A POOL table and a record player stolen from a Church Hill youth club have been returned -- after more than six months.

Leaders of Moons Moat Club had given up on seeing them again, although an appeal through the Indicator kept the music going on a second-hand gramophone.

The items were stolen in break-ins in October and December last year.

Mrs Joan Dukes, of the club committee, said: "I couldn't believe it when the police said they had recovered the property."

And Redditch police said a man would appear in court in the near future.