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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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

Lawton’s View

OCTOBER 2018

We should embrace Groveley bus route

Having read last month’s letter complaining about the number 45 bus (Noise of the ghost buses, Village Views July 2014), this is a copy of a letter we have sent to Network West Midlands, from the passengers’ point of view:

The Lickey cuckoo?

Here is an original verse of seasonal poetry: Today I heard a cuckoo, the first I’ve heard this year, My heart leapt with much pleasure as...

Lawton’s View

SEPTEMBER 2017

Lawton's View September 2017

High-fliers with nowhere to train

I am sending this email partly in response to your article in February’s issue but mostly due to a recent article in a local Redditch newspaper.

Homes go-ahead ‘blinkered’

We have all received letters in Hopwood regarding the decision that affordable housing is, against all logic, going to be sited on Green Belt land in Hopwood.

Beautiful bluebells

This lovely picture of bluebells in the Lickeys was taken by 15-year-old Marcus Mason-Williams and sent in by his mum, Tina.

Look in the box

On page 66 (The Village, September 2014) you publish a small article describing Operation Christmas Child’s shoebox event.

‘Worst-kept’ contender

As I wander around this picturesque village every day with my beloved dog, I am getting more and more concerned about the state of the verges and footpaths.

Rangers do a great job

Your contributor last month asked about the management of the Lickey Hills. I moved back into this area from Hertfordshire two years ago. There,...

Latest VILLAGE VIEWS

Dog danger plea after ewe plunge

Dear Editor – They say that sheep are only good at doing three things:- Limping, escaping and dying. My smallholding includes a bridle-path that is...

Watch out for Birmingham!

Dear Editor – I read with interest the articles on planning in the last issue. It appears this Government wants to change the planning laws...

Half a century of nothing

Dear Editor – I share Councillor Hotham’s frustration and despair (Take this lottery win, The Village, December 2020/January 2021). This is yet again a typical...

What good apples you are!

Dear Editor – Last October/November we had so many cooking apples I decided to put some in a tray at the roadside to see if...

Average speed cameras would slow traffic

Dear Editor – Having recently returned to Hopwood and having been born in Alvechurch, I can agree that drivers need to be more respectful...

How can we slow down the Swan Street morons?

Dear Editor – Is there anything that can be done about the speeding after the pinch-point heading towards Redditch, on Swan Street in Alvechurch?...

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