THE challenging statue in the quadrangle of the College of Further Education was completed and was waiting to be unveiled.Whenshe left it in the final state the sculptress, Miss Lesley South, had added a final touch that was as mysterious as much else about the symbolism of her monstrous climbing figures. One of the climbers had slipped and beneath the downplunging head, and all around the base of the column, the artist had placed red splashes in the concrete with tiny fragments of a crushed brick.

 THE county council was completing a scheme for the improvement of Charford Road. Most of the frontage between Littleton Avenue and Stoke Road had already been opened out to afford an adequate passage to the much greater volume of traffic that flowed, but the county council was widening the portion between the avenue and the main road.

 A 10-YEAR-old Charford schoolboy, Felix McKeon, rode off on his red and white child’s cycle and was officially listed as missing for 28 hours. When found he was at Studley, seven miles away from Aston Fields, where he had last been seen, tired and hungry, but otherwise quite all right. It seemed that all he had to eat in the 28 hours was nothing more sustaining than an iced lollipop.