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  • Bromsgrove cafe holding yellow day charity event

    A BROMSGROVE cafe is holding a charity fundraising day to raise vital funds for a liver disease charity. Lorita's Bakehouse in Bromsgrove High Street is holding the charity day tomorrow, (March 6) to raise money for the Children's Liver Disease

  • Nochecks on parking plan

    BROMSGROVE District Council’s logic in giving free car parking after 7pm is to encourage night time trade in the town centre; this is estimated to cost BDC approximately £60,000. Unfortunately there is no plan to monitor the increase in business

  • Amazed and disgusted

    I AM amazed and disgusted by the audacity of the developers of the Copcut site in Droitwich. There was great outcry in the town when this site and the one at Yew Tree Hill was proposed. The local feeling was that the increased traffic caused by

  • Time for new faces in the council chamber

    HAVING sat for over three and a quarter hours at February’s well attended full Bromsgrove District Council meeting it was a great pity the chairman had to prematurely close this extended meeting dur - ing the last and very important debate about future

  • Lessons to be learned says coach after loss at Nuneaton

    HEAD coach Dan Protherough believes Bromsgrove must learn the lessons of their narrow defeat to Nuneaton on Saturday. The Boars were edged out 17-15 in a hard fought game where they had been trailing by 17 points before roaring back with three

  • Colts hit 12 to go clear at the top

    MEADOW Park Under-13s avenged an opening day defeat at Bartley Reds by easing past comfortably dispatching the Birmingham side on Sunday in Central Warwickshire Youth Football League Division One. Elliott Ward, Terrel Jeffers (2), Theo Fields (

  • Webbs staff celebrated with in-house awards

    STAFF at Webbs Garden Centre in Wychbold have been celebrating their achievements with an awards ceremony.The garden centre holds its own awards evening, called the WAFTAs or Webbs Awards for Training and Achievements to celebrate the work of staff from

  • Top-six finish is Villa’s target

    FAIRFIELD Villa have targeted a top six finish in the Midlands Division Two. The Recreation Ground outfit are ninth in the table but have games in hand over all of the sides above them. Villa are also still gunning for silverware and will face

  • Ladies claim a promotion place

    BROMSGROVE Ladies B sealed promotion to the Winter League Division One with a 3-1 triumph over Stourbridge C. Foster and Whitcomb led the way with fine 6-4, 6-2 and 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victories in their contests, while Weston and Kenward supported them

  • Nearly new sale taking place in Barnt Green

    A NEARLY new sale to raise money for Barnt Green Pre School is being held this March. Nearly new toys, books, DVDs and clothes for babies and children up to 12 years old will be on sale at the event being held on Saturday, March 21. Among the

  • Small errors costly as Spa go down the Road

    DROITWICH Spa were edged out 3-1 by title-chasing Leicester Road at home in a tight Midlands Division Two clash. Spa had battled back from behind from a tenth-minute penalty by James Hicks. But Droitwich more than matched their rivals and Macauley

  • Spring clean and donate in one with Webbs

    WEBBS Garden Centre in Wychbold is inviting people to have a spring clean, and bring their unwanted items to donate to the Primrose Hospice.The store is holding a ‘Donate, Don’t Dump Day’ for Primrose Hospice on Thursday, March 19, when customers are

  • Bromsgrove MP meets Artrix director to discuss funding future

    BROMSGROVE'S MP is looking to help secure fresh funding for the Artrix after discussing the issue with the centre's current director. In January the Advertiser reported on how a 10 year agreement for Bromsgrove District Council to provide £120,000