FRENCH visitors will be taking a closer look at Bromsgrove during a special visit.

Bromsgrove and District Twinning Association has arranged the visit for friends from Saint Sauveur Lendelin at the beginning of May.

During their four-day stay the visitors will go to Cadbury World in Birmingham, enjoy tea at the Jinney Ring Craft Centre, Hanbury, and take part in a social evening in Stoke Prior.

This will be followed by free time for shopping in Bromsgrove or a visit to the town's new Artrix centre and going to the Black Country Museum.

The trip will be rounded off with a barn dance and pig roast supper at the Labour Club, in Worcester Road.

In July the association will enjoy its longest visit to its twin German town Gronau when it will mark the 25th anniversary of the twinning.

Chairman Ros Cooke is preparing a photo album to take on the trip packed full of photographs and newspaper cuttings from the very early days back in the 1980s.

The twinning executive committee has also commissioned commemorative mugs to mark the anniversary. They bear the linked Gronau and Bromsgrove town twinning rings. It has been suggested people buy one as a gift for each adult host for the trip.

The association is also holding its annual general meeting on Friday, April 29, from 7.30pm at the Council House, in Burcot Lane.

The committee will be nominated and there will be a supper with wine.