POLICE in Worcester continue to take the fight to 'County Lines' drug dealers who come from elsewhere set up shop in our city. Yesterday, Neil Hyatt from Liverpool was jailed for five-and-a-half years after police shut down his 'Scouse' line heroin
This week we have found some treasures of Worcester's art history, including some very old pieces.
CALLUM Ferguson and Ben Cox frustrated Derbyshire’s hopes of a three-day win in the Specsavers County Championship Division Two match with Worcestershire at Kidderminster. The pair joined forces half an hour before tea with Worcestershire in disarray
A special behind the scenes look at The Hive, Worcester will allow people to view the archive strongrooms. The tour will run on Thursday 18 July between 2:00-3:30pm. Tickets are £6 and can be booked at thehiveworcester.org/explore-the-past-events.html
MP Harriett Baldwin has called for accelerated action from Network Rail, as plans are developed to improve facilities and parking capacity at Pershore’s train station. The MP has written to Network Rail bosses calling on them to look at ways to
Ex-Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes has left his position with the Bangladesh national team halfway through a two-year contract. The news comes after Bangladesh’s disappointing Cricket World Cup campaign saw them finish eighth in the ten team
SUPPORTERS of the Royal British Legion Club at the village of Claines, near Worcester, have rallied round after it was broken into. The attack happened overnight between Sunday and Monday, but, thanks to sterling efforts from volunteers, the club
AN attempted burglary took place on Droitwich Road, Worcester. Around 1pm on July 8, three men attempted to gain entry to a club house by smashing a window and forcing the metal shutters. No entry was gained. If you have information that you
A NURSERY has closed suddenly with parents given just a few hours' notice, leaving many out of pocket after paying a month in advance for childcare. All staff at Bright Beginnings nursery in Pershore have been made redundant after the nursery closed
WE asked our readers to recommend their favourite pub with a beer garden in Worcester and why. This is what they said: Amanda Stubbins shares her opinion on the The Dewdrop Inn, in Lower Broadheath. She said: “They do the best food and drink
MANAGER Mark Owen believes Droitwich Spa have secured a mouth-watering strike force for next season in prolific pair James Lemon and Connor Collins. Lemon returns to Droitwich after spending the second half of last season with Worcester City while
Residents of Claines in Worcester are being urged to make sure they are registered to vote in the Worcester City Council by-election. The deadline to register is midnight on Tuesday July 23. Anyone can apply online at gov.uk/register-to-vote. It
A WORCESTERSHIRE animal rescue charity has issued a plea for help in homing a dog with hearing issues. Brian is a good natured 18-month-old Old English Bulldog cross, who is in the care of RSPCA Worcester & Mid-Worcestershire Branch through no fault
Social engineering is a term used to describe the process of socially manipulating someone into providing information or access to a variety of physical and digital assets. There are numerous techniques that can be leveraged to successfully perform
TODAY'S picture from the vaults of the Worcester News dates back to March 1997, when the BBC Radio Four's Gardeners' Question Time came to town, hosted by the paper. The panel of experts for this episode of the programme, recorded at the Guildhall,
Worcester News Camera Club members have captured these beautiful pictures from the Worcester Carnival 2019 To join our camera club, send your photographs to photo@worcesternews.co.uk or visit Facebook and search for Worcester News Camera Club
WORK to install new traffic lights on one of the city’s busiest junctions caused long delays and disruption last week. Frustrated drivers have complained the short time between light changes and lane closures in Bath Road meant right turns into
STAFF from a county law firm have raised more than £3,500 for a breast cancer charity as part of its ongoing fundraising efforts. Staff at the Kidderminster branch mfg Solicitors, which also has branches in Worcester and Bromsgrove, have held events
Fame/Malvern Theatres ANY parent who has trudged along to a dance festival to watch their little darling stir that old stage dust will know all about delusion. Aren’t they wonderful, one thinks… surely a lifetime in the entertainment
SIR – Your editorial rant against the writer of the letter, Shameful Act, was in itself quite shameful. First, you did not need to print the letter if you were only going to oppose it yourself. That is your prerogative as editor. Secondly you
There are 30 minute delays on the approach to this #M5 incident (above usual journey times) on both the north and southbound carriageways. Delays are reducing and it is anticipated that normal traffic conditions will return shortly. All lanes
WHAT goes on behind closed doors can sometimes prove fatal for family life and so it was in the case of Robin Dyke and his wife Jane in the late summer of 1994. At the time Dyke was an unemployed labourer, while his wife had been working as a cleaner
TWO pupils of a city school were rushed to hospital after taking a banned vitamin supplement as a dare. The children in year 7 at Nunnery Wood High School were taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital as a precaution, the school’s headteacher had
PARTICIPANTS at an adults-only festival raised more than £600 for the county air ambulance after a staff member at the event was flown to hospital. The air ambulance was called to the Swingfields event at Malvern Wells of Friday after the female
VANDALS destroyed a school's mud kitchen in a “wanton and senseless” attack. Staffs and pupils discovered their forest school area had been obliterated when they arrived at the start of a new day at Kempsey Primary School. It left many of children
A 'SCOUSE' drug dealer jailed for selling heroin and crack cocaine in Worcester is behind bars yet again for doing the same thing. Neil Hyatt, nicknamed 'Scouse', was jailed for dealing the class A drugs in Wyld's Lane in 2015 but when he got out
EATING a bacon, brie and cranberry panini in a beer garden under a big umbrella as the sun beat down was the ideal Friday lunch. It would have been better if I had a pint of Peroni or something similar too, though I was driving back to work so stuck
MORE THAN £800,000 worth of fines have been handed out by the council to utility companies in the last year for poor standards, shoddy repairs and long delays. Worcestershire County Council punished a number of utility companies for failing to
WE were told yesterday that Heather Mills, the former wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, won a substantial sum of money from News Group Newspapers over the hacking of her mobile phone. This award has been justly hailed as a victory against a
WORCESTER Warriors’ top marksman Duncan Weir is a “better game manager” than Scotland fly-halves Finn Russell and Adam Hastings. That is the view of Warriors coach and former Scotland stand-off Gordon Ross who believes Weir can add to his country
A MAN who assaulted two people and smashed the windows of their house after “a night out gone wrong” faces prison or a community order when he learns his fate later this month. Ross Tudge, 25, of Quay Lane, Hanley Castle, assaulted Stuart Franklin
CROWDS flocked to Hanbury Show, one of the county's showpiece agricultural events at the weekend. The 72nd annual Hanbury Show was held on Saturday and featured more than 700 exhibitors, 200 trade stands and more than 200 competitions, activities
COSMETICS thieves, drink drivers and more were in court in Worcester over the past week. Here are some of the highlights. Craig Edge, 27, of Sudeley Road, Nuneaton, appeared before magistrates in Worcester by video link charged with posession
THE Mayor of Worcester is hosting a free event at the recently refurbished Battenhall Rise play area. Free face painting, goodie bags and healthy snacks will be available for the first 100 children who come to the Battenhall Rise play site on Saturday
With the six values of Respect, honesty, teamwork, determination, passion and self-belief at their core, the School Games are designed to build on the magic of London 2012 and motivate children and young people across the country to become physically
