NINETY-eight council homes in Bromsgrove were set to be modernised in a £1 million operation – the town’s biggest ever refurbishment scheme.

Work on doing up the threestorey flats and maisonettes in the Lyttleton Avenue area of Charford was due to start early in 1989 and be completed in stages with the worst blocks tackled first.

BROMSGROVE Rovers had made history by reaching the first round proper of the FA Cup for the sixth time. With an away draw at Welling United it was the Victoria Ground club’s greatest chance yet to book a place in the second round. The team was disappointed that they hadn’t drawn a league club for the match, but they werebuoyedupbythe idea that it increased their chances of a victory.

HEALTH service campaigners had relaunched their fight to save Bromsgrove’s casualty service. Members of the town’s Health Services Action Group fought to save the Cottage Hospital from closure, and to keep a casualty service for the people of Bromsgrove, and despite the hospital’s closure, an interim casualty service was being provided by health chiefs, but it was threatened that it would not be replaced after March 1989 when it would run out of funds.