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A NURSERY boss says she can never forgive the friend of 20 years who stole more than £100,000 from her while she was battling breast cancer. Jane Myhill was a trusted friend and confidante of Alice Bennett MBE for more than 20 years, working as the bursar for Worcester and Madresfield Early Years Centres where she was well paid for her role. However, the greedy 55-year-old Christian rewarded Mrs Bennett s generosity and loyalty by stealing from her when she was at a low ebb in her life. The grieving founder of the successful nurseries had lost both her parents and had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
HOTSPOTS: Four areas in the city (highlighted in dark purple) had average infection rates of 800 cases or more per 100,000 people in the week THE city’s coronavirus ‘hotspots’ have been revealed with the latest figures showing several parts of Worcester recording 60 or more cases in a week. A total of 77 cases were recorded in King George’s Field in Worcester - which covers WR3 and WR4 postcodes including parts of Astwood Road, Tolladine Road, Langdale Drive, Brickfields Road and Blackpole Road – between January 4 and January 10. A total of 71 cases were recorded in Lyppard Grange and 69 cases were recorded in Dines Green and St John s.
The pool in Lower Wick is 47 years old this summer. The Lower Wick pool emerged from the determined efforts of a group called Worcester Citizens Swimming Bath Association, which took the bull by the horns in the 1960s after plans to replace the elderly and privately owned Parks s Bath in Sansome Walk with a new facility, hit the buffers when the city council suddenly announced it hadn t got the money for such luxury projects.
January 1974, and the pool is taking shape. When complete, its waters were heated by methane gas from the nearby sewage treatment works Led by Alderman Stanley Marshall, the WCSBA eventually got the money together and looked at all sorts of sites, including Cripplegate Park, the YMCA in Henwick Road and the edge of Pitchcroft by The Moors, before dairy farmer John Bennett – son of a former mayor – generously donated land at Lower Wick with the pool water heater ingeniously powered by methane gas from his cows.