IT was the thrill of a lifetime for 16-year-old Bromsgrove Schoolboy Michael Banner when he won a prize to meet Prime Minister Jim Callaghan at 10 Downing Street. Michael, from Stratford Road, won the prize in an essay competition organised by Hansard.

AROUND 500 workers in local government, hospitals and college students were expected to take to the streets in Bromsgrove at the weekend to protest about proposed cuts in public services.

THE Rev Peter Larkin was to take over as priest-in-charge at St John's Parish Church in Bromsgrove early in the New Year. Married to wife Molly, who had been employed on the Daily Mail, Mr Larkin, 38, had been born in Wolverhampton and was coming to Bromsgrove from Saint Kea in Cornwall.

Round Tablers handed the district council £75 to spend on 25 trees to plant in Crown Close and Sanders Park.

CHORISTERS at Cobham House, Bromsgrove School had made a record entitled Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring following a successful few months which has seen them make several appearances at concerts and other venues throughout Britain. The picture for the record sleeve had been taken by master Jim Page and showed four boys in the window of the school's chapel.