Worcestershire | Archive | 2005 | March
A NEW recruitment agency has been set up in Malvern to help people over the age of 45 back into work. more...
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...
A SUPPLIER of pollution monitoring equipment has set up a company in Poland with help from the Chamber of Commerce, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. more...
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...
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...
A NEW website has been launched by the Worcestershire Society of Chartered Architects. more...
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...
L SPITERI (Letters, Monday, February 21) appears to have his statistics in a twist - may I straighten them? more...
"COUNCIL blocks bid for barrier" read the headline (Evening News, Wednesday, February 9). more...
WHAT a load of rubbish we read about wheelie bins. more...
A CHILDREN'S entertainer went back to school to raise money for the Asian Tsunami appeal. more...
n RESISTANCE is futile - it's democracy, but not as we know it. more...
THE situation is clear - too many disillusioned students are leaving under-qualified and under-prepared for the world of work. more...
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...
IT'S official - teachers are overworked and underpaid. more...
WORCESTER Mayor Coun Allah Ditta has been asked to lead a top-level delegation from the city to his former home - Kashmir. more...
TEENAGE pregnancies have risen in Worcestershire despite millions of pounds of Government money being spent to bring them down. more...
TINY tots and their parents queued in the cold in an attempt to be crowned Baby of the Year 2005. more...
MORE than 1,000 visitors enjoyed woodland craft demonstrations at Worcester Woods Country Park. more...
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...
A WORCESTER woman has sent out an SOS in a bid to save the city's famous Worcestershire Sauce. more...
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...
CUSTOMERS and staff at a Worcester leisure centre were evacuated after a suspected gas leak. more...
TILLY Merrell, the little girl who was told she couldn't eat, was back home yesterday and enjoying tasty fast food. more...
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...
METAL joints that do not melt when bodies are cremated are to be removed from people's ashes and recycled. more...
IT may sound insensitive, but Worcester Crematorium officials are launching a scheme to recycle "spare" metal body parts. more...
THOUSANDS have signed up to go bananas in their pyjamas for the St Richard's Hospice PJ Day on Friday. more...
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...
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...
A DETERMINED Droitwich duo are raking in the cash as they prepare to smash the world record for the longest rally. more...
WITNESSES are being sought after £300 was stolen from Jerrum Butchers in Barbourne Road, Worcester. more...
CASH and valuables - estimated at more than £500 - were taken from Tony Tsangs Chinese takeaway and restaurant in Barbourne Road, Worcester. more...
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 is due to start on a new £3m doctors' surgery in Malvern today. more...
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...
A MALVERN school will be bidding to become a specialist business college next month. more...
In The Firing Line comment piece by Mark Dobson more...
DREW Hickey will make a decision over his Sixways future in the next few weeks. more...
PERSHORE Town's Andy Hodgetts bagged a hat-trick as they continued their sterling fight against relegation. more...
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...
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...
BRINGSTY Sports and Claines will contest the final of the Worcester League's Bernard Finnigan Cup. more...
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...
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...
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...
DREW Hickey will make a decision over his Sixways future in the next few weeks. more...
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...
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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