COUNCIL house tenants in Bromsgrove were upset at new rules which limited them to keeping one dog, six hens and an outright ban on cockerels. Frank Taylor an enterprising tenant from Sidemoor who bred Alsations had got round the new ruling limiting the size of dog pens. He had cleverly sunk part of his pen into his garden thereby maintaining the strict four-foot height above ground level restriction.

THE late Mr W Reeves, a former teacher from Stoke Works, who had also been a former parish clerk and rate collector in the village, left the bulk of his £15,000 estate to the county council. He wanted the money used to fund young men from the village through university.

NEWS that Bromsgrove Urban District Council was considering erecting temporary womens' toilets in the Strand came as something of a relief to ladies who felt men, who had a convenience in St John Street, had been better treated.

MISS Pat Hornsby-Smith, parliamentary under secretary to the Ministry of Health, paid a two-day visit to Bromsgrove. She saw first hand at Hill Top hospital how a fully equipped ward was standing idle because of an acute shortage of staff.

PINTS gave way to pumpkins when the vicar of St Michael's Church the Rev L Wilkinson in Stoke Prior held an harvest festival service in the bar at the Navigation pub. The produce was later sold and raised £10.

A RAILWAY fireman, Ronald Moxfield from Birmingham suffered a nasty accident at Barnt Green station when the wheels of a locomotive ran over his toes as it was about to board the footplate as it left the platform.