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Monthly Archives: March, 2019

Lawton’s View

APRIL 2019

Molly meets Vinny!

Nine-year-old Molly Powner, of Cofton Hackett, was the latest winner of a Mini Vinny in our monthly competition. If you want to win one for...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

The local elections fall at an awkward time for this magazine: we have to go to press with this issue before the deadline for...

Bonfires have the potential to kill

I agree entirely with the view expressed by Michael Lewis, (Village Views, March 2019), with regard to the selfish menace of bonfires. No sooner...

Planning process is unacceptable 

I would like to point out to John Williams (How to object to plans, Village December 2018) that the planning process is very clear...

Stranger than fiction!

I have just read your article on the Marlbrook Tip fiasco (You really couldn’t make it up, Village March 2019). It would be extremely funny...

Stuck in the mud

Barnt Green has recently been blessed with its very own balancing pond, located at the Foxhills housing estate. This vast, deep, steep-sided, muddy-bottomed, wet hole...

Help us find Heinz

My family used to live at Scarfield Farm. My mother, who is now 92, remembers with fondness the prisoners of war who helped out...

Lawn being used as field

Yet again the left-hand side entrance to Greenbank in Barnt Green is being used as a field. Cars parked at school drop-off and pick-up...

Keith’s a wildlife hero

Lickey resident Keith Woolford has been named as a “Worcestershire Wildlife Hero” for his work at High House Wood in Lickey. The awards, given by...