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  • Irate villagers are cut off by cable damage

    VILLAGERS in Welland, near Malvern, were forced to suffer in silence after going more than two weeks without their phone lines. Problems started on Monday, October 22, when many residents lost their phones after an underground cable was damaged

  • Table Tennis - Stalemate in Ledbury clash

    LEDBURY Lions and Ledbury Rovers played out a hard-fought 5-5 draw in Paperstation Malvern League Division One. Steve Meredith was in fine form for Lions, winning his three singles, and Jim Ahern also triumphed twice. Rovers’ Ady Marshall claimed

  • Title bid still on the Radar after fine rout

    MALVERN Radar maintained their 100 per cent record in Worcester and District League Sunday Division One. They hammered Droitwich Sports 8-2 with Louis Loader hitting a hat-trick, while Callow End enjoyed a fine 4-3 success at CMB Sports in the

  • Family’s war tales inspire Megan’s work

    A KIND-hearted 11-year-old has raised £400 for the Poppy Appeal after being inspired by the efforts of the Royal British Legion and stories of her own relatives fighting for the cause in the two world wars. Megan Boffy, of Mathon, near Malvern,

  • Golf - Awesome foursome take crown

    THE Worcestershire members were successful at two county events. In the Droitwich Shield Scratch Foursomes for teams of six players, the Malvern Wells club defeated Kings Norton ‘A’ 2-1 at home. Steven Lane and Philip Shurmer won the top game

  • Thank you

    PLEASE may I use your newspaper to say thank you to a gentleman called Stan from Bellars Lane who kindly stopped when I had fallen on Pound Bank Road last week, and bought me home in his car. He was truly a good Samaritan. PENNY BACHE, Malvern

  • Rugby - match postponed

    Malvern Rugby Club’s North Midlands Cup quarter- final at Whitchurch tomorrow has been postponed and will now take place on Saturday, December 1. Their next match will be a long trip to Barnstaple a week tomorrow in National League Three South

  • There’s a road in here somewhere

    A RURAL road just outside Malvern has been flooded for weeks, say residents who want something to be done. The water, on Lower Howsell Road which runs from Malvern Link to Leigh Sinton, has been there for at least six weeks, says Edward Sanders

  • Football: Powick advance in trophy tester

    CUP JOY: Powick beat Newtown Sports 3-2 in a Worcester Nursing Saturday Junior Cup second round derby. They line up, back row (left to right): Jon Murphy, Simon Haywood, Stu Harvey, Lee Barmby, Lee Henderson, Oscar Hooper and Graham Bird (secretary

  • Sense at last

    AT last, since we were first made aware of the South Worcestershire Development Plan, a task group at Malvern Hills District Council has come up with the most sensible and logical way for Malvern to move forward with future housing developments.

  • Engine driver's water blunder

    WATER has always been important in Malvern, so it's heartening to read in the Gazette of 100 years ago of the council's prompt action against those who abuse this precious resource. "George Spreadborough, of 22 Twyning Road, Rotten Park, Birmingham

  • School owner in drugs arrest

    THE owner of a private school in Malvern has been arrested on suspicion of possessing class A drugs. Hekmat Kaveh, aged 55, who owns the Abbey College, strenuously denies any wrongdoing. He was arrested on Wednesday, October 11, at Cheltenham

  • Jones wants consistency

    MALVERN Town host Dudley Sports tomorrow (3pm) striving to find some consistency in the West Midlands Football League Premier Division. The Langland Stadium side are 12th in the standings, one place below their next opponents, having won two and

  • Echoes from the past

    100 YEARS AGO. An interesting and, in some respects, unique event took place in West Malvern on Tuesday night when Mr Alfred Watson was presented with an illuminated address and a substantial purse of money on his retirement from the Headmastership

  • Keep consulting

    THERE has been plenty of scaremongering by the planners and the leaders of the councils involved with the SWDP, threatening us with planning anarchy if councillors aren’t good little boys and girls and don’t just vote through the plan as it stands.