MODEL pupils at St Chad's National Schools, in Rubery, were presented with medals, prizes and certificates by councillor Shirley Baldwin. Later, he further rewarded those who had received medals for 100 per cent attendance record with a trip in his motor car.

LORD Windsor, from Hewell Grange, presided over a public meeting in Tardebigge to decide how best to mark the vicar, the Rev Dickens', forthcoming jubilee and his golden wedding. It was thought a stained glass window for the church might prove to expensive for villagers to buy but it was agreed something of a permanent nature would be appropriate.

A SERIOUS and unusual accident occurred in Bromsgrove High Street. Mrs Redfern, the wife of William Redfern, a decorator of Birmingham Road, was cycling towards High Street, near the Town Hall, when she collided with a triple tandem ridden by three men. The unfortunate woman was thrown to the ground and was knocked unconscious. She was loaded onto a stretcher and conveyed to the cottage hospital where it was found she had suffered nothing more serious than concussion, bruising and shock.

A CASE that came before Bromsgrove magistrates prompted the Messenger to remark that the Government might soon have to step in to control the activities of young male motor car divers. It appeared James Wilson, aged 19, who had no licence, had been arrested at the wheel of a yellow and black car, registration EE23, outside Catshill School. Magistrates let him off after hearing his story that he had rolled the vehicle from his home in Lydiate Ash and had in fact not started the engine.

BELBROUGHTON was mourning the death of young schoolboy, Egerton Hegerton, who had drowned while bathing with friends in the New Pool just outside the village. It had been used by generations of youngsters, but lacked any form of life saving equipment. The inquest jury, sitting at the Horse Shoe Inn, criticised staff from the nearby scythe works who were called to the pool, but who did little to help save the boy.