Mappfest, which raises thousands for charity every year, was cancelled in 2020, but returns this year. Returning to Malvern Common on Saturday, August 7, Mappfest aims to be a family friendly music festival with local musicians and acts from further afield. This year, legendary musician Robert Plant has signed a handmade Marquetry picture made by local craftsman Tony Taylor, and this year the festival will be supporting Headway, St Richard s Hospice and Water Rescue. Andy Mapp, founder of Mappfest, said: Mappfest is completely run by volunteers, everyone donates their time for free and we receive no funding, so we have to rely on the kindness of others to make this work.
A CITY councillor says there has still been no action to make a crossing point safer three years since a high profile campaign. Cllr Lynn Denham says the fight will continue for a pedestrian crossing or a dropped kerb, or both, in Midland Road, just before the tunnel leading to Newtown Road, in Worcester. Calling it a “significant obstacle on a busy pedestrian route” the councillor said despite the previous campaign she was involved with, and the authority’s disability officer agreeing it was a problem, it had never been made a priority, and no progress had been achieved. Cllr Denham said: “We campaigned on it before. We have been trying to get that crossing improved. There is a safety island in the middle, but there is no drop kerb on either side.