Worcestershire | Archive | 2002 | January
DISTINCTIVE Kidderminster band Curb are set to play at the town's Tap House tonight. more...
SOMETHING'S `bruin' at Bewdley Library where a new exhibition of artwork has gone on show. more...
AN appearance by one of Birmingham's biggest bands in Wolverhampton has been confirmed for next month. more...
THE organiser of a cabaret evening taking place in Kidderminster this weekend was so impressed with a Tom Jones tribute act he saw on holiday he tracked him down to take part. more...
A POPULAR comedy venue in Birmingham begins a new series of late night shows this weekend ahead of unveiling a £1 million expansion and refurbishment next month. more...
VIENNA looks set to have a permanent rival in the New Year's Day concert stakes. more...
WHILE the weather recently has produced some of the most stunning displays of natural beauty, it has to be said that for many people the icy roads and freezing mornings can become a bit tedious. The warmer days of summer seem a lifetime away. more...
BUDDING athletes at Wyre Forest schools have been boosted by a lottery grant. more...
A HEADTEACHER has praised a Worcestershire County Council initiative to combat a shortage of teachers by training assistants. more...
THE UK Independence Party has been accused by Conservative and Labour supporters alike, over the years, of scaremongering in our predictions of a European superstate. more...
IF and when a referendum is held on the euro, I hope the people of this country will realise what power-seeking Mr Blair and his stooges have in store for us. more...
EXPERIENCE in these columns shows that, when others can't answer what you actually said, they tend to put up a fictitious version of it and try their luck with that. more...
"POLITICIANS, royals and celebrities usually issue Christmas cards depicting themselves", says Ken J Ratcliffe in his letter (You Say, December 31), who goes on to say that a local schoolboy had won a competition for designing a Christmas card sent to him by MP Mike Foster. more...
REFERRING to your item about the continuation of the outer route system and completion of an orbital system for Worcester, on behalf of a constituent in Lower Wick, Worcester, I can say that the engineering department has given some answers regarding widening the road from Powick island to the Whittington island. more...
NEW Year's Eve, 10.30am on the Cathedral roundabout, and workmen were in the process of demolishing the Christmas tree. more...
On Sunday a walk will leave the Ramada Hotel, Bewdley,between 9am and 9.30am. check in for the walk is from 8.30am. more...
The Forestry Commission is inviting parents and carers of young children to bring them along to Wyre Forest Discovery Centre for an hour of artistic fun using natural forest materials on January 17. more...
Wyre Forest residents are being urged to brave the cold snap and step out on a canal walk from Kidderminster to Wolverley next weekend. more...
History buffs can roll back the years to more than a century ago following the unveiling of a new service by the Government's records office. more...
President Joyce Betteridge has received a letter from Patricia Wadington of the Acorns Trust, expressing her appreciation for the gifts send by the group. more...
Christmas dinner was held at The Hundred House, Great Witley, when entertainment was provided by Classy Country, Jenny and Danny singing Country and Western songs. more...
A Christmas meal preceded the December meeting, when June Davis reported on the recent district committee meeting. more...
Bertha Davies and Ellie Bing gave parties to celebrate their birthdays and each received a basket of flowers. more...
The 45th anniversary was celebrated with a buffet party and entertainment by Joan Southerton and Betty Bickerton. more...
Social time at the December meeting was led by Dorothy Norman, talking about her career in music. She played the recorder, sang and related anecdotes of mishaps during stage performances. more...
As always, a varied programme has been organised for the first half of 2002. more...
The December 15 meeting in St Ambrose church hall was followed by Christmas lunch at Gainsborough House Hotel - arranged by social secretary Edna Plimley-Rodriguez. more...
There are two rides on Sunday. more...
R Pearson will give a talk about his real life experienced with Live Animals, on Thursday, January 17 at Holy Innocents Community Centre, starting at 7.30pm. more...
On December 11 Christmas was celebrated with a party at the village hall. more...
An inter-club quiz and Christmas party brought a successful year to a close. more...
"ESSENTIAL" repairs need to be carried out at Bewdley Museum within the next two to three years, members of the district council have been told. more...
