AVONCROFT Folk Dance Group took part in a television programme for TWW – Independent Television for South Wales and the West of England.

The programme was one in a series called Twmpath Dawns arranged by well-known folk singer Patrick Shuldham Shaw. Avoncroft was only the third group in the English Folk Dance Society which had been invited to provide a team. Mr Shaw came to Bromsgrove for two rehearsals and 16 Avoncroft members went to Cardiff to film the programme.

A GANG of county council workmen had been rebuilding the bank of Salwarpe brook, alongside Crown Lane, Wychbold.

Apart from the effects of natural erosion, the bank had suffered beneath the wheels of giant lorries used in the construction of the M5 the previous year. The work began at a footbridge connecting the lane with a field of Wychbold Farm and ran to where a larger bridge carried the motorway over the lane.

WORCESTERSHIRE County Council, acting as agents for the Ministry of Transport and Birmingham Corporation, had accepted the tender of the Cubar Construction Company in the sum of £777,088 for the construction of a new one-mile length of the A38 to bypass Rubery. The work was due to start in the middle of September and to take two years to complete.