A NEW support group for people making dietary changes to improve their health is starting up in Malvern in the new year.The Gluten-Free Healing Diet Support Group will have its first meeting on Tuesday, January 6, and will meet thereafter on the third
POLICE bosses may increase their council tax precept by almost two per cent next year – a hike that would add £3.65 to an average band D property.A consultation has begun on the proposed 1.99 per cent rise for 2015 to 2016, which West Mercia Police believe
ALMOST 400 miles of Highways Agency roadworks will be lifted over Christmas and New Year to help festive journeys go smoothly.The agency aims to complete or lift 156 schemes by Tuesday, December 23 – leaving 97 per cent of its 9,628-mile network free
TWO callous youths stole a mobility scooter from outside a Worcester shop – but their get-away was foiled by have-a-go heroes.Hazel Browning, 45, of Red Hill, Worcester, was getting a tattoo done when the thieves struck, stealing the £500 Wispa scooter
ONE of Worcestershire’s most spectacular churches has been handed a £20,000 windfall to help urgent repairs to its roof.St Michael and All Angels Church in Great Witley has been handed the cash as part of a £550,000 series of grants by the National Churches
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a travellers' site at the village of Baughton, near Upton, were rejected by councillors this week. The application, for a site bordering the M5 motorway, attracted 50 letters of objection from local residents, plus the opposition
THREE Worcester Warriors stars visited St Richard’s Hospice to wish patients, volunteers and staff a Merry Christmas.Players Niall Annett, Sam Betty and Josh Drauniniu visited the Worcester hospice and chatted with patients attending the day hospice and
WORCESTER Cathedral is offering a unique opportunity – to be immortalised in the very stone of one of its most prominent buildings.In return for a donation members of the public can have their initials, or the initials of a loved-one, cut into new stone
IT was Christmas party time at the December meeting. President, Doreen Dyson, welcomed members, and several visitors who had come from neighbouring WIs.At lunchtime that day members had heard that the entertainers for the evening were unable to attend
