Shropshire County, England News

AN ASIAN man in his 70s suffered a fractured eye socket in what police have called a a oecowardlya racially motivated attack.

South Wales Police has revealed it has been reviewing 28 unsolved murders dating back as far the start of World War II.

A 32-YEAR-old man has been sent into custody following a shooting at a Brierley Hill nightclub.

A WOMAN who dumped a Milking Bank man just two days after their wedding told a jury how he savagely lunged at her with a kitchen knife when he went to the house where she was living with her new boyfriend.

A STOURPORT scrap merchant who loaded two stolen cars on to a pick-up truck from a field near Worcester has been jailed for 18 months.

Throughout National Recycling Week your Worcester News will be following the Clarke-Morris family to take a look in their bins and find out just how much they take recycling to heart, or whether it's a load of rubbish Day one - " Monday The Clarke-Morris family lives in Norton, near Worcester.

A pub customer disarmed a gangster gunman despite being shot four times, a court heard yesterday.

A 49-year-old glider pilot died after his aircraft spun and nosedived into the Long Mynd in the Shropshire Hills, an inquest has heard.

IN the run-up to a special Wyre Forest service in memory of road crash victims, young drivers are being urged to take extra care to avoid further tragedies.

A FORMER Conservative district councillor has left the party and will stand as an independent in Worcester at the next general election.

A MAN has been jailed after being caught on CCTV in Brierley Hill - by the camera he was attempting to steal.

Congratulations are in order today for Mary Dhonau, the Worcester floods campaigner honoured by the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday.

Two men have been taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after separate road accidents in Wolverhampton and Birmingham.

Two white van drivers gestured to each other before their vehicles collided in a road rage incident near Market Drayton.

THE trial of a newlywed Dudley man accused of trying to kill his wife and murdering a man she was visiting is scheduled to start at Wolverhampton Crown Court today.

A ROAD rage investigation has begun after a bus driver and a Porsche driver argued over the right of way in a Whitchurch street.

A MAN was arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified and two vehicles were seized during an ANPR operation north of Kidderminster.

A 39-year-old woman was found dead on a railway line just three days after her father was killed on the same stretch of track, it has emerged.

A TEENAGER was killed in a freak accident after the car she was travelling in was hit - by a boat, a jury was told.

POLICE have confirmed the man killed in a crash involving a car and an ambulance at Whippingham on Sunday is 53-year-old Robert Hammond, of Esplanade, Sandown.