Saturday August 9 - Treasure Trail at the Worcester Flower Show, Cripplegate Park

10:56am Thursday 7th August 2008

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Solve the Clues to see the Sights!

A fun and healthy informative activity for kids costing just £5.00 per person.

A local company, Treasure Trails, has launched a new leisure product in August aimed at getting people out and about exploring Worcester. David and Amanda Ingham of Credenhill, Herefordshire have come up with a unique set of walks around local towns and cities that will get people out and about exploring the area in a fun and involving way. “Many, many years ago the body of an important porcelain merchant of the City was found murdered on the banks of the Severn.

There were many suspects at the time, but police never arrested a murderer. New evidence has recently come to light and with your help both the murderer and murder weapon could now be identified. Can you be the one to solve this mystery? “ This is just one of many fictitious stories used by David and Amanda when creating their Treasure Trails around local towns! The walks are aimed at getting people out and about exploring the county. They are suitable for all ages and will appeal to both visitors and locals.

Each trail leads participants around their chosen location, by following a series of questions based on historical and factual information. It is a quiz and guided tour all rolled into one and requires participants to “solve the clues to see the sights”.

14 trails have been written across Herefordshire and Worcestershire with two based around Worcester itself and a cash prize will be offered to a winner drawn from all correct entries for the year. More Trails are due to be added over the next few weeks.

Trails can be downloaded by families and individuals by logging onto the national website www.treasuretrails.co.uk. Some are written in a murder mystery format - a ‘murder’ has been committed and the answer to each clue is a name or a date that must be eliminated from the list of suspects and possible weapons. Others are written around a map of an island and the clues will lead to the location of the buried ‘treasure’.

Still more follow the format of a Spy Trail. Here, the task is to foil the plot of a master villain and de activate a device hidden somewhere in the area.

David Ingham OBE, Manager of Treasure Trails Herefordshire and Worcestershire, believes the trails will genuinely enhance not only the visitors’ experience of Herefordshire and Worcestershire but also that of local people. “The Trails are a combination of fun, physical and educational activity which encourages people to see the towns they walk around from a different perspective. They always find more than they are looking for!”

Treasure Trails Herefordshire and Worcestershire will be at the Worcester Flower Show in Cripplegate Park this weekend.

For further information contact: Amanda Ingham, Treasure Trails Herefordshire and Worcestershire 01432 760082 or 07736 305648

www.treasuretrails.co.uk/trails/herefordshire/

www.treasuretrails.co.uk/trails/worcestershire/