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A scheme to develop part of a town centre in Worcestershire has been delayed. The project connecting Worcester Street to Bromsgrove Street in Kidderminster, creating a new green community area, is now expected to be finished by the end of the year. The delay has been caused by the need for additional drainage, said Wyre Forest District Council. The finished space will improve access to the Bromsgrove Street car park, […]
Israeli strikes have killed at least 46 people in the northern Gaza Strip, according to local health officials. Fifteen people from the same family, including five women and two children, were killed in a strike on a home on Monday, Shifa Hospital said. Gaza’s Health Ministry had earlier said that at least 31 people were killed in a strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City. The strike on the school […]
This year's Elgar Festival in Worcestershire will be the "grandest and most fun party yet", its artistic director has said. The annual event, celebrating the life and music of the Worcestershire-born composer, starts on Saturday and runs until 1 June. Elgar is arguably most famous for his cello concerto and Enigma Variations, including the Pomp and Circumstance marches. He was born near Worcester on 2 June 1857 and the festival […]
Reform UK has taken over the leadership of Worcestershire County Council for the first time, following its success in the local elections. At a meeting on Thursday, party leader Joanne Monk was sworn in as council leader, and she went on to announce a new cabinet of Reform councillors. The council has no overall majority, after Reform UK won 27 seats - two short of the 29 needed to secure […]
President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers. “People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety,” said Mr Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer. […]
US President Donald Trump has said Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” begin ceasefire negotiations after what he described as an “excellent” call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that lasted more than two hours. Mr Trump also spoke to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in the hope of making progress toward a ceasefire. “The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, […]
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said on Sunday. Mr Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” […]
Israel launched “extensive” new ground operations in the Gaza Strip while airstrikes in a new offensive killed at least 103 people, including dozens of children, overnight and into Sunday, hospitals and medics said, and forced northern Gaza’s main hospital to close. Airstrikes killed more than 48 people in and around the Palestinian territory’s southern city of Khan Younis, some hitting houses and tents sheltering displaced people, according to Nasser Hospital, […]
Direct rail services to Bristol and to Edinburgh are to start operating from Worcestershire Parkway station. The services, which begin on Sunday, will connect the station to Yorkshire, the North East, Glasgow, Dundee and the South West. There will also be two trains per hour running to Birmingham New Street. The station, at Norton, near Worcester, opened in 2020 operating to London Paddington on Great Western Railway services and a […]
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