PEOPLE who lack the confidence to speak in public can receive some help thanks to a grant given to a Redditch group by the Lottery Awards for All scheme. Redditch Speakers Club will be holding a taster day to show members of the public how it can help
CHILDREN will get their say at a Youth PACT meeting at a Redditch first school next week. The meeting, which is a combined Youth PACT and school council meeting, takes place at Matchborough First School on Thursday, September 27. There will be two representatives
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision on Redditch Ringway which happened on Thursday, September 20 at about 1.10pm. The collision, which was by Access 4 to the Kingfisher Centre, involved a blue Audi TT Roadster convertible and
BATCHLEY residents have won their fight to secure the future of the Hawthorn Road playing fields. Residents launched a campaign of protest after the site was included on a list of council-owned land to be evaluated for possible house building. They
AFTER their wedding at Studley Parish Church on Saturday, a couple travelled by airliner to their honeymoon destination in Newcastle, near Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were Miss Joan Spray, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs William Spray, of Studley
AMONG the passengers on board the Isle of Man Steamship Company's "Tynwald" which got lost in the fog a few days ago when making the journey from Douglas to Fleetwood were Mr and Mrs E Cassell, Evesham Street, Redditch, and another native of the town,
DUE to the extensive flood damage to Malt Mill Lane Community Centre, the first meeting after the summer break was held in the Baptist Church Hall. The speaker for the evening was Linda Barr, of Traidcraft. She gave an interesting illustrated talk about
ALVECHURCH WI had another successful informal summer evening in August at the cricket club when we were able to relax, have a chat with friends, and enjoy a light supper and drink. We also went on a summer walk around Blackwell, being led by Jean Taylor
GEORGIA Jacobs, our president, opened the September meeting. We saw her photographs of the Henley summer walk. Dogs for the Disabled has sent us news, a photograph, a certificate and a small toy version of Olivia, the labrador puppy we are sponsoring
AFTER the business part of our AGM, Elizabeth Dave fascinated us with the hats she has won to various functions - including royal ones. Then we had a most enjoyable wine tasting. Our function next month will be an annual concert - October 13. This will
OUR new season's programme began with a talk by Spencer Trickett, of English Heritage, about Witley Court. He set the scene by showing us slides of the new paths from the Visitors' Centre, along refurbished Victorian pathways through the woodland walks
SEPTEMBER is Hollywood WI's birthday month and at our meeting we were admirably entertained by Tony Caldwell and his friend Davidwith - as they called it - "A Bit of Fun". They sang , harmonising beautifully together, shanties, folk songs and madrigals
AT our first meeting after our summer break, we had a busy schedule. Our speaker was Eric Hibbs, who bought a selection of nostalgic wartime songs for us to listen to and sing along with and told us a little about the singers and the shows the songs
AFTER making some announcements in connection with our exhibition on October, our president introduced the speaker and demonstrator, Geoff Kersey, whose subject was Watercolour Landscapes. Geoff is a well-known practising artist who is very active as
THE fortnightly Saturday morning local walks of between four and five miles for the end of September and October are: September 29, led by Valerie, who can be contacted on 545010; October 13 with Rod on 459152 and October 27 with Jean on 584301. The
WE held our AGM on September 1. It was reported that it had been a successful year for the society, and that we had gained several new members. One new person was elected to the committee, the rest of the committee being re-elected en-bloc. This was
WORCESTERSHIRE County Council has met with residents and Redditch MP Jacqui Smith to discuss the options for the delivery of the library service in the town. The council is consulting on the best and most efficient way to provide library services in
ALMOST 10 years after its original release, the single Good Enough, by Britpop band Dodgy, is making a comeback. The new recording, made by dance producers SFG (Sunshine Feel Good), features the re-recorded vocals of the band's Redditch-based frontman
OFFENDERS prised open a window and began searching a house in Redditch while the elderly owner was asleep on his sofa. The victim, in his 90s, was asleep at his home in Auxerre Avenue between 2.30-3pm on Saturday, September 15 when about four men entered
REDDITCH people are being asked to do something amazing and give blood. The National Blood Service is appealing for volunteers to attend a session at the YMCA in Church Hill Centre, Loxley Close on Tuesday, October 2. Anyone interested in attending
A WEEKLY African drum and percussion workshop will be starting with a bang at St Luke's Memorial Hall in Headless Cross. Thanks to money from Worcestershire County Council's grant-giving scheme, Funding Lots of Stuff (FLOSS), St Luke's Expressive Arts
CYCLISTS taking part in a 1,000-mile charity ride between John O'Groats and Lands End have been given a £500 boost by a Redditch business. Pavlo and Dawn Lazri, who run a franchise for disaster restoration specialists called Rainbow International, in
MORE then £1,000 worth of computer equipment has been stolen from a house in Batchley. Thieves used a wheelie bin to get on to a flat roof, from which they were able to get through a window of the house. Items stolen were a Nintendo games console worth
A CHARITY set up by a former Redditch surgeon to help schoolchildren in Sierra Leone, will be holding a fundraising evening featuring a concert. The Waterloo Schools Charity, formed by retired Alexandra Hospital surgeon Laurie Read, is helping to repair
A SUITCASE, Nikon camera and bag were stolen from a vehicle parked outside the Green Dragon in Sambourne. Shortly before 11pm on Thursday, September 6, offenders smashed the rear window of a silver Volvo estate car before making off with the stolen goods
THE Craig Evans Appeal is to be split into two sections for the foreseeable future to help organisers achieve their fundraising targets. The original appeal started in March 2006 to raise enough money to buy Craig, a 26-year-old with spinal muscular
A MOTHER was sexually assaulted several times by a man in broad daylight as she walked in Redditch with her two young children. The victim, who is in her 20s, was pushing her one-year-old daughter in a pushchair, with her three-year-old daughter walking
