Readers' Views

I thought your short and rather sarcastic article about Roger Hollingworth in the April edition was unworthy of your magazine, which can usually be relied upon for balanced reporting and opinion.

A picture emailed in by Village reader Sally Hartley shows St Laurence Church, Alvechurch, from an unusual angle, with Newbourne Hill as the backdrop.

I would like, through The Village magazine, to pass on thanks to those who attended the Christmas Carol Services in St Andrew’s, Barnt Green, and St Michael’s, Cofton Hackett.

Who else has an Anderson Shelter? We have. My husband and I moved to Cofton Hackett in 1963 and soon started work on our rear garden backing on to Cofton Lake.

Can I say what a wonderful job Richard Peach did, when he visited all the Alvechurch Gardens opened for the National Garden Scheme this summer, and took some great photographs.

I am surprised that the Barnt Green Parish Council feel they need to sit on the fence (The Village, December 2015) with regard to the selfish parking that blights our village.

Like thousands across The Village mag’s catchment area, I get a tingle of excitement as each month ends, in eager anticipation of the next issue and the chance to voraciously consume its contents.

I am writing to highlight an on-going problem for the residents of Bear Hill Drive and The Gaunts, Alvechurch.

Dawn Holloway of Alvechurch sent us the following poem.