ANNIE Hughes, aged 26, a domestic servant, was brought up at Bromsgrove Petty Sessions charged with attempting to conceal the body of her newborn infant son by placing it in a parcel in an alley off Ednall Lane. Annie Nowel, 13, of Beech Tree House, The Strand, Bromsgrove, had discovered it. Hughes was bailed in the sum of £20 and a surety of a further £20 until the next assizes at Worcester.

A TREAT for every youngster between the ages of three and five living in Droitwich Spa was held at Salters' Hall. Some 250 enjoyed a tea and were given an orange and packet of chocolate as they left.

BROMSGROVE Institute, in New Road, held its annual meeting. It was reported that membership of its new athletics section, which had spent £20 on equipment, was encouraging and that 158 new books had been purchased for the library last year. The popular Lady's Boudiour magazine had been added to the 61 magazines a month already subscribed to.

AROUND 60 men, employed on the railway in Droitwich, enjoyed their annual dinner at the Great Western Hotel. Mr Amphlett, the chairman of the GWR, in his speech spoke of the great improvements that had come about since his company had taken over the line. He said 50 years ago, when the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton line passed through the Spa, it was known as the "Old Wusser and Wusser."