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  • Residents will be entertained with spooky stories

    SPOOKY happenings for Malvern residents aged 55 and over will be taking place at Geraldine Court this Halloween. From 2pm on Monday, October 31, Paul Harding and Helen Lee from Worcester-based Discover History will be entertaining the audience

  • Hundreds of Minis expected at show

    THE 10th Malvern Mini Show and Spares Day will be taking place at the Three Counties Showground this Sunday (October 23). Hundreds of Minis are expected to attend, and there will be displays from the likes of Hill Top Minis, Mini Clubman Register and

  • Card shop opens

    THE Midlands Charities Association Christmas card shop is opening its doors at 10am on Monday, October 24. The shop will be at the premises of Arcos, at Hatherton Lodge, Avenue Road, across the road from the Council House. Christmas cards from over

  • Remember loved ones with Tree of Light

    MALVERN Rotary Club will once again be offering people the chance to remember their loved ones with shining lights over the festive period. For the ninth successive year it is organising its Tree of Light, which will illuminate Priory Park in the run-up

  • Police find cannabis factory in Malvern homes

    A MAN has been arrested today, (Friday, October 21), after police found several hundred cannabis plants at two separate addresses in Malvern. Officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at the properties - which are both in Wordsworth

  • Powell: Side can cope with injuries

    CHRIS Powell insists his Ledbury Town side have the strength in depth to cope with a flurry of injuries when they return to cup duty tomorrow. The New Street side have at least six first-team players out of tomorrow’s home Strongbow Senior Cup first

  • Man found hanged after break-up

    A 26-year-old man killed himself following the break-up of a long-term relationship, an inquest heard. Stephen Pritchard, of Chapel Lane, Bransford, was found dead with a length of blue rope around his neck, which was attached over a door to a television

  • Traders fear bridge closure will finish them

    TRADERS in Upton say many of them will not survive the festive period unless maintenance work on the town’s river bridge is put back until the new year. They say trade has been hit by as much as 50 per cent since 24-hour-a-day traffic lights were introduced

  • Planting for the future

    PUPILS at a Malvern school have planted eleven spruce tree seedlings to mark the United Nations International Year of Forests. The trees, planted at Northleigh C of E Primary School, St Peter’s Road, were supplied by Swedish company SCA Timber

  • Free-scoring Town in clean sheets aim

    DESPITE seeing his side score seven goals in their last two games, Malvern Town manager Les Jones has demanded a clean sheet tomorrow. Town lie 16th in the West Midlands League Premier Division after conceding a last-gasp equaliser in their 3-3 draw

  • Record time for desert runner

    AN endurance runner from Suckley, near Malvern, has completed a gruelling 250km race across the Sahara desert in record time. Daniel Parr came first in the Sahara Race, completing it in just over 25 hours, and also raising £5,000 for children

  • Get walking at Croome

    CROOME is one of the venues hosting the National Trust’s first ever walking festival. Guided and self-guided walks to suit all fitness levels will be taking place from tomorrow (Saturday, October 22) until next Sunday (October 30). National Trust

  • Finding shafts of comedy light in dark days of bereavement

    COLWALL Players are in the final week of rehearsals for their next presentation. Their production of Ivan Menchell’s The Cemetery Club continues their policy of providing their audiences with a richly varied diet. After the inspired lunacy of Frankenstein

  • Award in prospect for Malvern singer

    THE latest album, The Spirit, by Malvern singer Clive John has been nominated for the Album of the year awards at the British Country Music Awards 2011. And Clive will be travelling down to the British Airways Concorde Club in Middlesex on Sunday, October

  • Narrow escape after arson attack

    A BUNGALOW where a Malvern pensioner lives was minutes from destruction after a garden hedge was set alight in a suspected arson attack. Mary Smith, aged 88, was in bed in her Charles Way home at about 10pm on Wednesday when she saw an orange glow through

  • Local firms are winners

    A MALVERN company has been crowned West Midlands Business of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce. Malvern Instruments also collected the regional award for Achievement in International Business, and will now go on to compete in both categories against

  • Echoes from the past

    100 YEARS AGO. We regret to chronicle the death of the Rev Canon Raymond Percy Pelly, who succeeded Dr Gregory Smith as Vicar of Great Malvern in 1896 and held the living for 12 years. For some weeks he had been seriously ill at his residence near St

  • Woods: We start as underdogs

    FACING the multi-million pound-backed leaders whose head coach is a World Cup winner, Malvern chairman Peter Woods concedes his side start as underdogs when they travel to Rugby Lions tomorrow (ko 3pm). Financed by businessman and former British Lions

  • Of tramps and oak trees....

    THE children of tramps in the Malvern area was the subject of concern in the Malvern News 100 years ago. The paper reported that, at a meeting of the Worcestershire Standing Joint Committee, chairman Mr J W Willis Bund read out a report from

  • Todays Events

    Friday PassionArt classes using mixed media, to inspire the creative potential within you through art at a private home by appointment only. 11am. £8. 01684 563048. Reading Rascals at Somers Park Primary Community Room, Somers Park Avenue, Malvern.

  • Check your airline

    I'D LIKE to remind anyone that is about to book holidays abroad to check whether the airlines they are travelling with also transport animals form vivisection. Recently the British Union for the Abolition of vivisection released footage showing 120 long

  • An early win for David

    THE Malvern Gazette 25 years ago reported that David Mitchell,of the upper sixth at Hanley Castle High School, has won one of 25 certificates of merit in the Young Observer national poetry competition, in the 15-18 age group. His poem The Dragonfly