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Thief invented story to steal from frail couple

1:10am Sunday 21st March 2010

A HOMELESS man befriended an elderly couple before stealing their pension money.

Son crashed dad's car in to parked vehicles

11:00pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A FORMER heroin user stole his father’s car and crashed in to other vehicles after going out to pick up his girlfriend.

Lucky pair had a winning time

9:20pm Saturday 20th March 2010

Competitions from in your Worcester News proved to be real winners with two Worcester Warrior fans.

Grant keeps group going

Back, from left: Anne Painting, Annette Shaw, Sharon Bouston, Kate Potham and Alan Brown. Front, Yvonne Michael, Valerie Payne, Trefor Davies, Anne Davies

6:10pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A STROKE support group in Worcester has been given a grant so it can keep meeting.

Spat over future of stroke service

4:30pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A PRE-election spat has erupted between Worcester’s MP and a rival parliamentary candidate over the future of stroke services in the county.

Sculpture in memory of city stalwart is unveiled

Worcester Mayor Andy Roberts and Lord Faulkner of Worcester are pictured officially unveiling the Sidbury sculpture in memory of Stuart McNidder. 11452802.

2:50pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A SCULPTURE to honour a Worcester stalwart has been officially unveiled.

Fatal fight was about scrap metal, court told

1:20pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A CAR dealer told police that violence on Hartlebury Common – which ended with a teenager being stabbed to death – was over scrap metal, a murder trial jury was told.

Hero soldiers rewarded for their bravery

BRAVE: Captain Ed Brown.

12:10pm Saturday 20th March 2010

TWO Worcestershire soldiers have been rewarded for their outstanding bravery and courage while fighting in Afghanistan.

Soldier in Afghanistan was ‘unlawfully killed’

UNLAWFULLY KILLED: Rfn William Aldridge

12:00pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A CORONER has ruled that an 18-year-old soldier from Bromyard was unlawfully killed in an explosion while on patrol in Afghanistan.

Teen injured in crash

Man impaled on fence

10:47am Saturday 20th March 2010

A TEENAGE boy has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries after he was hit by a car.

We're facing challenge of -30C in the Arctic

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10:30am Saturday 20th March 2010

TWO intrepid adventurers have braved temperatures of minus 20 degrees in a fridge-like university unit in Worcester to prepare for a trip of a lifetime.

MP has a quiet word to end gas work early

AT LAST! Local shop owner Alan Kasch is overjoyed that the gas work at Fernhill Heath is to finish today, a month early. Picture: Nick Toogood. 11454401

8:50am Saturday 20th March 2010

GAS works causing disruption on a busy road will finish one month early after a local MP had words with the boss of National Grid.

COMMENT: Well done to everyone who has helped

7:10am Saturday 20th March 2010

NO doubt many of our readers will have watched last night’s Sport Relief telethon on the BBC.

69 jobs to go as firm collapses

7:10am Saturday 20th March 2010

ALL 69 jobs have gone at a Worcester firm, which has become the latest casualty of the recession.

Who'll be this year's city beauty queen?

Maria Coleman.

5:50am Saturday 20th March 2010

HAVE you got what it takes to be crowned Miss Worcester? These two girls hope they do.

Last chance for woman obsessed with police

3:00am Saturday 20th March 2010

A WOMAN with an “unhealthy obsession” with police officers has been given one final chance to avoid prison.

We fear that our road will become a rat-run

FEARS: Sue and Martin Hutchinson with grandaughter Becky, aged three, right, and other St Peter’s Road residents.

1:20am Saturday 20th March 2010

RESIDENTS of St Peter’s Road in Malvern are concerned that plans to remove an access only restriction will turn the road into a rat-run and put schoolchildren at risk.

Olwen's work goes on display

Olwen Tarrant.

11:30pm Friday 19th March 2010

A PAINTER from Worcestershire who has had great success displaying her art in London galleries is putting on her first exhibition in her home town.

It’s been tough but things are looking up for us once again

Chief executive of Acorns children’s hospice trust David Strudley believes that the charity has weathered the worst of the recession and is looking forward.

9:40pm Friday 19th March 2010

MOST people would agree that helping life-limited children and their families is essential – but paying for it is still tough.

Ornate bridge 'beyond repair' is set to be scrapped

REPLACEMENT: This wooden bridge across the pool in Priory Park is ornate but deemed beyond economical repair.

8:10pm Friday 19th March 2010

THE ornate wooden bridge over a pool in a Malvern park is set to be replaced after conservation officers ruled the existing structure beyond repair.




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