Dudley Council had pledged to take swift legal action to evict travellers, believed to include a group which left Budden Road in Coseley, amid fears that they might drive away Christmas customers from local shops. Merry Hill and Alida Tricker are mentione

After becoming partially paralysed due a severe spinal injury whilst playing rugby, Nicholas passed his GCSE exams with flying colours, and later won a place at Robinson College, Cambridge University. Christopher Potter is quoted, and Secretary of State f

Members of Stourport’s Monday Night Group were staging a murder mystery on the train from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth, centred around the cast and staff of the Acme film company. The photograph shows murder victim Godrey, played by Rod Comfort, along with

Daryl’s father, Mervyn, won a flight with the Cross Swords aerobatic flying team in a tombola at the Dudley Press Party, and he took his son along with he went to Halfpenny Green Airport to claim his prize. The Revenue Bar nightspot in Birmingham and the

Halesowen Round Table revived the carnival, which had been skipped the previous year, including a parade from Makro car park to the showground. Ian Harrington, the Halesowen 18 Plus Group, “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary”, the Halesowen American Auto Club, Gl

The school’s saxophone band were joining hundreds of school musical groups from Hereford-Worcester to do seven hours of performances at County Hall in Worcester for National Music Day. Stourport High School and Spennells First School in Kidderminster are

Members of the Territorial Army helped an RAF detachment and workers from the local council to free nearly 30,000 Welsh people from the Ogmore Valley in mid-Glamorgan after roads were blocked by 12 foot snow drifts. The photograph shows (from left) Bill P

Members of the Territorial Army helped an RAF detachment and workers from the local council to free nearly 30,000 Welsh people from the Ogmore Valley in mid-Glamorgan after roads were blocked by 12 foot snow drifts. Walsall, West Bromwich, Cannock, Stourb

The unit was presented with a cup at Wolseley House in Fallings Park, which acknowledged they were the most efficient light air defence unit in the country. Lieutenant-Colonel R. N. L. Gower, Major-General P. B. Gillett, G.O.C. 48 Division (T.A.), 473 Hea

Lion cub Joe was abandoned at birth by his mother, but a deputy warden at the Safari Park, Ian Dan-Netscher brought him home to Newport in Shorpshire and looked after him, as he had done previously for lioness Rosie and tigress Melody who featured on the