A 'SIMPLE meal' was staged in All Saints Church Hall in Burcot Lane and proceeds were donated to Christian Aid. Many families gave up their traditional Sunday lunch for a small portion of bread and cheese.
TWO hundred employees had come forward to take voluntary redundancy at Garringtons. The joint staff union, however, had not formally endorsed the terms of agreement.
BROMSGROVE'S MP Hal Miller was to be deputy leader on a Parliamentary visit to China over the Whitsun recess. He said: "Over the next 25 years China is bound to emerge as the most powerful nation in Asia. Our job is to lay the ground work for further exchanges to make certain that Britain gets a share of that business."
BROMSGROVE and Redditch Community Health Council met at Hill Top Hospital in Bromsgrove and discussed their next meeting in July to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Health Service. But George Lord told the meeting, he did not think 'celebrate' was the right word. "The National Health Service is in a shambles," he said: "People are working in out of date hospitals."
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