FOUR Redditch people – two of them white and two of them coloured – were meeting the Prime Minister of the West Indies, Sir Grantley Adams, at Coventry yesterday.

The white representatives of the town are Mr and Mrs R W Passingham, of Webheath, and the other two are Mr and Mrs Ben Parchment, of Mount Pleasant.

Mrs Passingham is secretary of the Commonwealth Citizens’ Association in Redditch, founded to give help to West Indians living locally, and Mr Parchment was the first Jamaican to settle down in Redditch, and one of the first to be trained to work on local buses.

Sir Grantley Adams is in England for a week of talks. He is in Coventry to meet West Indians working in the Midlands and has come at the invitation of the Coventry Caribbean Association and the West Indian League.