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Month of board games for cause
A MALVERN charity has raised £200 for Children in Need by playing board games throughout November. The Association for Rehabilitation of Communication and Oral Skills (ARCOS), which operates a nationwide outreach service with a team of occupational
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Use hard facts
Re: Housing danger. Letters Gazette November 30th 2012. The September 2012 review of the SWDP as it affects Malvern Hills District, is based on a supposition of what was in the minds of the planners when the Townsend Way development was planned
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Crunch housing vote looms - follow Monday's crucial debate live
CONTENTIOUS housing plans that will shape the future of Malvern will be up for debate one more time on Monday. And Malvern Hills DIstrict Council (MHDC) leader David Hughes will also be fighting for his own future as looks to survive a motion of
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Not the planners
I AM writing to set the record straight about a story in the Gazette on November 9 about the SWDP. In the story, Councillor John Raine was quoted as saying planners had failed to engage with residents by preparing their (i.e. the planners) initial
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Council leader facing vote of 'no confidence'
THE leader of Malvern Hills District Council is battling to save his career – and is facing calls to resign or be forced out. Conservative councillor David Hughes will face a motion of ‘no confidence’ on Monday over the controversies surrounding
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In disrepute
CLAIMING members did not realise what they had voted for on November 13, Councillor David Hughes, leader of Malvern Hills District Council, wants to reverse SWDP decisions taken at that day’s extraordinary meeting. If we set aside the implied insult
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Don't do U-turn
I ASK residents of Malvern Hills to contact their district councillors before the meeting to be held on December 10 and urge them not to overturn the decision taken last month to take a more sustainable and dispersed pattern of housing development.
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Star man Gibson to guest at seminar
A MARTIAL arts seminar will be taking place at the Leigh and Bransford Memorial Hall tomorrow. The event will be conducted by the renowned Alan Gibson, who owns his own martial arts federation in Southampton and is an author of many martial art
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Calls to cut speed after death on A449
A FATAL crash on the main road between Malvern and Worcester has led to calls for urgent speed enforcement on what has been labelled “one of the deadliest roads in the county”. The campaign is being led by Roy Winwood, who lives just off the A449
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Stand firm now
THE leader of the council seeks to reverse at its meeting on December 10 the decision not to adopt the South Worcestershire Development Plan in its present form. There is mention that councillors did not realise that rejection by Malvern might
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Test star Hoggard backs College tour
ASHES hero Matthew Hoggard MBE, captain of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, has sponsored the cricket kit for Malvern College’s December tour to South Africa. The college is delighted to be taking 16 of their best cricketers, aged between 15
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Cottage was unfit for human habitation
THE question of whether an empty cottage on the road up to West Malvern should be demolished was occupying Malvern's district council 100 years ago, as reports in the Gazette show. The building, Alma Cottage, was situated near the Redan Inn and
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Echoes from the past
100 YEARS AGO. On the eve of All Saints' Day, a bronze tablet of simple but chaste design was placed in the Benedictine Priory Church of St Wulstan, Little Malvern, to the memory of the late Mr and Mrs Cashel Hoey, who were buried in the churchyard
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Go back to plan
REGARDING last week’s front page article: We should all hope that our district councillors will follow Councillor Hughes’ advice, and think again about their U-turn on the South Worcestershire Development Plan proposals. Rejecting a plan which
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Malvern target league joy
MALVERN go into tomorrow’s National Three South West trip to Chippenham with their confidence restored following a 50-7 North Midlands Cup quarter-final win over Whitchurch. The bottom four sides in the division, including thirdfrom- bottom Malvern
