RESIDENTS at Sanctuary Care’s Ravenhurst Care Home in Stourport will be inviting local people to join their party to celebrate The Big Lunch on Sunday. The event will include a buffet lunch, an entertainer singing the hits of Tom Jones, drinks and a
NARROWBOAT enthusiasts flocked to Kidderminster Town Centre at the weekend to see the annual canal festival. More than 20 boats moored up as the town played host to the annual summer gathering of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Society whose
MY wife and I recently visited Kidderminster on holiday from our home in south east Spain. My daughter took advantage of Dad’s presence and booked her car in for it’s annual MOT with Wyre Forest District Council’s testing centre. This centre follows
ARRIVA Midlands is appealing for budding photographers in Kidderminster to showcase their skills in a photography competition designed to explore the role of public transport in the community. People are invited to submit images of buses at work in the
A MUSICIAN from Kidderminster is through to the quarter final of a national songwriter’s competition, judged by Sir Bob Geldof. Dale Von Minaker came second in the fourth heat of the annual national YouBloom song contest, where the top three artists
SCHOOL pupils started their history topic about the Second World War when they visited their local Nature Reserve at Burlish Top, Stourport. The Year Six pupils, of Burlish Park Primary School, were taken on a guided walk of the area by walk leader and
A KIDDERMINSTER woman who falsely claimed more than £9,000 in benefits has been given a six-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months. Magistrates also ordered 58-year-old Pamela Carwood to do 200 hours of unpaid work. Carwood, of Park Street, pleaded
© Press Association 2011 » AROUND 225,000 Tesco staff are to share a record £110 million bonus pot following the supermarket's annual profits haul of £3.8 billion. Under the chain's "Shares In Success" scheme, which paid £105 million last year
KIDDERMINSTER Town Hall was hopping as it hosted the first North Worcestershire Rabbit Show. The event, last Saturday, was hailed “a huge success” by organisers and attended by more 100 members of the public throughout the morning. There
THE security staff at a Kidderminster supermarket have been commended at Worcester Crown Court for disarming an angry man who was brandishing a knife. Judge Christopher Plunkett said Tesco store manager Martin Morris and security officer
KIDDERMINSTER Victoria CC suffered a miserable weekend as two defeats saw them slip down the Birmingham and District League Premier Division table. A three-wicket defeat at home to West Bromwich Dartmouth on Saturday, followed-up by an eight-wicket
© Press Association 2011 » POLITICAL unrest is causing British holidaymakers to switch away from the "Costa del Kasbah" destinations of Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey, it has been revealed. Instead, UK tourists are taking more trips to traditional
SHIVER me timbers, it is time for families to get their costumes ready for a swashbuckling pirates weekend at Stourport Canal Basins. Wyre Forest families are being urged to start digging out their Jolly Rogers and eye patches for Pirates Weekend
BIG-hearted slimmers from Kidderminster put their weight behind a sponsored slim to raise hundred of pounds for Kemp Hospice. Members of Brinton Park Slimming World group undertook a 12-week annual sponsored slim and lost a massive 94 stone
A BEWDLEY pub has rescued six ex-battery chickens and is running a competiton to name them. Visitors to The Hop Pole, in Cleobury Road can see the plucky additions who are fast improving in health and spirit. Louise Bale, front of house
STOURPORT has welcomed a new Mayor, who says his main priorities will be to lift the town’s image and to tackle any challenges brought by "Mr Tesco". David Little, who previously served as Mayor of Stourport in 1989/1990 said: “I am delighted
THE property and restoration solutions division of Stourport-based contractor Thomas Vale Construction has been working with four secondary schools, giving students an insight to the construction industry with a wee-long work experience placement
YEAR 13 students at Wolverley CE Secondary School have designed and made their own evening dresses for their A level in textile and product design. Wolverley students Verity Sanger and Sophie Chilman were joined by Natalie Reese and Sasha Hatherley who
FUNERAL directors held a seminar in Kidderminster, hoping to dispel some of the myths surrounding the profession. Bryden House Care Home, in Marlpool Lane, hosted the seminar, run by Philip Tomlins Funeral Directors, of Worcester. The
COMMUNITY and voluntary groups, charities and social enterprises will be able to tap into free business advice in Kidderminster. Community First is holding a surgery in the town later this year, where information about setting up, consolidating or merging
