AT a Bromsgrove Urban District Council forum one resident asked whether unilateral parking would be permitted in the main street once a one-way traffic system was introduced.

He added a plea for the chestnut tree alongside the Strand to be spared when the redevelopment took place. Mr Hudson, from the highways committee, said the parking question would certainly be carefully considered, but he saw no hope of the tree in the Strand being retained.

RUBERY residents started a petition after plans to remove rubble from the new by-pass, and use it to fill up a huge marl hole at Callowbrook Brickworks, left their road littered with debris from passing lorries.

Mud was being sprayed against surrounding buildings and pebbles left by the lorries were being swept up by passing vehicles and thrown against residents’ windows, causing damage.

 THE Young Conservatives of Bromsgrove held their annual political school at the Tardebigge Inn in Hewell with three lectures on the future of Britain. Philip Hocking,MPfor Coventry South, said the Tories must impress upon the electorate how the country’s economy had been strengthened and would continue to be strengthened under Sir Alec Home.