FESTIVAL: A tent at the 2017 Worcester Oktoberfest before the start of the event. Pic. Jonathan Barry OKTOBERFEST is set to return to Worcestershire this autumn. The festival, which was held in 2017, 2018 and 2019, has applied for a license to serve alcohol ahead of the planned festival, which will be held at Worcester Rugby Club in October. This is a change of venue for the festival, which was previously held at Worcester Racecourse. The licensing application requests permission to serve beer as well as holding dances live music for three nights in October, the 22nd, 23rd and 24th. A post on the Worcester Oktoberfest Facebook page confirmed the festival is returning.
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COVID-19 home testing kits will soon be available to pick up from libraries across Worcestershire From Tuesday (April 6), testing kits will be available from libraries in Alvechurch, Bewdley, Broadway, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Hagley, Pershore, Rubery, St. Johns, Stourport, Tenbury, Upton, Warndon, Woodrow and Wythall. It was announced previously that Kidderminster Library will take over from Wyre Forest House, the home of Wyre Forest District Council, as the new site for rapid Covid testing from Tuesday. The government announced last month that residents who have regular contact with children will be able to test themselves for coronavirus twice a week at home.
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Councillors failed to come to an agreement on the budget proposals at Wednesday night s meeting WYRE Forest District Council will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new budget for the next year after councillors failed to agree on any of the cost-saving plans put in front of them at Wednesday night s meeting. Radical proposals to plug a predicted £2.7 million funding gap left in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic were due to be agreed by full council, but after a deadlock - with 16 members supporting the plans and 16 rejecting them - the chairman used his deciding vote to quash the Progressive Alliance s Medium Term Financial Strategy.