Bromsgrove, England News

THE National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain will be performing locally this weekend.

MILLION pound package of proposals aimed at building a better Bromsgrove have been given the green light by Worcestershire County Council.

CYCLING: Bromsgrove's Dave Barnes was back to his best for Wyre Forest CRC when he produced a superb performance to finish second place in the Echelon Cycles 25-mile time trial at Salford Priors.

BROMSGROVE Rovers have been drawn at home to Evesham United in round two of the Worcestershire Senior Cup.

BACKING FOR CAMPAIGN: Geoff Thomas meets with Health Secretary Alan Johnson to discuss his efforts to raise funding to help leukaemia patients.

A BROMSGROVE pub has won its appeal for an outdoor seating area allowing drinking in the High Street's alcohol free zone.

BACK IN GREEN: Jermaine Clarke has rejoined Bromsgrove Rovers. STRIKER Jermaine Clarke has made a return to Bromsgrove Rovers.

BROMSGROVE captain Mark Evenson is confident his side have overcome their mini-slump in Birmingham and District League Division One.

A MAN who gave a stabbing victim a lift to Bromsgrove is being asked by police to come forward.

GUESTS at the Mount Hotel, in Clent, were evacuated from their rooms when fire spread in the hotel's kitchen and utility room in the early hours of this morning.

A CAMPAIGN to stop a block of flats for homeless young people being built in the middle of a residential area is being widened to include the whole of Bromsgrove.

GOLDEN Lion B and The Camp remain first and second respectively in Division One of the Bromsgrove Darts League after their top of the table clash was postponed.

THE consortium hoping to buy Bromsgrove Rovers have withdrawn to the touchline - but only temporarily.

AN elderly Bromsgrove woman died after her husband accidentally reversed over her, an inquest heard.

IT WAS business as usual at the Lickey Hills Golf Club over the weekend despite arsonists torching the clubhouse.

THE leader of Bromsgrove District Council has hit out against Redditch MP and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith after she condemned plans for a joint chief executive with Redditch council.

OOPS! The misspelt road sign before it was taken away. SHARP-EYED reader Paul Cartlidge spotted this spelling blunder on a roadsign when he saw a workman erecting it near his home in Melbourne Avenue in ...

COMPETITION: To celebrate high-acclaimed pop group The Fortunes recording their latest DVD at Bromsgrove's Artrix Theatre on Saturday July 26, the Advertiser/Messenger has five pairs of tickets to the show to ...

CELEBRATION: William Bate celebrates his 100th birthday with daughter Jill Banner, son David Bate and carers Renne James, Mary Heron and Val Bott at Parklands residential home in Redditch.

THE former head of a children's home has failed in a bid to persuade top judges to overturn his convictions for raping and sexually assaulting girls in his care.