Worcestershire | Archive | 2006 | May
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A CREATIVE course in theatre performance for teenagers takes place at Malvern Theatres. more...
THE Three Billy Goats Gruff and other Furry Tales come to life at Hereford's Courtyard arts centre. more...
THE story of an undertaker's clerk who gets caught in his own web of lies is told in Malvern Theatre Players' next production, Billy Liar. more...
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DUBBED `a comedy in three courses', The Safari Party, by Tim Firth, is a cunning farce about three households holding a dinner party, where each course is served at a different house. more...
AN enchanting ballet is set to be performed on stage at the Swan Theatre, Worcester, this month. more...
FARCE and confusion are set to abound on a Droitwich stage later this month. more...
ANYONE who enjoyed Frankie Howerd's Up Pompeii, with its double entendres, sneaky slaves, beautiful girls and lustful soldiers, is being promised more of the same from a play in Worcester this month. more...
THREE winners of a county writing competition are set to have their work performed on stage later this month. more...
SORRY I didn't get to write my column for last week. I had an operation a few days ago for a hernia. Minor surgery, they call it. Well, let me tell you, it might be `minor' to them, but it certainly didn't feel very minor to me. more...
Malvern Cinema: Pierrepoint (15) 7.45pm, Mats Sat, Sun & Thurs 4.30pm. more...
WORLD-famous flautist Sir James Galway performs at Malvern Theatres with the London Mozart Players on Friday, May 12. more...
In adapting and staging Milton's epic 12-volume poem, the Oxford Stage Company was attempting the impossible. more...
LIVE music is set to take centre stage at a Worcestershire pub this month as it launches a regular acoustic evening. more...
AFTER working in newspapers for 16 years, a Malvern mum has put down her pen and started her own business making stained glass. more...
Bromyard's Festival of Town Criers was once again a success worth shouting about with 35 criers visiting from around the world. more...
GARDENERS can delight in spectacular floral displays, celebrity masterclasses and shopping galore at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. more...
SUPERMARKETS now dominate the business landscape. Once, the dinosaurs of heavy and light industry strode the earth. No longer - the new big employers require shelf-stacking skills instead of the ability to work a lathe. On the edge of every town and city these brick leviathans can now be observed, swallowing shoals of shoppers and their trolleys. more...
SIR - N Taylor's latest tirade (Letters, April 26) accuses Liz Smith of talking "absolute rot", but I'm afraid his blinkered vision will solve nothing. more...
SIR - N Taylor writes that our road congestion problems are created by the politicians who believe they can go on building houses in our city. more...
SIR - I noted with interest the recent moves to rejuvenate Fort Royal Hill and to create a trail that will mark Worcester's climactic place in the English Civil War. more...
SIR - Who was it said about the Conservatives: more...
SIR - The revelations about John Prescott having had an affair with one of his secretaries for two years by his own admission suggests he has been clearly telling porkies in his private life. What about his public life? more...
the babies gone? more...
SIR - Mark Tandy calls Worcester city councillors greedy, smooth-talking hypocrites simply because they try to balance their books from car parking charges to keep council tax down. more...
REDDITCH MP Jacqui Smith has been moved from her position of Schools Minister to Chief Whip in the Government reshuffle. more...
YESTERDAY'S elections have left Redditch Council without a controlling party. more...
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"IT is satisfactory to learn that Malvern's death rate for last year was only 8.7 per 1,000 of the population," said the Malvern News 100 years ago. more...
A FORMER pupil at a Malvern school has written a book about her childhood. more...
THE former executive director of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Learning and Skills Council has joined one of the UK's top security training companies. more...
Greggs has just opened its 155th store in The Shambles, Worcester. more...
RABJOHNS, the Worcester- based tax advisers and accountancy firm, has signed two new team members. more...
SKATEBOARDERS in Stourport are set to have their own park to enjoy their hobby in the town early next year. more...
A FORMER pupil of Worcester's blind college has been appointed to the House of Lords. more...
A THIRD Worcestershire petrol station was investigated by police after customers fell victim to an international credit card scam, it has been revealed. more...
ARSON is believed to be the cause of a fire in Wyre Piddle at the weekend which caused thousands of pounds of damage. more...
UNIVERSITY students scored when they organised a football tournament for primary school pupils. more...
ANOTHER Worcestershire artist is hoping his World Cup anthem will take the nation by storm as the country begins to get gripped with football fever. more...
A LESBIAN couple have been barred from drinking in a Hereford city pub after behaving too passionately at the bar. more...
