Bromsgrove High School students were celebrating their exam results. Most pupils took one or two advanced levels, but some of the brighter ones excelled and passed three. Three or four 'O', or ordinary, levels were generally taken. The Messenger carried a full list of the candidates who passed.

THE Catshill Village hall cinema was showing Calamity Jane, starring Doris Day, in full blown technicolor for three nights each week.

A SIDEMOOR man went with friends to a public house in Fernhill Heath and was found dead the following morning, lying on the railway line that ran through the village. George Bremner Rankin, aged 26, of King George Close, was thought to have been involved in a fracas outside the pub and then jumped over the railway wall. He was unaware there was a drop of 35ft on the other side of the wall.

A MAN was killed crossing the main road in Rubery. Retired farmer Henry Melley, aged 78, of The Avenue, was fatally injured after being run over on a zebra crossing. The two children Melley had been with fortunately did not cross at the same time. An inquest into his death was opened and adjourned at Bromsgrove police station.

JOHN Harris, who was living in a caravan at the Sugarbrook, Stoke Prior, was fined £5, with £6 costs, for causing suffering to his young Alsatian pup. He left the dog without food and water for four days and tethered with a two-foot chain. The chairman of the bench said he was not fit to look after animals.