A MAN allowed home for the day by hospital staff following an operation dropped dead in front of his wife after becoming ill. more...
FRESH proposals for traffic calming costing £200,000 and aimed at cutting child casualties in Bewdley have finally been given the green light. more...
Roads were closed in Cleobury Mortimer and residents were evacuated when a tanker began leaking liquid petroleum gas on Saturday. more...
THREE brands of hot dog sausages have been withdrawn by two supermarkets after warnings some tins could explode when opened or the contents cause food poisoning. more...
STAFF at a Kidderminster hairdressers staged a huge clean-up operation into the early hours after their shop was left underwater by burst pipes. more...
THE latest arrival at West Midland Safari Park is the talk of the attraction - a yak. more...
THE number of people breath-tested positive for drink driving fell by nearly a half over Christmas and New Year. more...
A MASSIVE £5,001 was raised by Kidderminster and District Lions' annual Father Christmas collection. more...
A history group is on the internet thanks to lottery funding. more...
PEOPLE with poetry in their souls are being asked to put it in writing and keep Kemp Hospice's fund-raising campaign on track. more...
A JUDGE has praised a Kidderminster man for his efforts to kick a drug habit. more...
AN exhibition of images shot at the infamous Second World War concentration camp at Auschwitz has gone on show at Kidderminster Library's gallery. library assistant Debbie Vaughan at the concentration camp exhibition at Kidderminster. more...
PLANS to refurbish and make safe a dilapidated Kidderminster monument have been put on hold by Wyre Forest District Council. more...
A CANCER patient was killed after the car he was driving went straight on at a bend in Wolverley and ploughed into a vehicle in a layby. more...
RAIDERS who stole valuable ducks and geese from a nursery near Blakedown in a Christmas strike returned this week to complete the job - slaughtering chickens in the process. more...
THE minister of an 18th century Methodist church in Stourport has hit back at claims that proposed alterations to the building's interior amount to "vandalism." more...
WHEELCHAIR-bound people in Wyre Forest will soon be able to hit the road thanks to a new initiative from a district charity. more...
MORE than £6,000 has poured into the fighting fund of anti-incinerator campaigners since their cash appeal was launched just before Christmas. more...
MAY we express thanks to the following schools and groups for the beautiful Christmas cards which they made for the library's housebound readers, at our request. more...
I WOULD like to comment on the two rather "nit-picking" letters referring to Dr Richard Taylor's parliamentary activities, from Mr Tony Clay and Mrs CM Jones, printed in Shuttle/Times & News of December 20. more...
I WRITE with reference to Tony Clay's observations (Letters, December 20), that Dr Richard Taylor "has criticised at every turn, but failed to come up with any constructive ideas". more...
ON a visit to Sainsbury's store in Kidderminster on December 23, I was dismayed to find the main entrance obstructed by many pallets of bags of potatoes. more...
I DEEPLY regret the veil of secrecy thrown over the incinerator situation by Worcestershire County Council. more...
I FELT I must write in response to the front page article on January 3, regarding trade losses in Kidderminster over the holiday period. more...
SO Councillor Frank Baillie accuses the Labour members on Bewdley Town Council of grousing (Shuttle/Times & News, January 3). more...
Netball and hockey posts worth £1,000 were torched by arsonists who broke into a building at Kidderminster's Birchen Coppice First School between 8pm and 8.30pm on New Year's Day. more...
I AM writing to let your readers know about Close For Comfort Theatre Company. more...
A DRIVER found asleep in his van after a Christmas party at a Kidderminster hotel was almost four times over the alcohol limit, a court heard this week. more...
I WOULD like to bring to the attention of your readers the recent trend by unlicensed restaurants in the Wyre Forest area who are now charging an uncorking fee when you bring a bottle to their premises. more...
A HUGE list of maintenance and golf equipment, including clubs, tools and a lawnmower worth a total of £4,815, were stolen from Wharton Park Golf Club, Bewdley. more...
