'Poor service and awful accommodation' - Vandals wreck six Beryl Bikes

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Concerns housing association providing 'poor service and awful accommodation'

UNHAPPY: Councillors Atif Sadiq and Jabba Riaz outside Vesta Tilley Court in Worcester

FRUSTRATED: Claines Cllrs Jessie Jagger, Mel Allcott and Karen Holmes.

Frustrations as vandals damage six Beryl Bikes leading to immediate action

The Beryl Bike Bay at Perdiswell Leisure Centre has been temporarily closed after vandals damaged six bikes in the past week.

SALE: Inside Blackpole's Homebase store.

Administration sale at Worcester Homebase as future remains uncertain

Homebase, located in the Blackpole retail park, has started an administration sale with big yellow signs appearing throughout the business.

OVERWATCH: The Battenhall pump track is being monitored by CCTV

CCTV camera set up at Worcester's first pump track

Temporary CCTV cameras have been places at the new pump track in Battenhall.

TRAINING: The council says improved practices will be taken forward

Vulnerable child who missed five terms of education failed by council

A VULNERABLE child missed five-and-a-half terms of education and two years of therapy because of council failures.

COMEBACK: £366,000 has been set aside by the council to repair the Splashpad with a new filtration system.

Hopes £336k splashpad work will be completed before summer 2025

Worcester City Council said £336,000 work to fix Gheluvelt Park's splashpad will be completed by summer 2025.

He appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court

Man banned from owning animals for 10 years after throwing dog at car windscreen

A Kidderminster man who threw his dog at a parked car’s windscreen was sentenced for animal cruelty offences.

KYNDFOLK, run by Wayland's Yard, is set to start work on the Pump House soon.

Well-known city café to breathe life back into historic building under new name

The popular Waylands Yard on Foregate Street revealed earlier this year that it will branch out into the Pump House in Ghelevent Park under a new name.

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