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Wartime romance still strong after 65 years of marriage
A COUPLE whose wartime romance blossomed into marriage will be celebrating their 65th – blue sapphire – anniversary next week. Alan and Christine Reilly met in 1943 at a dance at the Fleet Air Arm base in Cheshire where they both worked as aircraft
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Apology needed
WITH reference to the young farmers being told they can’t sell mistletoe and holly at the Saturday market in Ledbury. I can’t believe that the town council or the traffic warden could be so lacking in common sense as to insist that notice be given
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Do your job for us
IT is being proposed that parish councillors receive £1,000 each and county councillors £10,000 each of taxpayers’ money to disburse as they will, individually. This is being done in the name of “localism”. It is nothing of the sort: it is a
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Popular trader who ‘loved helping his customers’ dies
BUSINESSMAN Colin Rodway, who was well known in both Malvern and Ledbury as a trader and active member of the community, has died at the age of 67. Mr Rodway, of St Andrew’s Road, Malvern, passed away on Thursday, December 29, after being ill
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Upton News: Library to hold jobs club
A NEW job club aimed at helping people find employment is being launched at Upton library. The library in School Lane will launch its new initiative on Monday, January 16. Every Monday from 2-3pm people will be able to call in and receive support
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Cherish our Queen
I WAS saddened to read that Ledbury’s deputy mayor, councillor Tony Bradford, was so set against spending a little money to celebrate this year’s Diamond Jubilee. It was reported that he said ‘the Queen has lots of money and palaces’. I was unsure
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Upton News: Bridge repaint is to get under way soon
WORK to remove a shocking yellow paint job from Upton Bridge is set to begin this month. People were shocked when a muchvaunted paint job left the town’s river bridge a dazzling lemon yellow colour in November. Worcestershire County
