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  • Droitwich students’ GCSE successes

    DROITWICH Spa High School is celebrating an excellent set of GCSE examination results. Head Natalie Waters said: “I am delighted that the efforts of students, their teachers and their support staff have been so emphatically rewarded. “This is

  • Disused surgery site to make way for apartments in Malvern

    APARTMENTS have been approved to be built on the site of a disused doctor's surgery. A Southern Area Planning Committee was held at County Hall on Wednesday August 21. A total of 16 dwellings will be built along with parking and landscaping to

  • MSJ scores successes

    GIRLS at Malvern St James School in Malvern scored excellent GCSE results, with 38 per cent of entries getting 9-8 or A* grades and 55 per cent getting 9-7/A*-A grades. Almost one fifth of girls in the year group scored four or more grade 9s; almost

  • Three-horse race for Bransford summer league top flight

    BRANSFORD Golf Club seniors' summer league is looking like a three-horse race. Gerry Rebbeck (14 handicap) leads Division One with 116 points after scoring 39 in the fifth round. Trevor Atkinson (15) and Neil Holbrow (12) both scored 42 to

  • NOSTALGIA: the Commandery in 1977

    TODAY'S picture from the archive of the Worcester News dates back to September 1976, when nearly 2,000 people visited the Commandery on the 325th anniversary of the Battle of Worcester. Young visitor Alexander Bryan is seen inspecting the museum's

  • There are no easy answers to the homelessness problem

    THE story of a homeless man who took his own life, as reported in the Malvern Gazette this week, will strike any humane person as unbearably sad. Remigiusz Boczarski, who was known in Malvern Wells for sleeping in a bus shelter, was found dead last

  • Mayor: How my carers helped me

    MALVERN’S mayor this week spoke candidly about his childhood in foster care. Cllr Neil Morton said that it was the love and support of his foster carers that has enabled him to get where he is today. He was speaking at a party held to mark the