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  • Colwall

    AN Ethical Clothes Show was held at the village hall last Saturday evening. A packed audience enjoyed ethically traded items and clothes modelled by local girls, men and women. The evening was organised by Ann Carmen and members of the Colwall Trade Justice

  • Powick

    TOMORROW night, Saturday, Shooshoo baby entertain at Powick Parish Hall from 8pm. Tickets are £7. There is a licensed bar, light bites and a raffle. Ring 01905 830746 or 830756. The annual parochial church meeting will be held at St James' Church, Callow

  • Popular cafe celebrates 80 years

    THE Kettle Sings, the cafe on the slopes of the Malvern Hills, is 80 years old this year. The cafe, on Jubilee Drive in Upper Colwall, is marking this anniversary with a special evening for invited guests, including many of its regulars, some of whom

  • Friendly ferret found

    A SURPRISE visitor made himself at home when a Malvern couple opened their front door on Monday morning. Jean and Derrick Fish, from Shirley Close, Malvern, had noticed what appeared to be a ferret, crawling up the undergrowth of a neighbour's house.

  • Change of name

    I NOTE the comments of M@lvernite in last week's Malvern Gazette and that he/she was worry that he/show wasn't at the Malvern Police community Consultative Group meeting to have "helped to decide the new name". We are also sorry that M@lvernite wasn't

  • Craft enthusiasts restore altar cloth

    CRAFT enthusiasts from Malvern have taken the leading role in restoring a 19th-century altar cloth at a church near Worcester. The altar frontal has been used at St James' Church, Hindlip, for over 120 years, The church is now part of West Mercia Constabulary's

  • What silent majority?

    THROUGHOUT the six years of the Upton Marina planning process there were several public meetings, frequent Town and Parish Council meetings, some MHDC Planning/Development Committee meetings, occasional Malvern Gazette reports, and finally the three day

  • The Belle Vue trees

    I WOULD like to reply to councillor Chessman's letter in the Malvern Gazette last week in reference to the Belle Vue 2. Firstly I would like to thank the MHDC for not ploughing on with the plans to fell the trees against public opinion and also professional

  • Welland

    THE first thing to mention this week is Raising the Flagpole in Welland, which needs your financial support if it is to come to fruition. Some generous donations have been received, and may I, on behalf of the appeal's organisers, thank you, but more

  • Storridge

    VILLAGE - The Youth Group has started up again at the Scout Hut, Cradley on Thursday evenings. This youth group is for the children of the area not just for Cradley, (its' catchment area spreads as far as Malvern). The times are:- Juniors - school years

  • Malvern water

    HAVING asked both Malvern Town Council and Malvern Hills Conservators, I have been told that the Coca Cola company that is extracting water from our hills, bottling it and selling it, very expensively I might add, do nothing in the way of help or sponsorship

  • Marina extension

    WITH regard to the recent letter from Derek Carruthers (Your Letters, April 4) the main, if not only, beneficiaries of an extended Upton Marina will be the shareholders. I see no evidence of the developers contributing to any youth centres to minimise

  • Rubber bands saga

    JUDITH Stone (Letters April 4) is quite correct to describe Royal Mail rubber bands as iniquitous! In fact I would go further than that and say that they are completely useless as they snap almost instantly and are totally unfit for purpose! Ironically

  • In praise of young people

    THE Cream of Worcestershire No, I am not talking about the delicious cream that makes our local ice cream I am talking about the young people of Worcestershire. Last Wednesday was one of the most positive and uplifting days I have experienced for some

  • Belle Vue two

    FROM the report on the Belle Vue Island's two London Plane trees from consultants, The Tree Advice Trust, we can see that they recommend the Planes are "retained as a feature but managed to restrict their future growth and size to avoid development of

  • Today's events

    Tuesday Tai Chi class at Holy Trinity Hall, Link Top, Malvern. 2pm. £6. 01905 764848. Country Western Partner Dancing with Teme Valley Shufflers WDC at Whitbourne Village Hall, Whitbourne. 7pm. 01886 821772. Line Dancing With Pam and Roger at The Falcon