Editing Worcestershire (section)

===1998–present===
[[File:Arms of Worcestershire County Council.svg|thumb|253x253px|The coat of arms of Worcestershire County Council]]
In the [[1990s UK local government reform]], the county of Hereford & Worcester was abolished, and the non-metropolitan county or [[shire county]] of Worcestershire regained its historic border with Herefordshire.<ref name="HM Government Legislation">[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ HM Government Legislation] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1867/contents/made The Hereford and Worcester (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The recreated County of Worcestershire came into existence on 1 April 1998 as an administrative and ceremonial county, although this excluded the [[Black Country]] towns of Dudley, Halesowen, Oldbury and Stourbridge (which remained part of the [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]]).<ref>[[Hansard|House of Commons Debates]] – [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo960402/text/60402w22.htm Parliamentary Business] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> [[Worcestershire County Council]] was reformed, although some services are shared with the newly formed [[Herefordshire Council]],<ref name="Hereford-Worcester">[https://web.archive.org/web/20150721204542/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/9079/str-hereford-and-worcester-final-recs-dec1994.pdf Final Recommendations for the Future Local Government of Hereford and Worcester. December 1994] – Retrieved 16 May 2013</ref> including waste management and the youth offending service.

The former Hereford and Worcester districts of Redditch, Worcester, Bromsgrove, [[Wychavon]] and [[Wyre Forest District|Wyre Forest]] were retained with little or no change. However the former Hereford and Worcester districts of [[Leominster]] and Malvern Hills straddled the reinstated border with Herefordshire, so a new Malvern Hills district was constituted which aligned with the Worcestershire's boundary to the west, south-west and north-west. The remaining parts of the former  districts of Leominster and Malvern Hills returned to Herefordshire.