Friday, March 29, 2024
hall

Thanks to hall volunteers

I have seen first-hand how much effort, expertise and thought has been put into planning and the legal side of the new Cofton Village...

Hall has room for post office

People think I am a bit mad when I say that I think the downstairs committee room of Alvechurch Village Hall would make an...

‘Cowardly’ note left on carer’s car

To the individual who left a typed/printed note on a car outside Malvern Grange Flats on Greenhurst Drive in Barnt Green: this obscene and...

Only joking?

In reference to the letter in February titled You just can’t get the staff. . .  is this individual for real? Personally I don’t have...
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Lawton’s View

FEBRUARY 2020

THE VILLAGE VIEW

Climate change has rarely, if ever, been the focus of this column over the past 20 or so years –  perhaps because it always...

Who would vote no to Plan?

Elections can bring out the best and worse in people, not just politicians, and throw up a whole caboodle of surprises. The General Election aside,...

Praise for village illuminations

Barnt Green village after dark is usually fairly gloomy – the street lighting being far from satisfactory – especially compared with the adjacent rail...

Farming methods have to change

In her otherwise excellent analysis “What can we do for wildlife?” (The Village, January 2020), Mary Green reinforces the idea that it’s still OK...

You just can’t get the staff. . .

I was interested to read a letter in December’s Village which rightly recommended “paying your gardener to do a proper job” of clearing up...