NOT one of the villages in the Redditch district was placed in the Worcestershire "Tidy Village" competition, the results of which were released on Wednesday.

The Bromsgrove Rural District on Western Road in Clent was placed first and Cleeve Prior took first place in Evesham Rural District.

The judges announced that, unofficially, the village of Overbury had been placed first in the competition, for the second year in succession, but would not be eligible to compete next year.