ONE of Bromsgrove's foremost consultant physicians, Dr Donald McIlveen, who had spent 14 years at Hill Top hospital, was to retire. He would, however, retain many of the voluntary jobs he held in the town and in Dodford, where he lived.

A PLAN to introduce a bottle bank in Bromsgrove was turned down by the district council as not being a viable proposition. A recycling firm had offered £165 per ton for the bottles to be taken to their depot at Pontefract or £11 per ton to fetch them.

STAFF and pupils at Meadows First School, in Bromsgrove, celebrated its centenary by donning authentic Victorian clothes and parading through the town to Sanders Park, where they enjoyed a picnic. The day was filmed by the BBC. The school had been built as a join venture by two Bromsgrove firms Weavers and Braziers for £3,563.

TWO members of Garringtons baseball team had won representative honours. Barry Court, from Rubery, had been picked to play for England against Belgium at Stoneleigh. His Dodgers clubmate, Bob Imms, was to play for a Liverpool team who were representing England in a competition in Belgium.

TEENAGER Harriet Earle had turned down a trip to Paris in favour of a school play. The dedicated daughter of the head at Bromsgrove School had won a free ten-day trip to France as a prize in an essay competition. But the trip coincided with the first night of a play she was producing at the school. Her essay in French was about women' equality.