EGGS were very much in the news in the Journal edition of this week in 1951.

"Mr Gerald Nabarro, MP for Kidderminster, raised concern in the House of Commons that British people were not receiving their full ration of eggs.

He told the Minister of Agriculture, Major G. Lloyd George that for the past two years the average consumption of shell eggs had been only one per person per week, instead of the ration book allocation of one-and-a-half to three per week.

Mr Nabarro described this as 'a dismal performance," but the Minister assured him 'We will do our best to improve the position'."

As if to underline the egg shortage, the Journal reported that two 15- year-old boys from Pershore had been sent to approved school by the town's magistrates for stealing 15 hens' eggs from a shed belonging to Mr Frank Lock at Wyre Mill Cottages, Pershore.

Mr (later Sir) Gerald Nabarro, who asked pertinent questions in the Commons during this week of 1951 about the "dismal" ration of eggs to British people.