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  • Household names to play music fest

    THE Upton International Music Festival returns with more features and a long list of household names. Now in its third year, the three-day party on Fish Meadow runs from Friday to Sunday, August 24-26, and promises to keep all the family entertained

  • Pupils bury reminder of Upton as it looks today

    TIMELY school pupils will be marking the completion of Upton’s waterside flood defences by burying a permanent reminder of the town as it is today. As work on the glass-topped flood wall reaches its final stages, pupils from Upton Primary School

  • Annual event will bring folk to town

    THE annual Upton Folk Festival is returning next weekend, bringing its everpopular blend of colourful sights and sounds to the riverside town. Taking place over May Bank Holiday weekend, from Friday, May 4, until Monday, May 7, an impressive

  • ‘Queen’s man’ loses battle against cancer, aged 70

    TRIBUTES have been paid to Michael Brinton, the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, who died on Monday. Mr Brinton had served as Lord Lieutenant, or the Queen’s representative in the county, since 2001. He died peacefully, aged 70, with his wife

  • Judges reject plea for a lighter sentence

    A WOMAN who kicked and punched her stricken victim during a drunken nightclub attack has had her pleas for a lighter sentence rejected by top judges. Samantha Ann Stokes, aged 28, of Baxters Walk, Malvern, was jailed for three years at Hereford

  • Just days left before youth centre launch

    DETERMINED campaigners who saved Malvern Youth Centre from closure are days away from being handed the keys to the facility. The handover ceremony on Tuesday marks a victory for the Malvern Youth and Community Trust – formerly Malvern Community