TWO Bromsgrove hospital workers had made it through to the final of the Miss Hospital Personality Competition organised by the Engine House Club at Tardebigge. They were Nanette Drew, a nurse at Lea, and Sandra Murphy, a secretary at the General.

SOME spectators came away feeling short-changed after watching a daredevil stunt team display featuring motorcyclist Eddie Kidd on the Recreation Ground in Bromsgrove. Many said his one leap over six cars was not enough and thought he was living off the achievements and glory of his teenage years.

THE future of the ancient Townsend's Mill in Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove, still hung in the balance. The district council planned to compulsorily purchase it against the wishes of the owner. The building was derelict but the machinery was intact. Dennis Norton, a former British Leyland worker who had restored Davenall House to house his vast collection of local artefacts and memorabilia and which had opened just last week, called for an effort from the community restore it to its former glory.

BROMSGROVE'S ailing Co-op shop in High Street was to close down. But Tesco denied rumours its store opposite was to shut, saying it had nothing to fear from the huge Fine Fare store now being built in Market Street.