Vote for “Millions” to come to Worcester’s Cripplegate Park

by Site Admin on Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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Worcester Live is supporting (via their email list) the Cripplegate Park bid to receive a small portion of the “People’s Millions”, being given away tonight on ITV1.

From the City Council:

People’s Millions
I-Play bid goes to the public vote!!!

Please call 08702 433 302
You can call from 9am to Midnight.
Each vote from a landline costs less than 10p.
Mobile calls will be a bit more.
You are allowed 10 votes from each phoneline.

A bid to turn a small, underused area of Cripplegate park into a play and meeting space for teenagers has won through to the final round of the ‘People’s Millions Project’. The bid is for £44,558 and covers the cost of the I-Play game, an up to the minute youth shelter and contemporary setting.

I-Play is a brand new concept in play, designed to counteract the current trend in obesity and ‘couch potato’ syndrome. It is solar powered and uses computer and mobile phone technology to motivate children into activity. Participants play the physically active game and compete with themselves or others in the park, city, or county in order to complete the game in the fastest time. One of it’s strongest points is that it can be played by children in wheelchairs or those who have hearing or sight impairment.

It is a trail blazing piece of equipment and how wonderful would it be if Worcester was one of the first places to install it?

We need your vote if we are to win.

The birds descend on Worcester Festival

by Site Admin on Saturday, August 25, 2007
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It is the final weekend of the Worcester Festival organised by Worcester Live. Chris Jaeger has pointed out that “Apart from the opening Saturday, the weather has been as best indifferent, and sometimes downright awful”, but that all changed yesterday with a glorious sunny day and good weather predicted for the rest of the bank holiday weekend. Chris says he is “looking forward to a great last weekend. There will be loads of street theatre in the city on Saturday as well as great music on the CrownGate Live Stage. [...] And then of course, the fireworks at 10pm on South Quay.”

And joining in the relaxed atmosphere down by the river at the quay fountains are a pair of peregrine falcons, who have become an attraction all of their own, with a RSPB tent setting up stall under the spire next to the college (see Worcester News).

Left: the RSPB telescope set up to train on the roosting male falcon. Center: A 3x zoom shot of the falcon on the spire from the ground. Right: A many-more-x zoom shot of the falcon on the spire, taken through the telescope.

Apparently the peregrine falcons may attack pigeons and even seagulls. Let’s hope Percy the Festival Peacock doesn’t get too close.