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  • Condition means Jay can’t see properly

    MALVERN parents Lee and Heather Stallard are looking to raise funds for a charity devoted to researching a rare sight condition suffered by their son Jay. The eight-year-old was about five-and-a-half when he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa

  • Cricket: Green look to add to successful stint

    BARNARDS Green look to continue their meteoric rise as they open their Birmingham Premier Cricket League Division Two campaign tomorrow. The North End Lane club, who host Fordhouses (noon), finished runnersup in Division Three last year just 12

  • Rugby Union: Malvern rack up 12 tries in last-day rout

    COMMANDING Malvern signed off the National Three Midlands season in style with a 79-3 mauling of Manchester. The 12-try bonanza helped the Spring Lane side secure their highest position in the league structure with a top-half finish of seventh

  • Football: Hooper fires home as Town seal home draw

    MALVERN Town’s 1-1 West Midlands League Premier Division home draw with Dudley Sports produced two contrasting halves. The hosts completely dominated the first with Oliver Endacott firing just wide before he ran down the left and provided the

  • Football: Welland seal a treble as Pearson hits form

    WELLAND recorded three victories in visits to Cheltenham over Montpellier, Barometrics thirds and title-rivals Cheltonians. This boosted their Cheltenham League Division Five championship hopes with Rory Mathews bagging a hat-trick in a 7-4 victory

  • Cricket: Nomads take first blood after beating Colwall

    WORCESTER Nomads are among the early Worcestershire League Division One pace-setters after winning by eight wickets at Colwall. With three games abandoned, including Bromyard’s clash with Coombs Wood, batsmen endured a testing time after a wet

  • Table Tennis: Belters are crowned as league champions

    BROADHEATH Belters have been crowned Paperstation Malvern League Division One champions. They beat Pterodactyl Old Boys 8-2 with Michael Siket winning his three singles and the doubles with Brett Brining. Old Boys’ Dave White won twice but Brining

  • Set for Mudrunner rest

    INTREPID female staff from The Malvern hotel and spa are wondering quite what they have signed up for as they prepare to get mucky for a good cause this weekend. On Sunday the 10-strong Malvern Mudrunners team from the business will be heading

  • Architect’s talk

    THE architect who designed All Saints Church, Malvern Wells, is the subject of a talk being held there tomorrow (Saturday). The talk, being given by Dr Jim Berrow, will be discussing Troyte Griffith and his friendship with Elgar. He will also talk

  • Meet boys in blue and others

    MALVERN residents have a chance to meet their emergency services during an open day on Saturday, May 5. Taking place at Malvern Police Station, in Graham Road, between 11am-3pm, visitors can talk with staff from the police, fire and ambulance services

  • Ex-soccer hooligan in charity talk hotel ban

    A MALVERN hotel has cancelled a fund-raising event after finding out that the speaker was a former football hooligan. Lee Stallard booked a room at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, in Belle Vue Terrace, for an evening featuring Jason Marriner to raise

  • Yearly well dressing is to look at UK history

    VOLUNTEERS are readying their plans for this year’s Malvern Spa Association Well Dressing Festival, which starts next Friday, May 4. Teams will be vying with each other to produce the most elaborate and artistic decorations at water features,

  • Memorial unveiled to drama stalwart

    “IN perfect April weather 900 feet up on the Malvern Hills near British Camp and overlooking Blackhill, his old home, a memorial to Sir Barry Jackson was unveiled by Dame Edith Evans in Tuesday,” reported the Malvern Gazette 50 years ago. “Sir

  • Throwing in the (tea)towel – 500 of them...

    ENOUGH tea towels to dry a lifetime of washing up are in need of a new home. Colwall woman Sue Richmond- Allen is trying to find a good home for a legacy of more than 500 tea towels left to her by her mother. Mrs Richmond-Allen, of Stone Lane,

  • New twist in hills café row

    THE Charity Commission is examining the conduct of Malvern Hills Conservators in its controversial dispute with the tenant of St Ann’s Well. The long-running saga started in 2009 when John Redman was told he must leave the hillside café he had

  • Sites are rejected for gipsy encampment

    "THE old swimming pool site beyond the former rail bridge at Hereford Road, Ledbury, is being considered by a county council advisory panel as a possible gipsy site," noted the Reporter 25 years ago. The paper reported that members of the panel had inspected

  • Echoes from the past

    100 YEARS AGO. Twice a year, the charming grounds of Madresfield Court are open to the public through the kindness of their noble owner, Earl Beauchamp - in the spring on behalf of the Worcester Auxiliary of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution