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  • Travel sickness as squad defeated

    BRANSFORD seniors have not enjoyed the best of times on the road so far this season with successive defeats at Puckrup Hall 3-2, Evesham 5-2 and Churchill and Blakedown 6-1. But the villagers picked up two victories on their own course, beating

  • Daredevil Joggers take to the hills for Ultra

    MALVERN Joggers’ members contested the challenging Malvern Hills Ultra 52-mile challenge. The endurance test, with a total ascent of more than 8,000 feet, headed from Holt Castle to Malvern Hills Hotel before going back. Malvern’s Simeon Foreman

  • Eskrima fighting fit after 10 years

    MALVERN’S Eskrima club are celebrating 10 years of existence next month after being started by Marcie Harding in 2003. The club have been training regularly at the Wyche Institute, Malvern Wells, on Wednesday evenings. Ten students have completed

  • Food festival is to showcase best of local produce

    HUNDREDS of foodies will be flocking to town for the annual Great Malvern Food Festival later this month. The festival, now in its third year, will have 28 stalls offering a wide range of local produce plus free cooking demonstrations featuring

  • Sports awards

    PEOPLE have their last chance to nominate potential winners for the Malvern Hills District Sports Awards. Malvern Hills District Council will host the third annual awards at Malvern College in July to reward achievement and dedication from coaches

  • Back-to-back losses for struggling West

    WEST Malvern suffered a disappointing Worcestershire League Division Four defeat at the hands of new leaders Old Vigornians. Not since 2005 had the villagers lost back-to-back matches or, since going down to Stone in 2011, been beaten at home.

  • Cathedral singing

    MUSICALLY-minded students from a local high school were given the chance to sing in one of the country’s most historic churches. The choir from Queen Elizabeth Humanities College, in Bromyard, was invited to perform Evensong in the grand surrounds

  • Meteroic rise to be leader of council

    A COLWALL man elected a county councillor for the first time less than three years ago has been voted leader of Herefordshire’s Conservative group. Tony Johnson saw off two cabinet colleagues to be named head of the county’s ruling Tory group and

  • Wells well done

     I WOULD like to say well done to Malvern Spa Association and all the people who worked hard to decorate the springs and wells round Malvern over the bank holiday. I have seen the well dressings in the past but this year the standard just seems

  • Roadworks blasted by angry residents

    A DECISION to allow workmen to dig up a freshly-laid road in a busy town centre has been branded “ludicrous”. Worcestershire County Council spent £400,000 on a long-awaited facelift of Upton-upon-Severn, re-surfacing roads and pavements in High

  • Swimmers urged to help appeal

    AS the Malvern Gazette’s Ease the Pain appeal continues to bring in the money, Rotarians are appealing for schools and sports clubs to sign up for its Swim4Gold event next month. Malvern Rotary is supporting the the campaign, which aims to raise