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Wyre Forest charity KEMP Hospice is on the lookout for a golden number of people to take up volunteering in

Charity Christmas card shops pop-up across Worcestershire to support good causes

17/10/201817/10/2018 NewsdeskAlzheimer’s Society, Barnardo’s, Cancer Research UK, Cards for Good Causes, evesham, Friends of Worcester Royal Hospital, kidderminster, NSPCC, Pauline Jenkins, RNLI, worcester, worcestershire, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Cards for Good Causes, one of the UK’s largest charity Christmas card organisations, is set to open its pop-up shops

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KEMP Hospice celebrates record-breaking Wyre Forest Santa Fun Run

08/12/201708/12/2017 NewsdeskBewdley Chambermaids, Booker Wholesale, KEMP Hospice, kidderminster, Kidderminster & Stourport Athletics Club, LJ Fitness, Lombard Group, National Citizen Service, Nicky Gale, Severn Area Rescue Association, Shelley Stanley, Signal 107, The Canal & River Trust, The Midcounties Co-operative, worcestershire, Wyre Forest, Wyre Forest District Council Sports Development

Wyre Forest charity KEMP Hospice is celebrating after a record breaking turn out for its annual Santa Fun Run, making

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The beat goes on: The history of policing in Worcestershire

21/09/201721/09/2017 NewsdeskAB1, bewdley, Bob Pooler, Britannia Square, Bromsgrove, droitwich, evesham, From Fruit Trees to Furnaces, Herbert Sutherland Walker, Hindlip Hall, John William Willis Bund, John Willison, kidderminster, Love’s Grove, M50, Military Mounted Police, police, Richard Reader Harris, Robert Peel, stovepipe, west mercia, worcester, worcestershire, Worcestershire Constabulary, Worcestershire County Council

Most residents in Worcestershire are unlikely to meet a member of the local constabulary in their normal daily lives. Yet,

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Defending the skies of WORCESTERSHIRE

23/06/201723/06/2017 Pippa SandersonAir Ministry, Air Ministry Experimental Station, Airspeed Oxford, Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys, Austin, barrage balloon, Bergen-Belsen, Bilford Road, blimp, Bomber Command, Bristol Beaufort, Broadway Tower, Bromsgrove, Canadian War Graves, Canberra, Caravan Club, Civil Aviation Authority, Clark Gable, Coastal Command, Cold War, Croome, Croome Court, DAHG, Dakota, Decontamination Annexe, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Defford Airfield Heritage Group, demob, DERA, Dunkirk, Earl of Coventry, evesham, Fairey Battle, Ferry Training Unit, Final GCI, Friends of Croome Park, GCI, Ground Controlled Interception, H2S, Hartlebury Trading Estate, Heinkel He111P, Honeybourne Airfield Trading Estate, Joint Services School For Linguists, kidderminster, Lavatory Emergency, Liberator, Lockheed Hudson, Longbridge, Luftwaffe, malvern, Malvern College, National Trust, Nissen hut, No 1 Ferry Unit, No 10 Advanced Flying Training School, No 105 Personnel Despatch Centre, No 107 Sub Storage Unit, No 1425 (Communication) Flight, No 2 Elementary Flying Training School, No 20 Maintenance Unit, No 21 OTU, No 23 Operational Training Unit, No 23 OTU, No 24 Operations Training Unit, No 25 Maintenance Unit, No 38 Maintenance Unit, No 5 Maintenance Unit, No 6 Barrage Balloon Centre, No 8 Maintenance Unit, No 90 Signals Group, OTU, Pendock Moor, Perdiswell Hall, Perdiswell Park, pershore, Pershore Heritage Centre, pillbox, Pippa Sanderson, PoW, QinetiQ, radar, Radar Navigation Aids Wing, Radar Research Flying Unit, radio astronomy, RAF, RAF Aston Down, RAF Berrow, RAF Comberton, RAF Defford, RAF Defford Museum, RAF Defford Reunion Association, RAF Enstone, RAF Hartlebury, RAF Honeybourne, RAF Kemble, RAF Llandow, RAF Pershore, RAF Police, RAF Worcester, RAF Wythall, Ravenmeadow Golf Course, ROTOR, RRFU, Satellite Landing Ground, Second World War, SLG, Spitfire, Telecommunications Flying Unit, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ternhill Fighter Sector, TFU, Throckmorton Air Show, Tiger Moths, Tilesford, Transport Museum, TRE, Vickers Wellington, Vulcan bomber, WAAF, War Office, Wick, worcester, worcestershire, Worcestershire Flying School, Worcestershire Regiment, World War II, WWII, Wythall, Yew Tree Farm

At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the Air Ministry understood the need to expand its airfield

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Spring 2017 issue out now!

07/02/201718/05/2017 Pippa Sandersonappeal, baldwin, bewdley, boffin, bohemia, dialects, electric, ev, exodus, fashion, festival, gardening, health, hill, interiors, james o'brien, kidderminster, love worcester, malvern, mhdc, penny black, prosecco, route to the hills, tesla, TRE, trust, university, wanderlust, war, wildlife, worcester, worcestershire, WWT

Following on from last issue’s article about the RAF’s role in protecting county skies during World War II, we discover