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Vista Blurrr..............
Not such a great week for me....I had some sad news that a family member has passed away. This is when living out here becomes reality and although you are only 2.5 hours away by plane (3 days by car! 5 days by motorbike!!!!) you are a million miles away
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Harriet aiming to be best
A PERSHORE driver is one of 100 battling it out for 16 places in the all-female line-up to compete in this summer's prestigious Formula Woman Championship. Harriet Tyler, 27, has taken part in a gruelling assessment process comprising driving, karting
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Name change move for North Midlands
NORTH Midlands clubs will consider a proposal to change the name of the RFU Constituent Body to West Midlands at a meeting later this month. The proposal to change from North Midlands to West Midlands has been made by Peter Grace, the CB's representative
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Pair power their way into last four
DROITWICH Amateur Boxing Club fighters Frankie Butler and Charles Delve have both powered their way into the semi-finals of the Golden Belt Championships. Boxing in the quarter-finals against North West Counties in Manchester, the pair scored emphatic
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Derrick is honoured for his service to club
WORCESTER Amateur Boxing Club have honoured a long-serving member for his service to the sport. Club secretary Derrick Jinks is retiring after nearly 30 years and received his award from president John Curnock at a club tournament. Jinks came into amateur
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Public told to be alert after loss of drugs
POLICE in Worcester are warning the public to be alert following the loss of three separate lots of prescription drugs. In all three cases police have emphasised that, if found, the drugs should not be taken by anyone other than the person they were
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Council worker honoured at top awards ceremony
A COUNCIL worker from Worcestershire has scooped the first ever health and safety award in memory of a 17-year-old boy who was killed at work. Jane McCann has picked up the Daniel Dennis Award for Health and Safety from the GMB Union. Mrs McCann
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Council rated excellent by Government watchdogs
WYCHAVON District Council has been officially rated excellent in a recent report. Significant improvements in housing, environmental services and planning are just some of the achievements highlighted in the Audit Commission inspection. Jack Hegarty
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Send your memories for records anniversary
PEOPLE are being asked to get blogging to mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of the records office in Worcestershire. Staff at County Hall have created a special anniversary blog, which will open on Monday and run for the next fortnight. People
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Bears will be at show
KNITTED bears will be sold at this year's Three Counties Show to raise funds for a programme to build schools in Africa. The Burundi Bears are helping to raise money to build and equip schools in the African country Burundi, through the charity Facilitaid
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EVESHAM: Get a taste of the east on the banks of the river Avon
THAI food, Chinese lion dancing and Egyptian belly dancing will all form part of the Eastern Arts and Food Festival in Evesham. The weekend of events is planned for this Saturday and Sunday, with a series of performances and culinary delights based around
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Taxi forum will help heal rift with the city council
THE arrival of a new taxi drivers' forum has been hailed as a step forward in improving relations between cabbies and Worcester City Council. Councillor Francis Lankester, cabinet member for safer and stronger communities, is supporting the idea. As
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Raising awareness of abuse of elderly
COUNTY Hall workers will be getting out and about in Worcestershire this month to raise awareness of the abuse of older people. The authority will mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Friday, June 15, by getting some staff to wear sashes and hand
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Players tee off for charity
A HOST of well-known faces from Worcestershire's rugby, football and cricket clubs have been showing off their sporting prowess. Cecil Duckworth, Percy Price and Dave Boddy, respective chairmen of Worcester Warriors, Worcester City Football Club and
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LAWSON
LAWSON Zoey Happy 18th Zoey. All our love, Mum, Dad, Charli, Tara, Ben and TJ xxxxxx Published in paper 12/06/2007
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ROUSE
ROUSE Charles Reg First Birthday in Heaven May the winds blow softly and whisper so you'll hear, I will always love and miss you and wish that you were here. Love Bet. xxx ---------- If roses grow in heaven please pick a bunch for me, Place them in our
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WATKINS
WATKINS Sue Special memories of a wonderful friend. Loved and missed forever.Jackie, Jayne and Mira Published in paper 12/06/2007
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MAY
MAY George Henry Fell asleep eight years ago today. Thinking of you as always, with my love God bless. Rest in Peace Yours Dot. x Published in paper 12/06/2007
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BISHOP
BISHOP Ted Remembering our dad and granddad who died six years ago today. Always in our hearts and will never be forgotten. All our love from all the Familyxxx Published in paper 12/06/2007
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County has the best employment figures
LATEST figures show that Worcestershire has the highest employment rate in the West Midlands and is above the national average. Some 79 per cent of people at working age in Worcestershire have a job, compared with 74 per cent nationally. There are 259,000
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Fast way into debt
SIR - Expensive cars zoom up and down Windermere Drive all day long. How many of their owners are up to their ears in debt? GEORGE COWLEY, Warndon, Worcester.