A SPECIAL community project is being set up in Droitwich, urging residents to do their bit for the cash-stricken National Health Service. more...
STUDENTS at a city college are in desperate need of someone to pamper. more...
HOUSE burglaries in South Worcestershire have been slashed by a quarter, according to new crime figures. more...
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco says it wants a massive expansion of its store at Warndon Villages so people do not have to drive into the centre of Worcester. more...
AN asthmatic man had to go 36 hours without his inhalers and needed to pay £375 to get his vehicle back after his car was clamped in the former Courts car park in Worcester's Lowesmoor. more...
Prime Minister Tony Blair was today assessing the verdict of millions of voters on his nine years in power - with council election losses expected to trigger a swift Cabinet reshuffle. more...
THE Tories held on to Worcester City Council last night as voters kept the status quo in the city. more...
CHARITY fundraisers are limbering up for action in and around the Malvern Hills. more...
It was the alpaca's soft fleece that first convinced Val Fullerlove to start breeding them in 1993. more...
PASSERS-by in Malvern were treated to the unusual sight of couples in wedding clothes running through the streets. more...
WARM spring sunshine brought crowds of revellers to the centre of Malvern for the May Day party in Priory Park. more...
MALVERN Library is set to reopen next week, after the biggest refurbishment in its history. more...
schoolboy Max Blance became Max the Knight during an event at Eastnor Castle. more...
WE'VE always shared the concern of residents, who are in the best position to know, about how the roads around North Site will cope with what we now know will be 465 extra homes. more...
AFTER a turbulent few weeks, the English Symphony Orchestra has announced the Elgar Festival will go ahead as planned later this month. more...
POWER company National Grid is to face questions over its plan to put a gas installation in a field near the Malvern Hills. more...
A cancer sufferer who stayed in Malvern as a young child has acted as interpreter for a charity chairman on a visit to Belarus. more...
Stephen Fry has pulled out of Ledbury Poetry Festival because of acting commitments. more...
THE mastermind of a high-yield investment scheme which netted $4.3 million from duped backers has been jailed. more...
Bromyard will soon have its own shop dedicated to selling gollies in a rainbow of different colours. more...
POETRY of every description was the inspiration for this year's well-dressing competition. more...
FORGET the Spice Girls, a band claiming to be the oldest girl group in world history have qualified for the second round of TV pop contest the X Factor. more...
Three female staff were held up at knifepoint at a betting shop in Malvern. more...
CAN anyone help? I am trying to find Molly Brown. She lived at 3 Jamaica Road in 1954-55 and attended the Chase School at that time, where she had a friend called Liz. more...
EXTRA traffic generated by hundreds of new homes on the Persimmon development at North Site is the main concern of Malvern residents. more...
I would like to thank all those who took part in the annual Malvern Mayday celebrations last Saturday. Such a successful event is due to the dedication of so many people. more...
MALVERN Hills district councillors voted overwhelmingly in favour of plans for a multi-million pound development of 465 homes on the former DERA North Site. more...
I am shocked the Malvern Gazette should highlight Eoin McCarthy's campaign to sue the MoD (Malvern Gazette, April 28). more...
A NEW primary school may not be built on what will be Malvern's largest housing estate. more...
THE delay in constructing a new hospital for Malvern is not so much a matter of finance as indirectly due to the present government's obsession to close down the small, local, friendly community hospitals to drive medical services into the large, expensive, insolvent, centralised hospitals. more...
I READ with great interest Derek Baddeley's comments and proposals (Your Letters, April 28) regarding the existing Malvern Hospital. His ideas are the most sensible I have read or heard in the 30 years of procrastination regarding this issue. more...
I have just received a circular about waste minimisation from MHDC, which more...
I LIKE to feel we are getting full value for our increases in council tax. At last I can have some feeling of satisfaction. more...
Worcestershire Local Dental Committee continues to support the British Dental Association's view that the imposition of this target-driven NHS contract by the PCTs will fail to achieve the Government's primary aim of securing patient access to dental care. more...
I am writing in response to the many messages of support and sympathy sent, via me, to my son, Richard, after your front page article last week (Ledbury Reporter, April 28). more...
A cheese and wine evening will be held at Earl's Croome Village Hall on Friday, May 12, at 7.30pm. Tickets are £4 (concessions £3) on 01684 593780. more...
