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  • Junior academy reopens

    BROMSGROVE Hockey Club’s successful Junior Hockey Academy reopens on Sunday, September 15. Last season the scheme hosted over 100 children each week at Bromsgrove School. Newcomers will get their first session for free, and the club runs morings

  • Evenson: two wins would be a boost

    BROMSGROVE captain Mark Evenson wants his side to end a disappointing season in the Birmingham League Division One with two wins. Despite Saturday’s defeat to relegation battling Leamington, the mid-table Boars only need a few points to ensure

  • Droitwich claim local bragging rights

    DROITWICH Spa grabbed local bragging rights in the Midland Combination Division One as they saw off county rivals Feckenham 5-1 on Saturday. Goals for Ben Brogan, Stuart Price, Phillip Rowe, Nick Seabourne and James Ward ensured Spa recorded their

  • Bottoms up!

    Review: Fallen Angels – at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, from Monday, September 2, until Saturday, September 7, 2013. HINTS of what was to come, the ladette culture of today, seem to have been provided in this1925 offering from Noel Coward.

  • Memory Lane - 50 years ago

    STRANDED at Worcester late one night, two Birmingham men decided to get home on foot. The following morning they were seen tramping along the M5 at Catshill and fined £3 by Bromsgrove Magistrates. They wrote that they had been unaware that pedestrians

  • New baby and toddler class launched in Catshill

    A BRAND new baby and toddler class is being launched in Catshill this month. Tots Play, being held at Catshill Village Hall in Golden Cross Lane, offers babies and toddlers the opportunity to participate in a variety of different activities.

  • Mock The Week comedian Lucy Porter comes to the Artrix

    FRESH from popular TV and radio shows such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Mock The Week Lucy Porter will be bringing her new show to the Artrix. In the show Lucy explores the question - does geography shape your destiny? Born in Croydon to

  • Burbidge wins the unified singles title

    DROITWICH’s Adie Burbidge won the unified singles title in the Diamond Jubilee Weston-super-Mare Ladies’ Open Bowls Tournament at Clarence Park. Burbidge won all three group matches to get through to the final, in which his opponent was Clevedon

  • Flower power

    MARLBROOK Gardens raised £9,004.87 for charities in our 10th year of opening the gardens for the National Gardens Scheme (NGS), taking our total to more than £51,000. Fromour fouropendays, private viewings and donations we raised £8,397.43 for

  • Barnt Green youngsters win title

    BARNT Green under-11s completed a successful season by securing the prestigious Premier League title. Competing in the six strong Worcester Cricket Board Premier League, the team went into final league game level on points with Old Swindford and

  • Spa fight back in Moseley defeat

    DROITWICH came up again a strong and experienced Moseley side in their final pre-season warm up fixture on Saturday and were defeated 47-18. The home side will take many positives out of the game and actually out scored the visitors in the second

  • Goalkeeper problems for Villa

    FAIRFIELD Villa are facing a keeper crisis ahead of Saturday’s Midland Combination clash at home to Sutton United (3pm ko). Villa lost debutant Steve Morris in their victory over Aston in the President’s Cup at the weekend, when he broke two fingers

  • Sutton targeting top four

    BARNT Green could still book themselves a top four finish in this season’s Birmingham League after walloping defending champions Walsall by 112 runs. The Green began the game looking over their shoulder at the relegation scrap unfolding behind

  • Town history group invites resident to its next talks

    A TOWN local history group is holding its next talk this Tuesday, September 17. The Bromsgrove Society’s local history group is holding the talk at The Methodist Centre, Stratford Road. The talk, starting at 7.45pm, is being given by Susan

  • Baxter confident ahead of opener

    HEAD coach Ross Baxter is hoping Bromsgrove can build on their encouraging performances against Otley in their first match of the season in the National North Two (3pm ko). They make the trip north for a testing start against a side which finished