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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 Parks's Bath in Sansome Walk with a new facility, hit the buffers when the city council suddenly announced it hadn't got the money for such "luxury" projects. January 1974, and the pool is taking shape. When complete, its waters were heated by methane gas from the nearby sewage treatment works Led by Alderman Stanley M...

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 Berry, warned Worcester would live  to regret the decision “for years to come” and no doubt the pr...