GRAHAM Reddie, 53, from East Road, Bromsgrove, had landed the job of chief architect with Redditch Development Corporation. He had already been responsible for the overall planning of Redditch town centre and the refurbishment of the Palace Theatre.

MAY Day was celebrated in Belbroughton by a procession round the village led by May Queen Helen Hooper in a 1910 Model T Ford, maypole dancing and games and competitions which included a greasy pole and a knobbly knees competition.

HAL Miller was back in Westminster after his landslide General Election victory in the Bromsgrove and Redditch constituency, which he had turned around from a marginal seat into a Tory stronghold. The full result was Miller 44,621, Anne Davis, Lab, 28,736, Phillips, Lib, 8,066 and Deakin, National Front, 752.

CAR workers in Bromsgrove were being wooed by the giant car manufacturer Porsche through newspaper adverts to apply for jobs in Germany. They were guaranteed wages of £120 per week and six weeks' holiday. A spokesman for troubled British Leyland said job prospects at Longbridge were good, providing production levels could be maintained.