APPOINTMENTS this month include three new members being appointed to the board of the region's development agency, Advantage West Midlands.

Tony Sealey, Isabella Moore and Paul Tilsley take up their new posts with immediate effect.

Mr Sealey, aged 44, runs catering franchise operators, while Mrs Moore, 53, is chairman of the West Midlands regional group of Chambers of Commerce and a board member of the British Chambers of Commerce. Mr Tilsley, 56, is a Lib Dem member of Birmingham City Council.

Senior partner

Meanwhile, at Worcester law firm Harrison Clark, Jonathan Brew has become Senior Partner Designate with a view to taking over from David Harrison as senior partner when he steps down on December 1, 2002.

Mr Brew, who has been with the firm for more than 17 years, will have particular responsibility for co-ordinating the firm's marketing activities with personnel and marketing manager, Paul Mann.

Also in the county, property consultants Carver Knowles has appointed two new associates at its office in Strensham, near Worcester.

Andrew Troughton, 29, and Richard Greasby, 30, are both rural chartered surveyors and will provide advice to farmers and landowners on property-related matters at the company, which was set up four years ago with three people and now employs 18 people.