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Yearly Archives: 2004

I spy a good ISP

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Many people just upgrade their dial-up internet account to whatever broadband package their Internet Service Provider offers and may pay far more than...

Broadband appeal

Terry Williams extols the virtues of broadband technology.  ADSL broadband is, technically speaking, a data transmission technique allowing multiple high-speed signals to share the bandwidth of a...

A wealth of wreaths

A Christmas tradition is being kept alive in Lickey End, as Sally Oldaker discovers. Originating many centuries ago in Eastern Europe, evergreen wreaths represented continuing...

Direct help for AFC

Kit sponsorship deal boosts football club’s mission to succeed. Alvechurch Football Club has a long and noble history in non-league football. The legendary cup-tie with...

‘Lawfulness’ not in public interest

I congratulate you on your initiative in taking the trouble to find out for all of us how the day-to-day operation of meat rendering...

A Morris missal

How do! You’ve sid us around ay yer. Black faces, big sticks, fancy feathers, worn out boots, worn out dancers, arthritic-fingered musicians . ....

Let farmers farm

Although I am only 15 years old, I would like to bring up something that is getting on top of farmers in Worcestershire. Problems have...

Help for hospices

Rita Cashmore and the team at Birmingham Midshires in Alvechurch hold out the bucket the branch is using to collect donations towards the HBOS...

£3,800 total

A sale and raffle in November to raise funds to upgrade the women’s toilets at Alvechurch Village Hall raised a total of £3,800, including...

Blackwell’s new head

Blackwell First School has named its new head as Ian Howells, who comes to Blackwell from Hockley Heath primary school where he was deputy...