CLASSIC musical The Wizard of Oz will be brought to the stage this week by the Palace Youth Theatre. Performances of the family-friendly musical at Redditch’s Palace Theatre run from Thursday, July 18 through to Saturday, July 20, starting at 7.30pm
A FORMER teacher has appeared before a crown court judge accused of blackmailing girls into sending him explicit pictures of themselves. Zahid Akram, aged 37, did not enter a plea at a short preliminary hearing at Exeter Crown Court where Judge
POLICE investigating a robbery in Redditch in which a teenager’s phone was stolen have arrested a youth. It happened at about 5.40pm to 5.45pm on Thursday, June 27, on a footpath off Castleditch Lane. The 18-year-old victim was grabbed from
OFSTED has shut a Wythall nursery where staff threatened the youngsters and where management techniques were, in some cases, “tantamount to bullying and emotional abuse”. The Green Nursery, in Wythall, has had its registration suspended until Ofsted
A JUDGE has ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to send a ‘grovelling apology’ to an Alcester teenager and man from Tanworth in Arden after a charge of violence they had faced was dropped. The judge had heard that it was apparent as long ago
REDDITCH MP Karen Lumley has just asked a question to health minister Dan Poulter in Parliament about the Alex Hospital. She said: “We are seeing in Worcestershire a review of our hospitals costing over £1million pounds, would the minister agree
ASTWOOD Bank brought their dream of playing at Lords’ a step closer with a stunning 38-run victory over Birmingham League outfit Water Orton on Sunday. The Worcestershire League club outplayed their rivals from two levels higher to power into the
SAUSAGE, a miniature Shetland pony, joined year 10 science students at Kingsley College as a living example of evolution and adaptation for a biology assignment. Sausage thoroughly enjoyed the attention and posed superbly alongside his ancestor
A WOMAN died in a road collision in Redditch at the weekend. It happened on the northbound carriageway of the A435 Portway, on Saturday, July 13, at about 3.07pm and involved a silver Renault Twingo and a silver Volkswagen Golf. The female
A MAN tried to drag a woman into a copse as she made her way home after a night out in Redditch. It happened in Salters Lane between 2am and 3am on Saturday, July 13. The victim, a 20-year-old woman dressed as a blue alien from the film Avatar
STRATFORD District Council’s cabinet has approved a document which will have a strong influence on future planning decisions in Alcester and the surrounding area. The Core Strategy has been discussed in draft form for several years, and this week
RESIDENTS are being thanked by British Heart Foundation (BHF) Shops after helping to turn their unwanted bags, boots and beds into lifesaving local equipment, including 46 defibrillators for the county. Volunteering hours, donations and purchases
AN Alcester woman, who has slowly build a cupcake business up from scratch, has opened a cake shop in Alcester town centre. Kerrie Dawson originally launched her cupcake business ‘Truly Scrumptious’ from her own home several years ago, before first
STUDLEY saw off bottom side Walsall YMF in the Warwickshire League Division One to keep themselves in striking distance of second place on Saturday. A fine innings of 86 not out by Stuart Harris and 56 runs for Brandon Miller, saw the Bees earn
