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  • Bromyard club dazzle at event

    BROMYARD Schools of Tae Kwon Do acheived an excellent result at the NITA English Championships. A total of 20 medals between 12 students was cause for celebration as this was the first time the squad had competed together this year.

  • Santa Claus is coming to town

    FATHER Christmas will be making a special appearance at Hanley Swan Village Store tomorrow (Saturday, December 18) in support of the Midlands Air Ambulance. His festive visit will mark the occasion of the store’s second annual ‘Grand Draw’ in aid of

  • More snow expected tonight, warns county council

    WORCESTERSHIRE County Council's highways fleet will be gritting the precautionary and secondary routes across the county this evening (Friday). The Met Office is predicting road surface temperatures as low as -7C tonight with snow showers becoming heavier

  • Nightspot to have hours reviewed

    A TOWN centre nightspot could have its opening hours slashed as a result of problems with crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour. West Mercia Police has requested a licensing review of The Vaults Public House, in Worcester Road. The review is now

  • Malvern chosen for electric car charge scheme

    MALVERN will be one of the first places to have electric car charge sockets readily available on its streets. The town is one of four West Midlands locations selected for a pioneering project to encourage the use of environmentally friendly transport

  • Taste of life as an evacuee

    CHILDREN at Castlemorton Primary School were given a taste of life as an evacuee this week. Pupils from year five and six took part in the school’s evacuee day on Tuesday (December 14) for their Second World War project. Each child took on the identity

  • Collections as usual over festive season

    REFUSE and recycling collections will be taking place as usual over the Christmas and New Year periods. Residents are reminded to put out their black and cherry sacks as usual on their normal collection day.

  • MHDC seeks urgent talks with government over cuts

    MALVERN Hills District Council says it is counting the cost of one of the harshest government financial settlements in the country. Council leaders are set to hold urgent talks with the government in London next week after being hit with a 26.9 per

  • More of the same plea from Malvern

    'MORE of the same’ is the message from Malvern director of rugby Andy Longley when his side end their year with a trip to Old Northamptonians tomorrow (2.15pm). After being 13-7 down at half-time, the rampant Spring Lane side fired six tries in the second

  • Prisoner's daring escape

    "ALTHOUGH a diligent search has been conducted throughout the week, the man Ernest Preece, the story of whose sensational escape from the county gaol at Worcester was received on Sunday, remains at large," reported the Gazette 100 years ago.

  • Pool is proposed for Malvern

    "DISTRICT councillors are to be asked in the new year to support plans for a £3½ million leisure centre on the site of the Priory Park open-air swimming pool," reported the Gazette 25 year ago. "Consultants appointed by the local council's leisure services

  • Echoes from the past

    100 years ago. Newland choir boys gave their annual concert yesterday afternoon, in aid of the Universities Mission to Central Africa. There was a large gathering in the boardroom of the Beauchamp Charity, among the visitors being Countess Beauchamp.

  • Todays 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. Country Western Partner Dancing

  • Thought for the Week

    THE record of the churches in Malvern for cooperation is a good one, and I had the happy experience of serving for some six years on the Executive of Churches Together in Malvern. So I was glad when Pope Benedict recently set up a new facility, known