Police defend DNA testing more than 2,000 children in West Mercia

Children ‘should be DNA tested’

9:30am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

POLICE in Worcestershire have defended taking DNA samples from 2,000 children over two years.

College students gain accolades

11:00am Monday 20th May 2013

A GARDEN designed by Pershore College student Chris Smith was a key feature in the college’s silver medal winning trade stand at the Spring Gardening Show on the the Royal Three Counties Showground.

Roadworks blasted by angry residents

DIGGING IN: Workmen start work on the gas connections in Old Street, Upton-upon-Severn.

11:00am Monday 20th May 2013

A DECISION to allow workmen to dig up a freshly-laid road in a busy town centre has been branded “ludicrous”.

I won't let my son be sent to a home

Election latest: Will a power-forming coalition be formed at County Hall?

7:50am Monday 20th May 2013

CONTROVERSIAL plans to scrap at-home care for the vulnerable in Worcestershire are facing a challenge in the High Court after a 17-year-old’s mother brought legal action.

Rare butterfly inspires new jam

7:00am Monday 20th May 2013

ONE of Worcestershire’s rarest and most attractive butterflies has been celebrated with the launch of a distinctive homemade jam at the Vale’s Wayside Farm Shop.

Centre 'spoilt for choice' for recruits

FIRST SERVICE: The indoor tennis courts at David Lloyd Leisure Worcester, in Sixways, which opened last December.

8:00pm Sunday 19th May 2013

A LEADING health and fitness company just outside Worcester has said it was spoilt for choice when it came to recruit for its centre at Sixways.

School investing in people

6:00pm Sunday 19th May 2013

BIDFORD Primary School is celebrating after being awarded the Investors in People standard.

125-home plan 'poses a threat'

Change of use plan

4:20pm Sunday 19th May 2013

A FIGHT has begun against proposals for a new housing development labelled the start of a “sprawl” by worried residents.

Car park and charter train on agenda

2:10pm Sunday 19th May 2013

AN expanded car park at Pershore station and a charter train to Swanage could both come under the spotlight at the Cotswold Line Promotion Group’s annual meeting on Saturday.

High Sheriff is an Old Etonian

NEW ROLE: New High Sheriff Nicholas Wentworth-Stanley, right, with Judge Robert Juckes and Worcestershire’s former High Sheriff Penelope Lewis following the ceremony at Shire Hall.

12:10pm Sunday 19th May 2013

THE new High Sheriff of Worcestershire has been sworn in.

A call to war veterans

A call to war veterans

10:00am Sunday 19th May 2013

SECOND World War veterans across Worcestershire are being asked to share their experiences on tape to stop an important part of British history being forgotten.

Mud runner raises £656

Mud runner raises £656

8:20am Sunday 19th May 2013

AN Evesham man tackled five miles of muddy terrain and challenging obstacles to raise £656 in aid of Cancer Research UK.

Village opens its gardens

Open Gardens Weekend

9:00pm Saturday 18th May 2013

TWENTY colourful gardens will be opened to the public as part of the 36th annual Ashton-under- Hill Open Gardens event on June 8 and 9 – some of them for the first time.

Could lifeline machine have saved Shirley?

LIFESAVER: Rotary president Judith Gath and Pershore mayor Charles Tucker hold the new defibrillator, with Joe Oxspring, Martin Butler and Anne Allbright, who lent their support after their friend Shirley Chapman died in the town centre.

7:10pm Saturday 18th May 2013

LIFESAVING equipment has been installed outside a Pershore supermarket after a fundraising drive by the town’s Rotary Club.

Opposition to homes

Change of use plan

5:20pm Saturday 18th May 2013

FIFTEEN new homes could be built in a Vale village after an application was submitted to council planners.

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Your Say Your Evesham

COUNCILLOR Charles Tucker, it seems, enjoys fish and chips and is happy to present a Mayor’s Award to Newlands Fish Bar for happily serving Pershore folk for the last 10 years.  −  JULIE HOWSON Member, Pershore Chamber of Trade

Long service »

IN response to the letter by J Howson and the Mayor of Pershore’s recognition certificates (Journal, April 25). First, I have to wonder what motives lay behind such a petty complaint.  − COUN GAYNOR AMPHLETT Pershore

Such a shame »



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