A BROMSGROVE couple’s big day was ruined when they arrived at Belbroughton church for their wedding to find all the flower displays missing. Michelle Wheeler and John Burton, both members of Bromsgrove Hockey Club, had paid £125 for the displays some of which were six feet high. One theory was that they had been stolen, another that over zealous cleaners had accidentally prematurely cleared them away.

HARVEST ‘Queen’ Rebecca Fry and her attendants, Joanne Rutter and Rebecca Askew, toured the Aston Fields area of Bromsgrove after a crowning ceremony at the Salvation Army headquarters, in Carlyle Road. It was part of the army’s harvest thanksgiving celebrations.

ZIMBABWE’S national rugby team interrupted a busy British tour when it arrived in Barnt Green for lunch and later undertook a light training session on the village cricket pitch. The players’ host at the Barnt Green Inn was Greville Edwardes, a committee member at the Moseley club which had been given a warm welcome when it toured the African state in the summer.