Independent district councillors are aiming to solve the public transport riddle affecting village areas.
Lack of a convenient way to travel to work and school...
A parish council has relaunched its light-hearted “battle of the Santas and planters” with a neighbouring parish after coming second last year.
Barnt Green councillors...
Pinnies at the ready! (from the left) Emma Westwood, Naomi Pauley and Janet Millward enjoy the new kitchen at Blackwell Community Hall.
The unveiling of...
Beoley parish has seen three major planning decisions made to protect the Green Belt over the past month.
In the largest, Bromsgrove District Council’s planning...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I am a horse owner. I frequently ride up or down Cofton Church Lane. Does Dr Vohra realise that at either end there is a bridleway – of which there are very few?
Thanks to all those who supported the reopening of The Meadows in Alvechurch as a football facility and in particular, a very big thank you to the efforts of Alvechurch Parish Council for the many hours they have spent making this happen.
What on earth has happened to the leader of our district council? His intervention in the planning deliberations over a Green Belt field at Hopwood is surprising, to say the least.
Alvechurch may well feel let down by the lack of work in their village, which is a great shame as it is a beautiful area ruined by the neglected public landscape and wouldn’t take much to rectify.
On reading your December magazine I was disappointed to read that you had Dave laying a wreath for Neighbourhood Watch, when he was laying it for the Ex-Services men and women of the village, of which he is a member.
Smartwater is arriving in Barnt Green and criminals hate it because it has already put 500 of them in prison up and down the country and scared many others off “doing a job”.
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...
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