100 YEARS AGO Owing to the cold winds that have revailed lately, the summer feather migrants are appearing a few days later than usual. We hear that the wheatear, one of the first to arrive, and two ring ouzels, a somewhat rare bird, were seen on the hills on , Good Friday. The chiff-chaff was heard in Malvern yesterday, but so far as we know, neither the martins nor swallows have yeat appeared. Illustrations of various birds to be found round Malvern are now being exhibited in Malvern Library.

Malvern News, April 22, 1911.

50 YEARS AGO With brass-work gleaming and coach-work immaculate, vintage cars from all over the country will join their sleeker-lined descendents on the roads when they travel to Malvern for the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain Rally tomorrow.

Malvern Gazette, April 21, 1961.

Surprise event at the Ledbury Hunt point-to-point at Bushley Park, Tewkesbury, on Saturday came when a presentation was made to Lt Col R E A Warden, who has resigned and is going to the Vale of White Horse Hunt.

Ledbury Reporter, April 21, 1961.

25 YEARS AGO A plan to site the bust of Admiral Sir William Tennant on Upto's waterfront has sparked off an angry row. The Tennant Memorial Appeal decided to place it on the lawn opposite Waterside House. But residents say the appeal has never consulted them.

Malvern Gazette, April 25, 1986.

A suggestion that the M50 should become the boundary between Gloucestershire and Hereford/Worcestershire has caused uproar in villages north of the motorway. Annual parish meetings at Kempley and Dymock have been packed out with a flood of protest at the idea.

Ledbury Reporter, April 25, 1986.