OPERATION Covert is feeling flushed with success after a Kidderm-inster company came forward to help us tick more items off our shopping list this week.

Briten Ltd, based on the Hoo Farm Industrial Estate, has saved the appeal more than £1,500 by donating sanitary ware and plumbing items for the new Rhydd Covert centre.

The package includes toilets, urinals, wash basins, taps and a disabled toilet system.

mq Company chairman Terry Bramley, who was born and bred in Kidderminster, was keen to get involved in the project after seeing the shopping list in the Shuttle/Times and News.

He said: "I am a great believer in supporting young people. I was once told 'support youth because they are the future' and I think that is so true.

"I saw the shopping list and thought straightaway that I was in a position to help."

Mr Bramley, a Harry Cheshire High School old boy who now lives in Stourport, said: "I have been in business for 26 years and have been successful and I think it is important to put something back.

"Business has been good for me and I like to support the locality. I also think it's important for my employees to see that their company is involved in their community."

Mr Bramley, whose company distributes to plumbing and builders merchants, has supported a number of Wyre Forest causes and is a director of Bewdley Festival.

He donated sanitary ware for the Broadwaters Scouts group which dedicated a new HQ to Stuart Perkins and David Weaver who died in a rock fall while camping at Cleobury in 1997.

Mr Bramley's gesture was in memory of 20-year-old Stuart who worked as assistant to his general manager at Briten Ltd.

Mr Bramley was also keen to help Operation Covert because his late daughter Alison was introduced to the Guide movement in Wyre Forest.

She continued her Guide interest when she lived in Spain for a year, but in 1996 she died suddenly at the age of 23.

Shuttle/Times and News editor Clive Joyce said: "We are very grateful to Mr Bramley for his backing which underlines his keen interest in the district.

"He has been a great supporter of Wyre Forest good causes over the years.

"It means we are edging ever closer to our goal and with this kind of support from the business community, we are confident we can stay on schedule for an opening of the new centre early next summer."