A NEW tea room has opened in Worcester to welcome shoppers to the city's Reindeer Court precinct.

The Court English Tea Room is part of Amorè Gift shop, with 16 seats upstairs where people can enjoy a quiet peaceful tea and cake or soup and sandwich.

Owner Rebecca Endacott explained: "We decided to add the tea room to make us a gift shop/tea room. The response has been so positive and we need to keep Reindeer Court on the map and to encourage more locals to use the English Tea Room. Our cakes are sourced locally and our tea is grown in Cornwall, so we are supporting English tea.

"We have a candle shop in Friar Street, Kings gallery and the gift shops now in Reindeer court, which are creating a little area to browse through. We are undergoing a rebrand shortly and hope to create a buzz shopping area like the lanes in Brighton. The old parts of Worcester should be praised, for it is evolving and becoming a vibrant city with an assortment of independent and retail names. We need to encourage shoppers and get more visitors to keep our city functioning."