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  • Sports coaches nurturing talent

    STOURPORT Hockey Club's junior head coach and men's first team captain said he loved the feeling of passing on his hockey-playing skills to youngsters. Mark Moss, 26, of Prospect Road, Stourport, leads the club competitively as a player in the national

  • Time to prepare for race through forest

    THE British Heart Foundation has challenged Shuttle/Times & News readers to make a resolution for Lent and get training for next month's Hearts First Wyre Forest 5k. This week saw the traditional 40-day period of fasting and reflection in the run-up

  • Staff help out with card trick

    GENEROUS staff at Kidderminster tool store, Hire-It, have been doing their bit to help "fix it" for Stourport Hockey Club and Kidderminster and Stourport Athletic Club. They donated £170 to the Back on Track appeal after staff decided not to buy Christmas

  • Films backtrack through time

    NOSTALGIA will be the theme of Kidderminster Railway Museum's next presentation in its series of film shows, this Saturday. Keith Bullock will show 16mm cine film from his extensive library, much of it acquired from the British Transport Film Unit, where

  • Rain forces Harriers' Shield clash off

    TORRENTIAL rain has forced Harriers' Setanta Shield clash against Rushden and Diamonds at Aggborough off tonight. The club has yet to announce a new date for the fixture.

  • Rain forces Harriers' Shield clash off

    TORRENTIAL rain has forced Harriers' Setanta Shield clash against Rushden and Diamonds at Aggborough off tonight. The club has yet to announce a new date for the fixture.

  • RSPCA seeks collections volunteers

    THE RSPCA's Kidderminster and District branch has two store collections organised and desperately needs more people to give an hour or two of their time. Branch members will collect at the Co-op, Franche Road, Kidderminster on Friday and Saturday, February

  • Wise lesson on cookery

    I NOTE with interest that the government has decided to introduce compulsory cooking lessons in secondary schools. Well it's hardly a new idea is it? When I attended Harry Cheshire Secondary Modern School in those far off days from 1967 until 1973,

  • Councillor backs special school plans

    PLANS to open a new Wyre Forest school for young people with special educational needs have been hailed as a "fantastic opportunity". Stephen Clee, Worcestershire County councillor and property services cabinet member was commenting ahead of a meeting

  • Called up Penn a doubt for Diamonds clash

    MIDFIELDER Russ Penn, who has been called up to England C's game against Wales, is a doubt for Harriers' Setanta Shield fifth round clash against Rushden and Diamonds at Aggborough tonight (7.45pm kick-off). The in-form midfielder is set to miss the

  • Called up Penn a doubt for Diamonds clash

    MIDFIELDER Russ Penn, who has been called up to England C's game against Wales, is a doubt for Harriers' Setanta Shield fifth round clash against Rushden and Diamonds at Aggborough tonight (7.45pm kick-off). The in-form midfielder is set to miss the

  • Sports coaches nurturing talent

    STOURPORT Hockey Club's junior head coach and men's first team captain said he loved the feeling of passing on his hockey-playing skills to youngsters. Mark Moss, 26, of Prospect Road, Stourport, leads the club competitively as a player in the national

  • Time to prepare for race through forest

    THE British Heart Foundation has challenged Shuttle/Times & News readers to make a resolution for Lent and get training for next month's Hearts First Wyre Forest 5k. This week saw the traditional 40-day period of fasting and reflection in the run-up

  • Ex-car dealer escapes jail

    A FORMER car dealer from Kidderminster who pocketed company cash has narrowly avoided a term behind bars. Craig Parkes helped himself to £3,699 while working as sales manager at Brooklyn Ford's dealership, Birmingham Street, Stourbridge. Today, Wolverhampton

  • Schools getting Fairtrade message

    FAIRTRADE campaigners will be spreading their message to Kidderminster children at a series of special school assemblies. Thousands of primary age youngsters at 10 schools will learn how buying Fairtrade products gives struggling farmers and producers

  • Nurse 'risked suffocating' girl, 4

    A NURSE who twice risked suffocating a four-year-old girl by disconnecting her breathing tube has begged to be allowed to continue working as a nurse. Melissa Bentley, 32, of Kidderminster tampered with the breathing tube in the child's throat in the

  • Staff help out with card trick

    GENEROUS staff at Kidderminster tool store, Hire-It, have been doing their bit to help "fix it" for Stourport Hockey Club and Kidderminster and Stourport Athletic Club. They donated £170 to the Back on Track appeal after staff decided not to buy Christmas

  • Spice boys delight

    FAMILY-run Kidderminster takeaway, Indian Spice, cooked up a £168 contribution to the Back on Track appeal. All the profits taken on the night of Monday, January 28 were donated to the appeal while the trio of brother chefs worked for free. Syed Ahmed

  • Speeches echo experiences

    KIDDERMINSTER'S King Charles I School is the venue for a charity performance of The Vagina Monologues later this month. Based on interviews with thousands of women from all around the word, the frank and explicit play can be seen at the school on February

  • Lead flashing worth £300 stolen

    LEAD flashing worth £300 has been stolen from a garage roof in Kidderminster overnight. A resident of Partridge Grove reported the theft this morning, saying about 15ft of lead flashing had been stolen from her garage roof between 7pm last night and

  • Whistle-blower scheme goes live

    A BUILDING firm is encouraging customers and passers-by to blow the whistle on suspected bad practices on its own construction sites in what is thought to be a first for the UK industry. Bosses at Thomas Vale Construction based in Stourport are pioneering

  • Bewdley town centre is not closed

    MISLEADING signs which say that Bewdley town is closed will be changed, the town's councillors heard. The signs were erected as Severn Trent Water is laying new water mains throughout the town. During yesterday's town council meeting, Health Concern

  • Presidential Aspirations

    Quelle Surprise!! One Anthony B***r Esq has let it be known he is 'available'for the position of Euro President. At £200,000 p.a.plus all the freebees you can blag I wrote the following letter to him on the 13th December 2004 but,strangely, received no

  • Presidential Aspirations

    Quelle Surprise!! One Anthony B***r Esq has let it be known he is 'available'for the position of Euro President. At £200,000 p.a.plus all the freebees you can blag I wrote the following letter to him on the 13th December 2004 but,strangely, received no

  • Special education need on agenda

    EDUCATION chiefs are set to decide on the shape of Wyre Forest's future special educational needs provision. Worcestershire County Council cabinet members will look at plans to replace the district's two existing special schools with a single 180-place

  • Glut of road works

    WHAT is going on with all the road works in Bewdley? They have closed Winbrook Road and anyone who wants to get onto the estates has to go all the way round the bypass in the morning. It is absurd! Then, we have the traffic lights just by Wribbenhall

  • Stark poster has attacks warning

    POSTERS are being put up on the outside of West Midlands Ambulance Service vehicles warning the public of the consequences of attacking staff. Bearing the slogan "Your Choice of Treatment", it shows a picture of a paramedic and a police officer. It

  • Store boosts asthma charity

    STAFF and customers at Kidderminster's Morrisons store have given a cash boost to a medical charity. Their efforts raised £2,667 for the company's charity of the year, Asthma UK, helping the store group generate £1 million nationally for the cause.