WORCESTER’s first-ever Green Party mayor has taken up residence in the parlour at the Guildhall with outgoing first citizen Coun Adrian Gregson handing over the chain of office to Coun Louis Stephen.
The long-serving Green councillor and campaigner was voted in at the annual council meeting on Tuesday (May 16) with Liberal Democrat Coun Mel Allcott voted in as Deputy Mayor.
“It is a great honour to be elected as Mayor of Worcester, it’s a tradition which goes back not years, but centuries and I would like to thank the outgoing mayor and mayoress for showing me the ropes, during my time as deputy mayor,” Coun Stephen told the meeting.
Coun Stephen has chosen to continue to have a Mayor’s Orator – this will be Worcestershire Poet Laureate Rhianna Levi.
His chosen charity for his mayoral year will be Age UK and the theme for his mayoral year is ‘creating a community that values and includes our older citizens’
