ANGRY radiographers from a wide area converged on Bromsgrove during a visit to the town's general hospital by health minister Dr Gerard Vaughan to protest about their latest pay rise which ranged from 2 to 15 per cent.

FIFTY cleaning ladies employed by a private firm picketed outside Garringtons factory, in Aston Fields, to protest about a dispute over contacts. The firm was looking for a cheaper company to clean its offices after the women had recently been awarded a rise which took their pay from £1.26 to £1.44 per hour.

TEN tons of hay and grain were destroyed when a barn belonging to David Webb and his mother at Little Barnsley Farm, Catshill, caught fire. The cost of the damage was put at £4,000.

RUBERY residents, opposed to the building of a new secure unit near their homes to house mental patients, were to travel to Liverpool to see one similar already in use. The trip had been arranged by the Regional Health Authority. People living near the proposed site believed such a facility was not necessary in Rubery.

ST JOHN'S Hospital, in Droitwich, would not be closed, the Government pledged this week. If it had 70 per cent of the workload at the Spa hospital it would have transferred to Hill Top Hospital, in Bromsgrove. Now cash that would have been saved by the closure of St John's would have to be found elsewhere.