A VOCAL section of Bromsgrove and Redditch Community Health Council was critical of the new strategy document concerning health care in the district, for the next two years. A number of town members said the document assumed a new district general hospital would be built on the Woodrow site at Redditch. They feared Bromsgrove faced a serious number of bed losses but they were told that regardless of where casualty services were sited, they would have to be shared between Bromsgrove and Redditch patients.

WORK on the modernisation of 25 council-owned homes at Dragoon Fields, Aston Fields, was due to begin. Tenders were also being invited on 26 dwellings at Yew Tree Avenue, Belbroughton.

THE future of Bromsgrove must lie with the future of young people of the town, MP Hal Miller told the Court Leet at its annual dinner. Mr Miller, proposing a toast to the district, said he wondered whether enough commitment was being shown in development of Bromsgrove. "Are we really satisfied that we are creating a Bromsgrove fit for the young to inherit, and in fact, are we creating a Bromsgrove at all?"

THE body of an elderly man was found lying in undergrowth at Chadwick Wood, Spring Pools, Rubery. It is thought to have been there for about four to eight weeks. The cause of death had not been established and an incident room was set up at Bromsgrove Police Station.

SEVERAL members of Bromsgrove's planning committee, commenting on revised plans for the long-awaited eastern by-pass, complained bitterly that the town had always been content with second best. They were angered the proposed by-pass should be a single and not a dual carriageway and were not happy to agree the plans - even in principle.