After the news I broke a couple of weeks ago I have been that over the past few months a lot of patients have been moving to the new surgery on the Queslett. Remember at the moment the Collingwood has only one FT doctor. Also in the review of Walsall GP’s a lot of them…

Valerie Vaz has jus altered me to the proposed changes to the surgery Due to the current contract being up the Walsall Commissioning Group are looking at alternatives. For Collingwood the proposal is reduce the opening hours of the Surgery. In basic terms they are looking at reducing late night and weekend opening. Over 5600…

Sorry to say this, last year Walsall CAB was under threat from Tory cuts but the Lab council then managed a stay of execution for a lot of it’s services. However the sad inevitable news of government central cuts finally hits home. Whilst I wished the Labour/LD run council could have done more, I do…

An unusual post but these are the food ratings for all the local places serving food. Generally a clean bill of health for all our outlets which is bloody good news. For example in Brum City Centre places like the Holiday Inn get a 0 rating and they are big multi national chains. Well done…

Wow this is a great find by Jez Couzens on YouTube Note the cars, the buses and of course the old library and neighbourhood offices !! Actually notice how quiet the roads are and esp around the old horns, never like that now ! Great find !

At tonight’s meeting of the Full Council the budget for 2017 has been passed. This will mean that sadly the libraries earmarked for closure will be closed unless alternatives are found that require no council money. This is awful news but as I have said before some libraries HAD to close, the money was simply…

This report from Rob Mayor the E&S reporters sums up the whole farce that is the West Mids Mayor. Rob Mayor  @robmayor   West Mids Combined Authority have agreed a £5m budget to pay for Mayoral election in May. Includes an extra £1m for promotion & publicity. As you known in May all the people…

Great news today from Neil Elkjes at the Birmingham CC planning meeting. By a unanimous vote of 11-0 the planning application for ALDI has been rejected. It is nonsense to suggest the roads around the Old Horns can cope with another supermarket and especially has ALDI has a high turnover of cars. Even at so…

Riding home from work tonight I saw Stanhope Way was closed off and rode up to the problem. At the junction of Chantrey Crescent there was what looked like a sink hole. It certainly did not look like regular work and the hole was just perfect round really and quite deep. Our own Sink hole…

Just been announced at the Walsall council leadership press conference that after consultation the 9 libraries marked for closure will close. (thanks to Rob Mayor at Express and Star for covering it). These are Beechdale, Blakenhall,New Invention, Pelsall, Pleck. Pheasey, Rushall and South Walsall and Walsall Wood. This is desperate awful news but sadly inevitable, Note…