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  • Decision to be made on Sling Lane fields plan

    OPPONENTS of controversial plans for playing fields off Sling Lane in Malvern say they will complain to the local government ombudsman about the way Malvern Hills District Council has handled the issue. A planning application by Newtown Sports Football

  • Open day will mark nursery’s 25 years

    THE Playhouse Nursery in Malvern will be throwing its doors open to the public tomorrow (Saturday) to mark its 25th birthday. When Larraine Walker opened its doors in 1986, Playhouse was the only day nursery in Malvern. A quarter of a century

  • Residents waiting to be evicted

    RESIDENTS of Brookside, Malvern Link, say they still don’t know what will happen to them when their tenancies come to an end on Sunday. Festival Housing is to demolish the site to make way for a £20 million retirement village. But a few of the

  • Car parks will be on the agenda once more

    FURTHER consultation will take place on future car parking fees and permits in Great Malvern. Last month traders won a lastminute reprieve after councillors decided not to increase the cost of the town’s short-stay car parks. This week

  • Greenwood returns to haunt Malvern

    MALVERN Rugby Club were undone by a 20-minute onslaught in their 38-13 home defeat to high-flying Dudley Kingswinford in National Three Midlands. After only losing out 16-13 to runaway leaders Rugby Lions in their last Spring Lane encounter, hopes

  • No controversy

    I FAIL to understand the notion of any controversy regarding the Church of England deciding to hold a debate upon Darwin’s evolutionary theories. Like his Welsh colleague Alfred Russell Wallace, Darwin was a very humble man who saw no contradiction

  • Dry spell is starting to affect our farmers

    A SPRING on the Worcestershire Beacon dried up for the first time in living memory as Malvern continues to endure its driest period for 35 years. And a Colwall farmer says that farming in the area is “on a knife edge” because so many springs

  • Let’s band together to buy land at youth centre

    A CONCERNED councillor is urging Malvern residents to put their hands in their pockets and dig deep to save the land around Malvern Youth Centre. Late last year, Malvern Community Collective (MCC) was granted a 30-year lease on the centre in