A PROPOSED new sports hall, earmarked to be built near the Dolphin Suite in School Drive would upset plans for a new £250,000 community centre for the Methodists, it was claimed. The site was on the corner of Stratford Road and School Drive, Bromsgrove.

MORE than 200 residents attended a public meeting at the Bluebird toffee factory in Hunnington in a bid to stop the county council setting aside the four-acre former sewage works in Illey Lane near Frankley as a gypsy site.

IT had been widely anticipated that 16,000 overspill city residents would be settling in the Bromsgrove area in the next few years, which would mean an additional 6,700 houses having to be built to accommodate them. However, the city authorities now feared that amount of migration would cause serious inner city depopulation problems and the figure had been revised to 3,000 who would need 1,000 homes.

GANGS of 'maniacal motorcyclist' racing at high speeds on narrow county lanes around Cofton were terrifying residents who had requested the parish council to try to stamp it out. They claimed youths raced at speeds of up to 90mph.