A GOOD Samaritan suffered significant facial injuries after being physically assaulted with a glass object in Kidderminster town centre. The man, who witnessed three males assaulting another man while a female stood over the incident watching and
9 Kidderminster gardeners returned from Husum last week after the 10th exchange with a group of gardeners from our beautiful twin town in Germany. As "old hands" renewed friendships with their hosts, the "newcomers" began to understand why the wearm
LLOYDS Banking Group is to pay fines totalling £218 million to UK and US authorities after it became the latest lender to be punished over the rigging of interest rate benchmarks. The group said the manipulation t ook place between May 2006 and
ASDA has sparked a likely supermarket petrol price war by cutting its fuel prices. From tomorrow the company is reducing the price of its petrol and its diesel by up to 2p a litre. Asda customers will pay no more than 126.7p a litre for petrol
JOB vacancies are increasing and advertised salaries growing amid fresh evidence of a recovering labour market, according to a new report. Jobs site Adzuna said advertised pay rates increased by 1.7% between May and June, more than double the rate
ONCE again the school year comes to an end. During all the tears and joy at King Charles I School, which we as a company have served for more than ten years now, we have seen the children grow up into wonderful intelligent adults. Thanks must
MIDGE Ure’s solo show has proved the most popular Bewdley Festival act according to early ticket sales figures. Places in the audience to the Scottish singer-songwriter’s performance, which will take place on his 61st birthday, have been snapped
Stourport Swifts 0, Halesowen Town 6 SWIFTS were no match for an attack-minded Halesowen side who struck three goals in each half at Walshes Meadow. And it means Stourport have now shipped ten goals in their last two pre-season games, albeit
RYANAIR raised its full-year profits guidance today after more than doubling first- quarter earnings and setting out aggressive plans for expansion in Europe. Chief executive Michael O'Leary said it was "overrun with growth offers" from airports
PASSPORT Office staff will strike today over staff shortages which they say have led to a serious backlog in processing applications this year. Extra staff were drafted in to deal with the backlog of 30,000 applications, and Home Secretary Theresa
WEST Midlands business owners have poured cold water on the notion that you need to be lucky to be successful, according to new research conducted on behalf of online accounting and payroll software Sage One. The study of more than 1,000 small
A CCTV camera will be installed on Comberton Hill with the aim of tackling anti-social behaviour, after a long-running campaign for the equipment by local traders. It will cost around £20,000 to put up the seven-metre column and run the camera
A CHARITY which helps homeless young people and those at risk of homelessness in Kidderminster is urging people to get involved in fundraising this summer by holding bake sales. St Basils is asking the public to arrange their own bake sales or
A KIDDERMINSTER pupil who suffers from a genetic heart abnormality has been awarded a gold Blue Peter badge due to his fundraising efforts. William Wallace, 7, of The Knoll School, was presented with his badge by headteacher, Nigel Humphries, at
A WYTHALL-based industrial equipment agent is moving into new offices on Bromsgrove Technology Park in a deal transacted by leading Midland independent property consultancy GJS Dillon. LBC Technologies Ltd has taken over the last remaining offices
THE headteacher of King Charles I School and Sixth Form Centre in Kidderminster is retiring after 10 years in the role. Tim Gulliver, who joined the school in 1991 as deputy head before being promoted in 2004, completed his last term-time day in
GREEN-fingered pupils at a Kidderminster nursery have been learning about nature by growing their own potatoes. Children at St Oswald’s CE Primary School’s nursery have spent the past three months looking after their potatoes as well as learning
REDDITCH-based jewellery-maker, Victoria Brown, is experiencing an unexpected boost to business from an unexpected quarter - she is getting requests for jewellery to celebrate sugar anniversaries. Traditionally, a six-year wedding anniversary is
BIRMINGHAM businesses have given a £5,000 boost to Hippodrome Plus at a special fundraising gala event before a performance of the global musical phenomenon Wicked at Birmingham Hippodrome. Evening sponsor Staybridge Suites Birmingham joined 100
