Local residents were campaigning for their own local doctor and pharmacist, after claims they had been forced to travel to Bilston and Walsall to seek medical attention. Andrew Goodman is quoted. The photograph shows local people campaigning with a “Give

Highton’s Raiders, a country and western club based at the Old Trooper, Leamore, Bloxwich, donated toys to the children’s ward for Christmas. The photograph shows Peter Bernard of Fifth Avenue, Wolverhampton, with John Farringdon and student nurse Julie R

Wolverhampton Rangers western club, who were based at the Red Lion, Bilston Road, presented gifts to the geriatric and childrens’s units at the hospital. The photograph shows Manjit Dhanjal Singh and Lissell Guy with Sister H. Northern receiving gifts fro

Pupils of the Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School on Love Lane, Stourbridge, built a play house for the children’s ward, after Verna Nicol won it in a raffle. The photograph shows Mandy Jones with John Taylor and Melvin Bourne.

Customers at the Weary Traveller pub, which was directly opposite the hospital, donated money to provide the children’s ward with new portable colour televisions and a computer. The photograph shows Christine and Fred Coleman (centre), with (from left) Ma

Police Constable Alan Ravenscroft brought Roger the Robot, a mini police which was normally used in road safety talks, to bring a Christmas message to the children’s plastic surgery ward. Nursing Sister Peggy Day is mentioned.

Mothers were pressing for extra safety measures after concerns over unsafe balconies. Mrs J. Govan is quoted and the Heath Town Community Association, Councillor Lillian Richards and the Heath Town Community Centre are mentioned. The photograph shows Bren

A burglar clambered along a window ledge 200 feet up a multi-storey block of flats and broke into the home of Marjorie Poole and her husband, Geoffrey. New Cross Hospital is mentioned.

Residents of the flats were protesting at a proposed Dudley Council scheme to move them out and earmark the homes for young single teenagers. Councillor Geoff Tromans is quoted. The photograph shows (from left) Gloria Cartwright, Les and Muriel Morris, To

Widow Iris Newman of Wolverhampton Road, was to be Best Man at her daughter’s wedding, to take the place of her late husband, Alan. Church Crescent, insurance brokers M. J. Pearson of New Road in Willenhall, Julie Fellows and Jackie Boucher are mentioned.