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Deputy Mayor takes top office as Redditch Conservatives change guard

Over to you: Outgoing Mayor Councillor Brunner congratulates Coun Roger Bennett on his appointment as Mayor.

Ross Crawford 23^rd May, 2019 Updated: 23^rd May, 2019 0

REDDITCH has a new Mayor.

Councillor Roger Bennett (Con, Headless Cross and Oakenshaw), who served as deputy mayor last year, succeeds Coun Juliet Brunner (Con, Matchborough) in the role.

Coun Gareth Prosser (Con, Crabbs Cross) assumes the role of deputy.

Coun Bennett, who is also a county councillor for Redditch South, has served on the borough council for seven years while Coun Prosser, a former police officer,

New Mayor and Deputy: Councillors Prosser and Bennett, right.

first took office in 2015.

Coun Bennett led the Brexit campaign for Redditch Conservatives wanting to leave the EU at the time of the referendum in 2016 and has been a guest on the Redditch Standard podcast.