awarded Jenny Leighton, her mother Vicky and stepfather David Evans
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The CO was left standing
JOHN Coldrick's reminiscence about the real life Home Guard (Letters, September 14) is surely deserving of inclusion in a television episode of Dad's Army. Here is another. I was serving in a small Royal Navy landing barge base on the River Dart when
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When the Raj was all the rage
FURTHER to Alan Cure, P R Addison and all the other correspondents, who regularly describe my views as somehow unpatriotic, In A Short History of the World, H G Wells said the following about the British people: "The English reader must not take the possibility
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Batty behaviour down in Purbeck
A STUDY of the UK's largest rare bat started this week. The Greater Horseshoe bat is to be the main subject of a three-year research project. It will look at the bats' roosts, flight patterns, diets, habitats and the influence of farming practices on
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What's Spanish for get this huge cow off my foot?
IT'S a good job Sara Gutierrez-Ojanguren speaks English, because Henrietta the heifer's command of Spanish is not so great. In the middle of Worcestershire, linguistic skills are not normally considered a necessity when the vet appears up the farm drive
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Go where the wild things are
IT'S just a suburb of the city today, but Northwick was once the principal manor of the bishops of Worcester. The manor also held valuable property in the city, and had nine dependent rural manors, including Claines, Beverburn (now Barbourne) and Bevereye
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CAN YOU SPOT A SPEED CAMERA?
DRIVERS have been told to "stop complaining and talk to the families of speeding victims" after an irate driver unsuccessfully appealed aga-inst a fine in Worcester. Derek Baddeley was so incensed at getting a fixed penalty for speeding on New Road that
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Seven Days - A SAD NEW CHAPTER
ONE of the Chapter Meadows noticeboards has been destroyed by vandals. All such acts are invariably depressing. But this case of petty arson was particularly so. The Duckworth Trust, which manages this green lung on behalf of the people of Worcester,
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Seven Days - WHOSE FINGERPRINTS?
THERE has been a climbdown by Worcester City Council over the closure of the Guildhall doors. It was a mistake, says a Tory spokesman. We were wrong, we listened to the people, so let's draw a line underneath it. Meanwhile, Mike Foster, ever the politician
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Parking near new homes will turn into a nightmare
A PARKING nightmare is in store for Worcester people in an area where planners have approved a revised plan for seven houses, a councillor has warned. As part of a re-jigged application for 75 properties, seven three-storey town houses and seven parking
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Seven Days - END OF THE LOVE AFFAIR
SPEAKING of the EU, it rather looks as if its romance with the British trades unions movement is on the rocks. Autumn's approaching, so that means the conference season is getting under way. The unions are worried that a pan-European state is rapidly
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Another bus laid on after demand rockets
ANOTHER Worcester Express bus is being laid on for the school run because the service has proved so popular in the first three weeks. Last week's figures showed a 134 per cent upturn in demand - more than double the number of people using the buses over
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Seven Days - STRANGER ON THE SHORE
MOVES to merge West Mercia police with a neighbouring force are nothing to do with efficiency. The whole agenda is about regionalisation. This is the same regionalisation being imposed on the fire and ambulance services. It's all being driven by the EU
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Ancient areas revealing their secrets
WORCESTER'S past is set to be unearthed as an expert comes to the city to give a talk on the recent archaeological works there. James Dinn of Worcester Archaeological Services will be focusing on the city's digs, which have included works in Newport Street
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Severn Days - John Phillpott
THE story sprawled across our columns like a stain across the page. Even in a world where one has become used to the myriad casual cruelties of the age, there was something about this grubby little tale that lowered the faithometer by several degrees.
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I'll eat these all myself
A CHOCOHOLIC is whetting her appetite for a mouthwatering challenge - tucking into a giant dish of tasty profiteroles. But Tricia Cavell, the fund-raising manager at St Richard's Hospice, is not just satisfying her desire for chocolate - she is undertaking
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Dorrell heirloom out for railway's big date
This week in 1990: Australian Test batsman and Warwickshire run machine Tom Moody has been snapped up to play for Worcestershire on a two-year contract starting next season. Kays, Worcester's largest employer, has been told by city councillors to take
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Wheelies will carry on the cause of recycling
n I AM very pleased to read that Mary Billingham is one of our keen recyclers and uses the different coloured sacks to sort her waste (Letters, Wednesday, September 14). However, I need to correct the misapprehension that once at the recycling plant,
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Go where the wild things are
IT'S just a suburb of the city today, but Northwick was once the principal manor of the bishops of Worcester. The manor also held valuable property in the city, and had nine dependent rural manors, including Claines, Beverburn (now Barbourne) and Bevereye
