FRANCIS Millinchip, aged 11, a Rubery Wolf Cub in the St Chad's pack who had both his legs amputated below the knee, was presented with a Cornwall certificate as a reward for his unfailing cheerfulness.

FOR the first time in decades no cases of diphtheria had been reported last year in the Bromsgrove Urban District Council area. Infant deaths too, there had been five up to the age of 12, showed a marked decline, way below the national average. There had been 387 births, 101 of which were illegitimate and 363 deaths. There had been 209 cases of tuberculosis reported.

ONLY a handful of Blackwell residents turned up for a meeting to discuss arrangements for next June's Coronation. It was hoped interest would increase as time went on.

THE gales which hit the Bromsgrove area brought widespread damage to property. The large scoreboard erected at the town's cricket ground in 1935 as a memorial to Edward and John Perkins was torn from its foundations and smashed.

THE annual service of remembrance for three members of the Bromsgrove Evergreen Scouts, John Brazier, Oswald Teague and Eric Wheeler who died in the last war, was held at the pack's headquarters in the loft at Whitford Hall. The service, conducted by the Rev Richards from Worcester, also commemorated John Green whose home had been the hall and after whom the pack was named.