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Help for dinosaurs in the job market

A NEW recruitment agency has been set up in Malvern to help people over the age of 45 back into work.   more...

Top PR prize in Kevin's honour

A NEW honour for public sector communicators is being launched this week in memory of an award-winning Worcestershire PR manager, who died in 2003.   more...

Pollution data firm's Polish performance

A SUPPLIER of pollution monitoring equipment has set up a company in Poland with help from the Chamber of Commerce, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.   more...

Bulmer boosts brewer's profits

BREWING giant Scottish & Newcastle has revealed that its purchase of Hereford-based Bulmer has helped it to post an 11 per cent rise in underlying profits.   more...

Safety tips on offer

SMALL and medium-sized businesses in Herefordshire and Worcestershire were given the chance to improve their health and safety strategies at a free awareness day held at Worcester Rugby Club.   more...

* Body bits to be recycled * The girl who couldn't eat is back - and she loves Marmite! * One-woman

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Web plans

A NEW website has been launched by the Worcestershire Society of Chartered Architects.   more...

My list of demands for a politician of the future

WITH an election looming in the near future, we can all have our dreams and, although I know it will never happen, I would like my chosen Member of Parliament to adhere strictly to the following pledges.   more...

Why lock ourselves into failure?

L SPITERI (Letters, Monday, February 21) appears to have his statistics in a twist - may I straighten them?   more...

Let's show some sense

"COUNCIL blocks bid for barrier" read the headline (Evening News, Wednesday, February 9).   more...

A load of rubbish

WHAT a load of rubbish we read about wheelie bins.   more...

Back to class for sake of tsunami victims

A CHILDREN'S entertainer went back to school to raise money for the Asian Tsunami appeal.   more...

Opposition intimidated

n RESISTANCE is futile - it's democracy, but not as we know it.   more...

* DOES YOUR TOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN? 28 FEBRUARY - 5 MARCH BABY OF THE YEAR, COME ALONG TO CRO

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Students say yes to a vocational option

THE situation is clear - too many disillusioned students are leaving under-qualified and under-prepared for the world of work.   more...

Speaking personally

AFTER years of number crunching, charts, letters and protests in Westminster, a fair-funding campaigner took the chance to put her case straight to Tony Blair.   more...

Overworked, underpaid - and now that's official

IT'S official - teachers are overworked and underpaid.   more...

Mayor may head-up top-level visit to Kashmir

WORCESTER Mayor Coun Allah Ditta has been asked to lead a top-level delegation from the city to his former home - Kashmir.   more...

Millions spent - but still there are more teen mums

TEENAGE pregnancies have risen in Worcestershire despite millions of pounds of Government money being spent to bring them down.   more...

In the spotlight for photo competition

TINY tots and their parents queued in the cold in an attempt to be crowned Baby of the Year 2005.   more...

Enjoying a walk on wildside

MORE than 1,000 visitors enjoyed woodland craft demonstrations at Worcester Woods Country Park.   more...

Gay guys aim to tie the knot

A GAY couple from Worcestershire are pre-paring to be one of the first to marry under new laws which come into force at the end of this year.   more...

It's a priceless resource... so save our sauce!

A WORCESTER woman has sent out an SOS in a bid to save the city's famous Worcestershire Sauce.   more...

New site boasts plenty of extras

A FIRST class service is being promised at a new, bigger and wheelchair-friendly post office, which opened today in St John's, Worcester.   more...

Gas scare forces swimmers out in cold

CUSTOMERS and staff at a Worcester leisure centre were evacuated after a suspected gas leak.   more...

The girl who couldn't eat is back - and she loves Marmite!

TILLY Merrell, the little girl who was told she couldn't eat, was back home yesterday and enjoying tasty fast food.   more...

Foster tries again with bus pass Bill

EVERY pensioner would be given a free bus pass under a Bill to be re-introduced to Parliament by Worcester MP Michael Foster this week.   more...

BODY BITS TO BE RECYCLED

METAL joints that do not melt when bodies are cremated are to be removed from people's ashes and recycled.   more...

Recycling body bits is making sense

IT may sound insensitive, but Worcester Crematorium officials are launching a scheme to recycle "spare" metal body parts.   more...

A day in your PJs!

THOUSANDS have signed up to go bananas in their pyjamas for the St Richard's Hospice PJ Day on Friday.   more...

Two hours to cut driver free from BMW

A MAN whose BMW ploughed into the side of a house escaped with only arm injuries after fire crews needed nearly two hours to cut him from his car.   more...

City MP suggests a new hospital

A COMMUNITY hospital to serve patients in Worcester and Droitwich would ease pressure on beds at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, according to city MP Michael Foster.   more...

Pair ready to smash a world record!

A DETERMINED Droitwich duo are raking in the cash as they prepare to smash the world record for the longest rally.   more...

Cash stolen from butchers

WITNESSES are being sought after £300 was stolen from Jerrum Butchers in Barbourne Road, Worcester.   more...

Takeaway

CASH and valuables - estimated at more than £500 - were taken from Tony Tsangs Chinese takeaway and restaurant in Barbourne Road, Worcester.   more...

Clean thoughts

STAFF at Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust are reflecting on the hard work that has been done over the last year to improve the patient environment.   more...

Work set to start

WORK is due to start on a new £3m doctors' surgery in Malvern today.   more...

Harm probe launched

A NATIONAL inquiry into self-harm among young people is calling for individuals whose lives have been affected by the affliction to give evidence.   more...

Changes at school

A MALVERN school will be bidding to become a specialist business college next month.   more...

Sport

1/3/05 Solanki suffering selection suicide

In The Firing Line comment piece by Mark Dobson   more...

1/3/05 - Hickey ponders Sixways future

DREW Hickey will make a decision over his Sixways future in the next few weeks.   more...

Hodgetts is Pershore's shooting star

PERSHORE Town's Andy Hodgetts bagged a hat-trick as they continued their sterling fight against relegation.   more...

Top display keeps Division One place

KIDDERMINSTER and Stourport Athletics Club secured their Birmingham League Cross Country Division One status by finishing the season in ninth with 1,495 points.   more...

Page misses out on second by one point

RIDERS from Worcester St John's were able to look back on a job well done as the winter cyclo-cross season drew to a close with the 12th and final round of the West Midlands League at Rugeley.   more...

Extra-time cup joy as Bringsty net final place

BRINGSTY Sports and Claines will contest the final of the Worcester League's Bernard Finnigan Cup.   more...

No rush for new signings as Gardiner heads to neighbours

WORCESTER City player-manager Andy Preece admits there is no rush to draft in fresh faces in the final two months of the season unless the right players become available.   more...

Bulls battle is on the cards

HEREFORD United coach John Trewick is expecting another battle tonight as Eastwood Town return to Edgar Street in the FA Trophy fifth round replay (7.45pm).   more...

Hereford's Trophy hopes are lifted

COACH John Trewick believes Hereford United have a "good opportunity" of progressing into the last four of the FA Trophy following the quarter-final draw.   more...

Hickey ponders Sixways future

DREW Hickey will make a decision over his Sixways future in the next few weeks.   more...

1/3/05 - No rush for new signings as Gardiner heads to neighbours

WORCESTER City player-manager Andy Preece admits there is no rush to draft in fresh faces in the final two months of the season unless the right players become available.   more...

1/3/05 - Can Preece cultivate City's current crop?

DURING the fanfare of Andy Preece's unveiling last month, Worcester City chairman Dave Boddy shouted one of the player-manager's previous achievements from the rooftops.   more...

  
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