LABOUR leader Michael Foot urged voters to pin a red rosette on Redditch at the polling booths during a hectic town centre walkabout.

He mixed politics with pleasure as he mingled with the crowds of shoppers in the Kingfisher Shopping Centre.

One minute he was discussing the price of fish with a housewife, and the next assuring a pensioner he was not a communist.

He spoke about unemployment to a jobless teenager and about nuclear arms to women peace campaigners.

The walkabout had its lighter moments too. Market traders gave him a Yosser Hughes “Gissa Job” t-shirt and a carved wooden foot.

Mrs Foot, who was accompanying her husband along with their dog Dizzy, took time to gaze at window displays and declared: “Isn’t it a lovely place to shop.”