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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 Parkss Bath in Sansome Walk with a new facility, hit the buffers when the city council suddenly announced it hadnt got the money for such "luxury" projects. January 1974, and the pool is taking shape. When complete, its wa...

THERE are whispers in the wind that a kite may be flown in 2021 for one of Worcester’s most controversial planning proposals of the last 30 years. Plans to build a superstore on the western half of Cripplegate Park, with the trade-off being to divert Hylton Road and extend the park down to the riverside, hit the buffers after much fractious debate in 1993, but they have never really gone away.  Indeed, one of the scheme’s main enthusiasts back then, leading local politician Roger Ber...