I FELT I must write regarding the article which appeared in the December 27 issue of the Shuttle/Times & News, relating to the county council's decision to implement, or rather be "minded" to implement a two-tier education system in Hagley. more...
POLICE have condemned an arson attack outside a Kidderminster block of flats that could have ended in "disaster and tragedy". more...
I AM totally disgusted at Councillor Frank Baillie's attempts to discredit Bewdley Town Council for the second time in his short political career. more...
A 20-YEAR-old Kidderminster man was punched in the ribs and robbed as he lay on the floor on New Year's Day. more...
A KIDDERMINSTER man is facing trial by jury accused of arson while reckless whether life was endangered. more...
YOUNG con artists have been knocking on elderly people's homes in Bewdley claiming to be collecting cash for sponsored events at the town's high school. more...
POLICE have launched an appeal for witnesses after a 12-year-old girl was left in critical condition when she was in collision with a car in Kidderminster. more...
A STOURPORT man caught in possession of child pornography from the internet has been registered as a sex offender and put under supervision for three years. more...
THE House of Commons restarted on Tuesday. It was like returning to school with some homesickness! more...
ONE of the unhappiest chapters in the recent life of the Faithful City could soon end with the demolition of Elbury Mount Primary School - heralding the opening of a new chapter for its Brickfields residents in the shape of a new school proposed for the same site. more...
HE has been to the most dangerous places the world has to offer and feared for his life on more than one occasion - now Mad Mac is taking on voodoo. more...
MEMBERS of the Territorial Army in Kidderminster have been put through their paces amid plummeting temperatures in the Welsh hills. more...
A LURCHER that had been "kicked to pieces" by cruel thugs has been cited as the worst case ever seen at the Forest Dog Rescue centre. more...
A CONTINUING spate of arson attacks on trees in Bewdley has sparked fears among firefighters that the young culprits could go on to commit more serious offences. more...
MORE than 25,000 trees in Wyre Forest's parks and open spaces are reaching the end of the road and need to be replaced, it has been revealed. more...
A RESIDENT of a Kidderminster estate has predicted "injuries and fatalities" if its roads are not treated during wintry conditions. more...
YOUNGSTERS looking for dangerous ways to have fun in freezing conditions have been told they are skating on thin ice - literally. more...
RECORD passenger numbers have proved just the ticket for Severn Valley Railway bosses as the steam attraction forecasts a big loss. more...
AN offer to buy a beleaguered engineering firm has brought New Year cheer to workers at the Kidderminster factory currently in administration. more...
HEALTH campaigners fear a bleak winter after claiming emergency beds in the county filled up at the weekend. more...
TWO million pounds is to be slashed from the district council's budget as part of cutbacks which will see "major reductions" in leisure spending. more...
THE plight of thousands of Afghans forced to endure further hardship in their war-torn homeland prompted a massive response to a plea for help by a Wyre Forest charity. more...
PENSIONERS had plenty to smile about when the Mayor of Worcester officially opened an Age Concern Exercise and Luncheon Club. more...
NEW high-tech ambulances could be equipped to save thousands of heart attack victims across the county within the next 18 months. more...
WORCESTER'S long awaited Millennium Fountain has gone into hibernation less than a month after it was first switched on. more...
WORCESTER'S new magistrates' court is due to be unveiled in a glittering ceremony next month. more...
POLICE are hoping a motorist may hold vital information about a road crash which has left a top policeman fighting for his life. more...
A GLOBE-trotting dad is giving a talk about his trip to Annapurna, in the Himalayas, in aid of Leukaemia Research. more...
STUDENTS using colleges in Worcestershire could be in line for improved bus services. more...
BULLDOZERS have moved in to demolish the site of a former Worcester cash and carry store. more...
A CASH-strapped father of six sneaked more than £100 of toys from a Woolworth's display into his child's pushchair to give his family "a good Christmas". more...
A TEENAGE girl could face a jail term after stealing a £265 antique mirror from a Worcester shop. more...
A FORMER member of the SAS, Red Devil skydiver and best-selling author plunged more than 4,000ft to his death when he jumped without a parachute from a light aircraft. more...
