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  • New ladies' captain at The Vale

    A GUARD of honour welcomed Jill Millard as she took over from Mary Carrington as ladies' captain at The Vale Golf Club. The members hope she will have a busy and successful year. Meanwhile, Harvington Golf Society concluded the golfing year

  • Evesham fall in table with away defeat

    A 34-7 defeat at Old Laurentians saw Evesham Rugby Club drop to fourth from bottom in Midlands Two West (South). With several regular first-team players out of action Evesham were stretched from the start. However, the second XV players who

  • Karate black belts for Evesham students

    FOUR United Sport Karate Organisation students in Evesham passed their black belt first dan gradings. Ethan Haggit, Ollie Monk, George Davey and Reece Kemp have dedicated years of hard work and training to work towards their goal in wado-ryu karate

  • Bidford on Avon and District Gardening Society

    ON November 21 the Society held its Annual General Meeting in the Crawford Memorial Hall, Bidford, with 40 members in attendance. The chairman, Neil Ferguson, was pleased to report that membership numbers this year had risen to 72, which is 11

  • Labour and Lib Dem posters damaged

    POSTERS put up by political parties ahead of the general election have been ripped down. In Evesham over the past week several Labour and Lib Dem posters, displayed on private property overlooking major roads, have been removed, damaged or destroyed

  • Sadness after churches targeted by vandals

    A CHURCH staff member has described recent vandalism of medieval statues as “unsettling.” Peter Hayes, warden at St Mary’s, Elmley Castle, one of a number of churches to be targeted in a recent vandalism spree said it’s hard to imagine why someone

  • Probus Club of Evesham: Touring Tewkesbury's pubs

    Our speaker on 28th November was John Dixon, President of Tewkesbury Historical Society, who gave us a tour of the town’s pubs, several of which were familiar to members. Many of the pubs and all the breweries and maltings have shut and several have

  • Farmers shrug off weather woes to show off hay and straw

    THE talk was of wet weather and drilling delays as Cotswold farmers gathered to show off the results of their skills at the Moreton Show Fodder Crops and Cereals competition, sponsored by Tayler & Fletcher.   It was a difficult autumn for farmers