A BOAT was stolen from Upton Marina between April 17 and 27. It is believed the 5ft flat-bottomed boat, which is orange in colour, was stolen for its 20hp engine, valued at £1,500. Anyone with information should call police on 08457 444888. more...
n A JUMBLE sale at Longdon Village Hall tomorrow (Saturday) will raise money for the village primary school and St Mary's Church. The sale starts at 10.30am, entry is 20p for adults and free for children. Stalls will include bric-a-brac, books, clothing and refreshments. more...
A CONCERT of choral and instrumental music at Upton Baptist Church Room on Thursday (May 11) will raise funds for Upton in Bloom. Meadowsweet and the Cambrian Ensemble will perform from 7.30pm. Tickets are £5 on the door. more...
FOLK festival visitors queued up to use three portable toilets during the weekend's celebrations in Upton. more...
NEW flood defences will be in use in Upton in time for the winter. more...
TWO councillors are electing to spend the rest of their lives together by tying the knot after 30 years of friendship. more...
Some fairly wild rumours have been circulating in the village about possible widening of the track to the Outdoor Education Centre, with fears of more traffic, increased traffic speed and loss of land from the allotments. more...
DON'T forget the May fayre tomorrow (Saturday) at the hall. This is the annual fundraising event for all the village clubs and groups getting together to raise money - Christ Church, the garden club, the childrens' groups and others will all have tables offering fresh produce, cakes, plants, toys, books, games, bric-a-brac and plenty more. more...
Welland Pre-School's fundraiser for its new building is tonight (Friday), an 80s disco at the Pheasant at 730pm. Tickets are £5, to include lucky ticket prize draw and light refreshments. Dancing to Les Willis and his disco. more...
TOMORROW (Saturday), hurry along to the grand jumble sale at Powick Parish Hall at 1pm. All proceeds are for the Macmillan Peru Cycling Challenge. Organisers are Lyn and David Derritt. more...
NEXT week we launch our fashion show at Priors Court, Upper Pendock. This takes place on Thursday, June 15 at 7pm. Tickets available from (01684) 833287. more...
AN exhibition of work by invited painters and embroiderers will take place at Malvern Wells Village Hall on Sunday and Monday, May 28-29, 10am until 6pm. more...
OUR plant sale is tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm at the church room, Hollybush. Please come and buy cake and a wide variety of bedding plants. Plenty of parking in this very picturesque corner of Worcestershire. All welcome. more...
THE 1st Cradley Scouts are holding a barbecue open evening and annual meeting tonight (Friday) at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to come along and see what happens in Cubs, Beavers and Scouts. For more information, please call 01886 884553. more...
COLWALL Free Church will hold a new and nearly-new sale of clothes from 10.30am to 12.30pm today (Friday) and tomorrow at the church. Proceeds from the sale will be split equally between the Acorns Children's Hospice and church funds. more...
LAST week's fundraising efforts in aid of the parish hall proved very successful. Saturday's film show attracted over 60 people and the new chairs were much appreciated as a first step towards the refurbishment of the hall. more...
PLEASE remember the jumble sale tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm at Berrow/Pendock Village Hall. Doors open at 2pm. Please bring any items for various stalls - jumble, bric-a-brac, white elephant, cakes - during Saturday morning after 10am. All proceeds towards Berrow/Pendock churches to meet ever increasing running costs. more...
A FORMER leader of Wyre Forest District Council is celebrating after winning a seat in Thursday's local elections. more...
TOWN reserves were unlucky to concede a goal in the first two minutes of this West Midlands division two game at Langland Stadium. more...
WORCESTER Warriors will begin next season with a new state-of-the-art pitch and an increased capacity at Sixways. more...
MALVERN RFC's director of rugby David Robins had always said that survival in Midlands Two could go to the wire at Stoke on the last game of the season and he was proved right. more...
MALVERN U17 Pirates signed off their season in fine style last Sunday morning with a crushing 62 -3 victory over Walsall at Spring Lane. more...
MALVERN travelled a long way to conclude their season but did it in style demolishing a heavyweight Wolverhampton side by ten tries to one. more...
BARNARDS GREEN CC more...
MALVERN captain Andy Croft lost the toss and was asked to bat first on an excellent-looking wicket. more...
HANLEY Castle and Upton hosted Tenbury in this entertaining game in division three south of the Worcester Cricket League. more...
WITH the weather picking up and the Green's ground looking in top class order, the first WCL division one 2nd XI match of the season was against Pershore, recently relegated from the Birmingham league. more...
