Mr Adams, aged 55, has been a Warwickshire county councillor since 1997 and a Stratford-upon-Avon district councillor since 1996.

He's also a police authority member in Warwickshire.

He is the sole proprietor of Richard Adams Sports Services, selling sports equipment and installing and maintaining artificial sports surfaces.

Mr Adams was formerly a helicopter pilot in the Sultan of Oman's air force, and a rifle platoon commander in the 1st Bn Royal Fusiliers.

CONSERVATIVES will immediately redress the grossly unfair funding formula that disadvantages Worcester's schools so badly by introducing a national funding formula.

I'd have liked to see this done ages ago but, now the gap has widened under Labour, it's a priority.

I support this 100 per cent because it's at the heart of all the problems faced by Worcester's schools, like lack of parental choice and catchment area anomalies that so many parents suffer from.

I look forward to introducing the creation of free schools which, through direct funding, will provide over £500 per annum extra per pupil.

FIRSTLY, I'm determined to break down the culture of nobody admitting anything's wrong with the hospital situation.

This includes the ongoing disagreement - amazingly unresolved - after more than a year between doctors and management, as to whether the new hospital's large enough or not.

If the hospital isn't big enough, additional provision will be demanded by me.

My election pledge to review all health provision in Worcester will tackle this. The serious consequences of bed-blocking caused by social services funding problems must be stopped from impacting on the tight bed situation.

Only when these uncertainties are removed, including the questionable early downgrading of Kidderminster hospital and Whitehall-driven waiting lists scrapped, will staff morale rise as the strain on them recedes.

DRUG addiction and use with accompanying stealing is unacceptably high in Worcester.

In Warndon, I know of instances where it's creating a hell for decent families living nearby.

I'll be on the back of the police in a big way to exercise some necessary zero tolerance on drugs.

I know their resources are limited - which Conservatives plan to put right - but, following deaths of youngsters and the misery to victims of theft to fund drug addiction, the situation cannot be allowed to appear to drift, as at present.

I support education of all, especially the young, to prevent and reduce addiction, together with allowing convicted addicts the option of treatment instead of imprisonment.

Abuse of this opportunity means they go straight back inside and the arrangement should make provision for repaying their theft victims.

I'd like to see Government's much heralded multi-agency approach to drugs having some effect.

I'VE said before that prevention's better than cure, and I shall continue to demand better dredging - as of old - sluice gates in the upriver locks and riverbank growth tidying up.

Sadly, the Government has failed Worcester by failing to access EU funding that could have gone towards this.

Nevertheless progress can be made, in conjunction with other MPs whose constituencies are similarly affected. We have enough warning of floods, so we must try and control the excess water, not just wait helplessly for it to hit us and mop up afterwards.

This has been achieved on the Thames, so why not on the Severn? I'll demand an end to the current farcical situation of the various agencies - Environment Agency, National Rivers Authority, Severn Trent and local authorities - tending to pass the buck to each other while bleating about lack of money.

UNLIKE Cheltenham and Merry Hill, having left the motorway to enter Worcester, the route's congested and, hence, often off-putting.

I'm to lead on a combination of measures to revitalise the city's economy. The hotchpotch of traffic measures in force now have achieved little.

Until an integrated transport strategy kicks in, we must free up car access to the city.

Current congestion jams at peak hours are more environmentally-damaging than moving traffic. More off-street and less on-street parking is needed.

Review bus lanes, encourage two wheels, bicycles and walking, look at the bollard initiative and try to link the traffic lights. Better coach parking facilities would be beneficial.

I want an innovative redevelopment of the Royal Infirmary's Castle Street site and surrounding land to give an attractive central "draw", with a hotel perhaps?

I'll push hard for the development of brownfield sites in the city.