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WATKINS
WATKINS Sue nee Baldwin Proprietor of Celebrations Card Shop, St Johns. Passed away peacefully in hospital on June 6th, 2007, aged 52 years, shortly after the birth of her first grandchild Mason George. Dearly loved and treasured partner of Rob, much
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ATKINSON
ATKINSON Thomas Tom Passed away on June 2nd, 2007. Funeral service will take place at Worcester Crematorium on Thursday, June 14th, at 10.30 a.m. Flowers may be sent to A V Band. Published in paper 12/06/2007
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ROUSE
ROUSE Charles Are there Birthdays in heaven? Does the Angel blow his horn? Announcing to everyone that this is the day you were born, Can the stars be your balloons and angel food your cake? Presents wrapped in moonbeams, all the Angels helped to make
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Hand lost pills to us, say police.
ANY prescription tablets found in Worcester should be destroyed or handed in, warn city police. A woman has lost a purse containing an unknown quantity of an anti-convulsant and mood-stabilising drug designed to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder.
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To find out more about waste, hop on the bus
Visitors to the Three Counties Show will be able to learn more about recycling this year. Worcestershire County Council waste reduction team is sending a recycling bus to the famous agricultural show this weekend to encourage people to do more. Staff
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Don’t be put off by restaurant review
SIR - We eat regularly at the Bell in Eckington and have enjoyed many a large family celebration there. We have travelled to many different countries and eaten in many famous restaurants. Although our standards are therefore very high we have always
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What will happen to our businesses during roadworks?
TRADERS are "worried to death" that traffic chaos will cost them business when roadworks start on a busy Worcester shopping street. Shop owners are expecting to struggle when Severn Trent starts to dig up the road in Lowesmoor for investigatory work
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Girl, 11, injured in road accident
AN 11-YEAR-old girl had a lucky escape after she was in collision with a car as she made her way home from school in Worcester. The accident happened at 3.30pm yesterday, at the junction of St Peter's Drive and Bittern Road, St Peter's. A spokesman
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Horror at teacher’s 25ft fall from tree
A TEACHER has suffered serious leg injuries after falling about 25 feet from a tree while taking part in an activity at the Malvern Hills Outdoor Centre. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the centre in Old Hollow, Malvern, at about 11.45am
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Experts are often wrong, George
SIR - In reply to George Cowley (Letters, May 4). It may come as a shock to him to know there are billions of people suffering pain, turmoil, and hell on earth, who do not wish to live for eternity. He says all religious experts agree on eternity.
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How flippers and Hawaiian shirts helped us raise £100
A SLICE of Hawaiian life came to Worcester at the weekend. Staff from Vision Express donned Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts, floral garlands and even a pair of flippers on Saturday, June 9, when they raised £100 for charity. The Hawaii-themed fun day,
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DROITWICH: Tea and cakes with the mayor
FUN, food and fabulous weather helped to make an annual fete in Droitwich a great community event and the most successful fund-raiser ever. Dorset House in Blackfriars Avenue - a residential home for older people run by Agecare - staged its summer fete
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Diseases won’t be checking ID cards
SIR - John Shearon (Letters, June 5) urges the Government to require ID cards for access to health services. Has he considered the impact that this will have on public health? When people with communicable diseases start avoiding health services for
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Tickets for the show on offer at 1958 prices
THE Three Counties Show is celebrating its 50th anniversary on a permanent showground at Malvern by offering a limited number of tickets for this week's event at 1958 prices. Sharon Gilbert, show press officer, said: "Three Counties Agricultural Society
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Powick Bridge closure buses to cost £60,000
THE revised bus service which will operate in Worcester during the school summer holidays while Powick Bridge is closed for essential repairs will cost Worcestershire County Council £60,000. But Councillor Derek Prodger, the county council's cabinet
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MP’s day at school highlights shortfall
WORCESTER MP Mike Foster went back to school for the day as part of a global initiative to increase access to education. Mr Foster visited Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College to discuss with Year 8 pupils why 100 million children in the world miss
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Advice for children to deal with abuse
A NEW educational booklet to help children keep themselves safe is being offered to 231 schools in Worcestershire as part of the NSPCC's Don't Hide It campaign. In The Know is aimed at children aged eight to 11 and uses colourful illustrations, quizzes
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Four pupils win engineering scholarships
FOUR pupils from a Worcester independent school have been awarded prestigious scholarships for their engineering skills. Worcester's Royal Grammar School pupils Matthew Croydon, aged 16, from Redditch, Patrick McLeish, 16, from Bromyard, Daniel Walker
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Youngsters waiting on Parliament talk results
A WORCESTERSHIRE school was waiting to hear today whether it had won a national youth Parliament competition. Pershore High School pupils made it through to the finals of the Citizenship Foundation's National Youth Parliament Competition with a debate
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School helps to raise cash with every click
A SCHOOL in Worcester is raising funds for charity at the click of a button with a website co-founded by a former county teacher. A number of schools are signing up to the internet search engine everyclick .com, which generates funds for the user's chosen
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THE PROBUS CLUB OF WORCESTER SOUTH
THE club's first meeting took place at a private house in Kempsey in 1977. Several homes later, members now meet in very comfortable surroundings and with plenty of car-parking space at St Dunstan's Bowling Club, Greenhill, London Road, Worcester.
