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  • Chorus grows in stature during unusual oratorio

    Malvern Festival Chorus: Britten St Nicholas - Forum, Malvern Theatres IAIN Sloan and the Malvern Festival Chorus gave us a splendid community event. In addition to the choir we had the Priory Singers, hymns for the congregation, four young soloists

  • Worcester Embroiderers' Guild

    DOLLY Mixtures was the title of the talk given by Marie Roper at the March 6 meeting. Marie studied fashion and embroidery, then tutored patchwork and quilting for many years prior to her retirement. A lifelong doll-lover Marie has now gone into

  • NHS trust’s progress hampered by debts

    W O R C E S T E R S H I R E hospital bosses are still trying to wrestle historic debts of £18 million which could scupper their chances of winning greater control over NHS purse strings. The debts were incurred when Worcestershire Acute Hospitals

  • Carmen's spring tour stops off at museum

    A SPRING piano recital from a world-renowned artist at a county museum should provide something for all the family to enjoy. Concert pianist Cathy Nardiello, who performs under the stage name of Carmen, visits the Elgar Birthplace Museum in Lower

  • Worcestershire Wildife Trust Malvern Group

    SPRING is nearly here, the first daffodils are out, and members of the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Malvern Group have observed bees and frog spawn in their gardens. What can we do to encourage more wildlife to thrive this year? Rachel Salisbury

  • Pony delights care home residents

    RESIDENTS at Hastings Care Home, Barnards Green, enjoyed horsing around when they were treated to a visit by a pony from the Phoenix Children’s Foundation. Tickle, a miniature Shetland pony, trotted into the home and became the centre of attention

  • Kate brings glamour to Christie's classic tale

    DYNASTY star Kate O’Mara will be treading the boards in Malvern in Agatha Christie’s classic thriller Murder on the Nile. On board a steamer cruising under the scorching Egyptian sun, honeymooners Simon Mostyn and his wealthy socialite wife Kay

  • Much mystery

    RESPONDING bluntly to Dave Goldsbrough’s provocation, Christians accept that much is mystery, where as Darwinians are inclined to think they know everything. The atheist taint and much folly in scientific method and economics originated with the

  • Powick

    POWICK Ramblers, numbering 23 people and three dogs, left the Rose and Crown car park last Thursday for a six-mile walk beginning on the Severn way. After leaving Madge Hill on the A38 the route led past Severn Bank House and the Coach House and

  • Smart Downs pupils are on the up

    SINCE November a number of year eight pupils from The Downs Malvern Prep School in Colwall have been working hard towards various scholarships to their next school. Headmaster Alastair Cook is delighted to report that many have been successful

  • MP’s praise for care home staff

    MP Harriett Baldwin this week congratulated the team running an “outstanding” Malvern care home. She toured the Howbury House Resource Centre in Pickersleigh Grove after being told how good it is. Harriett took tea with staff and residents during

  • Projects in community get charity cash boost

    GRANTS for community and environmental projects in the district have been announced by community charity Welcome to our Future. Through its management of the Severn Waste Environmental Fund, the charity awarded grants totalling £68,156 to charitable

  • Homes most unaffordable in region

    HOUSES in Malvern are the most unaffordable in the region, costing around 13 times the average annual wage. Housing experts have called for more affordable housing to be built in rural parts of Worcestershire and Herefordshire to mark the first

  • Why I believe

    RE: the excellent letter from Dave Goldsbrough and the irony of the evolution event hosted by two churches in Malvern. As a Christian, it is for the reasons which Mr Goldsbrough mentions in his letter that I believe in the Biblical God of Creation

  • Wanted: Queen of Shops to revamp High Street

    LEDBURY has entered the race to secure a share of a £1 million initiative to revive England’s high streets. The bid to be chosen in the Government’s scheme proposed by retail expert Mary Portas will be co-ordinated by the newly formed Town Planning