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Couple spend £20k on 'UK's craziest Christmas lights' despite skyrocketing energy bills

Malcolm Molloy and wife Wendy have impressed their neighbours in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, for the last 20 years with extravagant festive illuminations and will continue to bring cheer this festive season

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Rishi Sunak desperately trying to keep number of quitting Tory MPs down to 25

Former Cabinet minister Sajid Javid became the 13th Tory MP to throw in the towel when he announced on Friday he would be giving up his Bromsgrove, Worcestershire seat

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Fisherman could have broken world record after reeling in 30kg goldfish in lake

Andy Hackett from Worcestershire was fishing at Blue Water Lakes in Champagne, France, when he caught the world's biggest fish, which weighed over 67lb

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Software engineer ‘knifed to death by boy, 14, after challenging teenagers’

Five teenagers, including a 13-year-old, deny murdering Ian Kirwan, who suffered a deadly wound outside a Worcestershire supermarket.

The Independent UK

FA Cup giant-killers Alvechurch to face Forest Green in second round

The Worcestershire-based side stunned Sky Bet League One side Cheltenham on Saturday

The Independent UK

Thugs post lit fireworks through letterboxes in night of terror as police launch manhunt

Police are on the hunt for thugs who terrorised a neighbourhood in Worcestershire in a series of "shocking" attacks that saw fireworks launched through the letterboxes of six homes

Daily Mirror

Seventh-tier Alvechurch to face League One Cheltenham in FA Cup first round

The Worcestershire-based side are 19th in the Southern League Premier Central division.

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Matt Mason lands fast bowling role with England Women

The 48-year-old Australian is a former player at Leicestershire and Worcestershire

The Independent UK

You can now book stays in an ex-funeral home with embalming tables and coffins

Owners Stuart and Victoria Dudley converted the derelict buildings including a former funeral home and church with a graveyard near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire into three luxury holiday lets

Daily Mirror

Funeral home turned into holiday let with spooky 'presence', strange sounds and mysterious orbs

The gothic property in Worcestershire is decorated with coffins and even has its own graveyard

Wales Online

Beautiful Georgian country house on a famous river bank for sale for first time in over 50 years

There's a stunning coach house too, overlooking the green of a very popular village

Wales Online

Middlesex promoted to Division One after Worcestershire washout

Middlesex have been promoted to Division One of the County Championship after the final day of their game against Worcestershire was washed out at New Road.

Evening Standard

Worcestershire: ‘Devoted’ father-of-six dies after BMW falls off Eckington bridge in car crash

A 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drug driving

The Independent UK

Antiques Roadshow guest speechless as item is given record-breaking six figure valuation

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned as their heirloom - a Faberge sculpture of a pear blossom that belonged to the Worcestershire army regiment - was given a record-breaking valuation

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Nicholas Evans, author of ‘The Horse Whisperer,’ dies at 72

Born in 1950 in Worcestershire, England, Evans studied law at Oxford University and worked as a journalist in the 1970s.

Daily Record

Dad found dead off Scots coast told wife ‘he’d be fine’ hours before drowning after lifejacket failed

Bryn Watkins, 74, was an experienced seafarer who was enjoying "one last sail of the season" when he began to experience engine problems near Isle of Bute on October 18 last year, Worcestershire Coroner's Court heard.

Daily Mirror

Pensioner found dead after fears she claimed too much in benefits only owed £4.55

Margaret Tyszkow, from Worcestershire, feared she would go to prison for claiming too much in benefits but it later transpired she only needed to pay back £4.55

Daily Mirror

Tripadvisor reviewer slams pub for taking away 19-year-old daughter's glass of wine

The diner, who identified as Nicola on Tripadvisor, said they asked for the bill after a photograph of the ID was not accepted as proof at the Lyttelton Arms in Hagley, Worcestershire

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Pig farmer thought he'd got away with killing wife but one foolish mistake caught him

David Venables, 89, killed his wife Brenda and then dumped her body in a septic tank at their farm in Kempsey, Worcestershire, where her bones remained for 37 years

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Pig farmer, 89, who murdered wife and hid body in septic tank is jailed for life

David Venables, now 89, would have to live until he is 107 before he can apply for parole for murdering his wife and hiding her body in a tank at their 440-acre farm in Worcestershire - with his defence arguing he 'will die in prison'

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Landlords beg punters to 'keep it clean' after boss closed pub because customer swore

Sam Smith brewery boss Humphrey Smith was appalled when he visited The Fox and Goose pub in Worcestershire and overheard a customer utter a four-letter word

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Woman risks 'internally decapitating herself' in 1,000-mile treatment journey

Rachel Pighills, 35, from Pershore, Worcestershire, suffered debilitating injuries after hitting her head on a ceiling fan when she stood on a bed at her new home

The Guardian - UK

Moeen Ali poised to turn down lucrative Yorkshire deal and rejoin Warwickshire

England all-rounder is ready to leave Worcestershire after 15 years and sign a three-year contract with his childhood club

The Independent UK

Finance manager who tipped the scales at 38st reveals how river swimming saved him from deadly sepsis

Father-of-two Stuart Kilmister, 51, of Worcestershire, found himself dangerously ill four weeks after completing his swimming challenge

The Guardian - UK

Essex beat Hampshire, Kent rally at Surrey, and more: county cricket – as it happened

Essex pipped Hampshire in a thriller on a firebrand pitch at Chelmsford, thanks to Simon Harmer

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