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  • Challenge based on popular TV show

    FOUR local primary schools took part in a maths challenge based on the popular TV programme Dragons’ Den at Dyson Perrins CE Academy. Teams from the schools, Somers Park, St Matthias, Suckley and Great Malvern, faced a challenging day of interactive

  • Rector spreads the word about getting flu jabs

    A RECTOR has rolled up her sleeves to encourage people to have their flu jab. Rector of Colwall, Melanie Horton, had her flu vaccine at Colwall Pharmacy in Walwyn Road. She said: “I wanted to help spread the word about the importance of helping

  • MP quizzes minister over farm workers

    WEST Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin has continued her campaign to help fruit and vegetable growers in Worcestershire and Herefordshire use UK or European workers. A national scheme which allows farmers to hire Romanian and Bulgarian workers

  • Baby named after ChildLine's Colin

    A MALVERN man who is ChildLine’s longest serving volunteer had a baby named after him by a teenager whom he talked out of suicide. Colin Butler, aged 65, was one of the volunteers on the very first ChildLine shift back in 1986, and he has been

  • Auditions for Les Mis

    MALVERN Theatres Young Company will hold auditions for its school edition production of Les Miserables in February. Auditions are for young people aged 14-19, and will take place on Sunday, February, 10 . To be eligible to audition, forms must

  • In-depth look at Worcestershire published at last

    OVER the years, even the centuries, there have been many books produced about Worcestershire. But now one of the most comprehensive, but so far unpublished works, has been turned into major history of the county by one of its best known contemporary

  • Recycling views

     IN my letter last week the edited version gave the impression that I thought commingled recycling was fine. I do not. It is by far the worst way to recycle.Yes, it is easy ,we just throw everything in together. But up to 20 per cent of this

  • Trust backs sports stars of the future

    POTENTIAL sporting stars of the future have been given a funding boost from a charitable trust set up in memory of a sports-mad Worcestershire woman. Joanna Brown, of Malvern, fell to her death aged 30, while travelling in Siberia after visiting

  • West Malvern

    FIVE people took up the challenge and decorated the gas lamps by their houses in the village for Christmas. On Boxing Day the judging panel declared the winning lamp to be the one beside Berwyn, 210 West Malvern Road, which was adorned in seasonal

  • Live - the weird and wonderful on stage

    FOR the first time ever, Guinness World Records will explode live on to the stage with its record-breaking science- mad show Guinness World Records Officially Amazing Science Live! at Malvern Theatres. Taking the audience on an explosive journey

  • Mayor's road trip

    A CHARITY road-trip that will see Malvern’s mayor drive 800 miles to the Czech Republic will be officially launched later this month. Ian Hopwood will be driving to Malvern’s new twin town Marianske Lazne in April to raise money for Acorns Children

  • Charity calendar is flying off the shelves

    A DARING charity calendar has been flying off the shelves in honour of a popular man who died in a car crash. More than 3,000 copies of the Game Birds 2013 calendar have been sold, raising in excess of £22,000 for the Midlands Air Ambulance in