THE Elmley Castle Scout Group jumble, table top sale and car boot will take place on Saturday, May 10, to raise much needed funds for the group. The event, being held at Elmley Castle Village Hall, in Elmley Castle, near Pershore, will begin at 2pm and
THE Peopleton Novice Pony and Companion Dog Show is back for its 36th year next month. Trophies and prizes are up for grabs at the popular village show being held on Sunday, May 18, from 10.30am at Lower Norchard Farm, Main Street, Peopleton, near Pershore
A CHARITY concert has raised £2,000 for the Midlands Air Ambulance. The Worcester Wychavon Rotary Club raised the cash at its annual Brass Band Concert at Pershore Abbey. The event was held at the Abbey for the 13th year in succession.The concert
A HOLISTIC Health and Well-Being Fayre is being held at Pershore Town Hall on Saturday, May 10, between 1pm and 4pm. The event, which is free, gives people the chance to meet local practitioners and find more out about the different ways available which
POET Roger McGough will be visiting Pershore's Number 8 Community Arts Centre on Friday, May 23, to mark the release of his new book, As Far As I Know. The appearance will begin at 7.30pm and will see Mr McGough, who is the newly elected president
EVESHAM Town Council is to write letters of intent pledging £250,000 in funding for two of the town's biggest projects.Both the Abbey Bell Tower Appeal and the Almonry Museum are to benefit from the New Homes Bonus funding, should the town council
A TRANSATLANTIC due are performing in the Vale next month.Acoustic guitarist and singerJames Hickman and fiddler-player Dan Cassidy - brother of the late Eva Cassidy - are making a special musical return on Thursday, May 15 in Bretforton Memorial Hall
THE first phase of plans to develop Evesham Country Park have been backed by the town council. As part of the first stage of the proposal by Eagle One Country Shopping Ltd new retail units will be built.Later stages of the development will see 60 lodges
THE Vale of Evesham School is set to get an extension after planners approved proposals that will see the site grow.The extension will extend the school office and four classrooms to the front of the school on the ground floor. The school, which caters
EVESHAM Town Council objected to plans to change a high street store into a betting shop saying the area needs more retail units. The town Mayor councillor Mark Goodge said there had been a lot of opposition from traders concerned on the impact the change
WITH all elements of healthcare facing significant change the West Midlands’ ambulance service has released a short film detailing its past, present and future.The 13-minute film released by West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust shows
TWO much-improved Midlands Three West (South) rugby sides clashed in Wyre Piddle with Pershore holding off Shipston-on-Stour. The hosts won 36-17 and are now sixth in the table after a slow start to the season. Visitors Shipston looked in big
OLYMPIC champion and former Evesham Rowing Club ace Alex Gregory won at the GB Rowing team senior trials. The 2012 gold medallist from Wormington, near Broadway, and his men’s pair partner Moe Sbihi were quick off the start in their 'A' final and
PERSHORE Phoenix are looking forward to their second season in the British Dragonboat Association National League Premier Division, starting at Liverpool on Sunday, May 4. The club hope to improve on their inaugural campaign in the Premier when
IT was Gras for breakfast for the good and the great of the Vale as they marked the start of this year's Asparagus Festival with the Great English Asparagus Run. The traditional event took place on St George's Day and saw a patriotic - and slightly
FIVE motorcyclists were cautioned for speeding over the Easter weekend as part of a joint operation to combat problems caused by motorcyclists in Bidford-on Avon, Salford Priors and Alcester. Run by the Safer Roads Partnership, Warwickshire Police
SUN Inn clinched promotion from Birdseye Sports Evesham Sunday League Division Four with an emphatic 6-2 win at promotion rivals Stratford United. The Winchcombe team scored through Ed Major (2), Parry (2), Stratford and Comfort, while Dixon replied
A MAN suffered life threatening injuries after a car collided with a telegraph pole in Twyning overnight.Emergency services were called to the A38 just before 3am today (Wednesday) after a red Renault Clio left the carriageway as it was travelling towards
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to build a new housing estate in a Vale village have stepped up their fight by taking an advert out in the Evesham Journal.The group is rallying against proposals to build 59 houses on land off Station Road in Bretforton, which
THE number of people needing emergency food parcels in Evesham has doubled in the past year. Since March last year 823 food parcels have been handed out by the Vale of Evesham Christian Centre, which runs the town's foodbank. This is a massive increase
