A NEW directory providing helpful information for ethnic and minority communities in the county has been launched.

Worcestershire County Council and the Worcestershire Partnership Board have joined forces to produce the guide for anyone wanting to find out which groups exist and how they can contact them. The council's corporate diversity manager Rukhsana Koser said: "We realised that there was a real need for information like this, so we commissioned Dr Muhammad Ahsan to undertake this study and produce the directory."

The document can be accessed via the internet, at http://worcestershire.whub. org.uk/home/ wccindex/wcc-chief-exec-equality-and-diversity.htm or at customer contact centres and libraries.