ONE in three eight-year-olds who took part in a West Mercia Police survey admitted using Facebook – despite the minimum user age being set at 13. Nearly 9,000 children have taken part in the online survey set up as part of WES (Worcestershire E Safety ...

West Mercia Police was today named as one of the best forces in the country for accurately recording crimes. But officers made the wrong decision in 20 per cent of cases where they decided that no crime had been committed, according to Her Majesty’s ...

PLANS for a multi-million-pound spa, gym and swimming pool complex at Mercia Marina have been scrapped in favour of creating more shops. The marina, the largest of its kind in the UK, is seeking permission to revise plans for its £3 million waterfront development.

EWYAS Harold and Mercia Athletic will contest the final of the Herefordshire Football League Journal Trophy after both gained comfortable semi-final successes. Harold produced a fine all-round display to see off visiting Pegasus Reserves 6-1. Pete Wood ...

The government had been dead against it but they eventually agreed. Mr Parkinson pledged to increase the police presence across West Mercia, if elected. He said: “I want a visible police presence that quickly deals with crime.”

West Mercia Police said two men, aged 19 and 24, and 17-year-old girl had been arrested in Warndon and a 16-year-old girl arrested in Malvern. Police said Mr Heath had become trapped in his flat after a fire was started in a wheelie bin pushed into the porch.

A West Mercia police spokesman said the man was detained earlier this week and has since been bailed. The man, who does not live near the scene of the crime, was arrested at home on Thursday night and taken to a police station in North Worcestershire for questioning.

THE number of police officers in West Mercia fell by five per cent between September 2010 and September 2011, as figures across the UK fell to their lowest levels in a decade. In West Mercia, there were 2,188 police officers, a decrease of five per cent ...

A local tradition states that King Wulfhere of Mercia founded an abbey of St Mary at Wolverhampton in 659. Proof of such an abbey has not been found to date. In 1179, there is mention of a market held in the town, and in 1204 it had come to the ...