Sonny Rackham

A NUMBER of Bromsgrove businesses have been commended for their continued commitment to providing high quality food safety standards in honour of World Food Safety Day on June 7.

FOODIES far and wide are encouraged to belly up for the 13th annual Great Malvern Food Festival returning in July.

Residents can expect an animal petting zoo, market stalls, delicious local food and the ‘barrow of bottles’ at the Primrose Hospice and Family Support Centre.

In April, Lickey Hills Country Park rangers returned to work to find the picnic bench reduced to a pile of ash.

Local advertising will also be in place in a number of fuel forecourts across the West Mercia region.

In May 2023, West Mercia Police’s operations and communications centre received almost 20,000 999 calls, of which 4,791 were abandoned.

Colmers School and Sixth Form in Longbridge has received a requires improvement Ofsted grading after 15 years of good and outstanding.

A LOVING widow has thanked staff at Redditch’s Alexandra Hospital for the ‘excellent and attentive’ care her husband received.

A SCAM in which a man was persuaded to withdraw more than £3,000 by a fraudster has led West Mercia Police to issue a warning to residents

THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) have organised a rally in Worcester as part of a new wave of teacher strikes across the West Midlands on Wednesday (July 5) and Friday (July 7).