SOME residents from Bromsgrove were among the 184 who received Maundy money when the Queen visited Worcester Cathedral. Among them was 81 year-old Joe Flack, from Aston Fields, a stalwart member of New Road Methodist Church since 1931. His son Tony, a BBC sound recordist, was on duty inside the building and was able to witness the proceedings close to. Fred Phillips, the sexton at Upton Warren church, and Annie Buckley, from Aston Fields, a Sunday school teacher at St Godwald's for 50 years, were also honoured.

MORE than 100 employees at the Aston Fields clothing factory were to lose their jobs when the firm, H B Goodman, closed next month after going into voluntary liquidation.

WOMEN in Bromsgrove were coy when it came to posing nude for amateur photographers, it seemed. Members of the town's photographic society were to advertise for female models who could earn as much as £15 per night.

A BROMGROVE firm was keeping busy constructing back garden nuclear war fall out shelters. The glass fibre egg-shaped shelters had been developed by D and P Hastings, of Sherwood Road, Aston Fields, and could withstand a shock wave equivalent of 20 tons per square inch.