NEWS
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Sturgeon and Beano among big names at this year’s Dundee Book Festival
Nicola Sturgeon, crime specialist Professor Sue Black and the Beano are among the big names at this year’s Dundee Book Festival, billed by its organisers as “a celebration of writers and reading”. Now in its second year, the festival features 25 events across three days, with a programme that brings together established and emerging voices from… More
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Spring vintage fayre offers clothing, furniture and bric a brac
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Sax legend’s Worcester gig with new group
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Join a forest bathing session at Worcester Woods
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School unveils colourful new mural celebrating creativity and community
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Service station and drive-thru planned on outskirts of Worcester
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Philippine house of representatives votes to impeach vice president Sara Duterte
The House of Representatives in the Philippines voted overwhelmingly to impeach vice president Sara Duterte on Monday over alleged unexplained wealth and threats against the president, as the rift between the camps of the country’s top two officials escalated. The House, which is dominated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr’s allies, voted 257-25 with nine abstentions…. More
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Starmer arson accused says ‘I didn’t know him – I only knew Boris Johnson’
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Prince urges more people to talk about suicide as he opens mental health centre
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Transgender MSP applies for visa renewal to ensure they can work in UK
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Government aides quit as scores of Labour MPs call for Starmer to resign
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College building to become new sixth-form SEND school
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Police no longer investigating suspected arson at house
POLICE have ended their enquiries into a suspected arson because of insufficient evidence. Two men, aged 18 and 19, were arrested on suspicion of arson after a house fire on Farmers Way in Droitwich on October 22, 2025. Both have been released with no further action. A spokesman for West Mercia Police said: “An investigation… More
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Diglis Fish Pass celebrates huge visitor milestone five years on from opening
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Cars seized on the motorway during police stops as drivers caught in sting
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Teenager’s amazing Michael Jackson cover surprises city shoppers and goes viral
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Late night events return to eatery in park for summer
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Pudsey Bear finds voice for Children In Need’s mental health campaign
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Passengers from hantavirus-hit ship spend first night at isolation facility
Passengers evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first night at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife. A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the passengers from the Canary Islands to Manchester Airport on Sunday evening. Twenty British passengers, who were tested for hantavirus before getting on the… More
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Thailand’s former PM released from prison after eight months
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Ted, 7, to run marathon in a month for school fundraiser
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New nursery means pupils can stay at school to sixth form
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Three found guilty of stabbing and robbing man in Blackpole alleyway
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Company once responsible for children’s services in Worcestershire to be struck off
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Parachuting on to island in hantavirus response a ‘dream mission’ – paratrooper
Parachuting on to Britain’s most remote overseas territory to supply medical personnel and oxygen was a “dream mission”, a paratrooper has said. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where they live, with… More
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Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal as drones target Gulf nations
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Anger as ‘brain dead idiot’ flouts new bollards to park on pavement
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Man banned from driving for several years for drug driving offence
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Hundreds take part in popular 10k race through Worcestershire countryside
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GoFundMe raises over £12,000 in days for family of man, 30, killed in M5 crash
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I took on the Gladiators Experience and (briefly) got on the leaderboard
EVER watched The Gladiators and fancied taking on the events yourself? I went along to the opening of the Gladiators Experience at Birmingham’s NEC to do exactly that. The latest immersive TV experience allows you to take on some of the show’s iconic challenges – The Wall, Unleash, Hang Tough, Duel and of course the… More
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City pub goes up for sale as pub company ‘explores all options’
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Highest-rated farm shop cafe in Worcestershire ‘blows away’ customers with dishes
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Britons on hantavirus-hit ship set to be repatriated to UK from Tenerife
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Department ‘didn’t have clue’ if culvert where boy died was locked, inquest told
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John Swinney leads SNP to record fifth Holyrood victory
