HAROLD Laugher, aged 15, from Staple Hill, appeared at Bromsgrove police court charged with hitting Lilly Perks, a girl of the same age, on the head causing her nose to bleed. However, a witness told magistrates her nose bled whenever the schoolmaster caned her. Fining the youth 2/6 (12.5p) the chairman of the bench remarked such trivial cases involving childrens' squabbles were a waste of their time.
ON the eve of the new season and after several years when the club's finances looked shaky Bromsgrove Rovers now found themselves in the happy position of having a healthy bank balance of close on £20. This was said to be down to the shrewd new secretary/ treasurer Mr Powell.
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