HOW about a bit of praise for one of our local services for a change? I'd like to say well done to the blokes at the 'tip' in Malvern, or as it should probably be called, the local recycling centre.

Every time I go to the tip, and I have been a few times of late, there's a couple of blokes to help unload. They advise which skip your junk goes into - and not only are they generally useful but are also amusing, too. A woman got out of her car and asked where the 'green waste' should go, and the bloke pointed her to a skip, some three yards away with a big sign on it reading... green waste ! Recycling is the in thing and even I have started to do it.

I went 'down the Lane' on Monday to see City play Leigh and enjoyed it. I thought City looked a a lot better than the last time I went - they very much deserved to win and probably should have scored more.

The great thing at the Lane is you know where everyone stands - many people have been in the same place for years. Talking of sport, I know half of the speakers went down at the rugby on Saturday. For those who don't know, I try and keep people up to date with what's going on at Sixways. However, the east stand became a Bradders-free zone on Saturday. There were many who thought it was better, but I must thank the 6,000 people who told me it wasn't working.

I thought I'd heard the last of it until I walked into the Chinese takeaway and this bloke told me the speakers weren't working.

Talking of sport, which I seem to do every week, did anyone watch the Six Nations rugby last weekend? For me, the highlight was not some of the amazing tries, the Irish comeback in Paris, or the brave Italians pushing England all the way, but the behaviour of the Scottish forward Scot Murray.

If you missed it, he was sent off for kicking out at one of the Welsh players who had tackled him late.

The referee had little choice but to send him off, but Murray apologised to the ref and to the man he'd kicked before he walked off. He walked off with his head held high and without a single word of protest to the ref.

And the man he kicked - Ian Gough - was going to give evidence on his behalf. It was a rare sporting moment. It's Welford Road tonight, Tigers v Warriors, and it always rains in Leicester.

l Dave Bradley is the BBC Hereford & Worcester sports correspondent.