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  • Celebrating 106 years

    A RESIDENT of a nursing home at Upton-upon-Severn celebrated her 106th birthday on Wednesday. Gladys Slack lived in the Peterborough area for much of her life but moved into the Boynes Nursing Home a few years ago to be close to her son and daughter-in-law

  • Scanner would be ‘wonderful’

    THE new medical scanner for Malvern Community Hospital will be a boon to back pain patients, says one sufferer. The Gazette and the hospital’s Friends aim to raise £60,000 through the Ease the Pain campaign to buy the device for a new pain clinic

  • Spring show is underway

    ABOUT 90,000 visitors are expected at Malvern’s Three Counties showground for the first national gardening event of the summer. Opened yesterday, Thursday, and running until Sunday evening, Malvern Spring Gardening Show has grown from a small regional

  • School’s £850,000 for new classrooms

    WORK on a million pound project to provide eight new classrooms at Malvern’s biggest school will be getting underway this summer. Staff and students at the Chase School are celebrating a £850,000 grant from the Education Funding Agency to replace

  • Council leader set for £2,100 pay rise

    LEADING councillors at Malvern Hills could be in line to receive bumper pay rises. Leader David Hughes is being recommended for a 20 per cent increase, boosting his allowance from £10,500 to £12,600, and his deputy Paul Swinburn could see his allowance

  • Natural history exhibition could pave way for museum

    "THE natural history exhibition at the Public Library is proving an attraction to a certain section of the public in Malvern, though it must be confessed that the attendance at the opening ceremony was far less than at the exhibition last year," reported

  • Echoes from the past

    100 years ago. I have frequently had a word to say about the Boy Scout movement in this column, and I have been asked to remind readers that the Bugle Competition which takes place at the Manor Park on the 13th inst. will afford an opportunity