A 24-YEAR-OLD man from Elmley Lovett was committed to Worcestershire Quarter Sessions charged with breaking into a garage at Elmbridge and stealing a pencil worth 4d (1.5p). He was bailed in the sum of £20 on condition that he agreed to a medical examination at his home.

A GROUP of relatives of airmen from Bromsgrove, who had been killed in the war and who had no known graves, were among a throng of some 20,000 who were at Runnymede to see the Queen unveil a memorial to them.

BROMSGROVE Rovers' 7-3 win against Whitwick Colliery was their highest for three years. The club's previous highest score had been in April 1950 when they beat City Transport 9-0.

LONG Suffering Dennis Timms, landlord of the Shoulder of Mutton pub in St John Street, Bromsgrove, complained that the parish church bells had recently been rung continuously for four hours nearly driving him to distraction. It appeared a visiting team of ringers from the Black Country were celebrating one of their members' birthdays. One of the longest peals on record at St John's was 14 hours.

WALLNUT Cottage, at Finstall came under the hammer but was withdrawn at £9,500. It was later sold privately to Dennis Morris, head of BBC programmes in the Midlands.