Archive for 'General interest'
Jubilee Celebrations West of the Malvern Hills
From Saturday 2 June until Tuesday 5 June our local area is coming to life with a wide range of events, activities, picnics and food to enjoy. Make your choice and enjoy the festivities, a great amount of effort has gone into organising it all and it promises to be great fun!
Full StoryGreat Malvern Food Festival
The Great Malvern Food Festival returns with a host of great Worcestershire food and drink. Last year’s event certainly lived up to its name and was a great success with an estimated 5,000 people attending. Malvern always rates highly on the list of places to visit for both UK and foreign tourists and this statement was backed up by the many different visitors attending the event.
Full StoryAll About…The Civic Week
Malvern Civic Society is gearing up for its annual ‘Civic Week’. This year there’s a chance to see a little known play, written by Charles Dickens and set in Malvern Wells. Roger Sutton, the Society’s Chairman, tells us more.
Full StoryThe Worcestershire Arts Trail
The Worcestershire Arts trail returns to the county in June with a host of studios and galleries opening in and around Malvern. More than 74 artists across 48 have signed up this year, giving us the perfect opportunity to see artists and craftspeople at work and find some of the creative talent that’s hidden away right on our doorstep.
Full StoryHolywell Spring in Malvern
Rhys Humm is looking happy. His company, which bottles water at Holywell Spring , has just trademarked the name ‘Holywell Malvern Spring Water’, putting the ‘Malvern’ back into the bottled water market once again.
Full StoryLiving in a Community by Fiona Robyn from Malvern
What does the word ‘community’ conjure for you? Does it make you think of popping round to friends’ houses for impromptu cups of tea, enjoying singing in the local choir, and shopping for your friend when she’s too ill to get out?
Full StoryDivorce recovery Workshop
Every year at least 300,000 people in Britain go through divorce or the breakdown of a significant relationship. Yet, while society allows the bereaved to take years to adjust, the divorced and separated are frequently expected to “pull themselves together” in a matter of weeks, unaided. Kathleen Barclay explains how Divorce Recovery Workshop can help.
Full StoryCanterbury Tales from Cradley Village Players
The Players perform a ‘witty and wicked’ version of an English classic
A modern take on Chaucer’s Tales which may not suit the over-sensitive
For their next show, Cradley Village Players present a witty and wicked update of a much-loved classic. The Canterbury Tales – a play adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous original by writer Phil Woods [...]
Search & Rescue by Bike on the Malvern Hills
You’ll find them out on the Hills in all weathers, helping people who get into difficulty. The members of ATBRUSAR are a team of volunteers, trained in first aid, who give up their time to respond as soon as an emergency call comes in.
Full StoryForming New Good Habits
The traditional moment for making New Year’s Resolutions has come and gone. Did you make any? Did you keep them? Have you been meaning to change your diet, or develop a daily yoga practice, or learn Japanese?
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