The Village

Well, the first few days of the new school opening in Alvechurch were rather exciting, not only for the pupils and parents alike, but for the traffic and the parking arrangements.

Following on from last month’s View, in which we bemoaned the various traffic problems in our villages, we’ve been exercising our brains over the question of just why people choose to park on pavements.

I hope your reading of the crystal ball for 2018 (Village View, January) is 100% correct.

AUGUST 2017

Re: Noise of the ghost buses (Village Views, July 2014): Regular bus users to Cofton Hackett are becoming aware that the new 45 bus extension is very useful when coming home from work in Birmingham.

FEBRUARY 2011

We have been berated for suggesting in our last issue that the voters of this area will always be blue – and have even been told that we helped June Griffiths to get elected as the county councillor for Alvechurch division by suggesting that the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

Europe is like a Dowager Queen.

On June 14, I wrote to Dr George Lord at County Hall enclosing the petitions from many groups in the village asking for our Alvechurch Library to stay where it is.

To all the residents of rural or semi-rural Britain who feel safe in the knowledge that our Prime Minister has assured us that any use of green belt for housing will only be considered after brown belt and greenfield sites (yes, there is a difference) have been found unsuitable or unsustainable, this is a wake up call!