Page 4 - City Life Magazine - Spring 2023 Edition

4 Issue 62 • March 2023

NEWS

Boost for air quality monitoring

£240,000 has been Worcester City Council
secured from the will use £7,000 over two
Government to improve air years to match-fund the
quality monitoring across Government investment.
Worcestershire. This will enable portable air
quality monitors to be used
The money will fund the in different locations across
installation of upgraded air the city, building up a more
quality monitors, providing detailed picture of the hot
real-time information about spots for nitrogen dioxide
poor air quality, to help and other pollutants –
more people understand and communicating that
how to reduce pollution information to the public in
and their exposure to it. real time.

New bins make it easy to recycle on the go

It’s never been easier to help keep areas. There are also opportunities
Worcester tidy – and now you can also to ‘recycle on the go’ on some
help boost the city’s recycling rates, pedestrian routes and small shopping
thanks to the installation of around areas.
100 new ‘recycling on the go’ bins.
The new recycling bins are clearly
‘Recycling on the go’ bins have been marked with what can be deposited
in the city centre for some time and and are always next to a black
the new ones are mostly located general waste bin, making it easy to
next to recreation grounds and play sort all your waste at one location.

Worcester Life Stories tells

stories of the city’s past

A new book containing photos of old Worcester tells the
stories of the city’s past through the memories of those
who lived and worked in the area.

Worcester Life Stories – In The Words Of Local People
has been compiled by Worcester City Council’s Historic
Environment Record Officer Sheena Payne-Lunn.

Most of the photographs in the book form part of the Have your say on arts and
Council’s Historic Environment Record and were taken by
council officers in the course of their work over the years, entertainment in Worcester
while others have been shared by members of the public.

The 70-page hardbound book is filled with around 180 From Light Night to the Worcester Show, arts
historic images, alongside local memories, and is on sale at and entertainment play a vital role in what makes
£19.99. Worcester a great place to live, work and visit.

Worcester Life Stories Now you can have your say on culture in our city, by
is available to buy taking part in a residents’ survey being jointly run by
at the Worcester The Arches - Worester and the City Council.
Tourist Information
Centre, at the Your answers will help shape future arts and culture
Worcester City Art activities in the city.
Gallery and Museum,
and at the Tudor House Have your say now at www.worcester.gov.uk/voiceit.
Museum.

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