WHILST last week's election results saw the Conservatives lose control of Worcester City Council and Malvern Hills District Council - a number of victories for the Greens proved it was a historic day for the party in the county.

Despite fielding a candidate in all of the 11 city wards up for election, the Green Party's decision to focus heavily on St Stephen, paid off with a thumping victory for Marjory Bisset which saw the final Conservative barrier to Green domination in the ward fall.

Marjory Bisset joins current Green councillor for the ward Neil Laurenson as the third Green city councillor alongside leader and parliamentary candidate for Worcester, Cllr Louis Stephen and Cllr Matthew Jenkins who represents the area on Worcestershire County Council.

Cllr Louis Stephen, leader of the Green group at Worcester City Council, hailed the 556 vote victory as a "fantastic result" and showed the Green's hard work had paid off.

He said: "This is a fantastic result - the Green Party now has councillors on four of the six district councils in the county.

"A Green in the room really makes a massive difference in allowing other councillors the confidence to make stronger and bolder steps in protecting green spaces, increasing biodiversity and taking steps to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions.

"We work all year round for local residents not just turning up at election time and this hard-work has really paid off in the support we received this year.

"Both Conservatives and Labour have had very poor results and as a consequence our votes have been growing massively - we are now having something of a membership boon too."

Elections for Wychavon District Council also saw a bit of history for the Green Party where two councillors were elected for the first time.

In Evesham South where turnout was 28.64 per cent, Julie Tucker was elected with 650 votes alongside fellow Green colleague Ed Cohen who received 393 votes - 43 ahead of the nearest Conservative rival.

The historical result for the Green Party meant both Conservative councillors in the district's two seats were dumped from the council.