KIDDERMINSTER'S new mayor Helen Dyke is being officially installed at a ceremony at the Town Hall tonight.

Mrs Dyke takes over from Ken Stokes and has already nominated her charities for the year ahead - the Kidderminster War Memorial Trust and child bereavement charity The Brambles Trust.

She is leader of Wyre Forest District Council's Liberal Democrat group, a councillor for Spennells and Aggborough, and a key figure on several council committees and task groups.

l See next week's Shuttle/Times and News for coverage of tonight's mayor-making ceremony.