MORE than £10.5 million a year is spent on middle managers and top bosses by councils in Worcestershire.
A WEBCAM service that allows mourners to watch funerals from the comfort of their own homes has not been used once since the idea was first mooted a year ago.
A LAST-ditch bid to save the former home of the county’s cricket club and its historic pavilion has taken another step forward.
ONE of Worcestershire’s representatives in the European Parliament has been arrested in a fraud probe along with a staff member from Worcester.
THE man in charge of the county’s library service has criticised the design of the new £60m library and history centre - The Hive.
STATE-of-the-art digital machines which take credit and debit card payments are to be installed in all of Worcester’s car parks.
BEREAVED families will have to fork out more money to bury and cremate loved ones in Worcester with some prices set to soar “astronomically” by as much as 166 per cent.
COLLEGE students and older teenagers with or without jobs might be able to travel for £1 a journey if a new bus pass scheme is adopted.
AS an artist he used the landscape to inspire his work but a celebrated painter from Worcester has now provided the inspiration to make more of the city’s talented past.
A CRUMBLING bridge and viaduct in a county town will be completely replaced instead of repaired – and the work will only take 10 weeks to complete.
