TORY party leader Michael Howard visited Hartpury College yesterday (Thursday), while Sir Michael Spicer kick-started the party's campaign in West Worcestershire by door-knocking across the district.

He is in Malvern today (Friday) and will attend a meeting at Holy Trinity Church Hall on Wednesday (April 20), at 6pm.

Leominster's Conservative campaigner Bill Wiggin was in Tenbury Wells this week and will visit the Bromyard Centre on Tuesday (April 19), at 7.30pm.

West Worcestershire Labour candidate Qamar Bhatti will attend Sunday's public meeting of candidates at Christ Church, at 2.30pm, while the party's Leominster candidate Paul Bell will be in Leominster on Saturday.

The Green Party's Malcolm Victory gives a speech at 2.30pm on Thursday, April 21, at Trinity Hall, Link Top, and Leominster representative Felicity Norman will campaign in Ledbury tomorrow, from 10am to noon.

The UK Independence Party's West Worcestershire candidate Caroline Bovey spoke to commuters at Great Malvern Station yesterday and has been canvassing around the area.

n Sir Michael Spicer lives in Cropthorne, near Pershore, not Hanley Swan, as was wrongly stated last week.