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Renewed hopes of keeping school in business
HOPES have risen of keeping open a closure-threatened village primary school after a shake-up of county council education chiefs. Longdon St Mary’s CE Primary School is due to shut at the end of the academic year because of dwindling pupil
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Warriors 25 Pirates 20 (Agg 46-32) - ballot
TRIUMPHANT Worcester Warriors reclaimed their Premiership status with a clinical display to see off Cornish Pirates in the Championship final at Sixways. Jubilant scenes greeted the final whistle as the Warriors players were presented with
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Warriors promoted to Premiership - ballot
• Read the full match report here. WORCESTER Warriors are back in the Premiership after beating Cornish Pirates at Sixways tonight. Richard Hill’s side ran out 25-20 winners in front of a sell-out crowd, giving them a 46-32 success
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LIVE COVERAGE - Warriors v Pirates
• Read the full match report here. IT'S judgement day for Worcester Warriors in their bid to bounce back to the Premiership at the first time of asking. Cornish Pirates visit Sixways tonight for the second leg of the Championship final
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M5 horror smash victims named
Worcestershire coroner Mr Geraint Williams has today opened the inquests into the deaths of two women who died on the M5 motorway on Friday. Audrey Kathleen Louise Buddle, aged 68, and Maureen Jones, aged 66, were both from Holmes Chapel in
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County made to endure long day
CENTURIES from Durham’s Gordon Muchall and Ian Blackwell ensured that Worcestershire were made to toil in the field on the opening day of their LV= County Championship Division One match at New Road. Having arrived back in Worcester in the early hours
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Join my team for dragon boat race
A DRAGON boating team made up of breast cancer survivors are looking to recruit new members for a race next month to raise money for the Worcestershire Breast Unit Campaign. Worcester Busters are a Worcester dragon boating team made up of breast cancer
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Harriers snap up Rovers captain
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers have signed Forest Green Rovers captain Luke Jones on a one-year deal. The 24-year-old centre-half, who can also play at right-back, becomes manager Steve Burr's first new addition of the summer. Jones made 45 appearances for
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We need to push ‘hospital at home’ services
A LEADING nurse says more needs to be done to promote “hospital at home” beds as health bosses close stroke and other rehabilitation beds in a Worcester hospital. Sandra Brennan, director of clinical development and lead executive lead nurse for NHS
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Extra trains earmarked to boost capacity on line
MORE and longer trains could be on the way to boost capacity on the Cotswold Line between Worcester and London. And Class 180 Adelante trains, which worked many services on the route from 2004 to 2008, could be in line for a surprise comeback. Train
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Addict shoplifter threatened security with needle
A HEROIN addict has reached the age where she needs to act responsibly, a court was told. Kirsty Gordani, aged 30, was ordered to comply with a drug rehabilitation requirement after admitting two counts of shoplifting. Gordani, of Fulbert Road, Pershore
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Koreans gain green ideas
STAFF and ministers from South Korea visited an environmentally friendly Worcester school for inspiration to build their own schools of the future. Red Hill CE Primary School, off London Road, welcomed the 21 visitors yesterday as part of visits to schools
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We must get tough on these litter louts
SIR – Regarding Peter Alcock’s letter (Worcester News, May 5) responding to your picture of the disgusting state of St Andrew’s Gardens in Worcester. As far as the question of more bins or more emptying, I feel that the situation would not improve
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'Attack victim's nose left hanging off'
A Worcester man was hit in the face with a pint glass and left “looking like something in a horror film” in a dispute over a seat at a city centre pub. Lee Pawley has admitted a charge of wounding at Worcester Crown Court but denies wounding with intent
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A right royal show
SIR – We hear of the republicans going on that we should not have a royal family. They ask what purpose do they fulfil and can we afford them? Last month’s royal wedding destroyed all these myths. There is nowhere else in the world that can
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Why not link up with Thomas & Friends?
SIR – With summer rapidly approaching, I wanted to let Worcester News readers know about how to get involved with Train Walks, a family-friendly Thomas & Friends-themed sponsored walk to raise funds for the National Autistic Society. Over the
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Support for firms hit by the Japanese tsunami
WORCESTERSHIRE manufacturers affected by temporary production shutdowns caused by the tsunami in Japan are to receive a £300,000 support package from the Manufacturing Advisory Service-West Midlands. The emergency funding will be available to companies
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Now allotments are on the Tory hit-list
SIR – Just weeks after a humiliating U-turn on the sale of the national forests the Conservative-led Government is to sell off allotments. Section 23 of the 1908 Smallholdings and Allotments Act, which orders that councils must provide sufficient
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"Be aware of the dangers" - tragic Emily's dad
A JURY in the inquest of a former Worcester schoolgirl who died while river boarding in New Zealand has returned a verdict of death by misadventure. Emily Jordan, of Trimpley, near Bewdley, died in 2008 after she became trapped underwater for 20 minutes
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Some of this graffiti is well worth a read
SIR – Walking through Worcester recently I’ve noticed the appearance of some thought-provoking (and provocative) graffiti. In London Road I read ‘Citizen not subject’ and later in Wyld’s Lane ‘Why can’t I be king?’ – the style and lettering of
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Chess: Worcester students in county title success
OVER 100 school champions took part in the Worcestershire stage of the national UK Chess Challenge at the University of Worcester. The star players were brothers James and Joseph Friar from Hagley High School. They both scored 5½ points from
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"I'm no hero" - blaze hero
A BRAVE man carried a frail elderly woman to safety as a blaze raged in the flat above her. Clive Dayus carried the woman he knows as “Betty” to a neighbour’s house as flames engulfed the maisonette above her ground-floor home in Chedworth
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Why the future is looking brighter for stroke patients
IF anyone is in need of a ray of sunlight in Worcestershire it is stroke patients and, at long last, it may just be breaking through those lowering thunder clouds. The Stroke Association has launched a £2.2 million appeal to create a centre in
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City blaze may not have been an accident - pic gallery
A FIRE which gutted the roofs of two Victorian buildings in Worcester may be suspicious, say police. The blaze began shortly before 11pm on Tuesday in a three-storey block of empty flats in Upper Tything. The A38 was closed in both directions
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Telford promotion may hit City in the pocket
WORCESTER City are hoping the promotion of Telford United will not hit their finances. The Bucks, who edged out Guiseley 3-2 in the Blue Square Bet North play-off final, provided one of the biggest pay days for the St George’s Lane club because of their
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Warriors win would boost the county - ballot
• Read the full match report here. IF Warriors win promotion to the Aviva Premiership tonight it will not only lead to rampant cheering in the stands, but could mean a major boost to Worcestershire’s economy. The added value to
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Come on you Warriors!
WORCESTER Warriors face their long-awaited date with destiny against Cornish Pirates in the Championship final tonight (7.45pm) and we’re urging all our readers to get behind Richard Hill’s men and cheer them on to victory. A city, like
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We haven’t been listened to over new homes plan
RESIDENTS are still upset over plans which will see homes overlooking their back garden. Worcester Community Housing has secured permission to build 16 houses on garages behind numbers 22-64 Ennerdale Close in Warndon, as previously reported. But 23
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Olympic joy for Worcester - ballot
WORCESTER has been chosen as one of the few cities to host the 2012 Olympic torch. Torchbearers will carry the flame from Land's End to 70 destinations across the UK, arriving in the Faithful City on Thursday, May 24, 2012. Worcester
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Roar us back to the Premiership!
OUR home crowd will be huge in the first 20 minutes of tonight’s crucial second leg of the Championship play-off final at Sixways. That opening quarter of the match will go a long way to settling the outcome of the match and the Warriors fans can have
