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  • Late shopping at museum

    LATE night Christmas shoppers can stock up on festive goodies at Worcestershire County Museum in Hartlebury next week. Stocking filler gifts will be among items available during the late opening at the museum's gift shop on Wednesday, November 7, from

  • McLellan puts the boot into Bedworth

    STAUNCH defending by Kidderminster Carolians RFC ensured they recorded a third win of the season in the Midlands Division Three West (South) by edging out Bedworth 6-3 at Marlpool Lane on Saturday. The team had to defend their narrow lead bravely to

  • Remembrance parade change

    A CHANGE has been made to the parade arrangements for this year's Remembrance Sunday event in Kidderminster. Ex-Service and other local organisations' representatives will be stationed imediately below the gateway leading to St Mary and All Saints churchyard

  • Speaker unable to attend

    DUE to illness, the scheduled speaker for a meeting of a Kidderminster history group will be unable to attend. Kidderminster Archaelogical and Historical Society will, instead, have a members' evening on Wednesday, November 7 at St George's Annexe, at

  • Loyal Pals to the end

    A MOVING play about groups of friends fighting for their country in the First World War will be performed at the Rose Theatre in Kidderminster this week. Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals is a real life story of friends raised in and around the Lancashire

  • Young guns inspire stalling Harriers

    Harriers 3 Vauxhall 1 YOUNG guns Matthew Barnes-Homer and Michael McGrath made sure the wheels did not fall off Kidderminster Harriers' FA Cup aspirations by inspiring the stalling home team to a hard fought win on Saturday. Harriers' hopes of progressing

  • Young guns inspire stalling Harriers

    Harriers 3 Vauxhall 1 YOUNG guns Matthew Barnes-Homer and Michael McGrath made sure the wheels did not fall of Kidderminster Harriers' FA Cup aspirations by inspiring the stalling team to a hard fought win on Saturday. Harriers' hopes of progressing

  • Threat to cut head off

    A MAN angered by loud music injured his neighbour with a Samurai sword after threatening to cut his head off. Sean Farmer's home shared a communal garden with Marc Wray's seven-bedroom, five-bathroom property but Farmer became irritated by music from

  • Hospital attacks being tackled

    VIOLENT attacks on hospital staff by patients and visitors have prompted NHS chiefs to look at ways of improving security. November has been designated national NHS Security Awareness Month to highlight the problem, which has seen 100 incidents of staff

  • Cards sales boost charities

    SHOPPERS will be able to give charities a boost while buying their Christmas cards in Bewdley. Volunteers will be selling charity festive cards under the Cards for Good Causes scheme, from Friday until Monday, December 17 in Bewdley Library. The cards

  • Close encounter with cormorant

    WHEN the air in the atmosphere gets cold it becomes denser and begins to fall. This in general is a good thing as this falling air does not allow water vapour to condense out of it, so clouds don't form and we usually experience sunny weather. Recently

  • First round here we come...

    Bignot, Smikle, Barnes-Homer and Richards celebrate an impressive second half, which ensures Harriers play Ware FC in Hertfordshire in the FA Cup first round on November 10.

  • Smikle unlucky

    Brian Smikle slides the ball beyond keeper Sean Lake in the game's dying minutes but sees his effort ruled out for offside.

  • McGrath's on target

    McGrath puts the icing on the cake with a third goal to turn a potential cup banana skin into a walk in the park.

  • England man's a steady Eddy

    Russ Penn, who was called up to the England's National Game squad last week, has time on the ball as Harriers go in search of more goals.

  • No let up for striker

    To his credit Richards does not give up and tests Vauxhall's defence with a shot, before heading Harriers into the lead in the 76th minute.

  • Big hug!

    Bignot leaps on his team-mate to celebrate the leveller.

  • Boy, 10, among road collision victims

    A 10-YEAR-OLD boy and his father have died following a tragic road collision near a garden nursery. The dead pair were John Thacker, 43, and his son Matthew Thacker. Police are appealing for witnesses to the fatal incident on the A456, near Hodgehill

  • Right winger rates highly

    Paul Bignot was also looking dangerous for Harriers and provided the cross for Barnes-Homer to level the scores.

  • McGrath makes the difference

    The manager throws on midfielder Michael McGrath at half-time in a bid to get his side back on the FA Cup fast track.

  • Unhappy gaffer

    Manager Mark Yates cuts a forlorn figure on the touchline after watching his side struggle.

  • Wheels come off

    But the keeper is helpless as Roberts pounces on poor defending by Harriers and puts the Wirral side ahead.

  • Just how much data do I store?

    Amazing when you sit and think how much information we store in our brains. As the years roll by we fill up more and more “filing cabinets” with millions of incredible facts, figures, music, words, images, events, sayings; the list is endless. Quite

  • Just how much data do I store?

    Amazing when you sit and think how much information we store in our brains. As the years roll by we fill up more and more “filing cabinets” with millions of incredible facts, figures, music, words, images, events, sayings; the list is endless. Quite

  • Motors getting up to speed

    As Harriers push forward they are susceptible to Vauxhall's breaks and goalkeeper Chris MacKenzie denies Paul Taylor.

  • So close!

    Creighton then tests Vauxhall's resolve with a header, but keeper Sean Lake makes a fine save.

  • Creighton makes his mark

    Mark Creighton flies in on striker David Roberts, who tries to get Vauxhall motoring with a counter-attack.

  • Get up!

    Andy Ferrell checks a Vauxhall midfielder who has been pole-axed

  • Motors put barricades up

    But Vauxhall Motors defend solidly, with midfielder Michael Garrity making a timely block on Brian Smikle.

  • Roving forward

    Paul Bignot makes an early foray forward as Harriers make a bright start.

  • Putting brakes on Vauxhall

    It was a very dull sort of a day, not helped by our first-half performance. Most of the pre-match comment was centred around the risqué charity calendar being sold in aid of the Worcestershire Special Olympics. I noticed that their motto is “Let me win

  • Putting brakes on Vauxhall

    It was a very dull sort of a day, not helped by our first-half performance. Most of the pre-match comment was centred around the risqué charity calendar being sold in aid of the Worcestershire Special Olympics. I noticed that their motto is “Let me win

  • River dance

    Last Tuesday I was faced with the dilemma of either staying in front of a roaring fire watching Man United on the TV or venturing out into the freezing night to watch Harriers v Bewdley. No contest really, so Bewdley-bound I was. The ground is situated

  • River dance

    Last Tuesday I was faced with the dilemma of either staying in front of a roaring fire watching Man United on the TV or venturing out into the freezing night to watch Harriers v Bewdley. No contest really, so Bewdley-bound I was. The ground is situated

  • Boy dead following road collision

    AN air ambulance was scrambled following a two car collision in which a boy and a man died. The incident happened on the A456 Birmingham Road, near to the Hodge Hill Nurseries just before 12.30pm, yesterday. A pair of ambulances, rapid response vehicle

  • Harriers handed minnows in FA Cup

    HARRIERS face a trip into the unknown in the first round of the FA Cup after being drawn against Hertfordshire based side Ware FC. The Aggborough side have been handed a cup tie against one of the lowest ranked sides left in the competition away from