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World title for Malvern ace
MALVERN'S Mark Hubbard and his partner Neil Smith caused a major upset when they defeated world singles champion Harry Foster and Mark Hue Williams to win the Lacoste World Doubles Championship in rackets, the ancient forerunner of squash. The pair went
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Irilut secures Cup success
IRILUT - ridden by Sam Waley-Cohen - was the winner of a dramatic race for the Lady Dudley Cup at the Worcestershire Hunt point-to-point meeting at Chadd-esley Corbett. The meeting also saw the demise of the two leading betting market leaders on the
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Lancashire crumble as Royals turn up the heat
WORCESTERSHIRE crushed last season's finalists Lancashire in a rain-affected Friends Provident Trophy contest at Old Trafford. The Royals were always on top in a shortened game and were propelled by 66 from opener Stephen Moore and three wickets for
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Bevan sees red as Harriers lose again
HARRIERS manager Mark Yates was fuming after another below-par performance ag-ainst Morecambe in his side's last home fixture of the season. A penalty from Garry Th-ompson settled the match before half-time and Harriers couldn't make all their possession
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Early goal leads to heavy defeat for Bulls
IN a season which has provided more good points than bad, Hereford have succeeded occasionally in throwing in a performance poor enough to make even their most devoted supporters despair. And so it was at London Road on Saturday when Un-ited were swamped
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Malvern sunk by late strikes
TWO goals in the final five minutes defeated Malvern as they went down 3-1 at home to Rushall Olympic in Southern League Division One Mid-lands. The only chance in the first half-hour came when Rush-all's Dean Perrow broke thr-ough the Malvern defence
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City 2 Hucknall Town 0
WORCESTER City chose their final home match of the season to turn in arguably their best performance of the campaign. But boy did they leave it late. In ensuring they remain unbeaten at St George's Lane in 2007, City put their fans through the mill
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Lamey double fires Rovers to victory
BROMSGROVE Rovers en-sured they have home advantage for the Southern League Division One Midlands play-offs with a 3-1 victory over Woodford United. Rovers went ahead when Nathan Lamey fired past Matt Finlay after a superb dash into the area. Danny Crane
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Second half strikes seal it for Robins
TWO goals in the space of three minutes early in the second-half wrapped up three crucial points in Evesham's push for a play-off spot. Lowly Rovers had made life difficult for the Robins in the opening 45 minutes but, once Steve Lutz and Mark Owen had
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Worcester's Irish connection celebrate
THERE was great excitement in a bookmaker's shop in Worcester at around 4.30 pm on Grand National afternoon recently. As fancied horse after fancied horse either pulled up, fell or refused, two Irish stable staff were jumping up and down, hysterically
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Rhodes takes positives from defeat
IT took Durham's bowlers little more than an hour to seal victory over Worcestershire on the fourth day of the two side's LV County Champion-ship Division One opener at New Road on Saturday. Even the most ardent - and optimistic - Worcestershire fans
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Rhodes backing Kabir for England recall
IF Kabir Ali can apply himself this season as Zaheer Khan did last term, there is no reason why he cannot resurrect his international career - according to Worcestershire dir-ector of cricket Steve Rhodes. Despite an injury-hit 2006 campaign, the Birmingham-born
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Positive cricket is the only approach for Worcestershire
STEVE Rhodes has vowed Worcestershire will employ the same style of aggressive, attacking cricket that won them promotion last season in Division One this year. The New Road director of cricket believes that is the only way to play the game these days
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Counties not to blame for cup woe says Newton
NEW Road chief executive Mark Newton has dismissed suggestions that county cricket is at fault for the poor performance of the England team. Instead, the Worcestershire boss pointed the finger of blame at the appallingly old fashioned' set-up of the
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Man fights for life after car crash
A man was left fighting for his life following another horrific crash on the notorious A449. The man in his forties was driving a red Alfa Romeo on the Worcester to Kidderminster road, when it is believed to have crashed into a tree in Hawford at 11pm
