PERSHORE-based Honda Yuasa Racing picked up two victories in the MSA British Touring Car Championship at Croft with Matt Neal now topping the table. Neal, who heads the standings by just one point, team-mate Gordon Shedden and rival Jason Plato
SWIMMERS Tazmin Pugh and Simon Sweatman helped Herefordahire and Worcestershire to victory at the three-way Inter County match against Staffordshire and Gloucestershire. Pugh, 12, and 10-year-old Sweatman both recorded victories at the Redditch
A TRIBUTE to Led Zeppelin comes to Pershore tomorrow. Hats off to Led Zeppelin will be at Number 8 from 7.30pm. Tickets are £15 from number8.org or 01386 555488.
COMBERTON CLUB COMBERTON Golf Club stages its open weekend on Saturday and Sunday. The Pershore-based club is looking to increase membership and will also be offering half price green fees and free refreshments on both days. For details, contact
PLANS to create a home for 900 pigs and turkeys in a village near Broadway will create conditions like ‘The Somme’, according to neighbours. The application, submitted by William Hance at Liberty Farm, Stanway, has attracted much opposition from
• The centre is holding its AGM at The Friends Meeting House, Cowl Street, tonight at 7.30pm. • Sue Sollis who runs the Tracy Sollis Charity Shop, needs volunteers to act as marshalls for a 10km run on Sunday, July 8. • Evesham & District
EVESHAM Vale Running Club hold their annual 10k race on Sunday, July 8. The action, which will be started in Evesham High Street at 10.30am by former Olympic swimmer Jo Deakins, takes in a multi-terrain course. Entry in advance is £10 for affiliated
Two starlets from a Vale dancing school have been awarded premierships. The eight-year-old friends Charlotte Harrison and Olivia Steed, pictured, go to the McCarthy- Felton School of Irish Dancing at Salford Priors. Charlotte, won a primary premiership
CHARLIE and Lola will be at The Theatre, Chipping Norton this weekend. Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play is presented by four puppeteers, with the voices from the TV series, on Saturday and Sunday at 11am, 1.30pm and 3.45pm on both days. A
COMBERTON Golf Club is holding two open days this weekend. Visitors will be able to see the improvements made at the club including extended greens, new tee areas and more imaginative fairways as well as playing a few rounds of golf on Saturday
BACK ON TOP: Matt Neal was celebrating after winning one of a double for his Pershore-based Honda Yuasa Racing team in the MSA British Touring Car Championship at Croft. Neal’s victory puts him at the top of the championship standings as the competition
A HARD-WORKING and popular figure at Evesham Swimming Club has been crowned the winner of the Journal Sports Champion award 2012. Julia Annis from Kings Road in Evesham said she was ‘still in shock’ as she received her trophy on Tuesday.
A WOMAN has appeared in court accused of deliberately setting fire to an Evesham flat. Michelle MacDonnell, of Battleton Road, Evesham, was brought before magistrates in Worcester on Monday morning charged with arson with intent to endanger
THERE will be no hesitation, repetiton or deviation at The Regal Cinema when a popular BBC Radio 4 show comes to Evesham. Just a Minute, hosted by Nicholas Parsons, is being recorded at the cinema in Port Street, Bengeworth, on Friday, July 13 from
A TEENAGE shepherdess has come out above seasoned flockmasters to take a prestigious award in the Moreton Show Society Farms and Crops competitions. Poppy Godwin, aged 17, of Fosseway Farm, Moreton, who has been keeping Zwartbles since the age
OUR president thanked all members for their contributions to the Jubilee festivities. Our skittles team came second in their group – well done. Jay Popplewell sent an account of the AGM. Our speaker was Jill Salmons, talking about how nations
FURTHER to Andrew Taylor’s letter in last week’s Journal, I would like to say how much I agreed with him regarding the way that many drivers do not bother indicating, especially when using roundabouts. However, with regard to Mr Taylor’s comments
DOZENS of inspirational people from across the area – and overseas – have been chosen to carry the Olympic torch through Evesham and Broadway on Sunday. The flame is due to arrive in Evesham shortly after 11.20am and the only Evesham resident
EVESHAM United manager Matt Clarke has swooped to sign former Worcester City striker Luke Corbett. The 27-year-old started his career at Cheltenham Town and went on to play for Gloucester City and Leamington among other clubs. Corbett scored
IT’S getting closer! The Olympic Torch will reach the Cotswolds and Vale of Evesham on Sunday, and we urge everyone to welcome it to our part of the world. The reception that the symbolic flame has received elsewhere in Britain has been incredible
BRETFORTON defeated Elmley Castle by 53 runs to win the area final of the National Village Cup. Having posted 164-4 from 40 overs, Bretforton dismissed their visitors for just 113 and will now face Derbyshire group winners Rolleston at the Recreation
The troupe, which travels the country by narrowboat, presents Losing the Plot, a story of love between people and the land, love between people and people, and love between people and their allotments. Written by Deborah McAndrew, the play tells
I CELEBRATED National Carers Week with afternoon tea at Evesham Hospital on Monday. There are nearly six million carers in the UK, a staggering 10 per cent of the population. Also on Monday, I attended a Twinning Association committee meeting
THE streets of Evesham, Wickhamford and Broadway will be filled with cheering crowds on Sunday when the Olympic Torch arrives. The fun starts in Market Place, Evesham, with entertainment from 10am, ahead of the torch’s arrival at about 11.20am
EVESHAM Cricket Club face the threat of being kicked out of the Birmingham League after failing to fulfil a second XI fixture. The Albert Road side were due to visit Brockhampton in Birmingham League Division Two (South) on Saturday but did not
