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  • Excellent Harriers Down Dons

    AFC WIMBLEDON 0 HARRIERS 1 IMPRESSIVE Harriers made it back-to-back wins in the Blue Square Premier with a determined smash and grab 1-0 win at fellow play-off hopefuls AFC Wimbledon. IMPRESSIVE Harriers made it back to back wins in the

  • Action Group Questions Council

    Disabled rights group Disability Action Wyre Forest has written to Chief Executive Of Wyre Forest District Council. Asking for a copy of their impact assessment regarding the council's decision to AXE free bus travel before 9.30am Monday to Friday

  • What's planned down your way

    THE following planning applications have been submitted to Wyre Forest District Council. Kidderminster: Change of use from retail premises to a one bedroom flat with replacement windows at 48 Mill Street for Mr Matt Finch. Substitution of previously

  • Cafe Church @ Nero's

    The theme for Café Church on Wednesday will be ‘is your body a temple?’ Café Church meets from 5.30pm for 6pm) to 7pm.

  • Ingredients come together for Sara

    A STOURPORT woman has launched a dream career as a top chef and cookery teacher for people who struggle in the kitchen. Sara Dover, 42, of Severn Manor Gardens, said the “ingredients had finally come together” in her life after a 25-year rollercoaster

  • Time to act over town drunks

    IS anyone going to do somthing about the drunks that have taken up residence in the park by the bus stops in Oxford Street, Kidderminster. I have to walk past them every day and it’s disgusting. I see ladies and children cringing while waiting for buses

  • Kidderminster budget discount store bucking the trend

    A BUDGET discount store in Kidderminster is bucking the trend and employing an extra 10 staff for what it believes will be a busy Christmas period. Poundland in Worcester Street is expanding its workforce with the help of a local company dedicated

  • Firework hazard on Kidderminster estate

    FIREFIGHTERS from Kidderminster spent 20 minutes making safe a lit firework on a town estate. Youths chucked the firework into a bush near a house on Tennyson Way, on the Offmore Farm Estate, just before 9pm last night. The firework did not go off but

  • Schools contest for young worker safety

    A YOUNG person is seriously injured in a UK workplace every 40 minutes and 66 under-19s have been killed at work in the last 10 years. As part of its ongoing campaign to educate young people about the risks they might face in the workplace, the British

  • Kidderminster Fairtrade chairman steps down

    STALWART campaigner, Peter Grantham, has has bowed out from the Kidderminster Faitrade Group he helped to set up, after five years at the helm. The retired postal worker and former Liberal councillor was the founding chairman of the group, which won

  • Variety on offer for Bewdley Festival Fringe

    MUSIC, performances and exhibitions will entertain revellers at this year’s Bewdley Festival Fringe. The Octoberfest events will take place throughout October at the town’s museum, library and pubs. There will be street entertainment outside the town

  • Midlanders prefer to eat fish suppers with cutlery

    DINERS in the Midlands are taking fish and chips upmarket, preferring to eat theirs with a knife and fork, according to a new survey commissioned by the Friers Quality Awards, which recognises shops that sell first-class fish and chips. In a major consumer

  • Open days insight into law careers

    THE College of Law in Birmingham is holding open days in October and November to give anyone interested in pursuing a career in law an insight into its training courses and the legal profession. At the open days, taking place at the Great Hampton Street

  • Get to know your child's friends

    Is it reasonable for parents to know who their child's friends are and to meet them? My answer would be definitely yes. In fact, it may be irresponsible not to. At least until the end of grade nine, parents should know the friends with whom their child

  • On the record - Jay-Z lays down another Blueprint

    Hip-hop heavyweight Jay-Z returns this week - without having to interrupt an awards ceremony to gain headlines a la Kanye West - to introduce his 11th studio album. Elsewhere, rock legends Alice In Chains return with Black Gives Way To Blue and former

  • From the gutter, Hawley's looking at the stars

    Sheffield's finest Richard Hawley releases his new album Truelove's Gutter on Monday September 28. We talk to the man about the record, which he describes as his most experimental, his inspirations and the strange coincidences he stumbled upon while recording

  • Stay one step ahead of lice

    Is your child's scalp feeling a bit itchy now that they are back at school? We take a look at the best way to beat head lice without having to shave off any locks. By Kate Hodal. For thousands of school pupils across the UK, the sensation of a six-legged

  • DVD rental top ten

    1 (-) Angels And Demons 2 (-) Race To Witch Mountain 3 (-) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (DVD) 4 (-) Observe And Report 5 (6) Crank 2 - High Voltage 6 (-) I Love You, Man 7 (3) The Damned United 8 (1) State Of Play 9 (-) Awaydays

  • Ricky Gervais: Writer, director and star

    YOU'VE got to hand it to Ricky Gervais. Not many men could take the kind of insults thrown at him in his latest film - let alone write them in the first place. The Invention Of Lying, which Gervais wrote, directed and stars in, sees him play loser Mark

  • Misconceived romantic comedy

    GHOSTS Of Girlfriends Past (Cert 12, 96 mins, Entertainment In Video, Romance/Comedy, also available to buy DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99) Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone, Robert

  • DVD retail top ten

    1 (-) The Fast & The Furious 2 (-) Angels & Demons 3 (4) Twilight 4 (-) Step Brothers 5 (-) State Of Play 6 (-) Dirty Dancing 7 (3) Slumdog Millionaire 8 (-) Supernatural - Season 4 - Pt 2 9 (-) Crank 2 - High Voltage 10 (-)

  • Writer, director and movie star Ricky talks to Xtra

    RICKY Gervais wrote, directed and starred in his latest movie The Invention Of Lying, released in cinemas this week. The comedian reveals what it would be like to live in a world where no one lies and how much fun he had making the film.