SEVERE cutbacks in breast screening, mental health services and physiotherapy may have to be made in Worcestershire to deal with a £297,000 health trust debt. more...
A WORCESTER man will be reunited with his Filipina wife for Valentine's Day now that she has finally been granted a visa to come to Britain. more...
A DROITWICH woman has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs by her cleaning lady. more...
TROUBLED Worcester primary school Elbury Mount could be bulldozed, it has emerged. more...
NO exceptions, no excuses and no escape is the hard-hitting message to road tax cheats in Worcestershire. more...
A TEENAGER accused of causing a £38,000 nightclub blaze has told a jury he was not the arsonist. more...
A TENANT farmer whose riverside land was constantly flooded for eight months last winter is being threatened with legal action for non-payment of rent. more...
A KIDDERMINSTER Harriers supporter is due to lay a football-related motion before Parliament - congratulating West Bromwich Albion. more...
STUDLEY keeper Matt Pugh is doubtful for the visit of Willenhall on Saturday. more...
COMPETITION for places at Worcester Rugby Club seems to be hotting up wherever I look at present. more...
THE Studley Blue and White Rope Skippers are bidding to qualify for the World Championships on home turf this year. more...
BROMSGROVE and Redditch Harriers enjoyed a fruitful outing at the Worcestershire Cross Country Championships at Halesowen. more...
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THE days of an Aggborough legend have come to an end after Paul Webb was released by Kidderminster Harriers along with defender Mark Shail. more...
HARRIERS striker Stewart Hadley has handed Worcester City a boost by agreeing to extend his loan stay at the club for another month. more...
THE reserves booked Kidderminster Harriers' first cup final place of the season with a 3-2 win at Ledbury Town. more...
MALVERN Town have signed 20-year-old striker Dean Roberts from Dr Martens Western Division outfit Evesham United. more...
SWIFTS old boy Lee Booth is assured of a hot reception on his return to his former stamping ground tomorrow. more...
FORMER Reds stars Scott Colcombe and Ian Mitchell have hit out at Rod Brown after the United manager released them at the weekend. more...
REDS chairman Rod Laight today offered to resign as chairman of the club after a ten year reign at the helm. more...
GREAT Alne CC have appointed their first over-seas player after signing Aussie teenager Daniel Craig. more...
WITH last weekend's match against Leominster cancelled due to the weather, Stourport Hockey Club ladies first team return to action on Saturday at Bloxwich. more...
WORCESTER Norton Hockey Club ladies first team are being frustrated. more...
KIDDERMINSTER Carolians Rugby Club play their first game of the New Year with a tough top of the table Midlands Three West North clash at Bridgnorth on Saturday. more...
MALVERN Rugby Club travel to Kenilworth on Saturday knowing that the home side are still smarting from a 17-10 reverse at Spring Lane in November, which prevented them from topping the Midlands One table. more...
PAUL Webb, who was released by Kidderminster Harriers earlier this week, has turned down the chance to join Bromsgrove Rovers. more...
LEE Goodman struck for Wor-cester City in their 1-1 draw with Hereford United at St George's Lane last night. more...
MALVERN Town have signed 20-year-old striker Dean Rob-erts from Dr Martens Western Division outfit Evesham United. more...
RECORD-breaking Nick Baxter has Worcester in his sights as he goes in search of a century of tries in Saturday's National One clash of the day (2.15pm). more...
TITLE-chasing Kidderminster Carolians hope to have new faces involved in their first fixture of 2002 after three weeks without a Midlands Three West (North) game. more...
PAUL Webb, who was released by Kidderminster Harriers earlier this week, has turned down the chance to join Bromsgrove Rovers. more...
WORCESTERSHIRE Coaches Association has been formed after the success of a seminar and goalkeeper coaching day. more...
RYAN'S Wanderers were crowned Kidderminster Six-a-side Cup champions with a convincing 12-4 victory over Peacock. more...
A MEETING has been arranged for Sunday at The King's Arms at 8pm. more...
FERNDALE Girls U-14s top the Warwickshire League at the halfway point of the season. more...
THERE will be a contest on Saturday with an 8.45am draw. more...
