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Rowney Green fields vote

Alvechurch Parish Council

An impasse over who should manage the playing fields and facilities at Rowney Green is closer to being resolved.Trustees of the neighbouring Rowney Green...

Bordesley’s creative side

Bordesley

Bordesley is fighting back to demonstrate that it is a residential area that really matters to the people who live there.They were stung into...

Eggcellent fun in Blackwell

Blackwell

Blackwell Club hopped into action when lockdown meant they couldn’t open up to members and guests over Easter.A group of “bunnies” toured the village...

Four Chaps brew up a business

Wythall

A nano-brewery in Wythall is in the process of registering a premises licence with Bromsgrove Council to start operating commercially. Four Chaps Brewery, on Littleshaw Lane, will be brewing a...

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Farewell to Rev. Rob

Barnt Green

After 25 years’ work in Barnt Green and Cofton Hackett, the Rev. Canon Rob Fieldson is hanging up his cassock. Here, he reflects on...

Pitch battle looms over homes plan

Alvechurch

“Immense pressure” is being felt by Alvechurch Parish Council over its stance on an application to build 25 homes on the site of Alvechurch...

Horses’ happy home

Alvechurch

Alicia Stanford (centre) and her horses Treacle and Tuffy settle into their new Alvechurch paddock with the help of (from left) Melissa Crow, Mia...

Independents step up

Alvechurch

INTEREST is already high in the county elections across The Village area with more than a month still to go until polling day on...

Train of the future takes a test run

Alvechurch

There was great excitement among rail enthusiasts when the prototype replacement train for the Cross-City line stopped off at village stations.The new West Midlands...

Eating up the mountains

Alvechurch

ALVECHURCH extreme cyclist Tim Roberts is back in training – this time for The Silk Road Mountain Race through Kyrgyzstan.Tim completed the Tour Divide...

Calagate pressure ‘still on’

Barnt Green

The public right of way from Barnt Green through the Cala Homes estate to the Lickey Hills will “one day” be open, the parish...

Village Features

Welcome to the Fieldson Orchard

All Features

The legacy of Rob Fieldson’s work will live on in many ways, but there will now be a lasting tribute in his name, thanks...

FARMING WITH NATURE

gardening

Hannah Genders visits a village farmer whose philosophy is to ‘give something back’ and to enhance the land. During lockdown earlier this year, many of...

WARM, WET AND NOISY

Weather with Phil Thomas

Village weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes August was a warmer than average month in The Village area, with a mean temperature of...

‘Selfies’ in space

Astronomy with Brian Watkiss

Village astronomer Brian Watkiss peers into the night sky . . . . Here we are in the middle of October already and the nights...

BACK TO THE ROOTS

Mary Green's Nature Diary

Mary Green visits the farm where she grew up to see the benefits of organic methods. What an odd year it has been. It was...

22 years of Village Views

A great time was had during the Royal Wedding gathering at The Meadows in Alvechurch – and it was during this event I noticed the field between The Meadows and Old Rectory Lane has been recently fenced off and notices advising on the farmer’s intent to support ground nesting birds, especially lapwings.

Church needs council money

October 31, 2016

I was very disappointed and sad to read in the October Village that Barnt Green Parish Council had turned down the request from St Michael’s Church for an annual sum of £250 for maintenance of its churchyard.

Lawton’s View

March 15, 2011

APRIL 2011

Lawton's View April 2011

Lawton’s View

June 26, 2019

JULY 2019

Prayers answered

September 28, 2005

The Ark is a magnificent building – the answer to years of prayer for this need to be fulfilled.

Lawton’s View

October 23, 2012

NOVEMBER 2012

Lawton's View November 2012

Homes fears in perspective

August 22, 2007

Reading about the protest over affordable homes in Hopwood and people worrying about the community getting too big too quickly – what bothers people the most: 20 new homes or a rendering plant?

THE VILLAGE VIEW

October 23, 2019

We English are a funny bunch. As the very nice chap from Post Office Ltd – a company wholly owned by the Government –...

Thanks after crash

February 21, 2014

Myself and my three children were involved in quite a nasty car accident on Scarfield Hill, Alvechurch.

Traffic has no rhyme or reason

October 24, 2006

A poem by reader Lynn Royle.

Village Weather

Alvechurch

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