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Conservatives take overall control

of Worcester City Council

Following elections for members of Worcester City The results by ward were:
Council on 6 May, the Conservatives have won five of • Arboretum – Karen Lewing (Green gain)
the 12 seats that were being contested. Labour won • Battenhall – Louis Stephen (Green hold)
three, the Greens won three and the Liberal Democrats • Bedwardine – Alan Amos (Conservative hold)
won one. • Cathedral – Lynn Denham (Labour hold)
• Claines – Karen Lawrance (Liberal Democrat gain)
This means the political balance on the City Council is • Gorse Hill – James Stanley (Conservative gain)
now: • Nunnery – Jim Carver (Conservative gain)
• Conservatives – 18 seats • Rainbow Hill – Adrian Gregson (Labour hold)
• Labour – 11 seats • St Clement – Simon Geraghty (Conservative hold)
• Greens – 4 seats • St John – Robyn Norfolk (Labour hold)
• Liberal Democrats – 2 seats. • St Stephen – Neil Laurenson (Green)
• Warndon – Owen Cleary (Conservative gain)
Worcester City Council holds annual elections, with one
third of seats going to the polls each year. This year’s poll To find out who your local councillor is, and how to
was postponed from 2020 because of the pandemic. contact them, turn to p16.

Watch City Council meetings from home

Residents can watch Worcester City Council meetings from the comfort
of their own homes, as council and committee meetings are now being

streamed live on YouTube.

The aim of the initiative is worcestercitycouncil. Links said: “The City Council is a “Residents will be able to
to make the business of are also available to each public body spending public witness the cut and thrust of
the council more public meeting at www.worcester. money, so it is important political debate, and see for
and accessible than ever gov.uk. that we take this further step themselves how decisions
before, by enabling people to make our meetings more are made over the services
to watch council business David Blake, Worcester City visible and accessible than that are provided to them
at www.youtube.com/ Council Managing Director, ever before. and the city.”

New Worcester Cemeteries website launched

A new website has been launched to bring together
everything people need to know about Worcester City
Council’s crematorium and cemeteries.

WorcesterCemeteries.co.uk gives city residents a new
easy-to-use resource where they can find essential
information about the Astwood Road crematorium,
chapel, cemetery and gardens of rest, St John’s
Cemetery, the Muslim burial area and options for natural
burials.

Also on the new website is visiting information for
each cemetery, essential advice for organising funerals,
and details of how people can get involved in the
management and maintenance of the cemeteries if they
wish to.
book of remembrance inscriptions to stones and benches.
City residents can also use WorcesterCemeteries.co.uk Newly available is an inscribed memorial leaf on a steel
to buy or renew memorials for their loved ones, from memorial tree.

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