TRIBUTE was paid to Sara Jane Watkins at the annual general meeting of Bromesberrow Social and Gardening Club. She has had to step down as chairman due to family and work commitments. Her enthusiasm and drive had given the club a great boost when it started and it was most grateful to her and hoped she would be able to attend meetings when possible.

During the year visits had been made to the Roccoco gardens at Painswick and Westonbirt Arboretum, they had learnt how to make pottery and about the conservation of the Malvern Hills and our canals, an entertaining evening had been spent when Reg Moule, BBC broadcaster visited the club and the produce show and garden party were both very successful.

The new committee are Elizabeth Simnett, chairman, Ann Newhan, secretary, and Elizabeth Lothian, treasurer.

The speaker, Charles Hawes, who was the 2004 horticultural society winner for clematis, showed slides of his four-acre garden featuring many clematis and gave many tips.

The Christmas party will be held on Thursday (December 8) at 7.30pm when there will be good food and drink, a quiz and cards.

There have been several burglaries in the area and parishioners are advised to keep their doors and windows closed and locked at all times, garden sheds have also been targeted.

Bromesberrow Heath Post Office and stores raised the enormous sum of £365 with the Macmillan biggest coffee morning in the world, over £100 up on last year's total.