WOOTTON Wawen Primary School has received a grant through Warwickshire County Council as part of an initiative to tackle congestion around schools in the Stratford area. The school is among 33 to pick up grants from the Department for Children, Schools
FLOOD victims can expect payments through their letterboxes as Stratford District Council prepares to send out the first batch for Alcester. The district council's executive will award £250 to residents whose houses were flooded as a result of the July
A REDDITCH man is in pastry-based heaven after winning a competition for a month's supply of pies. Dave Ellison won the waist-expanding prize after entering a competition in The Times newspaper's football pull-out where readers were asked to spot the
A TEENAGER from St George's says she feels like "breaking down and crying" as she faces life on the streets. Sarah Raby, 19, of St George's Road, is angry that Redditch Council is not doing more to prevent her becoming homeless. "Nobody gives me any
THE Cancer Research UK 10k run planned at Ragley Hall this weekend has had to be moved due to concern over foot and mouth disease. The event, taking place on Sunday, September 23, had to be relocated after estate managers at Ragley Hall were advised
THE most flooded business in Bidford is set to re-open following the dramatic events of late July. The Bridge Restaurant on High Street sits next to the Roman Bridge, the epicentre of the worst flooding in the village in living memory, but is planning
ABIGAIL'S Party, by Mike Leigh, is a black comedy about local communities and suburban life. The play starts in Beverly's living room as she prepares for the arrival of her guests. She and husband Laurence are planning a dinner party for neighbours
ACOUSTIC singer-songwriter Damien Rice will coming to the NIA in Birmingham as part of a special nine-date arena tour. This will be Rice's first full UK tour in three years and will provide the audience with the opportunity to hear tracks from his latest
A TRADITIONAL yet fun-filled musical will be coming to the Swan Theatre in Worcester. The Gondoliers is about an impoverished Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro who go to Venice in search of the heir to the throne of Barataria, inconveniently mislaid at
THIS album was released on the same day as 50 Cent's Curtis and although they are both hip hop, Kanye's is quite different compared to the Southside King's effort. While 50 Cent sings about guns and drugs, Kanye raps about how a man can balance power
THE baddest bad boy in hip hop is back and he's angry - angrier than he's ever been before. 50 Cent said he would retire from the business if he didn't outsell Graduation by Kanye West, which was released on the same day. This album was hyped up like
THIS film, a sequel to 28 Days Later, starts six months after the Rage virus spread throughout the British Isles. The US Army has restored order and helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But when a carrier
THIS follow up to KT Tunstall's debut album, Eye to the Telescope, could have gone one of two ways, sinking into the jazzy ballads of Norah Jones and Dido, or shaking things up a little with the edgier guitar of hits like Suddenly I See. It's easy to
FOLLOWING on from the huge success of their first album, Mercury Music Prize-nominated Stars of CCTV, Hard-Fi are back with this great offering. The overwhelming feeling listeners will get from Once Upon a Time in the West is that these lads from Staines
IN just over 18 months since its formation, Redditch Freecycle (RF) has grown to more than 3,000 members. In celebration of reaching this milestone, group administrators have now launched a new website, which it is hoped will lead to a rise in both the
REDDITCH MP and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has asked for part of the town's recycling centre to be set aside for people to exchange goods instead of throwing them away. The idea comes as an off-shoot of the popular Freecycle service which encourages
A CONVICTED arsonist has been found hanged in his cell at a prison in Redditch. The Prison Service said Mark Taylor, who is from the Coventry area, was found at HMP Blakenhurst on Friday, September 14. Prison healthcare staff and paramedics tried to