NOMADS 1st XI started the new Worcestershire County League division two season with a good away win at Kidderminster Victoria. more...
THERE was a successful start for Colwall 1sts in their first game in the Worcestershire County League following the move from the Western League this year. more...
QinetIq's adventure racing team have won through to the international Challenger World finals in Malta. more...
MALVERN 1st XI opened their Worcestershire County League division two campaign with an encouraging display against a good Belbroughton side. more...
POWICK lifted the Martley Cup after an enthralling final played at Worcester City's St George's Lane ground. more...
AN Army side containing six Fijian internationals will be the team to beat at the inaugural Ledbury Charity Sevens tournament at Ross Road on Sunday (May 7). more...
MALVERN Town have to wait until May 11 to see if they have gained promotion from the Harvey World Travel Midland Alliance after just their second season at that level. more...
SUCKLEY Harriers are hoping to recruit new members for next season's fixtures in the Mercian Junior Football League. more...
WELLAND Juniors would like to invite all club members to join in their end of season World Cup Day tournament and award presentations at the Upton Sports Pavilion' tomorrow (Saturday). more...
THE Mercian Festival Junior Football League is holding another six cup finals at Langland Stadium on Sunday (May 7). more...
WEST Malvern FC return to Worcester League division one action tomorrow (Saturday) when they visit Inkberrow A Reserves. more...
WITH the visitors winning the toss, the Villagers began the first half playing up hill and looked to contain Prinner for a potential second-half onslaught. more...
WITH a number of regulars unavailable due to suspension, injury and work commitments, Malvern Radar were down to just 11 players for the visit of fourth-placed Perrywood last Thursday. more...
RANGERS' ninth consecutive league defeat means that they are ever closer to relegation from the West Midlands division one. more...
`TABLE-toppers Oak Allstars were given a hard game before winning 5-3 at Belmont Keys in thesoccersite.co.uk Malvern League on Sunday. more...
IT took extra-time and penalties to separate Dynamo Ledbury and Bell Inn 98 when they met in thesoccersite.co.uk Malvern League's President's Cup on Sunday. more...
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TEAMS are needed for a knock-out crib competition being held in mid-May at Hanley Swan British Legion Club in aid of the Air Ambulance. more...
CAPTAIN Stacey Cole rounded off a highly successful year in charge of the Eggs Golf and Gambling Society by clinching the highly covetted Egg of the Year Trophy. more...
DAVE Dickerson, riding in the colours of Echelon Cycles, won the Velo Club Sevale 10-mile time trial last week, relegating the fastest club member Nick Stinton into second place. more...
LEDBURY swimmers are currently enjoying their best season to date and following a 70-point victory in the latest PGL Junior League gala at Pershore on Saturday evening they remain unbeaten in both this and the Wyvern League. more...
THE finals of the Malvern Table Tennis League's handicap competition were played at a new venue at the Foley Institute, Poolbrook, last week. more...
THE Malvern Table Tennis League season, sponsored by Brewin Dolphin Securities, drew to a close with the finals of the Pete Harrold competitions and the handicap. more...
AFTER hitting an unbeaten double century on day one of Worcestershire's three-day match against Bradford/Leeds UCCE, Daryl Mitchell returned to claim three wickets. more...
FORMER Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Saeed has signed up for Evesham as they aim to consolidate their place in Birmingham League Division Two following last season's promotion. more...
NEWLY-promoted Ombersley are looking forward to life in Birmingham League Division Three after being crowned Worcestershire County League champions last season. more...
PROMOTION from Birmingham League Division Three is high on the agenda at the Gordon Jones Memorial Ground as Worcester aim for a successful season. more...
OLD Elizabethans chairman Tim Phillips believes the club can put their recent flirtations with relegation behind them this season and look forward to a successful campaign. more...
ANOTHER great season for Upton came to an end on Saturday when they travelled across country to Coventry to play in a winner-takes-all promotion game. more...
JOHN Bickerton is tied for 32nd place in the Telecom Italia Open in Milan after shooting a three under par 69 in the first round. more...
AFTER hitting an unbeaten double century on day one of Worcestershire's three-day match against Bradford/Leeds UCCE, Daryl Mitchell returned to claim three wickets. more...
TAMIKA Mkandawire admits he would love to captain Hereford United to play-off glory. more...
WORCESTER Warriors will begin next season with a new state-of-the-art pitch and an increased capacity at Sixways. more...
DREW Hickey insists considerable squad strengthening is needed if Worcester want to gatecrash English rugby's elite next season. more...
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