6 February 2025 / 14 February 2025 by patrickvs
Dozens of street signs that made an area of Worcester look “rundown and unloved” have been restored. Two Worcester City councillors have finally finished a long-running project to restore 57 street name plates across Arboretum. Councillors Karen Lewing and Hannah Cooper noticed that many signs were so faded that they were illegible while others were […]
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5 February 2025 / 14 February 2025 by patrickvs
Worcester Green Party’s City and County Councillors have reacted to the news that the May county council elections will go ahead as planned. Council Leader Simon Geraghty had written to Local Government Minister Jim McMahon requesting that the elections be cancelled this year, saying that it would enable the county council to focus on forming […]
29 January 2025 / 14 February 2025 by patrickvs
Tom Collins, the Labour MP for Worcester, has been criticised by Worcester Green Party for voting against the reading of the Climate and Nature Bill in Parliament, a decision they have called ‘worrying and ‘irresponsible’. However, he said he and the Labour Party were committed to making the UK a ‘clean energy superpower’. The Climate and Nature […]
15 January 2025 / 14 February 2025 by patrickvs
HOMES in the city have stood empty for six years with thousands of people stuck on the housing waiting list as a builder says he hopes families will soon be able to move in. Builder and developer Dale Misters wants to see families move into the 12 empty homes his company built at Birch Meadow, off Battenhall Road […]
7 January 2025 / 14 February 2025 by patrickvs
The Green Party’s first MP to be elected in the Midlands, North Herefordshire MP Ellie Chowns, came to Worcester on Saturday 4th January to speak to Green Party campaigners and supporters. Dr. Chowns, one of the party’s 4 new MPs who won her seat in July, talked about the work she carried out in her […]
5 January 2025 / 14 February 2025 by patrickvs
Until a chance conversation during lockdown, Neil Laurenson never thought he could be autistic. The woman from a mental health helpline asked if he had considered the possibility, and “within a minute or two changed my life”. Mr Laurenson finally received a diagnosis in 2023 when he was in his 40s. The Worcester city councillor […]
