Friday, November 3, 2023

THE VILLAGE VIEW

JUNE 2011

It is 100 years this month since Birmingham took a giant leap south and annexed a large chunk of Worcestershire.

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SEPTEMBER 2013

The latest village housing estate to get the go-ahead, bar sorting out the final details, almost passed without mention.

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June 2010

It’s refreshing to watch the birth of something so positive in our village lives. The need for some sort of youth club in a settlement as large as Alvechurch has been glaringly obvious for a very long time, but no individual or organisation was able to get beyond flirting with the idea.

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If you think Brexit is a never-ending nightmare, then a foray into town planning might just tip you over the edge. By the time...

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In the face of impending cost-cutting in the police force, it would be understandable if officers tried to inflate the problems we face in our communities.

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This column has focused on the Marlbrook Tip farrago on several occasions over the past few years; in fact, some of you might even be getting fed up with hearing us bang on about it.

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We at The Village would be the first to agree that social media is a positive way to communicate – it brings immediacy to news stories, and Facebook and Twitter are great tools for promoting local events and businesses and for sharing information.

A few words . . .

As we head into summer, everyone is hoping it turns out like last year . . . certainly the weather. But no one wants...

A few words. . .

It is now more than six months since a meeting of villagers in Barnt Green was promised a six-week follow-up to their pleas for...

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OCTOBER 2013

Digging through a ten-year-old copy of The Village for the snippets produced on the right of this page brought back many happy memories of the days when villagers from all over the area would congregate for the Alvechurch Alight procession.