FLOWER CLUB: Ann Sinclair was the demonstrator for the April meeting at Broadwell Village Hall, where she gave six colourful modern arrangements.

The next meeting is on May 27 at 7.30pm, when Mrs Hazel West will give a demonstration entitled Purely for Pleasure. New members and visitors welcome.

LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY: A look back at the old days in the Vale of Evesham as told in humorous verse was provided by Mike Edwards, poet and local radio broadcaster, at the May meeting.

Mr Edwards, who grew up in a market gardening family in Cleeve Prior and later became a schoolteacher, entertained a full house at the Congregational Hall with his poems in the Vale dialect and was thanked by chairman Guy Stapleton.

This was the last in the current series of talks, the next starting in September in the society's usual home, the refurbished WI Hall due to reopen next month.

An ambitious programme of summer outings opens with a visit to the Oxford University Press followed by a river cruise to Abingdon on July 1; a tour of churches in the Lower Evenlode Valley, including Shorthampton, described as Oxfordshire's most secret place, on August 16, and a trip to Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge on September 1.

More information on the web site www.moretonhistory.co.uk.