ONLY a few Stourport and District Youth Football League matches survived the weather at the weekend. more...
LOCAL West Midlands League sides are on Kidderminster Harriers Cup duty on Saturday after a string of postponements hit last weekend's action. more...
CLEOBURY Town booked their place in the Kidderminster and District Sunday Football League Minor Cup third round with a 7-0 home win over Kingswinford Snooker. more...
A MEETING has been called for Sunday from 11am in the Old Bear. more...
A CONTEST will be held on the Lyttelton waters 1-43 on Sunday - draw at 8am at The Woodman Inn. more...
FUR and Feather, Poole Hall: T Hyrons 6-11, T Cooke 2-6, R Burrows 2-5, K Green 1-10, M Brown 1-8. more...
RIVER Severn, Lyttelton 44-79: Paul Wilson 1-5, Derek Willis 1-3, Ray Symes 0-8, Roger Perry 0-7. more...
ROUND two of the Winter League was fished at Haye Farm Pools when three of the top four weights were all-roach catches up to 1.5lb. more...
JASON Neath was the Silver match winner at Moorlands Farm on Sunday. more...
LEE Goodman struck for Wor-cester City in their 1-1 draw with Hereford United at St George's Lane last night. more...
GOLF: Dave Jones and Jim Broadley won the Seniors Turkey Trot at Cleobury Mortimer, scoring 38 points. more...
CHESS: Kidderminster Pawns scored a 4-0 victory over St James of Longbridge in Worcester and District League Division One. more...
DARTS: The Royal Forester (Callow Hill) remain unbeaten halfway through the Rock and District Darts Winter League but only just. more...
DARTS: Great Western fringe first team player Tony Pinwell caused the shock of the night in the Bewdley Town Darts Singles Knockout Preliminary Round. more...
MOTOR SPORT: Hagley and District Light Car Club host the British Trial and Rally Drivers Association Gold Star Sporting Trial Championship final on Saturday in Heightington. more...
TENNIS: The latest LifeStyle tennis course will involve some lucky Wyre Forest schoolchildren who won a place on the four-week scheme. more...
SNOOKER: Two St George's A players, Paul Moule and Harry Nock, hold the most wins to date in the Kidderminster Wednesday Snooker League. more...
TABLE TENNIS: The first round of Kidderminster Table Tennis League's Handicap Cup produced close matches but none more so than Third Division Sea Scouts B's clash with First Division Bewdley CC A. more...
ATHLETICS: Eight members of Amazing Feet entered the final contest of the club's Annual Race League at Wheaton Aston. more...
ATHLETICS: Kidderminster and Stourport Athletic Club's senior women and U-15s girls teams won their sections at the Worcestershire Cross Country Championships. more...
NETBALL: Wyre Forest player Karen Greenfield helped Worcestershire to a dream start in English Counties League Division Two. more...
AT a time where the game is crying out for direction, high-profile figures seem content on sniping from the trenches rather than joining together in a real war against racism. more...
JUDO: The British Judo Association's big Midland quarterly grading was switched to Samurai Judo Club after problems with the usual Birmingham venue. more...
SHOOTING: Sharpshooters at Kidderminster Rifle Club have their sights set on finding a new home after an action-packed successful year. more...
HOCKEY: Stourport will be competing in English Hockey Indoor Premier League matches over the next two weekends at Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre. more...
RECORD-breaking Nick Baxter has Worcester in his sights as he goes in search of a century of tries in Saturday's National One clash of the day (2.15pm). more...
IAN Foster was an unlikely two-goal hero after jumping off the bench to make a big impression at Torquay United. more...
LONG-serving Tony Wrench has been rewarded for his sterling 25 years service to the Stainweld Cricket League. more...
AN umpires course will be held at Chainwire Club for 10 weeks from Wednesday. more...
SKIPPER Lea Shaw has quit Stourport Swifts ahead of one of the biggest games in their history on Saturday. more...
STOURPORT Swifts did enough to earn a point in their away game with second-placed Chippenham Town but were pipped 1-0 on Saturday. more...
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