PLANNERS were preparing a three day exhibition of blueprints for the proposed Bromsgrove Eastern By-Pass scheme. Residents were invited to view the plans at Bromsgrove Council House, in Birmingham Road and a surveyor would be on hand to answer their questions. Work on the new road was expected to start in 1979 at an estimated cost of £2,750,000. The original £5m plans for a dual carriageway were scrapped for a cheaper single carriageway road. The display coincided with the opening of several hundred yards of new western inner relief road through Crown Close.

ABOUT 60 protesters marched through Bromsgrove town centre as part of a campaign against public spending cuts. Hospital workers, firemen, teachers, students and members of the Bromsgrove M42 Action Committee, carried banners and placards condemning the government's plans.

THE Messenger informed readers that reporters and photographers would be unable to fulfil any weekend or evening engagements because of dispute sanctions by the National Union of Journalists.

CHARFORD residents were being terrorised by dogs scavenging in their dustbins, the estate's tenants' association claimed. Members said outhouses for dustbins were becoming a haunt of canines looking for food and warmth. One resident was even attacked by an Alsatian.

TRAFFIC hazards on a Bromsgrove council housing estate were reaching serious proportions because of a lack of car parking facilities, members of the authority's housing committee were told.

Complaints had been made by some district councillors about problems at Rock Hill, particularly around the Breakback Road area. It was suggested a parking bay was created to prevent congestion from people parking in the road.