WITHOUT debate, Worcestershire County Council gave full approval to the proposed arrangements for the expansion and development of Droitwich Spa to a population of about 30,000 by 1981.Thedetailed proposals had been framed in order to help ease the Birmingham overspill problem and a special joint committee now had to be set up to deal with the detailed planning of the largescale scheme over the following few years.

A BROMSGROVE artist had a work accepted for one of Britain’s leading art exhibitions.

More than 2,500 artists from all over the country submitted works for the fourth John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition, but only 120 were accepted. Sally Scott, of Grafton Lane, Bromsgrove, was chosen with her painting entitled the Craw Daddy.

A SILVER chalice was presentedto All SaintsChurchinmemory of the Rev James Arthur Crofts who was vicar from 1952 to 1959 and died in the previous year. Four funeral candlesticks were also dedicated to the church, fashioned in wrought iron by Alan Knight at his Hampton Lovett smithy.

They would be used to stand around a coffin when a body was resting in the church overnight prior to internment.