KIDDERMINSTER Harriers appear to have been rescued by a "Bermuda triangle" connection which is on course to take over the club.

Aggborough Holdings' third mystery backer is Gordon Howard, a wealthy Bermuda-based businessman, who has watched Harriers games when visiting family in the area.

Howard has joined vice-chairman Barry Norgrove and retired businessman Neil Savery in ironing out a deal to buy Lionel Newton's majority shareholding.

Liverpool-born Howard, who is in his 60s, made his fortune in investment banking and has relatives in Kinver, near Kidderminster.

Harriers chairman Colin Youngjohns said: "He first came to our notice when he could see the problems we'd got and he's now come to our assistance."

Youngjohns is likely to keep his place on the Harriers board along with John Baldwin, though Steve Hodge and Richard Painter have left. Savery is set to join as a result of the take-over.

Norgrove, who has promised changes once take-over contracts are signed, said: "Kidderminster Harriers is in my blood and it is in the blood of Neil Savery, and we are delighted that the club is being kept in local hands.

"We know we've got to learn from our mistakes and we know that changes have to be made to the way the club attracts investment. Hopefully, we can do that quickly because getting the club back to the League at the earliest opportunity would be an absolute dream."

Harriers boss Stuart Watkiss is in talks with ex-Walsall and Rochdale right-back Wayne Evans, 33.