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  • Leaflets sort out Conservators and AONB

    IF you don't know the difference between the Malvern Hills Conservators and the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, help is now at hand. New leaflets issued by the the two organisations, which share offices in Grange Road, will help you

  • Meeting is for all residents

    RESIDENTS of the Pickersleigh Ward of Malvern are invited to the upcoming public meeting of Partners and Communities Together (PACT). PACT meetings are run jointly by the Pickersleigh Local Policing Team, Malvern Hills District Council, local housing

  • Teams wanted for pancake race

    MALVERN Rotary Club is set to provide a fundraiser with built-in fun. On Shrove Tuesday, February 5, from 12.30pm a Pancake Race around a Priory Park circuit will be staged. he Rotary Club is presenting this event with support from Malvern Hills District

  • Bug puts health service under pressure

    A VIOLENT stomach bug is putting local health services under pressure with hospitals and doctor's surgeries being swamped with patients. The Norovirus, which causes severe sickness,diarrhoea and fever, is sweeping Britain and is the worst outbreak of

  • Play explores wide range of themes

    MALVERN Theatre Players is holding auditions next week for Our Country's Good, which will open the 2008 season at the Coach House Theatre, Malvern. The play, written by Timberlake Wertenbaker, and based on a story by Australian writer Thomas Keneally

  • Award for vital forces' work

    A LIEUTENTANT Commander of the Royal Navy who was born in Malvern has been awarded an MBE for playing a vital role in the sustainability of the Apache Helicopter while on operations in Afghanistan. Paul Durham, educated at the Dyson Perrins, joined the

  • Laptop ban follows ex-councillor porn case

    MALVERN Hills District Council has stopped issuing laptops to its councillors following the conviction of disgraced former deputy mayor Michael Angell, who was found guilty of downloading child porn onto a borrowed computer. The local authority said

  • Survey reveals health attitudes

    RESULTS from nearly 4,000 responses to a health survey have been sent to Worcestershire's NHS Primary Care Trust as part of their consultation on a new health strategy. Thirty-seven thousand households in West Worcestershire received a copy of the survey

  • Views are being restored

    MALVERN Hills Conservators are working to restore views of - and from - a prominent landmark above the town centre. Ivy Scar Rock, on the side of North Hill, used to be visible from the town, but over recent decades it has become overgrown. Conservators

  • Plenty of entertainment at Conquest

    MUSIC, merriment and murder are all on the cards at the Conquest's Theatre in Bromyard this winter. The season kicks off with a concert by The Malvern Brass Band, a 17-piece ensemble that plays a programme of old and new. Classics such as the repertoire

  • Flats set to rise behind new health centre

    By: Robert Hale A MAJOR development of affordable housing in Malvern could be ready in the summer of 2009 if all goes well. Plans for the blocks of flats on the old council depot site off Pickersleigh Road have been sent to Malvern Hills District

  • Still time to nominate youth heroes

    MALVERN residents have been reminded there is still time for them to nominate unsung heroes from the town for an annual county-wide contest. Worcestershire County Council's Youth Support service is calling for Worcestershire residents to get their thinking

  • Conservation area under scrutiny

    UPTON people are being given the chance to discuss proposals to revise the town's conservation area, with a public exhibition and meeting next week. Malvern Hills District Council is preparing a draft consultation on the area and now wants local residents

  • Date change for talk

    A TALK entitled Shopping Over 200 Years: The History of Kays in Worcester has been changed to another date. Upton Civic Society will now be hosting the talk on Thursday, January 31, as opposed to the advertised date of Thursday, February 7. The talk

  • Get involved with well dressing

    THE Malvern Spa Association's Well Dressing Festival is being arranged for the first weekend in May and people's views are being sought at a meeting next week. The aim of the event is to enable those involved to express gratitude, in whatever way they

  • Today's events

    Wednesday Little Urchins. An afternoon of fun, praise, games, songs and activities for pre-school children and their carers. Theme - Stories of Jesus. Meet at the United Reformed Church Hall, Malvern Link. 1:45pm. 01684 565708. Looking at the Year ahead