A GROUP of 26 members of Bromsgrove Constituency Labour Party visited the House of Commons along with agent Bob Pinfold. Their guide was young Birmingham MP Dennis Healey, who incidentally was a league football referee. Later they were taken to the Strangers' Gallery where they listened to a debate in the chamber.

MARGARET Caulcott, from Clive Road, a former matron at Bromsgrove Cottage Hospital for 25 years until her retirement in 1955, had died. She was held in high esteem for her nursing skills and also for her housekeeping abilities, which played a big part in the day to day running of the hospital.

FOR the second year running rain marred Bromsgrove carnival. It caused the cancellation of everything but the procession, which went ahead through the town. But a planned tour in the evening of Lickey End, Catshill and Sidemoor was called off.

TWO-year-old Trudy Styler, from Walls Road, Stoke Prior, was said to be 'comfortable' after receiving head injuries when she was in collision with a bread van near her home.

BROMSGROVE School announced it had ambitious plans for a new £120,000 junior school and an extension to its science lab. Speaking at the school's annual commemoration service, the headteacher said the present preparatory school was to merge with the new department. A trust was prepared to pay the bulk of the cost of the project providing the school found £25,000 by next Christmas.