Final wishes of the departed are coming true thanks to Alan

2:47pm Monday 29th December 2008

People are making all kinds of requests for the theme of their funeral including football, Elvis and Diana.

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Twins who aimed for skies are now flying high together

9:59am Monday 15th December 2008

ONE thing’s for sure, when the Cook twins need to celebrate an occasion later in their careers, they’ll not be short of a fly-past.

Remarkable tale of one man’s trip down South America at the age of 73

9:32am Monday 8th December 2008

THERE are a few things you could set your sights on doing in your midseventies, but riding a pizza delivery bike the length of South America wouldn’t naturally be high on the list.

Club was a welcome back for our soldiers

10:13am Monday 1st December 2008

AS a welcome home from the war, it was a touch on the genteel side. After all, when you’d been dodging Hitler’s bombs and bullets for a few years, you could probably have thought of better things to do on your first night back on civvie street than wander down the social club and listen to a bloke playing a violin.

It’s been fun being a weekend mother to special needs children

9:23am Monday 24th November 2008

IT takes a special sort of person who, having brought up a family of their own, then decides to welcome into their home a series of children with special needs.

Thanks to Frank, the memories of Powick Hospital will live on

9:30am Monday 17th November 2008

TRAVELLING the A449 from Worcester to Malvern, you come to a set of traffic lights at Powick.

Denis first wrote to us in 1946 and he's still sending letter

9:40am Monday 10th November 2008

IN the writing-to-this-newspaper stakes even the legendary George Cowley is a mere whippersnapper compared with Denis Margretts.

Fascinating tales of Morgan are revealed

9:58am Monday 3rd November 2008

IT’S a touch ironic that in a new book about the history of Morgan cars, the “Well I Never”

In search of the men who saved the Empire

9:06am Monday 27th October 2008

AT the end of a dusty track in a small town south of Ypres in Belgium lies a small brick war memorial. Behind it stands the ugly, rusty cladding of a shed and the approach is lined by rows of regulation modern houses. If the British Empire was saved here, then it certainly doesn’t look like it.

Lean on me if trouble comes calling at work

9:13am Monday 20th October 2008

IN these uncertain economic times, among the best advice might be to put your hands together and pray. Which is where Phillip Jones comes in.

Thanks to a tip-off a unique choir is found

9:30am Monday 13th October 2008

TO my knowledge Paul McCartney has never set foot inside St John the Baptist Church at Crowle, which lies between the lofty views from Climer Hill and the tangled depths of Bow Wood in deepest Worcestershire.

Why Elgar means so much to our family

9:33am Monday 6th October 2008

JUST as you thought the last word ever had been written about the life and times of Sir Edward Elgar, high-stepping up the M5 the other day came a package from Weston-super-Mare.

The dark side of Helen McCabe

9:44am Monday 29th September 2008

CONSIDERING she was given up for dead at the age of seven, Helen McCabe has done well to be still here. Certainly she suffers desperate health problems and her list of ailments reads like the index of Blacks medical dictionary, but the good news is she is now down to 12 tablets a day compared with more than 30 a year ago.

The night I cut Marc Bolan from the wreckage of his car

10:08am Monday 22nd September 2008

THIRTY one years ago, in the early hours of the morning of September 16, 1977, a huge fire broke out in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, pulling most of the fire appliances from the south of London.

It is likely Little John lived on our doorstep

9:29am Monday 15th September 2008

OK so it’s not exactly a scoop in the great traditions of journalism for the story’s more than 700 years old. But I could be the first to reveal that Little John of Robin Hood fame probably came from Kempsey, the village just down the road from Worcester and a fair walk from Sherwood Forest.

City’s very own Sheila was a national heroine

9:37am Monday 8th September 2008

IT’S always been a mystery why no one has ever made a film about the life and adventures of Sheila Scott. She was, after all, a national heroine, blond, glamorous, brave, daring and tough as old boots.

Making music – it’s in the blood of a Capaldi

9:37am Monday 1st September 2008

CAPALDI. The name’s even got a rhythm to it, so no surprise it has bred a dynasty of musicians.

Posted abroad but we witnessed a real gem

10:21am Monday 25th August 2008

AS a National Service posting in the 1950s, the island of British Guyana in the West Indies had some merit. So long as you didn’t tread on anything, get stung by anything or catch anything.

So that’s why Ben has a fridge full of frozen mice

8:24am Monday 18th August 2008

THE old Glasgow tenement building had probably seen a few goings-on in its time, but it’s doubtful it had ever before been home to four snakes and two tortoises, all living in a student’s digs.

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How the Worcester Wonder won gold for Britain

9:45am Monday 11th August 2008

EXACTLY one hundred years ago, in the summer of 1908 when the Olympic Games first came to London, one of England’s cycle track stars was a young carpenter from St John’s hailed ‘The Worcester Wonder’ by an ecstatic nation.

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