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THE CONSERVATIVES have secured an overall majority on Worcester City Council on a day which saw Labour lose four wards. Big victories for the Conservatives in the city’s Gorse Hill, Nunnery and Warndon wards as well as a big win for the Green Party in the Arboretum ward meant Labour lost four seats leaving the Tories with an overall majority of one. Labour also lost veteran councillor Roger Berry in Gorse Hill, a ward he has represented for 25 years, as well as former parliamentary cand...

ST STEPHEN has undoubtedly become a stronghold for the Greens after a number of successive victories in recent years and the party will no doubt be looking to build on a very healthy majority and make it a hat trick of wins. The area has been the scene of impressive and famous victories for the Green Party in Worcester and has completely flipped from Conservative control in under a decade. Green councillor Matthew Jenkins is up again for re-election to Worcestershire County Council this t...

Urban gull crackdown begins as city councils given power to take eggs from nests in new pilot scheme Two cities are to be allowed to take action without asking for permission from Natural England in cases where health and safety are at risk Gordon Dugan, gull control officer in Worcester  Credit: John Robertson  Urban gulls face a crackdown in two British cities as councils are to be handed powers to take eggs from nests in a first for England. Under a pilot run by Natural England experts at ...

Green Party councillors say they are “100% in favour” of the new wildflower sanctuary being created at the Cherry Orchard Nature Reserve in Worcester. Worcester City Council has joined forces with the Warwickshire & West Mercia Community Rehabilitation Company, in efforts to reclaim a large area of the reserve. St Stephen ward councillor Marjory Bisset said: “I am delighted to hear about the plan to create this new haven at the Cherry Orchard – this is just what’s needed to bene...

PLANS: Wychavon Cllrs Dan Boatright, Adrian Hardman, Ed Cohen, Julie Tucker and Liz Tucker CONTROVERSIAL changes to the planning system in which the public wont have their say at meetings, could be devastating group of councillors has warned. An open letter signed by town, district and county councillors from across Worcestershire has been published, arguing the government’s plans would see as many s 28,000 new homes built, harming the county’s green spaces. Organised by countryside c...