Worcestershire | Archive | 2002 | March
A CONFERENCE aimed at squeezing the value from local food and drink production was a huge success. more...
A FINALIST in the inaugural Business Festival 2002 awards is one of the area's "best kept secrets". more...
AN International Trade, Where's The Catch? conference, organised by Malvern Christian Aid and the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, is coming to Malvern this weekend. more...
FIREFIGHTERS from Bromsgrove forced their way into a Romsley house to tackle an early morning kitchen fire. The crew dashed to Yew Tree Place, at 3am last Friday after reports that a grill pan had caught fire. No-one was injured. more...
I AM afraid that I must fundamentally disagree with Peter Luff in his claim that the new Code of Conduct for Parish Councils could spell the end of rural England. more...
IT makes me wonder if Worcester Health Authority has decided to close the Studdert Kennedy Centre so that they can store MP Mike Foster's "bits of paper", as he called the Hospital Patient's Records, in the replacement £2m building they propose to build on this site. more...
THE arguments over membership of Europe and the Euro will drag on and on. It has done so since Ted Heath signed up to Europe. more...
THE Danish government has recently proposed a series of legal changes that will make it harder for refugees to obtain permanent residence in Denmark. more...
WITH the proposals for tagging young offenders while on bail, I am waiting for claims that civil liberties have been infringed. more...
THE health service crisis, for all its complexities, can arguably be summed up as a collision of growing demands in the face of falling confidence. more...
WORCESTERSHIRE NHS Smoking Advice Service is organising a number of events for National No Smoking Day later this month. more...
CORPORATE recovery experts were today trying to save 34 jobs at a Kidderminster carpet factory which has crashed with debts totalling around £800,000. more...
A PUB landlady was arrested after her son's birthday celebrations ended in chaos. more...
A MAN was slashed across the face after being approached by a knifeman who demanded his wallet. more...
TRAFFIC jams cost the county £19m a year in missed meetings and late deliveries, it has been revealed. more...
A NEW pink flower eagerly awaited by gardening enthusiasts across the country has made its debut at Worcester Garden Centre. more...
A HEREFORD MP has called for an emergency debate on drugs following newspaper revelations about how easy it is to buy heroin on the streets. more...
A HEREFORD solicitor is acting on behalf of up to 100 women who claim they have been damaged by the contraceptive pill in the first case of its kind at the High Court. more...
A METAL can-making company has been fined thousands of pounds after a worker at its Worcester factory plunged off a platform in a faulty forklift truck. more...
THOUSANDS of worried parents have signed a petition organised by a Worcester clinic demanding the Government allow individual MMR vaccines. more...
WORCESTERSHIRE is in danger of being "swamped" by asylum seekers and refugees, a grandfather claims. more...
FANTASTIC fund-raising at a Worcester school has raised more than £3,000 for Barnardos. more...
AN "overwhelming" host of volunteers has been drafted in to make sure the move to Worcestershire's new hospital goes as smoothly as possible. more...
POOCHES across Worcester are being treated to a pampering as their four-legged friends nationwide prepare for this week's prestigious Crufts Dog Show. more...
A BLIND grandmother claims Worcester taxi drivers refused to take her home after she suffered a fall in the city - because of her guide dog. more...
THIS week's fixtures for football clubs across the two counties include: more...
Saturday, March 2, 2002 more...
Saturday, March 2, 2002 more...
IT'S time to heave a sigh of relief after Redditch did the business down in Wiltshire. more...
SATURDAY more...
SUNDAY more...
RUNAWAYS squeezed past the Crown Regulars in Monday Division One of the Worcester Friendly Skittle League. more...
HARRIERS 3 HARTLEPOOL 2 more...
LEFT-back Scott Stamps could miss the next two weeks of Kidderminster Harriers' Division Three play-off push with a groin injury. more...
DANNY Williams has given his team-mates a boost by declaring: "You can play Second Division football". more...
A SOLITARY strike in the 10th minute was enough to condemn Malvern Town to defeat against Brierley Hill and Hagley in the Express and Star West Midlands League Premier Division at the Langland Stadium on Saturday. more...
WORCESTER Wolves suffered a blow to their hopes of making the National Division One play-offs when they slipped to a 65-63 defeat at Cardiff Clippers. more...
THE Eastnor yard of trainer Nicky Sheppard is in top form at the moment and she sent out a double at the Ross Harriers meeting at Garnons on Sunday with the wins of Cowanstown Prince and Upton Adventure taking her seasonal total to three wins from four runners. more...
BROMSGROVE Rovers kept their Midland Allliance promotion hopes alive after a hard fought 2-1 victory at home to Bridgnorth Town. more...
PHIL Preedy's 71st minute goal was enough for Evesham United to clinch to a 1-0 win at Atherstone United in the Dr Martens League Western Division. more...
STOURPORT Swifts continued their impressive run of results with a resounding 4-0 Dr Martens Western Division victory over lowly Rocester. more...
WORCESTER Wanderers triump-hed 23-5 when they entertained battling Upton in the second round of the North Midlands Shield on Saturday. more...
WORCESTER Wolves suffered a blow to their hopes of making the National Division One play-offs when they slipped to a 65-63 defeat at Cardiff Clippers. more...
WORCESTERSHIRE'S John Bickerton made a storming finish to the Carlsberg Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur to carry off an £18,400 cheque for finishing joint sixth. more...
MANAGER John Barton praised his Worcester City players' battling qualities after they carved out a 2-1 win at King's Lynn at the weekend. more...
Saturday, March 2, 2002 more...
MANAGER John Barton praised his Worcester City players' battling qualities after they carved out a 2-1 win at King's Lynn at the weekend. more...
MALVERN came out of the dressing room having lost their last three Midlands One league games against top of the table sides. more...
DANNY Williams has given his team-mates a boost by declaring: "You can play Second Division football". more...
AUGUST more...
FIXTURES more...
FIXTURES more...
STYLISH Stourport Swifts continued their impressive run of results with a resounding 4-0 Dr Martens Western Division victory over lowly Rocester. more...
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