The Village

Your Alvechurch correspondent is quite right, there is an alternative solution to bonfires and the distress that is caused: either pay for and use a “brown wheelie” or make a journey to the site provided – no great problem.

I endorse the comments by complainants in last month’s Village about some dog owners who fail to pick up their dogs’ mess.

Re: The Square, Alvechurch – “Village Eyesore”: It may be helpful to your readers to have a clearer picture relating to the past, present and future of The Square than has so far been expressed by the article in your June issue.

I agree wholeheartedly with K Thornton (The Village November 04) on the provision of a site for allotments in Alvechurch.

With reference to the letter from KD regarding the increased use of traffic on Regents Park Road, I agree with the conclusion that the exit from the Redditch highway should be closed.

“Footpaths resemble the rainforest” letter (September edition). It sounds a very similar situation in ”forgotten” Portway, the poor relation of the Beoley Parish.

As a horse rider myself I wish to inform the disgruntled road tax payer that it is near impossible to ride “across the fields” as they put it.

Village reader Dr SB Vohra, of Cofton Hackett, sent us some atmospheric photos from a trip to Cornwall.

Oh dear! This looks like an accident waiting to happen. I refer, of course, to your article in the December issue of The Village, entitled “The Bin Inspectors”.