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  • Come round and sing carols

    CHRIST Church in Avenue Road, Malvern, is inviting everyone to come and sing carols this Sunday, December 12, at 3pm. The event, featuring the Chase Brass Band, follows the great success of last year's concert. There will be refreshments

  • Help us reach our £20,000 target

    MALVERN'S Friends of Community Action have just announced their final event of 2010, a Christmas coffee morning. The event takes place at the United Reformed Church Hall, Malvern Link, between 10am and noon on Saturday, December 18. As well as the

  • Singers cause a stir with new CD

    TWO local singers have helped record a CD that has been causing a stir in the classical music world. Linda Ayres, from Colwall, and Helen Randall, from Malvern, are alto members of the prestigious Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, whose CD Hodie Advent

  • Promotion hope remains for Ledbury

    LEDBURY RFC head coach Paul Rudland says his side can still go for promotion from Midlands Four West (South) this season and hopes to add more strength in depth to his squad. The Ross Road Club are fourth in the table with four wins from their opening

  • Plenty on offer in West Malvern

    WEST Malvern Village Hall will be hosting a Christmas market tomorrow (December 11). The market will offer a Christmas food fair, handmade cards, tombola, a raffle, crafts and much more from 11am to 3pm. Children will be able to visit Father Christmas

  • Get your cards at library

    VOLUNTEERS from Save the Children will be selling charity Christmas cards at Colwall Library tomorrow (Saturday, December 11) from 10am to 1pm, and 2pm to 4pm. A recent cookery day held at Colwall Village Hall with Rosemary Needham raised £1,036 for

  • Poppy appeal success

    THE Barnards Green Poppy Appeal has raised more than £4,500 for the British Legion. The total is nearly £1,000 more than last year. Geoff Davies, the Poppy Appeal organiser for Barnards Green, said: “I would like to thank all the collectors and especially

  • New lease of life for well

    ST Anne's Well Cafe tenant John Redman has been offered a new lease on the building by its owners, Malvern Hills Conservators. The offer marks the end of a dispute between the Conservators and Mr Redman which has been going on for some 14 months.

  • Christmas windows are winners

    TRADERS around Malvern have been busy getting ready for the annual Christmas shop window competition. And their efforts came to a head on Wednesday when a team of judges toured the town to decide which of the displays was the winner. The competition

  • Stephens targets survival for Town

    OPERATION survival is under way for struggling Malvern Town, starting with a trip to Coventry Sphinx tomorrow (ko 3pm). Martin Stephens’ side’s bid to get off the foot of the Baker Joiner Midland Alliance has been thwarted over the last couple of weks

  • Waste of energy

    IT is disappointing to see that some shops on Church Street, Malvern, are oblivious of either the current weather conditions or climate change. I'm referring to those shops who keep their doors propped open in this bitterly cold weather. It was -6C one

  • Thought for the Week

    THERE was once a hospital cleaner waiting for a lift to take a floor polisher to the next floor, also waiting for the lift was a vicar on his way to see a patient. Both smiled as they stood silently watching the numbers flashing, on the lift indicator

  • A wonderful school trip!

    I FEEL compelled to write and tell everyone about the wonderful afternoon we had on Tuesday, December 1. I brought 51 five, six and seven year olds and eight adults to see The Russian Ice Stars performing Peter Pan on Ice. Our Key Stage One children

  • Comment on village pond

    I WOULD like to make a reply about an article I read in my monthly parish magazine concerning feeding the village ducks last Thursday. In the early 1980s Hanley Swan village pond dried up, the village council wouldn't pay for the work to be done on the

  • Education policy comment

    LIVING in Malvern we are so lucky – not merely in the Hills, but everywhere there is art, drama, fine music, a community able to study everything from creating stained glass to Portuguese, computing or woodworking. I wonder if people realise the extent

  • Today's events

    Friday Charity Bingo in aid of Midlands Air Ambulance at Malvern Town FC, Langland Avenue. 7.15pm. Flamenco Dance Class at Cecilia Hall Dance Centre, 18 Church Street, Great Malvern. 11.30am. £5. 01684 574174/07813 990937. Narrow Gauge Railway Society

  • Comment on Route to the Hills

    CAN someone please explain to me why the Malvern Hills District Council has agreed to spend £4.5 million on a plan to improve access to the Hills from Great Malvern Station for tourists. Apparently tourists ask how to get to the Hills, as if they couldn

  • Poppy Appeal result

    THROUGH your columns I wish to thank the collectors and contributors for their time and help and all the outlets who took in Poppy box(s). The total sum raised for West Malvern Royal British Legion to date amounts to £8,932.45. Many thanks. ALAN FISH