Readers' Views

In response to the letter Mission Memories (Village Views, July/August 2010) I do have memories of the Church at Hopwood which your correspondent requested, as follows:

The Rotary Club of North Worcestershire are delighted to announce that their recent Charity Golf Day at Blackwell Golf Club raised just under £6,000.

In your distressing article in the December/January issue about the theft of a bell from the roof of St Michael’s Church at Cofton Hackett, you referred to Whitechapel as the only remaining bell foundry in England.

Never mind the public toilet; thinking about May Day, why don’t we invest in a maypole for Barnt Green and the surrounding villages?

Regarding “One tragic punch” (The Village, June 2011),  I have no affiliation with the deceased or his family, I only have an unbiased villager view which concludes this was a miscarriage of justice for the crime committed.

Regarding the McCarthy & Stone plans for Alvechurch, the effort being made by the developers to get villagers “on side” is huge (which means the potential profits are also huge) including advertising, leaflet door drops, surveys in The Square, the open day and of course the offer to the cricket club of a new clubhouse in return for digging up the Green Belt in the centre of the village.

Have other villagers spotted the new child-shaped bollard outside Lickey Hills Primary School on Old Birmingham Road?