Worcestershire | Archive | 2005 | January
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The BBC Good Food Show, sponsored by npower gas, Britain's biggest and most exciting food event takes place at The NEC Birmingham from the 24th - 28th November and this year it offers even more exciting food experiences. more...
Get out your stetsons and dust off your cowboy boots for a high-charged, non-stop party of the best country hits at Dudley Concert Hall on Saturday 20th November at 7.30pm. more...
Viva Musica's latest concert - Songs My Mother Taught Me - takes place at Dudley Concert Hall this weekend. more...
The NC Big Band will be taking to the stage for a charity event at Dudley Concert Hall tomorrow night (Friday October 15) at 7.30pm. more...
There are just some folk you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of and a washed up former CIA agent played by Denzel Washington would certainly fit into this bracket. more...
Dudley alternative rock band Introvert were pipped to the first place post in the latest heat of the Robin Live Band of the Year Competition. more...
All-girl Halesowen rock group Insomnia will make their debut in Stourbridge this weekend. more...
Tribute act Bootleg McCartney are set to take Brierley Hill music fans on a magical history tour this weekend. more...
Kinver Light Operatic Society's latest outing Ski Whizz proved more of a yawn-fest than a comedy. more...
Hagley Theatre Group's youth section will be staging its magical version of The Wizard of Oz this week. more...
Amblecote's Glasshouse Studio Theatre plays host to a night of funky self-penned soul music with the Jessica Doughty Trio this week. more...
NICK Vincent, the new executive director - a new title for the man at the top, incidentally - of the Three Counties Agricultural Society looks to me for all the world like the head of a successful high school. more...
POLITICIANS often worry that they aren't quite in touch with younger members of the electorate and that British youth has no interest in Westminster. more...
THE defection of Oxfordshire MP Robert Jackson last weekend has been puzzled over all week by Westminster observers. more...
MIKE Foster was taken back to his pre-Westminster teaching days this week when he visited Bishop Perowne High School. more...
IN the latest bizarre twist to the fox hunting saga, fashion trend setters are turning to the country sport for a lead. The politicians may not like it, but ladies of suitable shape are snapping up the skin tight breeches and smartly tailored hunting jackets that are de rigueur for female hunt followers on horseback. more...
I REGRET voting Labour in 1997 and now it's perfectly plain that voting for any of the Lib-Lab- Con coalition will achieve us nothing but a US-media dominated dictatorship. more...
ANDREW Hall rambles on, aimlessly and without realism, about Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Mugabe and Pope Pius XII, (Letters, Wednesday, January 12). more...
N TAYLOR stated (Letters, Friday, January 14) that "the taxpayers have poured £10m a day into disaster relief since Boxing Day". more...
A LAW has come into force that makes smacking children illegal. The NSPCC and government's argument centres around the idea that the trauma caused can have a long-term psychological effect and children do not have the same protection from assault that adults do. more...
WHAT a fuss is being made over Prince Harry wearing a swastika. Anyone else wearing it, no notice would have been taken. more...
HOW nice of John Norwood of Kidderminster to tell Worcester people which political party we dislike in council. more...
JUST before Christmas, I received a letter from Margaret Harper, the Conservative candidate in Worcester. more...
A TWO-day show for smallholders and gardeners that made its debut in 2002 and attracted more than 20,000 visitors from across the UK last year is on course to break all records in 2005. more...
REGARDING Mike Foster's article (Evening News, Thursday, January 13), I would like to say that the £3.4bn a year would definitely be more useful in our Social Services and not used for cleaning up the disgusting mess some people leave on our pavements and everywhere else. more...
PATHETIC... Mike Foster must think that the electorate was born yesterday. more...
FEBRUARY approaches and the annual wind-up, trying to make us feel guilty for Auschwitz, begins. more...
JOHN Phillpott (Seven Days, January 15) is being ironic. more...
I THINK opening all hours would be good for business, create more jobs and stop all the people being turfed out at a certain time. more...
IF Dave Bradley's moustache is worth more than £25,000, how much is George Cowley's beard worth? more...
I THINK the big picture to which Dan Wicksteed was referring was that there are 28,000 more teachers and 105,000 more teaching assistants than there were in 1997. more...
TAILS will be wagging in Malvern next month as the town hosts a dog show in aid of the tsunami disaster appeal. more...
CHARITABLE water workers at Severn Trent have swapped ties for T-shirts to raise £27,000 for the tsunami disaster appeal. more...
BRING and buy sale in Droitwich raised more than £1,000 for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. more...
HOUSEHOLDERS in a Worcester road joined forces and organised a jumble sale to raise more than £1,000 for the victims of the Asian tsunami. more...
THERE is something profoundly depressing about the way boys' football has now become infected with the growing unpleasantness in British society. more...
Is this the rape of our rights? more...
THE BBC is joining forces with a university to record accents and regional speech variations. more...
WOMEN reeking of gin, Edwardian jailers, drunken sailors - all have been found haunting Worcester's Guildhall. more...
A PENSIONER who was left homeless after a fire ravaged the block of flats where he lived has thanked the people who helped him get back on his feet. more...
A TINY autistic six-year-old has overcome his disabilities by discovering he can beat the big boys at motorcycling. more...
A TEACHER from Worcestershire is swapping school books for skis to take part in the world's toughest polar race. more...
IT'S seven o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock is ringing, it's dark outside and it seems as though it's particularly hard to get out of bed these days. more...
RESIDENTS' efforts to be environmentally friendly are being scuppered by city council planning restrictions barring them installing solar panels, it has been claimed. more...
AN ecologist who underwent chemical contamination tests said a trip to the European Parliament was a huge success. more...
THE RSPB is appealing to people in Worcestershire and Herefordshire to take part in the world's biggest bird survey. more...
HUGH and Kay Higgins' married life started with an argument when Hugh trod on Kay's wedding dress as they walked down the aisle in St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem. more...
A CAMPAIGNER for flood defences in Worcester has visited victims of the freak weather in Carlisle. more...
THERE are critics of the rugby union structure in this country. However, our break from the Zurich Premiership has been invaluable for a number of key players. more...
AT LEAST four Kidderminster Harriers players are up for grabs -- but boss Stuart Watkiss is not about to hound them out of the club. more...
JOHN Brain has dismissed suggestions that he's turned down Andrew Mehrtens. more...
ANDY Keast has no doubts over his Worcester side's sharpness ahead of their trip to Kingsholm. more...
DROITWICH Dolphins hosted the first round of the Worcester Winter League. more...
WORCESTER Royal Grammar School started where they left off at the end of the 2004 indoor season by thrashing a good Droitwich `B' side by 50 runs in the Worcestershire Cricket Bo-ard League. more...
AT LEAST four Kidderminster Harriers players are up for grabs -- but boss Stuart Watkiss is not about to hound them out of the club. more...
HEREFORD United's biggest home win for more than a year may have guided them through to the fourth round of the FA Trophy -- but it did little to swell the club's bank balance. more...
JOHN Brain has dismissed suggestions that he's turned down Andrew Mehrtens. more...
WORCESTER City chairman Dave Boddy looked a lonely figure as he wandered around a wind-battered St George's Lane on Thursday evening. more...
ANDY Keast has no doubts over his Worcester side's sharpness ahead of their trip to Kingsholm. more...
POSITIVE Worcester Wolves are determined unbeaten giants London United will not tower above them on points in tonight's big clash. more...
WORCESTER City chairman Dave Boddy looked a lonely figure as he wandered around a wind-battered St George's Lane on Thursday evening. more...
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