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Commemorative garden opening attended by 500
CROWDS of people gathered to witness the official unveiling of the Pershore Commemorative Garden this weekend. The sun shone on more than 500 spectators who attended the service at Abbey Park on Sunday, which also marked the 66th anniversary
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Let's give our youngsters a chance
HELP us find jobs for local youngsters facing record youth unemployment levels. That's our plea to the county's businesses and trainers today as we launch our '100 in 100' campaign. Your Worcester News has teamed up with the National
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Complexities of Championship final explained
WORCESTER Warriors step out at the Mennaye Field tomorrow night for the first leg of the Championship final against Cornish Pirates (7.45pm) in what is expected to be a tight contest. Just one point separated the two teams following an aggregate score
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Pair sign extended contracts
JACK Byrne and Nick Wright will stay at Kidderminster Harriers after the club triggered one-year extension clauses in their contracts. Midfielder Byrne impressed manager Steve Burr after scoring seven goals in 37 appearances this season and has agreed
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Spire is struck by lightning in storms
THIS dramatic picture was taken by a Worcester News reader during one of a series of thunderstorms that hit Worcester over the weekend. A CCTV camera at the top of St Andrew’s Spire in Worcester was damaged after the tower took a direct hit from lightning
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Phil steps up for challenge
A BUSINESSMAN raised £11,000 for charity by running more than 150 miles across the Sahara Desert. Phil Newton, chairman of Print Strategy Europe based in Droitwich, completed the Sahara Marathon Des Sables – a 156-mile endurance race across rocky
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Inkberrow Women's Institute
PRESIDENT Sheila Williams welcomed members and visitors to our resolutions meeting. A reply had been received from Worcestershire County Council regarding our bus petition stating that amended proposals will affect 25 bus services instead of the
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Anglo-Hellenic Club
ON a sunny spring evening in April, club chairman Peter Reynolds presented the second travelogue of the 2011 programme The Corfu Trail. Peter spent two weeks in the autumn of 2010 trekking the 220km trail following coastal footpaths, mountain
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St Peter's Women's Institute
THE hall looked very spring-like with tables covered with green cloths and a posy of daffodils on each one. The trading stall was full of interesting items. The raffle consisted of 20 prizes and there was a delicious buffet. We were ready for
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Cleobury Mortimer Royal British Legion
ON Thursday, April 28, the Cleobury Mortimer branch of the Royal British Legion had an interesting all-day coach outing to investigate some aspects of the Secret War. After leaving Cleobury at 8.15am, the first stop was Chicksands, near Bedford
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Inner Wheel Club of Droitwich Spa
MEMBERS attended their monthly meeting on April 18 at the Chateau Impney Hotel. An informal evening had been arranged, which included a lively and entertaining quiz. Tantalising questions such as the meaning of cainolophobia and the name of the
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Lovely bubbly
SIR – There is nothing wrong with champagne, John Phillpott (Worcester News, April 30), providing you have the wherewithal to buy it. Good luck to the royal couple. GEORGE COWLEY Worcester
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Boy ‘devastated’ after holiday raid by shed-breakers
THIEVES who raided a shed in Worcester have deprived a 12-year-old boy of his prized fishing equipment. A mini motorbike worth about £650 was also stolen during the burglary in Borrowdale Drive, Warndon. Tina Portman said her son Lewis was
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Next police chief may listen to us
SIR – From recent experience it seems that if you have a problem with the police in Worcester, there is little point in writing to Chief Constable Paul West. In my opinion the letters are either intercepted by the lower ranks, or he cannot be
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May I suggest you take up reading...
SIR – If Geoff Williams (Worcester News, May 7) and Richard Morris (Worcester News, May 7) would care to look up my letter of April 30 on the Worcester News website, they will see that I posted my apology to Chris Cawthorne the morning after
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Pupils get close up and personal at Auschwitz
IT is the hair that upsets the pupils the most. It fills one room in a building in Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where thousands of prisoners were starved, forced to work or killed during the Second World War. What many people don’t know is
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Why can’t our city be like Leamington?
