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Wednesday 29 June 2011
Friday 24 June 2011
Tudor House Worcester England
Tudor House has had a varied life in the five centuries since it was built. It has been used as a work place for weavers, clothiers, tailors, bakers, painters and brewers. It was used as lodgings, the Cross Keys Inn, Cadbury's Tudor Coffee House, an air raid wardens' post and billet office, a school clinic and a museum.
A group of volunteers known as Worcester Heritage & Amenity Trust opened the doors in May 2004 to keep the building available to the public as Tudor House Heritage & Education Centre. Displays of local history, crafts and culture over several rooms are complemented by a shop and coffee room serving drinks and cakes.
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Wrocester Street Market
Worcester Street Market
Worcester's street market, in Angel Place, is the venue of Worcestershire Farmers Markets, which take place on the 3rd Sunday of each month From March 1st and 3rd Sunday 6th Feb, 20th Feb, 6th March, 20th March, 3rd April, 17th April, 1st May, 15th May
9am ~ 3pm
Friday 17 June 2011
Worcester Literary Featival
Hive-Worcester
THE finishing touches are being put in place for tonight’s launch of the inaugural Worcestershire Literary Festival.
Hundreds of events from children’s storytelling to a competition to find the county’s first poet laureate will take place across the city and beyond over the next 10 days as part of the celebration of the written word.
Festival director Lisa Ventura said there had been a last-minute flurry of new events as residents rushed to make their contribution to the festival.
She said: “People have just really got on board with it.
“I’m really excited and I just need to thank all the volunteers because without them, the festival wouldn’t have grown as it has.
“I’ve seen it go from what started as a small three or four-day event and flourish. It not just encompasses Worcester, but the whole county – it’s just amazing.”
The Worcestershire Literary Festival team can be found at their office next to the Entertainer in CrownGate, Worcester, every day during the festival from 10am to 4pm.
more here
Flora Drury, Worcester News
Monday 13 June 2011
Fees will put off Teenages applying for University
Hive-Worcester.co.uk
A poll of university vice-chancellors shows that nearly half believe that it will become more difficult to convince young people of the benefits of a degree once higher tuition fees have been introduced.
Amid fears of a fall in applications next year, 42% of vice-chancellors said that it would be harder to dissuade teenagers from going straight into work or taking a cheaper educational option. Nearly a quarter said that they would have to do more to demonstrate an improved student experience, while 15% said that they would increasingly be trying to persuade parents of the value of degrees rather than just their children...more
Jeevan Vasagar, Education Editor
The Observer, Sunday 12 June 2011
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Apprentice Lucinda wins top award
Hive-Worcester
Report by Mike Pryce, Worcester News 08 June 2011
A YOUNG Worcester woman is flying high after winning a major apprentices award.
Lucinda Dancer, aged 20, whose family home is in Warndon Villages but who works for Airbus in Bristol, beat off stiff opposition to win the higher apprentice of the year award at the south west regional heat of the National Apprenticeship Awards. more...
Monday 6 June 2011
Worcester libraries avoid the axe
Hive-Worcester
From The Standard, Worcester, Friday June 3 2011
The future of Worcester's libraries looks to have been secured after a countrywide review of the service recommended they should remain open.
The main Worcester Library on Foregate Street is already set to move into the multi-million pound History and Library Centre The Hive next year. Although Warndon Library was ranked 18th out of the 21 libraries around the county, it has been saved because the review recognised it was serving a disadvantaged community, and is part of a range of other services at the Fairfield Centre, including adult learning, a health centre, a children's centre and a nursery.
St John's library was saved because it has recently been refurbished using Lottery funding, and could link into a range of other services offered by Worcester City Council and the University of Worcester. more here...
Thursday 2 June 2011
John Philpott New Book
Hive-Worcester
From Worcester News 1 June 2011 - Mike Pryce
"The Shilling" has just been published, and, "as John acknowledges, the path from inspiration to publication of The Shilling has been a long one. It has been trodden every step of the way by his long suffering family and much of the way by his colleagues in the Worcester News newsroom".
More here...
The Shilling by John Phillpott is published as an e-book by Graficas Books, Cwmbach, Glasbury-on-Wye, Powys HR3 5LU telephone 01497 847894 or e-mail studio@graficas.co.uk
It is also available from Amazon.co.uk and can be downloaded using a Kindle, an iPad or similar devices.