Archive
-
Date
Bewdley residents object to conversion plans
PLANS to change the use of an empty Bewdley property into accommodation for young adults with social needs was tonight recommended for refusal by the town's councillors. The applicants, Camelot Healthcare Ltd, want to convert the property, in Longbank
-
Date
Bewdley councillors back scheme to light the town's bridge
BEWDLEY town councillors tonight voted in favour of plans to illuminate the town's bridge. Workers at Stourbridge-based business, Light Ideas, approached Bewdley Mayor, Anne Mace, with the idea for the scheme. They will provide a lighting design and
-
Date
Classical night at town hall
CLASSICAL music fans will be in for a treat when members of Wyre Forest Symphony Orchestra raise the roof in a concert this month. The orchestra will perform Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Sibelius and Brahms Symphony No 4 at the event at Kidderminster
-
Date
Peregrine watch in church spire
WYRE Forest bird lovers will soon be able to get a glimpse of a pergrine falcon nesting in a church spire in Worcester. The falcon - the world's fastest animal - proved it's a record-setting creature by beating RSPB officers to the start line by laying
-
Date
New men on the beat
NEW beat managers have been appointed for two of Kidderminster's local policing teams. PC Philip Green has taken over at Aggborough and Spennells, while the former beat manager there, PC Kevin Fincher, has become beat manager for Broadwaters. PC Green
-
Date
On the trail of sun-loving caddisfly
SPRING is starting to make itself felt across the district and many plants are coming out of their winter dormancy, spreading fresh green leaves to help brighten up the world. Insects are also starting to emerge. Some insects will have spent the winter
-
Date
Cinema delight
I'D just like to thank Kidderminster's Warehouse Cinema for their free films to celebrate their third birthday. I took our daughters to see The Spiderwick Chronicles and we had a great time. We had to queue for a while but nobody seemed to mind. Once
-
Date
Petrol price query
DURING the Easter holiday I spent a few days in Devon, and whilst driving into Plymouth I noticed a Sainsbury's store selling unleaded petrol at £103.9 a litre. So why are we up here in the Midlands paying £106.9 a litre? Surely Sainsbury's prices
-
Date
Are bumps monitoring us while we park?
HAVE any of your other readers noticed the addition of plastic cap-type bumps that have appeared in every parking bay in Tesco's car park in Kidderminster? Rumours abound that it is a local council initiative - apparently they are so alarmed at the
-
Date
Foul-mouthed idiots
FOLLOWING the report of Youths putting kids lives at risk' (March 20 issue) where I reported on the problems at the play area at Shaw Hedge Road, Wribbenhall, I received several messages of support and was informed of cases where cars had been damaged
-
Date
Artist Alan back in town
AN exhibition by artist and illustrator Alan Phillips will be on display at Kidderminster Library from Saturday. The exhibition, entitled Both Sides Now, will show both aspects of his work - traditional landscapes and imaginative re-arrangements of the
-
Date
Stourport
BURLISH PARK TG - The guild held its AGM on March 21. Megan Weaver was re-elected chairman, Eve Jones treasurer, Mary Harris secretary and Marion Birch president. Committee was re-elected en bloc and a game of bingo followed. Members went ten pin bowling
-
Date
Store staff turn medics
STAFF at a Kidderminster store dressed up as doctors and nurses to raise cash for charity. More than £500 was raised for the County Air Ambulance Trust during the two-day fund-raiser, at Bon Marche, in the Rowland Hill Centre. Customers were entered
-
Date
Town pedestrians should take care
I AM very concerned about the number of pedestrians who neglect their safety by failing to use pedestrian crossings in Stourport. Only the other day I was driving along Bridge Street when a group of people came out of a public house and ran across the
-
Date
Immoral use of the Whip
ONE of the topics of conversation that arises from time to time in Wyre Forest is the subject of whips used by political parties. This is the mechanism whereby parties of all flavours and colours strongly encourage their elected members to vote along
-
Date
Fixture pile-up madness
Exeter (away) Saturday 22 March The usual tedium of motorway travel was offset by the views afforded by raised sections. We got glimpses of ancient farmsteads through branches bedecked with patient leaf buds. There is one in particular to be seen on the
-
Date
Fixture pile-up madness
Exeter (away) Saturday 22 March The usual tedium of motorway travel was offset by the views afforded by raised sections. We got glimpses of ancient farmsteads through branches bedecked with patient leaf buds. There is one in particular to be seen on the
-
Date
Lea Castle closure is best decision
MY brother was diagnosed with autism in his early childhood and received special education and care. Reading about the planned closure of the Lea Castle Centre interests me because my brother resided there from 1996 to 2005. He benefited from the care
-
Date
Robbing society’s most vulnerable
WORCESTERSHIRE county councillors have been brainwashed into agreeing that the Lea Castle Centre should be closed due to it being unfit for purpose. This excellent centre with good buildings, access and parking has been deliberately and systematically
-
Date
Crash victims - more details
POLICE have released more details about this morning's collision in Kidderminster in which one person was killed and another two critically injured. It happened at about 12.15am, at the junction of the A451 Minster Road and Oldington Lane, Kidderminster
-
Date
Crash victim 'died at accident scene'
THE man who died in a collision between a car and a van between Kidderminster and Stourport this morning was pronouced dead at the scene. The collision happened at the traffic lights where Oldington Lane meets Minster Road and Stourport Road, just before
-
Date
Trees destroyed in suspected arson
A ROW of conifers was destroyed after being set on fire at the back of a house in Kidderminster. The 25ft row of Leyland Cypress trees was destroyed in the blaze at the rear of a property in Morillon Court at about 5.45pm on Thursday. It was put out
-
Date
Stolen trike found thanks to Shuttle
A COUNCILLOR whose electric tricycle was stolen in Cookley, near Kidderminster, has been reunited with it thanks to the "public spirit" of a man who found it abandoned and responded to a police appeal in the Shuttle/Times & News. The Electro Ped tricycle
-
Date
Man dies following road accident
A PASSENGER in a car involved in an accident this morning has died. The male passenger who died was in a Rover 200 which was involved in a collision with a van at the junction between Oldington Lane and Minster Road, at about 12.30am. There were five
-
Date
Admiral to speak to RNLI
A DECORATED Navy veteran will speak at a fund-raising dinner near Kidderminster this month to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Admiral Lord Boyce will be describing his distinguished career to members of the Stourbridge branch
-
Date
It's All Double-Dutch to Me...
"Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter, Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered. By law she should be taken out and hung, For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue..." 'Why Can't the English?' - My Fair Lady Gode Dai, gentil rederes of my
-
Date
It's All Double-Dutch to Me...
"Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter, Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered. By law she should be taken out and hung, For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue..." 'Why Can't the English?' - My Fair Lady Gode Dai, gentil rederes of my
-
Date
BUS PASS THE BUCK
Reading the Shuttle I am amazed to see that once again the government has cocked up. Although it was in the budget speech of 2006 (over two years ago) that they announced the new bus pass for over 60's here we are with 1 day to go to the new system and
-
Date
BUS PASS THE BUCK
Reading the Shuttle I am amazed to see that once again the government has cocked up. Although it was in the budget speech of 2006 (over two years ago) that they announced the new bus pass for over 60's here we are with 1 day to go to the new system and
