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Bakers delight at top honour
ONE of Bromyard’s best known businesses, Lamings bakers shop at the top of the town’s High Street, has been awarded the Bromyard Chamber of Commerce 2012 Best Bromyard Business award. The shop at 52 High Street was opened 1959 by Cliff Laming following
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Grow your own fruit
KEEN gardeners are being offered the chance to do their bit to protect Worcestershire’s orchard heritage. Worcestershire County Council, in partnership with Walcot Organic Nursery, is providing a selection of organic fruit trees including five
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Welland Art and Crafts Group
THE group started the New Year with a practical evening. Led by member Sandra Smallwood members learned how to make a wide variety of patterned cords. The next meeting of the group is on Friday, February 8, at 7.30pm in Welland Parish Hall
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Work to improve centre is to begin
AN ambitious makeover of Upton is set to get under way this week. Contractor Ringway, working for Worcestershire County Council, will start the improvements to make the town centre safer and more accessible on Monday. The scheme includes new
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Eldersfield
AN absolute triumph – £2,800 has been forward to the Children’s Society from the Christmas services in and around the benefice and local pubs. I know Wendy and George Burndred are absolutely thrilled and delighted with the total. I have to say
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Hunting laws
Sir Paul Farrer (Malvern Gazette, January 11) seems confused over the issue of hunting. He wrongly claims local hunt followers were breaking the law recently, encouraged through reports in the Gazette. While the Hunting Act (2004) is muddled
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Old Meg Morris team marks 35 years
THIS year marks the 35th anniversary of Malvern-based Old Meg Morris, and the side is looking for new members. The team was founded in 1977 as an all-female side, but for the last 13 years has included male dancers as well. Its dances are based
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A449 speed bid gains pace
A CAMPAIGN to slow down drivers on the A449 between Malvern and Worcester is gathering pace. Roy Winwood, who lives just off the A449 at Newland believes it is “one of the deadliest roads in Worcestershire” and is lobbying Worcestershire County
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Powyke WI
IN December members visited Callow End and St Gabriel’s for their parties and went to the Hop Pocket for the monthly lunch and to the Fold for the Christmas meal. Many members have attended the fund-raising Friday mornings at the Link Nursery.
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Traders help charities
TWO local charities have received a bumper cash boost thanks to the fundraising efforts of kindhearted traders in Barnards Green, Malvern. Members of Barnards Green Traders Association handed over cheques for £525 to Malvern Special Families and
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Castle Frome
HAPPY new year to everyone at Castle Frome. What a wonderful end to 2012 we had and now we look forward to the coming year with hope and expectation of the happy and interesting times we can enjoy together. The first Pause for Thought of the new
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Bags adequate
NOT being totally familiar with the Malvern Hills District Council wheelie bin scenario, they are often a blot on the landscape and difficult to manoeuvre. Councillor Mike Charles is right to pursue the matter (Malvern Gazette, January 11).
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County firms offer places for 12 apprentices
A MALVERN college looking to recruit a dozen apprentices is struggling to find young people for the positions. South Worcestershire College, which has a campus in Malvern and Evesham, has been on the look-out for 12 apprentices to take on positions