SIR – I visited Leamington Spa last Friday and what a pleasure it was. It was an easy 45-minute run and there were clear signs for parking. Okay, the sun was shining but everywhere was clean and tidy, and there was a good selection of high street
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We bingo players are so grateful
SIR – For the last four years we bingo players in Pershore have played every Monday night at Cherry Orchard House and have run raffles for various charities. We have now disbanded and the final proceeds of these raffles amounted to £500, which
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Inkberrow - Gannow Wood
THIS is a lovely walk in the gentle countryside between Inkberrow and Bow Brook. Full of variety, it includes Gannow Wood, a small but special place which is a remnant of ancient woodland and therefore has a rich flora and fauna, including masses
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Thank you, Mike, you have done a great job
SIR – Just over a year ago I was Mayor of Worcester and I worried whether the deputy Councillor Mike Layland would be well enough to take over. Mike had undergone a couple of operations and though he was upbeat I was concerned that there were
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Paradise for gardeners
WITH the Worcestershire landscape looking like the Arctic for a good part of the winter and then rocketing to 78F only half way through spring, our poor old gardens probably don’t know whether they’re coming or going. Which makes next week
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...And another thing
*GROWING numbers of people are becoming fascinated by the story of the Titanic, the so-called unsinkable ship that went down with catastrophic loss of life after hitting an iceberg in 1912. The OOPS theatre company comprises a group of Worcestershire-based
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Painters’ paradise is pretty as a picture
WHEN Joan and Rob Roberts moved back to Bewdley in December 2007, the garden at their new home was nothing more than a pile of grass and rubble. But after three years of hard graft, the space surrounding Toll House Cottage has been transformed
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Farmers' Market with Caroline Wright - May 7, 2011
NORMALLY, at this time of year, Worcestershire asparagus growers are hoping for a few weeks of warm weather to get their delicious shoots ready for the first crop around about now. However, this year, given the Mediterranean temperatures we
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Pippa and singing pooch set tongues wagging
BRITAIN’S Got Talent has been busy filming a Worcester opera sensation and her dog at home. Pippa Langhorne and her dog Buddy became over-night stars after they impressed judges on the ITV show with their rendition of the classic Pie Jesu. On Friday
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Put your brain into gear before logging on
THE advent of the internet is quite possibly the greatest development in communications since the invention of the Gutenberg press. At one end of the scale we have images from the latest Third World country to be ripped apart by revolution. At
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Skipper Pennell returns to the side
CAPTAIN Chris Pennell returns to the starting line-up for Worcester Warriors in the first leg of the Championship final against Cornish Pirates in Penzance tomorrow night (kick-off 7.45pm). Pennell has been ruled out of action since the victory over
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There’s no excuse for incompetent service
THE Worcester News carries a food review every week and never fails to give a balanced critique of a local hostelry’s gastronomic offerings. I have for some time regarded this feature as an excellent check on pubs and restaurants. After all
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9 May to 16 May, 2011
100 YEARS AGO: YESTERDAY, a serious accident befell Benjamin Vine, 85 years of age, residing in Ombersley Road. He was proceeding along Ombersley Road with a grass roller but, losing control of the machine, was dragged close to the tram lines
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9 May to 16 May, 2011
THIS WEEK IN 1991: DEMOLITION work on the outdated Wates flats at Dines Green, Worcester, finally started this week. A big crowd of local people, including former residents of the 48 concrete flats in Tudor Way, cheered as the demolition ball
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Surgeon fined for crash that killed grandmother of 9
A SURGEON who caused the death of a grandmother-of-nine in a crash on a country road has been fined at Worcester Crown Court and banned from driving for 12 months. Robert Padwick, a surgeon at Hereford County Hospital, was fined £2,000 with
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Young guns retain England places
WARRIORS duo Matt Kvesic and Andy Short have been included in England under 20s head coach Rob Hunter’s 26-man squad for the Junior World Championship (JWC) in Italy, which kicks off on June 10. The Sixways youngsters played a big part for the Red Rose
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Double blow for me in Derbyshire defeat
AS you can imagine, I was feeling pretty down on Sunday evening. Not only had we lost to Derbyshire in the Clydesdale Bank 40 but I picked up an injury which is likely to keep me out for around three weeks. I was running in to bowl the fifth ball of
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Warriors will have 600 fans at Pirates
A SIX-hundred-strong army of die-hard Warriors fans will make the 500-mile round trip to Penzance for tomorrow night’s Championship final first leg with Cornish Pirates (7.45pm). Officials at the Mennaye Field have a handful of tickets left before the
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Horror as dogs found 'starving' at home
SIX dogs, one of them dead, have been found in a Worcester house after apparently being left uncared for for two weeks. All but one of the dogs had apparently been kept in cages in separate rooms at the address in Dines Green. The five dogs, two chihuahuas
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Hill out to avoid two-legged final hoodoo
OUTSIDE of the Championship, two-legged finals are a rare device by which to decide the overall winner of a competition. For Warriors head coach Richard Hill, though, the unusual format is fast-becoming ten-a-penny. For the second year running, Hill
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Middleton efforts secure convincing county victory
WORCESTERSHIRE 60-plus started their season by romping to a 121-run win in the traditional opening cricket friendly at Somerset. The visitors were put into bat first at Bagborough CC, near Taunton, with openers Steve Daniels and Keith Middleton (75)
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Judge gags facts in paedo hearing
A JUDGE refused to hear details of a paedophile’s crime in open court despite it already being in the public domain. Deputy district judge Timothy Gascoyne refused to hear from the Crown Prosecution Service and cut off the defence before they could speak
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Care-free Pirates can heap pressure on Warriors
HEAD coach Richard Hill has taken another swipe at the ‘crazy’ Championship play-offs format ahead of the first leg of Worcester Warriors’ final showdown with Cornish Pirates. The Sixways boss takes his promotion-hopefuls to The Mennaye Field
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New Road return for wicketkeeper Scott
WORCESTERSHIRE have re-signed wicketkeeper Ben Scott on loan for at least a month. New Road director of cricket Steve Rhodes has moved to bring in the 29-year-old from Middlesex, who was with the County at the start of last season, after
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Shotgun couple avoid jail
A MAN who was caught with a shotgun despite not having a licence has avoided a jail term. Stephen Rendle was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £85 costs when he appeared for sentencing at Worcester Magistrates Court. The 53-year-old
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Jail for living room attack man
A DRUNKEN Worcester man who burst into a house and beat up the occupant in an unprovoked attack has been sent to prison for two years. David Hilton was rowing in the street with his girlfriend when he took exception to remarks from passers-by