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OMBERSLEY GARDENING CLUB
THE year started with the annual general meeting, which was well attended, due in part to an excellent supper followed by a quiz. The spring show was very successful. The hall looked very colourful and beautiful with some spectacular flowers produced
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The EU’s done no good on my planet
SIR - I am sometimes accused of coming from another planet but the letter from Mr Moran, of Droitwich (May 30), quite surprised me. He points out what he sees as benefits of being in the EU. They rank up there with Alice in Wonderland on the fiction
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ST PETERS WI
BARBARA Rowberry, president for the evening as Maureen Matthews was on holiday, welcomed members to the May meeting, and thanked Dorothy Minton for the arrangement of sweet williams. Christine Williams then read the minutes of the last meeting and the
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WYCHBOLD
Flower Club: The speaker at the May meeting was Lynn Green, whose presentation Anything Goes proved to be a most rewarding experience. Flowers and foliage of choice quality were combined in arrangements that gave real pleasure, and it was obvious that
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Fun Day at Guildhall to attract volunteers
TO launch National Volunteers Week, Worcester Volunteer Centre organised a fun day at the Guildhall. More than 30 organisations took the opportunity to promote their work and look for more volunteers. There was face painting and circus skills equipment
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Money helps workplaces to be vibrant
THREE Worcestershire businesses have taken advantage of a recently expanded and highly successful grant scheme which has enabled them to convert redundant buildings into vibrant places of work. All three companies have successfully applied to the Redundant
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Dick is backing Cecil’s scrap swap scheme
ONE man's scrap is another's sculpture - that was the message from a green charity as it was relaunched by its new champion, Dick Strawbridge. The moustachioed former Army officer - who first appeared on TV as a contestant on Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge
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We’re here to help children one-to-one
LEARNING to read is one of the most fundamental skills for children to master. However, with television, the internet and computer games as distractions, children have steered away from books in recent times. Various schemes have been devised to help
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Mayor's Diary
There’s no doubt that Saturday, June 2, will go down as a day to be remembered in Worcester’s cultural life and indeed in mine because it marked the high point of the Elgar 150th birthday celebrations. It began when I hosted a lunchtime reception for
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Supermarket should leave St John’s alone
SIR - I read an article in the Daily Telegraph concerning Sainsbury in Barnes and was astonished how closely it mirrored our experience in St John's, Worcester. We had a similar scenario acted out by Sainsbury in support of an over-large development
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Immigrants only given translations if they ask
IMMIGRANTS in Worcester are not automatically given information in their mother tongue, it has been revealed. Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly has criticised councils for translating literature, reducing the need for immigrants to learn English. However
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Will hospital smoking ban really work?
NO one who visits Worcestershire Royal Hospital can fail to notice the smokers. Banished from the canopy just outside the main entrance, they now line the railings in front of the building or congregate under the bus shelter in the car park directly opposite
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TV vet rows into supermarket
A SUPERSTORE in Worcester played host to a celebrity vet preparing to take part in a barking-mad challenge. Joe Inglis, from BBC's Vets in Practice, visited Sainsbury's Windermere Drive store on Saturday, June 9, in his unusual boat - a giant dog bowl
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Not on our land, NHS tells smokers
SMOKERS face being banned from lighting up OUTSIDE Worcestershire hospitals. The nationwide ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces starts on Sunday, July 1, but county health chiefs aim to go one step further and ban smoking in all parts of their hospital
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Preece closes on new City signing
WORCESTER City manager Andy Preece is hopeful of signing at least one new player within the next week. Preece is currently in talks with two unnamed transfer targets as he attempts to bolster his squad for the Blue Square North campaign. Rapinder Gill