ENVIRONMENTALISTS were celebrating the closure of a Gloucestershire power station which they said would reduce the amount of radioactive waste which was passing through Droitwich Spa and Bromsgrove. They believed that the number of trains passing through the district on their way to the nuclear re-processing plant at Sellafield would now decline and that the Central Electricity Generating Board could start to produce energy from renewable energy sources.
A ROW had broken out over the future of the former private house of the late Lord Austin, the famous car making pioneer. The building had been part of Lickey Grange School for the Blind off the Old Birmingham Road in Lickey, but with the number of pupils at the school dropping steadily the house was surplus to re-quirements. The latest idea was to demolish the house and build luxury flats, costing up to £200,000, but a school governor had objected saying that the building would make an excellent school for disabled children.
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