Monthly Archives: January, 2014

Barnt Green will be hosting a Sport Relief Mile again next month after last year’s event saw more than 250 people take part.

Pupils from Crown Meadow First School, Alvechurch, are to perform a song in sign language in unison with children around the world in a record-breaking event.

. . . Mary Green ponders the many meanings of the word.

While The Village prides itself on its 138 issues and counting, we can only marvel in awe at the achievement of The Worcester-Birmingham & Droitwich Canals Society.

Reader Carol Adams (née Storer) has sent in a photo from her schooldays at St Andrew’s School in Barnt Green, taken on September 16, 1949.

I write about traffic volumes on Bittell Road/Kendal End Road in Barnt Green as an illustration of the failure of our councillors to take into account the views and concerns of the residents of the many threatened villages around Bromsgrove.

Quite rightly, the planning committee turned down the application for more houses at Hopwood with a unanimous 12-0 vote.

Villagers are being urged to secure entry to their back gardens after burglaries in Blackwell and Alvechurch.

When a car somehow plunged through the wall of Cobbs Barn Farm, Bordesley, no one was on the sofa crushed beneath its front wheels in the living room on the other side of the wall.

Any cyclists who took part in the towpath ride from Withybed Green to Worcester, and haven’t handed in their sponsorship money for Acorns Children’s Hospice, should contact organiser Peter Joannides on 0121 445 4022.